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wertz

BIG GUNS

Nov 12, 2005 03:15

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 ( Read more... )

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calamariachi November 12 2005, 00:31:40 UTC

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

wertz November 12 2005, 05:17:06 UTC

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

calamariachi November 12 2005, 14:42:47 UTC

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

wertz November 12 2005, 16:27:01 UTC

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 ( ... )

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hardvice November 12 2005, 10:58:06 UTC

Well, at least it's the NRA and not something directly opposed to the 'mos, like Focus on the Family. I mean, there are lots of gay people (and even a fair share of people who are otherwise liberal) in the NRA-including me.

Gun control is one of those issues that just doesn't fit neatly in party lines.

wertz November 12 2005, 16:30:30 UTC

Regarding Lapierre, I think it's his whole "family values" position and his endorsement of openly homophobic candidates that is at issue. I, too, am a proponent of the individual right to bear arms. (While I don't believe that such a right is secured by the Second Amendment, I feel that there should be an additional amendment making such a right explicit.)