I don’t know or care if Lindsey Graham is gay. It really is none of my business because Graham, unlike so many politicians who seem to think that shoving their sexual preferences into my face is necessary, has chosen to keep his private life private.

What a shocking idea. Were he a Democrat I would probably be treated to a long treatise on his sexual practices along with photos, whether he were gay or straight, plain vanilla or into furry S & M. No, thank you, I am fine not knowing.

Democrats though are not just obsessed with Lindsey Graham’s sex life, they revel in hurling homophobic insults at him. I am not sure whether they think making jokes about his alleged sexual orientation is allowed because he is a Republican, or perhaps they think that his voters are so bigoted that their nasty asides about his sexual preferences will harm him. If it is the latter, the evidence is that voters don’t care. They just really really don’t want to think about an older’s guy sexual life.

I’m with them on that. I wish I could use some mind bleach to wipe the images of Biden’s bizarre choices for key posts in leathers. Seeing weird sado-masochistic acts performed in public isn’t a kink I enjoy, thank you.

The latest attack on Graham came from the tolerant folks at MSNBC, who in a roundtable discussion joked about Graham’s sexuality by joking that he had never seen a woman naked, so he shouldn’t be proposing legislation with anything having to do with abortion.

MSNBC has gone too far…it should issue an apology to the Senator and to the viewers. “MSNBC Panel Agrees Lindsey Graham Has Never 'Seen a Vagina' https://t.co/eniK5SjLsp

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) September 25, 2022

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle and her guests on The 11th Hour were in fits of laughter as they mocked Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham with the implication that he is gay during an off-the-rails segment about abortion policy in the United States.

On Friday’s show, Ruhle’s panel guests included CBS Sunday Morning‘s Nancy Giles, CNBC’s Ron Insana, MSNBC columnist Liz Plank, and comic and podcaster Judy Gold.

“And, the fact that he is telling women what to do with their bodies,” Gold began. She paused a second before Giles nodded and said, “Go for it.”

“He’s never seen a vagina! He’s never seen a naked woman!” Gold blurted, as the whole panel laughed it up, including Stephanie Ruhle. “And he is telling me?”

The implication that Gold was using to crack up the panel is one that’s made pretty often on the Democrat side, which is to suggest Graham is gay, apparently as an insult.

Amid the crosstalk and tittering, Ruhle added her own wink and nudge, saying, “We don’t know that for sure. We do not know that for sure.”

MSNBC’s Liz Plank said “It’s probably true, it’s probably true.”

“Judy we would refer to that as an unconfirmed report,” said CNBC’s Insana getting in on it.

“Someone needs to find out!” said Plank.

“I’m going to speculate…” Gold said.

“According to Judy Gold,” interjected CBS’s Giles.

There is video at the link. I couldn’t find a copy on YouTube. MSNBC didn’t include the segment in their highlights from Friday, presumably because it is pretty embarrassing.

In 2020 the Left went crazy on Lindsey Graham spreading scurrilous rumors about him, and more interestingly they conducted a Twitter shaming campaign with the hashtag “Lady G.” Imagine if the parties were reversed.

This wasn’t some low grade Twitter trolls. It went all the way to up to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign:

only in 2020 does #LadyG get to push a bunch of debunked conspiracy theories while questioning @SallyQYates (aka an American hero)

— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) August 5, 2020

The Washington Post took notice, although their story tried to whitewash the affair by putting it into its “proper” context. What they didn’t pound home was the utter hypocrisy of the LGBTQ+++++++++ embracing Left using homophobic slurs against a political opponent. And letting their own inner homophobia out. They can’t make the jokes in polite company most of the time, but they can get away with it when a Republican is involved. If a Republican did the same thing these guys would be leading the cancel culture parade with pitchforks and torches.

Even gay magazine The Advocate can’t figure out how to feel about attacks on Graham’s presumed homosexuality, so they wrote a remarkable “on the one hand, on the other” piece. They are tied up in pretzels because they hate Graham but don’t care for homosexual jokes either.

Going low in politics is a bipartisan affair. I get it. Politics ain’t beanbag and all that.

What is striking to me is not only the hypocrisy–that too is very common in politics–but the tone deafness of these people. They actually don’t understand that most Republicans aren’t obsessing over the sexuality of their political representatives. There are actually quite a few gay Republicans, but they don’t parade their sexual preferences in public.

Republican voters simply don’t want to know about a politician’s proclivities one way or another. Nobody freaked out about Trump’s embrace of the LGBT flag during the 2016 campaign because they knew he wouldn’t be pushing an LGBT political agenda down their throats. The “deplorables” were expected to freak out, but they shrugged and voted for The Donald because they liked his policies. About the most damaging thing about Trump with socially conservative voters were his crude remarks about women, not his stance on homosexual relationships.

Democrats think we are just itching to treat gays as they do in Iran, so they misjudge how their attacks on gay Republicans will somehow work. If you keep your private life private we are generally cool with it.

As usual, the Left is wrong on all counts.