Gay Rethugs hold Tea Bag Toss - Win a prize! Throw it in the mouth of a politician on the game board

[Are_grits_groceries]

Well, this is certainly one way to celebrate Pride.

The Log Cabin Republicans of Los Angeles -- the largest such gay GOP organization in the country -- is holding a Tea Bag Toss at Christopher Street West, the Los Angeles Pride celebration this weekend.

According to a press release we just got, "Participants will purchase a tea bag and win a prize if they can successfully throw it through the open mouth of one of three politicians on the game board."

We had to know if this was for real, so we got a hold of Scott Schmidt, president of of Log Cabin-Los Angeles. He said it was part of their effort to reach out the LGBT community, and, "We figured this year we ought to take it up a notch and do something that is engaging and somewhat amusing and shows that we can even laugh at ourselves."

And the three open-mouthed politicos? Those would be Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Schmidt said including Palin was an attempt to be nonpartisan and he noted that she raised the sales tax while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
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I don't have the proper emoticon for my reaction.

[Chulanowa]

1. I went for the double facepalm demotivational

[HillbillyBob]

2. Gay Rethugs has aways rang false to me

Seems like they are saying, "abuse me please, I like to be trampled under foot by the family values mob".

[d_r]

3. And in news from the insect world...

The group Roaches Who Love Raid will be holding a "stomp the bug" fundraiser at the local Roach Motel.

[donco6]

4. LOL!

Can't really add anything to that.

[entanglement]

6. I understand your point, but using an insect analogy for gay people of any party is completely wrong

and dehumanizing, even if it's done indirectly. People have been compared to insects and roaches in the past and the results have NEVER been good.

[d_r]

7. jeez.

I guess the chickens for KFC analogy doesn't work either then. I'll keep working on it. Honestly though, I know I don't have to condescend to a whole group of people and treat them with kid-gloves because it just wouldn't occur to me in the first place to stereotype gay people and assume that gay folks would be so sensitive that anyone would misunderstand an obvious joke, and so I'm pretty sure that nobody is going to misunderstand it and actually think for a second that I'm saying that gay people are like bugs, but honestly I wouldn't want anyone to be insulted.

[slampoet]

9. No, the basic sale is more subtle. "The way to get rights is to keep your Daddy's money"

[peekaloo]

5. Their "game" sounds like a version of cornhole.

then again......

[Prism]

8. That's pretty mild for a pride event

Most gay Republicans I know are just as filthy as their Democratic counterparts, and they generally have little use for the religious conservative aspects of the party.

I guess, being Republicans, people expect them to be straight-laced or prudish, but in my experience that's not much the case.