Repulsive Anti-Gay Quisling Homophobic Scumbag Asshat Closeted Former RNC Chair Mehlman: Coming Out

[WillParkinson]

UPDATE: Former RNC chair Ken Mehlman is coming out.


UPDATE: The Atlantic piece is up! It says: “Mehlman is the most powerful Republican in history to identify as gay.”

Mehlman told Marc Ambinder that he only recently came out:

Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California’s ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

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Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda.
“It’s a legitimate question and one I understand,” Mehlman said. “I can’t change the fact that I wasn’t in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that. It was very hard, personally.” He asks of those who doubt his sincerity: “If they can’t offer support, at least offer understanding.”

“What I do regret, and think a lot about, is that one of the things I talked a lot about in politics was how I tried to expand the party into neighborhoods where the message wasn’t always heard. I didn’t do this in the gay community at all.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/former-rnc-chair-ken-mehlman-is-coming-out/

(Edit: Found a headline at Joe.My.God I liked way better.)

[DURHAM D]

1. does he have to?

Could we trade him back for a first-round draft pick?

[dsc]

2. I just don't have words for how angry this man makes me

I pretty much can't think of anything he could do to attone for his treachory.

[AndyA]

3. Tell him to just go back in. He's already sold his soul, if he ever had one.

Supporting the people he's supported...getting them elected so they can spread their hatred, bigotry, lies, and destruction.

Go back in, Ken. You've already done enough damage.

[blue sky at night]

4. i think the more homophobic a person is....

the more likely it is that they are gay. Do the Republicants have any Homophobes????

[joeybee12]

5. Yeah, i blinked and i saw you changed it! Good for you...

Came to his identity recently....BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[villager]

6. Straight out of "Angels in America," the most accurate play about the GOP

...ever written. Well, that and "The Crucible."

[alstephenson]

7. So you have to be "in this place personally"

in order to stand up for others' rights. Ass wipe.

[Metric System]

8. do not want

[mitchtv]

9. what? he didn't know?

I knew all along; I read her gay beads on day 1

[IrishEyes]

10. Don't sugar coat it.

How do you really feel about him? Just for the record I agree with every adjective you used.

[Mimosa]

11. Meh to Mehlman...and a big shrug

The whole country is coming around.

Eventually (and not far in the future) any laws denying the rights for gay marriage will be struck down in the Supreme Court. That is what Obama and a few others are depending upon.