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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchweitzer: Cantor is "effeminate" and sets off his "gaydar"
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dem-2016-hopeful-schweitzer-cantors-effeminate-mannerisms-set-off-my-gaydar/First he sucks up to Romney, now homophobia (though he was gracious enough to say that he's 'accepting' and 'fine with gay people').
"If you were just a regular person"
Women will also be impressed
"She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees, and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying!" he says. Then, he adds, quickly, "I mean, maybe that's the wrong metaphorbut she was all in!"
Which party's nomination is he angling for in 2016?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Hillary Clinton doesn't even need friends.
I don't want a Clinton candidacy. Can we please for the love of something get a liberal primary candidate? Beyond that, can we please impress on Brian Schweitzer the importance of STFU? He's got the worst case of "foot in mouth disease" I've ever seen in this party...it's usually an affliction of the far right like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)who were 'fine with gay people' he'd be a serious threat.
Clinton should face a credible challenge from the left--it would be good for everyone--but Schweitzer ain't credible.
rug
(82,333 posts)kentuck
(111,111 posts)Trying to walk some type of middle rail?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)kentuck
(111,111 posts)Maybe he's just trying to get attention??
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Stick a fork in him, he's done.
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)There's always more where that came from. Pass on the candidacy, look forward to another good convention speech tho.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I mean really, a potential Democratic candidate spouting that garbage? Really, WTF?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Re Diane Feinstein:
"She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees, and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying!" he says. Then, he adds, quickly, "I mean, maybe that's the wrong metaphorbut she was all in!"
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)to like about Frackin' Schweitzer? Yeah, you're a big fucking deal, Schweitzer.. not.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)way it's not.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Ignorant but genuine.
Its a culture thing.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Maybe he wants' to be a Republican and will use this to jump ship?
Tarheel_Dem
(31,250 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)comes to men.
Women, OTOH..............I am pretty blind to lesbians. Sometimes people have to have a word with me, because I just don't notice.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)A mere few months ago, when it was announced he was "mulling" a run for the presidency, there were a host of "I'd vote for him!" posts right here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014624583
The collective wisdom of DU is always amusing (and almost always wrongremember the love affair with John Edwards?).
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)And I find much of Schweitzer's views to be appealing. But I don't disagree with you. We get it wrong.
Regarding DUer's support for Schweitzer, I think it's fascinating, really. I like what he has to say but shit like this is just so frustrating and annoying and bullshit. And he won't take it back, either. He thinks he's OK holding these stupid positions. What may be more damning is that his supporters or previous supporters may not condemn these statements. We'll have to see, at least on this site.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)OK, if taken at face value, then why would he care if Cantor is gay or not?
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)I think that certain populists, because they tell it like it is, or believe they do, think they are able to express other ideas that are abhorrent or at least highly demeaning and uncultured. In his mind, calling Cantor gay is like "unveiling the elitist" even if there's no evidence for it or even if it's just downright mean. And the populist wins the day.
This sort of shit with some populists really irks me, and I can't pin it down, I can't figure it out, to be honest. So many people with decent ideas, either sexists or bigots. Damn Wiener, dude knows his stuff and is a really good talker with leftist ideals, but poof, gone as soon as his underlying tendencies are seen.
Schweitzer is good on a lot of issues from single payer to supporting unions, but then he says something completely asinine like this. It's shameful. And frankly, it allows the center to use it against him. That's really the most frustrating thing to me.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Why would someone who has ranted about how much they can't stand Washington politics want to run for president?
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)flamingdem
(39,335 posts)dumbass
MFM008
(19,827 posts)what a douche.
alp227
(32,073 posts)I have seen lots of similar comments on DU directed towards Lindsey Graham.
Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)Because, well, homophobia is funny to some people.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)I'm not going to lie, I was high on him in 2008 as a potential Obama running-mate, but let's be honest: he'd be a disaster of a candidate in 2016 because he can't keep his mouth shut.
Americans will say they love politicians who speak their mind. The fact is, they don't. Not when speaking their mind offends half the country. Straight talk doesn't work in national politics. It might play well back home in rural Montana ... but nationally? It'd be a disaster for Democrats.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)He's taken an odd angle; first trying to run to the left and now pandering to god knows what. Strike him off the list of people I think are viable candidates at least, because at minimum there must be some concern about his ability to wage a competent campaign.