I imagine the spin rooms/closets over at the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud went a little nuts over the last few hours, in the wake of the President’s announcement of support for marriage equality. “How do we simultaneously get angry about this without people pointing out the obvious fact that the candidates we support sorta kinda hate us and don’t support much of anything when it comes to our human dignity or equal rights?! What do we say, what do we say, what do we say?”
Log Cabin Republicans say this:
“That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director. “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.”
Yes, Clarke, while we do acknowledge that Dick Cheney also supports marriage equality, we also live in the real world and understand that he is the exception to the rule in your party. Obama has simply come in line with the rest of his party.
GOProud continues the whine, in surprisingly similar terms. It’s almost like they run their messaging by each other beforehand so that their followers know exactly what to say later, bitterly, in comments sections:
“It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has finally come around to the Dick Cheney position on marriage equality. I am sure, however, the President’s newly discovered support for marriage is cold comfort to the gay couples in North Carolina. The President waited until after North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.”
“This is hardly a profile in courage by President Obama. For years now, President Obama has tried his hardest to have it both ways on this issue.
Right Wing Watch points out the fact that the GOP candidate supports neither civil unions nor marriage equality, but remember, when dealing with gay conservatives, that they don’t really want dignity or equality; they just want to feel like they’re right.
Crocodile tears for the self-haters at GOProud and LCR. Being in an anti-gay party on the wrong side of history must hurt pretty bad!
Cheney has that position because of his daughter — and that’s the *only* reason.
There is no turd like a Rethugliturd.
Yeah, Cheney was so courageous coming out for marriage equality AFTER he left office.
Um, forgive me, but Obama did explicitly oppose the NC amendment, which is arguably more important. These people are so sad. Self-hatred is never pretty.
People wouldn’t know what they’re saying if you wouldn’t post it. They are just angling for a spot on Fox News. They’ll need a job after the election.
Gay Conservatives? What, all 14 of them?
Uncle Tom’s, your (log) cabin is ready.
Um, Cheney’s no longer VP so what does he matter?
If anything, it takes more courage to come out and do this the day after NC voted for bigotry. Why? He didn’t have to do this, so a state going against it that he could win only creates more reason for someone to trying to win that (very competitive) state to stay silent.
So, yeah, it would have been nice if he did this a month ago, instead of today. Maybe the vote in North Carolina would have been a tad closer (though I doubt the outcome would have been different). But let’s not pretend this demonstrates a lack of political courage. Lack of political courage would have been avoiding this issue after losing NC.
Oh look, Grima Wormtongue, spokesperson for GOProud, and R.M. Renfield, speaking on behalf of the LRC, are lobbying for society to continue treating them as loathesome creatures. Well, I know that I shall, at any rate.
Oh that’s funny… GOProud and Log Cabin rant and rave about Obama supporting Marriage Equality after North Carolina… and don’t say a word – NOT ONE WORD – about all the Republicans who voted to discriminate against Gay, Lesbian and unmarried straight couples. Where’s the moral outrage against them? Hmmmmmm?
Reality check: The president stated that he personally supports equality, but believes marriage rights should be determined individually by each state.
Gay Republicans criticize Obama for being pro-gay – what a bunch of losers. What, are you guys hurt because Obama’s statement makes you look even more like you’re shooting yourselves in the foot?
how do any republicans…especially GAY republicans, live with themselves? Sad…really sad
Gene, you said you used to be a conservative Republican. how did you live with yourself?
I was in denial…full of self hatred, and belived the stupid s**t that the conservatives sold…..
happily, I escaped the lies and evil of it.
Thank God!!!!
this is very interesting. What specifically were the conservatives selling that you bought?
I had actually thought the Log Cabin was a little better than GOProud, or at least had a little more self respect. I guess not. I guess they are smitten with Mittens and they are outraged Obama actually demonstrated he IS different on GLBT rights.
These Uncle Tom gay Republithugs are once again showing the unbelievable dearth of new ideas that has infected the Republithug party. Holding up Darth Vader Chaney as the hero is the same as the Republithugs invoking the specter of Ronald Reagan more and more often, even though Ronald Reagan would be absolutely horrified at how the Republican party has so completely gone off the rails. Plus the teeny tiny little thing that the Republithugs are invoking his name in the context of tax issues, and good old Ronnie raised taxes not once, not twice, but 11 times in all. But above all, for a gay man or lesbian woman to criticize a man who has become the first in-office president in the history of the republic to speak in support of the basic human right of a relationship between two people of the same gender — well, to me that suggests that these are people who need to be taken out to the woodshed and given a good whack upside the head. How mean spirited and petty can you get?