BIG GUNS

[wertz]

It looks like Wayne Lapierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association and board member of the American Association of Political Consultants, has joined the ranks of such legendary conservative hypocrites as Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Israel Hernandez, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, RNC CFO Jay Banning, RNC National

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[calamariachi]

LOL...I'm laughing...and I'm waiting for you to tell me April Fools came early.

[wertz]

Heh - I wish. Time to break out the Roy Cohn Syndrome counsellors.

[calamariachi]

Seriously...and I'm willing to be gullible here...Karl Rove?

[wertz]

I first broached this here about a year and a half ago. Even then, there were a lot of intimations about Rove's furtive behavior after hours in DC (even mentioned in the Washington Times). Since then, there have been regular reports in the blogoshpere about sighting of Rove at various "discreet" gay clubs and private "safe sex parties" and so on - as well as intimations that the relationship between Rove and Guckert-Gannon may have been more than professional. Or rather professional in more than one sense of the word.

The most recent reference I've seen to Rove's sexuality was in an interview with Janeane Garofalo:

The only interesting thing about Karl Rove, in my opinion, is that he is, I believe, gay or bi. I find that to be the only likeable thing about him. I think that Karl Rove should be outed as gay only because if their fundamentalist evangelical right-wing backers (I know that a lot of progressives are evangelical, I'm just talking about the conservative fundamentalists) knew that one of their masters, Karl Rove, is in

[calamariachi]

LOL...thanks for the info...definitely enough to ponder over. And the Gannon thing still makes me giggle.