GayPatriotGayPatriotBlogcasting from the worldwide headquarters of the not-so-vast gay right wing conspiracy. Representing the millions of patriotic gay and lesbian across the USA by standing up for freedom, fairness, free speech, privacy and true American values. Articles
Now is the winter of conservative discontent
2012-02-10 19:18:00 Scanning the Facebook feeds of our liberal friends, we see them gloating the Republican infighting, particularly Rick Santorum’s surge and Mitt Romney’s failure to rally conservatives to his cause. Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker laments: The presidential primary season has turned into a disaster, in my view. Mitt Romney has shown a discouraging inability to ... More About: Conservative
Obama?s strongest supporters suffer most from his policies
2012-02-10 18:00:00 By a margin of greater than 2-to-1 in 2008, voters under 30 backed Barack Obama over John McCain. Investors Business Daily offer up the grim statistics: The unemployment rate among 18-to-24 year olds was 16.3% at the end of last year, compared with 8.8% for the rest of the working-age population. That gap in unemployment ... More About: Economy , Change , Hope
Obama hoping voters reward political cowardice?
2012-02-10 16:48:00 In linking a post on the president’s soon-to-be released budget which offers little in the way of meaningful reform, Jennifer Rubin asks the right question: Smart politics or do the voters penalize political cowardice? ?President Barack Obama ?s budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But ...
Conservative policies good for all Americans, including gays
2012-02-10 03:50:00 In talking to pjmedia, GOProud Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia focused on the group’s efforts to communicate “why conservative principles are good for different constituencies.” Nice to see this movie away from the identity politics practiced by other gay groups. The issue is not legislation specifying sexual orientation, but adopting policies which don’t single out any ... More About: Conservative , Gays
Mitt Must Pitch Bold Reform Plan to Win Conservatives to his Cause
2012-02-10 02:18:00 If Mitt Romney can succeed in energizing conservatives behind his candidacy, he could conceivably lock up the nomination by Super Tuesday and put himself in a strong position to defeat Barack Obama come November. That, however, is a big “if.” Since Santorum’s sweep on Tuesday, a number of conservative commentators and bloggers have come to ... More About: Conservatives
When it comes to the business of governing, Obama is absent
2012-02-10 00:36:00 The president, as I noted last month in my brief review of his State of the Union address, indicated that he was ?prepared to make more reforms that rein in the long term costs of Medicare and Medicaid”. Only problem was that he failed to put forward any of his own. At another point in ... More About: Congress , Obama
No, you don?t need a state sanction to get married
2012-02-09 09:24:00 Long before civil governments granted marriage licenses, men and women had been getting married for generations. Most had their unions sanctified in a church or other religious institution. Yet, too many advocates of gay marriage whine that, until the state acts, they can’t married. Hogwash. No, most states still won’t recognize their unions as marriages, ... More About: Gay Marriage
Washington State recognizes same-sex marriages the right way
2012-02-09 08:57:00 Yesterday, the Washington State House passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriages, following the action last week of the state Senate. Governor Christine Gregoire “is expected to sign the measure into law next week.” This is exactly how states should go about recognizing same-sex relationships, with elected legislators deciding the matter. More About: Gay Marriage
HuffPo to fault Obama campaign for Super PAC coordination?
2012-02-09 08:41:00 Do wonder if the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein is going to get upset about the Obama campaign’s decision to enlist Super pacs in its reelection efforts. After all, the call is coming from the campaign itself. Tuesday night, after Rick Santorum swept the beauty contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, he caught “Foster Freiss, the main ... More About: Media Bias , Campaign
AFA Boycott of J.C. Penney likely to fail
2012-02-09 08:18:00 Once again, the American Family Association (AFA) has announced a boycott. And once again, my liberal Facebook friends are up in arms. Relax, guys (and gals), this is likely to be just as effective as their boycott of Disney. The company didn’t back down and continued to offer benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of ... More About: Freedom
Rick Santorum, Conservative Ideas & the Anti-anti-gay attitudes of most Ame
2012-02-09 00:57:00 Just over two weeks ago, I asked, “Where is the conservative candidate at this conservative moment?” If this election were held on which party had the best vision for the future of America, the Republicans, should they hew to Reagan’s ideals, would win hands-down. Polls show a continuing, if not growing, distrust of the federal ... More About: Freedom , Rick , Conservative , Attitudes
Scott Walker: progressive reformer
2012-02-09 00:18:00 Charles Lane penned a great column on the Gipper’s birthday about a reformist in the traditional of Ronald Reagan. The former editor of the center-left New Republic observed that “The threat to such progressive goals as majority rule, transparent government, a vibrant public sector and equality comes from public-sector unionism“: Of course, collective bargaining in ... More About: Leadership
Why marriage matters
2012-02-08 15:12:00 In the wake of the Ninth Circuit’s overturning Prop 8 yesterday as unconstitutional, it is important to take a step back from the overheated rhetoric in the debate on state recognition of same-sex marriage — a debate which alas has offered more heat than light — and attempt to offer that light, to illuminate the ... More About: Gay Marriage
Mitt Romney needs to go bold ? or go home
2012-02-08 14:37:00 All three of the contests last night were beauty contests where none of the four remaining candidates invested significant resources. No wonder turnout was low. That said, supporters of one candidate were particularly enthusiastic and Rick Santorum scored big, sweeping all three. More than anything, this suggests a longing among conservatives for a standard bearer ... More About: Home , Mitt Romney
Is Newt?s Political Day Done?
2012-02-08 14:01:00 It was indeed, as Michael Barone put it, a bad night for Mitt Romney. It was an even worse night for Newt Gingrich who finished third in Colorado and fourth in Minnesota. “Gingrich?s days,” writes Jennifer Rubins offering the consensus opinion of conservative bloggers, “as the leading not-Romney are just about over. His baggage has ... More About: Political
When insinuation replaces argument
2012-02-08 08:48:00 Perhaps I should not have offered that “personal note” I had offered yesterday. With Bruce busy and me manning the fort, sometimes it seems I can’t meet the expectations of our readers for regular content on a variety of issues, particularly those of concern to our community. Especially when I have other projects to complete ... More About: Family , Blogging
Barone: GOP candidates must remind young voters that ours is the party of
2012-02-08 02:18:00 Back in the 2008 campaign (and its immediate aftermath), I talked to a lot of young voters enthusiastic about Barack Obama. When I asked many why they supported the Chicago politician, they repeated the usual bromides about how their guy was a different kind of politician who would change the way things were done in ... More About: America , Party , Candidates , Young
Personal Note #1?Those days when Sisyphus can?t push the rock
2012-02-08 00:54:00 I have been sketching out this post at least since November when I finally got around to finishing up –and sending in–the first round of proofreading of my dissertation (needed so Pacifica has a clean copy for its library). A lot has been on my mind, only a limited amount related to politics. I have ... More About: Rock , Blogging , Note
9th Circuit declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional
2012-02-07 19:08:00 Here’s the decision. Decision is by Judge Stephen Reinhardt who is “one of the most-reversed judges before the Supreme Court“. He just handed the Republicans a campaign issue. They can make the case that unelected judges should not be resolving issues which the constitution entrusted to legislators — and the people themselves. UPDATE: I apologize ... More About: Gay Marriage
Tennessee Restauraunter Evicts Legislator Who Made Anti-Gay Remarks
2012-02-07 18:00:00 A reader alerted me to this story about how “Martha Boggs, the owner of Knoxville’s The Bistro at the Bijou, asked [Tennessee Senator Stacey] Campfield to leave after he tried to dine at her establishment.” The Senator had introduced a “prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom before the ninth grade“. According to Metropulse blog, ... More About: Freedom
Prop 8 Decision Expected Today
2012-02-07 09:57:00 Just caught this on Memeorandum: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s public information office expects a ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7 by 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern Time in the Perry v. Brown case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. “Regardless of how the 9th Circuit rules,” writes Howard Mintz in the San ... More About: Today , Gay Marriage
Americans frustrated that Obama can?t force Congress to do his will?
2012-02-07 08:00:00 Wonder how Matt Lauer and his colleagues in the legacy media would have reacted had George W. Bush expressed a similar frustration: I think this is the nature of being President. What’s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, ... More About: Media Bias , Force , Obama , Americans
Is abortion the defining issue of the American left?
2012-02-07 07:40:00 Particularly since I moved to Los Angeles, I’ve observed that for many on the left cultural issues account for their political leanings. So focused are they on such issues as abortion and gay marriage that they assume these are the defining issues for the two major political parties in the United States. In reality, they ... More About: Abortion , American
Matt Lauer feeds Obama his talking points
2012-02-07 04:18:00 One wonders what the president’s image would be if the legacy media weren’t covering for him. ”The broadcast network evening and morning” newscasts have yet to cover the administration’s plan to force Catholic charities and hospitals “to cover sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and contraception without a co-pay” in their health insurance plans. And lthough “NBC News did ... More About: Media Bias , Obama , Matt
Our 9,000th Post
2012-02-06 10:02:00 Normally, it’s uncanny how much Bruce and I see eye-to-eye. Even though our perspectives differ slightly, we are often struck by the same stories and reach similar conclusions. This campaign cycle seems to have upended things. Bruce mocked Jon Huntsman on twitter; I endorsed him. Bruce voted for Newt Gingrich; I just don’t see my ... More About: Blogging , Post , Ronald Reagan
Obama?s governing style: ?meeting the demands of rich liberals?
2012-02-06 09:48:00 So concludes Michael Barone in his Saturday column as he considers Ryan Lizza’s recent New Yorker piece on the president: Now, in an article based on leaked White House memos marked up by Obama , Lizza has done it again [writing "a story that makes his subject look bad"] Contrarian liberal blogger Mickey Kaus sums it ... More About: Liberals , Demands , Rich , Style
Game Over. Newt Gingrich.Hasn?t experience taught him the perils of public
2012-02-06 09:18:00 In the wake of his “blowout” defeat in Nevada, Newt Gingrich , with his “bitter, angry press conference (sort of a combination of Howard Dean?s scream and Richard Nixon?s White House farewell speech)“, contends Jennifer Rubin, “confirmed what we strongly suspected in Florida: Gingrich?s presidential campaign is caput, whether he knows it or not.” We wonder ... More About: Public , Experience
The rehabilitation of Rick Santorum
2012-02-06 04:48:00 Rick Santorum will end his bid for the White House with a higher standing among conservatives than that he enjoyed when he launched what once appeared an entirely quixotic quest. Unless Newt Gingrich concedes defeat with grace, he may will leave the contest a pariah on the right. What a change this campaign brings; after ... More About: Rick
Is Newt in need of an intervention?
2012-02-05 08:28:00 I didn’t just turn off Newt Gingrich’s odd speech last night in order to meet my date for dinner; I also turned it off because he reminded me of an angry leftist, eager to criticize a conservative or Republican not on the merits of his opposition but in order to vent his spleen. When I ...
Newt gets conservative argument on poverty
More articles from this author:2012-02-04 23:32:00 Seizing on Mitt Romney’s recent gaffe that he is “not concerned about the very poor,” Gingrich offer his goal as . . . . . . the exact opposite of Governor Romney['s] — my goal is not to ignore or forget the poor. My goal is to turn the safety net into a trampoline to ... More About: Conservative , Poverty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
 |
|
 |
