If a candidate doesn’t do exactly what they want…they have a huge tantrum and then plot to exact revenge!

The highlight is this portion of his speech to the group in October 2001 saluting Mark Bingham. It’s, er, fabulous in every way. Sad to think this might actually cost him votes somewhere.

Is the perception that heterosexual Republicans who, say, oppose gay marriage are so narrow-minded that this speech should disqualify him? How close to reality is this perception?

I see no reason why this video should cost Rudy votes, and if anything it demonstrates his remarkable eloquence.

Why is it that Gay Rights Groups always seem to be mad – at everyone, and every thing?

This is much akin to the whole Muslims v. Muslim rights groups thing.

Several people I know professionally are openly gay. They don’t flaunt their sexuality at work (and neither do the straight workers, thank God!). They don’t demand I accept their lifestyle choice- no questions asked. A couple of them are even in long term same-sex relationships.

Compare that to the rainbow-painted idiot at the “gay pride” parade screaming that he’s queer and we should get over it. A moron who’s mad at the world because he doesn’t get 100% unquestioning approval for a lifestyle many consider deviant behavior. This kind of person tends to become an “activist” that ruins things for those seeking some kind of legitimate discussion of topics like civil unions or the ordination of practicing homosexuals into the clergy.

If you think smoking is bad for public health, being gay is much worse statistically. If the government can restrict smoking, they can restrict gaying.

If someone wants to smoke or “smoke” I’m less concerned about that than hundreds of other things. If your point is anti-nanny state & keeping gov’t out of private lives, I agree. One point on the analogy–CDC attributes about 400,000 premature deaths every year to smoking, I think AIDS might be around 15,000.

Don’t ask, don’t tell…

Sure. It’s a big country. No requirement to like or associate with everyone.

Here’s an example of a guy trying to be supportive of homosexual/gender confused, New Yorkers, and they are going to use that against him. Self centered, therapy seeking, victims support their own.

Where they are asking for equal rights, they deserve not to be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

Don’t ask, don’t tell…

What a person does in thier own bedroom should NOT give any special RIGHTS or FREEDOMS. Gay rights? Don’t want to know, don’t care so just shut up about it.

Where they are asking for equal rights, they deserve not to be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

If any gay groups are asking for a preference like hiring quotas, that’s wrong.

I worry more about illegal immigrants ruining the country than the gays ruining it. No matter what the gays say, they aint changing my sexual orientation, where as the illegals treat me like they think they have changed my sexual orientation.

I’m tired of them trying to put it to me and the American people.

a dispassionate analysis of the current Republican field should make Fred Thompson’s federalist approach very attractive to would be Ron Paul voters. But when talking to the more hardcore ideologues they tend to want to support Ron Paul to the demise of Fred campaign. the result of course be a candidate that has no similarities to Ron Paul.

Seems to be a similar situation here. If Giuliani is not going to run pro gay rights then he has suffer the consequences. If the gay rights peoiple distrusted Giuliani on gay rights as much as I do they’d be as pro-Giuliani as possible.

So lets see, was he a smoker?

I wouldn’t say he was smoking, but he certainly was flaming!

Snap!

saint kansas on November 28, 2007 at 1:58 PM

LOL good one.

Must be a hard life they live.

ThackerAgency on November 28, 2007 at 1:21 PM

The cancer risks.

VolMagic on November 28, 2007 at 1:29 PM

Heh, thanks Vol. Well the risk of obtaining AIDS is greater for the homosexual than the risk of obtaining lung cancer is for the smoker. So, in the view of the public health, homosexuality should be considered more dangerous than smoking. . . a bleeding cut in communal bathrooms of an AIDS patient. . . etc. etc. etc.

So while the gay community likes to play the victim, their lifestyle puts the rest of the public at a greater risk than if their lifestyle wasn’t in existence.

ie. If you think smoking is bad for public health, being gay is much worse statistically. If the government can restrict smoking, they can restrict gaying.

So lets see, was he a smoker?

I wouldn’t say he was smoking, but he certainly was flaming!

Snap!

Sad to think this might actually cost him votes somewhere.

Anything that costs Rudolfo votes brings joy to my beating heart.

Let the sun shine in!

We need a leader that is a realist, an economist, and a bully(you know what I mean). We don’t need to worry about wether he went on Saturday Night Live in drag or is freindly with some gay people(do we really need to define people by their sexual preference, and for that matter do we need to give them special privileges, or just ensure they are treated equal?).

geez, let’s attack the man for dealing with reality.

Sorry, couldn’t get past the “New York gay rights group”!! What a person does in thier own bedroom should NOT give any special RIGHTS or FREEDOMS. Gay rights? Don’t want to know, don’t care so just shut up about it.

ChrisIansNana on November 28, 2007 at 1:32 PM

Exactly……….

ThackerAgency on November 28, 2007 at 1:21 PM

The cancer risks.

VolMagic on November 28, 2007 at 1:29 PM

And why shouldn’t the cancer risk? What has it got to lose?

EVERLOVIN’ GO VOLS BABY! Season of Doom / Season of Destiny

I guess I don’t understand what the homosexuals gain by doing this.

I can never tell what the homosexuals are up to.

The cancer risks.

The nuanced approach, and one most Americans would agree with, is some sort of legal/contractual recognition of same-sex partnerships without giving the lifestyle choice the same status as the covenant of marriage. If the pro-sodomy camp thinks that they can pressure political candidates to be full-throttle in favor of a lifestyle that is considered deviant by many, they will constantly be disappointed.