Earth to Log Cabin Republicans: You are now officially the 21st century equivalent of ...

[11 Bravo]

Jews for Hitler.

It's over folks. You can no longer pretend to have it both ways. Time to pick a side.

[atreides1]

1. Exactly

K&R

[pinboy3niner]

2. K&R

[cali]

3. I had the same thought

[Rex]

4. Checkmate!

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]

5. Hahahaha

Spot on

[Moonwalk]

6. But the Uncle Tom's Cabin Republicans are trying so darn hard....

...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]

33. Log Cabin Morons! nt

[nxylas]

44. "But it's more complex than that"

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]

51. Excuses, they have many and we don't need them.

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]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Bravo.

[Blue Owl]

8. K&R

LOL!

[Sarcasticus]

9. Yep.

durec.

[LASlibinSC]

10. K&R

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. K&R

[fascisthunter]

12. So True

[Mkap]

13. yes

Saying your a log cabin republican is like saying your a jew for hitler

LOL thanks i have to use that line sometime

[cliffordu]

14. As much as I HATE Hitler references on the innertubes I gotta K&R this.

[11 Bravo]

17. I completely agree with you, (but I really couldn't conjure up a more apt analogy)!

[KamaAina]

18. Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving?

[cliffordu]

35. I gotta say....

It is a PERFECT analogy.

[47of74]

15. May I say....

[Faygo Kid]

16. Harsh, but true.

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]

19. Being gay and being a selfish, hateful, greedy prick are mutually exclusive?

They must not be single issue voters.

[underpants]

20. They are ignore by the Republican anyway

it's like being gay at a Baptist Thanksgiving dinner (I would suspect).

[baldguy]

21. But Hitler's economic policies did so much good for Germany.

[CTyankee]

22. I really think we should retire the whole "jews for..." analogy. Please.

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]

30. And it denigrates the suffering of Jews during WW2.

How about Gays for Hitler?

Or does that denigrate the suffering of gays during WW2?

[treestar]

40. Good point

We needed a reminder of that on this thread! Gays were one of Hitler's targets themselves.

[CTyankee]

41. And that can be said, and said better, without bringing in anything else.

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]

49. actually, you could say "gays for hitler"

because hitler was definitely against gays back then. Remember the pink armbands?

[CTyankee]

55. It is a better focus, yes. It should be looked at in the context of persecution of gay people

by a tyrant.

[Cooley Hurd]

23. I like this better:

:Being a Log Cabin Republican is like being a Chicken for Colonel Sanders."
I never want to run "afowl" of Godwin's Law...

[SunSeeker]

24. MUCH better. Thanks. nt.

[CBGLuthier]

42. J.C. Watts, Sr. said that back in 99

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_17_95/ai_54731475/

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]

61. I think that's where I got it from...

[CTyankee]

43. While it avoids Godwin's Law, I don't like even the hint of comparison of gay people

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]

62. Must think these things through from every angle....

Thanks!

[JeffBootstrapsFisher]

25. Spam deleted by Ruby the Liberal (MIR Team)

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. The absolute spam

Laterz.

[AlbertCat]

27. Most of them will pick their money...

.... 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]

28. Bingo!

[RZM]

31. Not really. First of all, they already have picked a side

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]

36. That was really thoughtful and well put ...

Thanks

[RZM]

37. Thank you

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]

47. Why the hell can't we rec individual posts yet?

This response is head and shoulders above the rest.

[JI7]

32. Log Cabin has never been about Gay Rights, it's a bunch (mostly) guys who don't want to pay taxes

calling dick cheney a leader on gay rights ????????? what did he do as VP to support gay rights ?

[WillyT]

34. K & R !!!

[Dragonbreathp9d]

38. African Americans for Strom Thurman

[MrScorpio]

39. K & rec #100

[bonniebgood]

45. Union members and school teachers for republicians. nt

[raouldukelives]

46. 100%

It's like claiming to be a liberal environmentalist and then investing in the stock market. Weird shit.

[yesphan]

48. Slaves for the Conferderacy ?

[Lost-in-FL]

52. Roaches for Raid. nt

[valerief]

50. They have. The $$$ side. nt

[Lost-in-FL]

53. MENSA for Bachmann 2012! nt

[gejohnston]

54. my favorite

[xxqqqzme]

56. Excellent!

Made me chuckle.

[Caeser67]

57. Excellent point

Your move loggies!

[cr8tvlde]

58. Bristol for Condoms

Sarah for Mrs. Field's

[Jamaal510]

59. I have reached the conclusion that

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]

60. I know why they are torn, so I advise them to stay Republican't

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.