Barney Frank slams ‘intellectually dishonest’ Log Cabin Republicans | The Raw Story

Something I have concerns about myself and have posted about before [Optimistic or Delusional? Why Gay Republicans Stand By Their Party’s Bigoted Platform | Alternet AND 5 Questions For: Gay Republican and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron | The Raw Story]  and to use the ole "“divide, distract and deceive" line just shows how partisan they are,,,I have to agree with Frank on this one,,,

Frank has been engaged in an ongoing feud with the pro-LGBT Republican group, after he said their “role model is Uncle Tom” earlier this month.

The Log Cabin Republicans responded by saying Frank was trying to “divide, distract and deceive the American people.” The group said it was “a badge of honor” to be attacked by Frank, who they described as a “partisan hack” and the Democratic Party’s “attack dog.”

Barney Frank slams ‘intellectually dishonest’ Log Cabin Republicans | The Raw Story

5 Questions For: Gay Republican and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron | The Raw Story

Wow,,,he's delusional,,,talk bout party line,,,I don't understand the members of GOProud or Log Cabin Republicans for that matter,,,why remain in a political party in which you clearly aren't accepted, except when it comes to donating your money to it and pushing its failed policies?

But, you know, if there had been a realistic chance to change the party platform, GOProud would have been involved publicly because nobody likes attention more than we do. But there was just no realistic way that this party platform was going to get changed in that public way, especially once we knew who was on the platform subcommittees.

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So I think things are moving within the conservative movement. In terms of the Republican establishment, the establishment always comes around to things last. They don’t know the water’s wet until they touch it, it’s just the way the establishment works. They’re constantly afraid of their shadows, they’re used to doing things, “If this is the box we’ve worked in, we always work in this box, we’re not going to reinvent the wheel here.” So I think the Republican establishment is going to come to this later than movement conservatives will.

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Clearly the governor knew he was openly gay when he picked him, so that wasn’t the issue. But I think a series of event happened that it got to this bad spot and then kind of nobody stood down and as a result it just didn’t work out.

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,,,GOProud is the only organization who is supporting Romney/Ryan, our board made that decision to endorse the ticket, and it’s important to have a gay organization here that has endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. As you know, the Log Cabin Republicans have not endorsed Governor Romney.

5 Questions For: Gay Republican and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron | The Raw Story

Optimistic or Delusional? Why Gay Republicans Stand By Their Party’s Bigoted Platform | Alternet

This piece follow a similar vane of and earlier article,,,the "new" GOP, what we have seen over the last 8-12 years, could give a rat's ass what public opinion has to say,,,it doesn't fit with their Dominionist ideology,,,as much as I applaud their attempts for change from within, IMHO it's going to take a mass revolt and leaving the party to make any changes,,,instead of following the party line,,,




Talking to people at the reception made me wonder at the fine, fuzzy line dividing optimism from delusion.“This is our party..,” LCR’s Clarke Cooper insists. “We are here to make it stronger and more inclusive.”

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,,,the kind of resistance to LGBT equality that is reflected in this year’s platform is a generational issue -- "the last gasp of the conservatives," he calls it -- and boldly predicts that this is the last year in which the platform will contain such language. When I suggest that if Ralph Reed’s turnout operation among conservative evangelicals does as much for the Republicans in November as Reed hopes, the party is not likely to turn its backs on the anti-gay religious right base, Kolbe shrugs and says both parties appeal to their bases for turnout. “We will have the victory,” he says.

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If 2004 was a turning point, she says, 2012 could be a “tipping point,” at which shifting public opinion makes overt anti-gay politicking unfeasible. “You can’t demagogue gay people forever.” Perkins, however, may have a different opinion on that -- and no small measure of power in the G.O.P.

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,,, Rep. John Tierney, is openly gay, pro-choice and pro-marriage equality, but none of these issues appear on his campaign’s issues page, which pushes standard right-wing talking points on “Obamacare,” Medicare, the economy, education, and the Middle East. Of course, that doesn’t phase the Log Cabin Republicans,,,

Optimistic or Delusional? Why Gay Republicans Stand By Their Party’s Bigoted Platform | Alternet

Former GOP Congressman Predicts 2012 Republican Platform Will Be Last To Include Anti-Gay Plank | ThinkProgress

Altho I applaud the efforts, it is a delusion to think this will be the last year for such a platform,,, one word dominionism,,,

Former GOP Congressman Predicts 2012 Republican Platform Will Be Last To Include Anti-Gay Plank | ThinkProgress