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Jews for Hitler.
It's over folks. You can no longer pretend to have it both ways. Time to pick a side.
atreides1
(16,100 posts)K&R
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I believe Obama just won his three dimensional chess game! You can either pick a party that hates you inherently hates you btw OR you can pick a party that has a leader that supports gays in the military and also human rights.
As a vet, I find his support of gays in the military to be enlightening for a POTUS! A win for human rights!
However,
if you pick the party of hate...don't expect anything but a knife in your back at the most vulnerable point in your career.
Stinky The Clown
(67,833 posts)Spot on
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...to have it both ways I mean NC pulls this vote and instead of expressing their outrage over their own party's part in that, they express anger at Obama, calling his dismay at the vote and support for gay marriage "too little too late."
Talk about eyes not being on the prize. Hello? I don't know what effect Obama might have had on that vote if he'd announced this earlier, but let's look ahead, shall we? Who's going to appoint new supreme court justices (and there's every chance new ones will be needed in the next four years)? Justices who will be judging the constitutionality of this NC law? You really want anti-gay Romney doing that?
Morons.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)They are tying themselves in knots to explain how it's not just a bipartisan issue and how some Democrats in NC supported the amendment and yargle blargle blaaargh.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)To quote comedian John Leguizamo; "Hispanics for Republicans is like 'Roaches for Raid'".
I guess in that sense, the Log Cabin Republicans have something in common with some other groups.
Uncle Joe
(58,481 posts)Thanks for the thread, Bravo.
LOL!
durec.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Saying your a log cabin republican is like saying your a jew for hitler
LOL thanks i have to use that line sometime
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)It is a PERFECT analogy.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)I always caution against using this analogy, but it may fit here. Check out the Freepers today. This quote stood out:
"In the closet, or in the crosshairs."
That wasn't the worst, just the most succinct.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)They must not be single issue voters.
underpants
(182,968 posts)it's like being gay at a Baptist Thanksgiving dinner (I would suspect).
baldguy
(36,649 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)This is not even funny. It's infuriating. And it denigrates the suffering of Jews during WW2.
This is not the same. Really, it isn't. Don't do it.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)How about Gays for Hitler?
Or does that denigrate the suffering of gays during WW2?
treestar
(82,383 posts)We needed a reminder of that on this thread! Gays were one of Hitler's targets themselves.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Persecution of gay people is its own subject and needs to be discussed and examined thoroughly. We can and should certainly say "never again!" to such persecution. Let's do that.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)because hitler was definitely against gays back then. Remember the pink armbands?
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)by a tyrant.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts):Being a Log Cabin Republican is like being a Chicken for Colonel Sanders."
I never want to run "afowl" of Godwin's Law...
SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Watts Jr., 42, is the only Black Republican in Congress. His father, Watts Sr., 75, is a staunch Democrat.
"A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders," Watts Sr. recently told the Los Angeles Times. "I couldn't be no Republican because the Republican Party is against the poor man."
True then and more true now.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)to chickens. I assume that gays who call themselves Log Cabin Republicans have their reasons. I think it is an interesting subject to look at. Wouldn't it be better to have a full fledged discussion of the issue with both sides participating? I don't see that denigrating gays with whom we disagree politically advances our own progressive agenda.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Thanks!
JeffBootstrapsFisher
(2 posts)Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
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Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Laterz.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... like they already have. Got dough? Then it's OK to be a second class citizen!
And your mom won't find out you're gay to boot!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)It's not like it's breaking news that most Republicans don't support marriage equality. Any gay American whose paramount concern is marriage equality probably wouldn't be associated with the Log Cabin Republicans in the first place. A better analogy would be with anti-abortion Democrats. Such Democrats may feel strongly about abortion, but on balance that's just one issue. They favor the Democratic party because they agree with Democrats on many other separate issues. Same thing with the Log Cabin Republicans. They may dislike the party's stance on marriage, but they are on board with much of the rest of the platform.
Having major differences with one's own party but sticking with that party anyway isn't all that uncommon. Just look at DU for evidence of that. Many DUers are strongly opposed to things that Democratic politicians support (or support things that they oppose). They don't have to 'pick a side' either, because they already have.
And what's more, nothing is stopping either group here from kicking back and letting the other party do their work for them on these specific issues. That's kind of the best of both worlds for them. Let the other party fight one of your battles while you help fight the rest of the war with your own party.
Sorry to say, this is just another unwarranted Nazi reference. There are plenty more relevant analogies within our own system.
Danascot
(4,696 posts)Thanks
Applying the Nazis to American politics is one of my pet peeves. That's not saying that minor, selective comparisons don't occasionally have some value. But most of the time the intention is not to make an accurate comparison but to wield the evil of the Nazis as a weapon against one's contemporary ideological enemies. I feel that diminishes the memory of their tens of millions of victims and the millions of soldiers who gave their lives to defeat that regime.
BTW, today, May 9, is 'Victory Day' in Russia, where they celebrate the end of WWII in Europe.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)This response is head and shoulders above the rest.
JI7
(89,281 posts)calling dick cheney a leader on gay rights ????????? what did he do as VP to support gay rights ?
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Dragonbreathp9d
(2,542 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)bonniebgood
(943 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)It's like claiming to be a liberal environmentalist and then investing in the stock market. Weird shit.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Made me chuckle.
Caeser67
(156 posts)Your move loggies!
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)Sarah for Mrs. Field's
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)any woman, ethnic minority, or person of the homosexual persuasion who votes Republican is clearly only interested in money, and they could care less about the policies that are against their interest such as anti-abortion and gay marriage bans. If they're rich, they believe that Republicans will help them stay rich or get richer, and if they're poor, they see it as a chance at winning the lottery.
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)They fit the mold since they are hypocrites. They want their equality (which I agree they should have), but still want to take advantage of other folks.