Log Cabin Republicans Offer “Qualified” Endorsement Of Mitt Romney

[DonViejo]

Source: BuzzFeed


Despite delay, despite Romney's support for a federal marriage amendment, and despite saying other races will be their priority, the group of gay Republicans backs Romney's presidential bid.

posted Oct 23, 2012 10:17am EDT

After much delay, Log Cabin Republicans — an organization of gay Republicans — announced today that it has issued a "qualified endorsement" of Mitt Romney for president. The organization did so despite Romney's recently renewed support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from marrying.

In explaining the move, the organization states in its full endorsement statement, "The qualified nature of this endorsement means that Log Cabin Republicans will be most active in our support for House and Senate candidates. ... While many of our members will also be working hard on behalf of Governor Romney, growing the pro-equality Republican presence in the House and Senate is our highest electoral priority this year."

In its broad news release, however, it did not note the endorsement as "qualified," saying only "the National Board of Directors of the Log Cabin Republicans has elected to endorse Governor Romney for president."

R. Clarke Cooper, the group's executive director, defended the endorsement in a statement, saying "Despite our disagreement with Governor Romney on the issue of marriage, on balance it is clear that in today's economic climate, concern for the future of our country must be the highest priority. We are Republicans, and we agree with Governor Romney's vision for America in which success is a virtue, equal opportunity is ensured, and leaders recognize that it is the American people, not government, that build our nation and fuel its prosperity."

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/log-cabin-republicans-offer-qualified-endorsemen

[JRLeft]

1. They are similar to blacks and latinos who vote republican. Sell outs.

[Plucketeer]

3. Delusional Deniers nt

[Hemp_is_good]

30. I'll never understand this lot

Even though I know quite a few gay republicans. it's about economics not social issues.
but still... they're just shooting themselves in the head.
at this point I don't think there is even one justification for voting republican ever!
maybe 40 years ago when there was a bit of common sense in the party (Nixon started the EPA after all) but since ray-gun the party has lost any sense of legitimacy imho.

and yes I've always voted Democratic in elections.
I held my nose for Al Gore (I was younger and stupid) but he was still the better candidate.
I wasn't as educated in politics as I am now, so I believed a lot of the BS hype... I still preferred him over *

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

33. Gay REpublicans always say it's about economics...

Really? Because the repugs and baggers have been so good at math. I think it's self hatred. They want someone to put them down, to be the bully. Not that they liked the bully, but they knew the bully.

[kenfrequed]

35. *Ding ding Ding*

I think you are a hundred precent correct on this matter. Only if all of the Log Cabin Republicans are in the upper 1% income bracket (or have been deluded into sympathy with that braket) can "economics" be a reasonable reason.

[funkhowser1]

64. Just like homosexuals that are hardcore Catholics ...

I've never understood the homosexual friends we have that are hardcore Catholics (being baptised, raised, and attended 13 years of Catholic school myself). A few have even made the journey to the Vatican and get outright giddy over showing you the photographs. I ask them why/how ... they hate you, they demonize you. I just don't understand. Is it some manner of self-hatred?

[Festivito]

36. Otherwise they'd be out of daddy's will.

Can't blame 'em, we all have a price.

[still_one]

43. Self-destruction imbeciles. /nt

[David Zephyr]

44. I'm gay and have been an activist since the 1960's.

I met a lot of these Log Cabin Republicans in their early days. Every time I pinned them down in a conversation, they oozed with racism and misogyny.

That's where they sprang from originally. And they still make me sick.

[Hemp_is_good]

47. That pretty much describes ever LCR i've known, MASSIVELY misogynistic

You hit it on the head.
aside from "teh gahy issue" they really are republicans through and through
and lord knows how many in the GoP are repressed/closeted gays

[Ash_F]

53. Thanks for the insight from that time. /nt

[grantcart]

2. In response Mitt has send them a personal note of thanks offering each and every one a

haircut done with his own hands.

[geardaddy]

6. Zing!

[mac56]

23. DUZY!

[donqpublic]

4. This is NOT an example of voting against your own interests

This group IS voting in the only interest they truly care about ...money. Who are the members of this group?

[AlbertCat]

17. As I have posted several times before...

and I know it's anecdotal...

But the only gay repugs I know are

1) Rich
2) In the closet (usually to their conservative family)
3) Both

[AllyCat]

5. I'm sorry, but these people would be terrible gamblers in Vegas.

Unbelievable.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Were they wowed by his Gray Sideburns?

"pro-equality Republican presence in the House and Senate"

"equal opportunity is ensured"

FantasyLand!

Absolutely not seeing reality clearly

[progressivebydesign]

19. "pro-equality republican" is an oxymoron. nt

[Zambero]

8. LCR$ = Value$ Voter$

However, presuming they are not all falling into the $250k+ category, they will be shooting themselves in BOTH feet.

[valerief]

10. Freaks. They bond as homosexuals but could care less about civil rights.

They just want MO' MONEY!!!! And they think Rmoney will give it to them. If most Log Cabiners are millionaires, HE WILL.

[femrap]

20. Just because one

is gay doesn't mean one isn't RACIST. Believe it or not...there are greedy and racist gay people out there.

And there is even the possibility that some gay men like the Mormon philosophy toward women: "To bear, to rear, to love."

Now I suppose, I will be burned at the stake.

[valerief]

21. What are you talking about? Certainly not Log Cabin Republicans.

And when did civil rights become solely race rights?

[femrap]

41. You don't believe

that some gay people are racists? Racism afflicts all kinds of people. It may be a reason that some gay people are voting for Mi$$.

Go visit Cincinnati....and especially the suburbs.

[noiretextatique]

50. i believe she was referring to gay civil rights

having been out for over 30 years, i know damn well that their are some gay racists. these log cabin types want so badly to join the white alpha group that they are willing to screw over themselves and other gay people...especially the black and brown ones. they think money shields them from some of the realities of being LBGT in america, and to some extent it does. but to support a party that means harm to those in your community who don't have tons of money...well, that's the definition of a traitor.

[femrap]

56. I agree....

Traitor is a good word. I lived in San Fran for many years and never met a Log Cabin person....then back to OH and I was just shocked.

[noiretextatique]

59. i'm in oakland

i've met a few log cabin types here, but generally they keep their mouths shut because most gay folks despise them. and since obama is the most gay-positive president...ever, they know to keep their obama-hatred on the down low. even some of gay aquaintances that i know have racial issues are supporting obama.

[femrap]

60. I sure do miss

The Left Coast. Ohio wasn't full of stupid people when I grew up...Raygun came in and dumb-downed everyone, I guess.

I'm having to endure advertisement after advertisement...I have to keep the remote by my side so I can 'mute' RobMe. I bet CA has few TV ads.

Is it Boxer's term that is up?? Or Diane's? I assume the Dem will win. I remember voting for Boxer in 1984...I think she was running for Congress for the first time. I lived in Mill Valley....Oh, those were the days and worked in the City. I was very lucky to have lived in one of the most progressive and beautiful places in the world, imho.

Now I'm back in Ohio and everything is just blah. The food, the people....but the fall trees have been pretty. And unlike most I like the snow as long as the temps stay above 20 degrees. Summer is HELL...I miss the fog then.



P.S. Halloween was such a blast in the City! What great parties.

[noiretextatique]

61. difi is up this time

i voted for her because don't do republicon...period. as someone mentioned in another thread, living here in california i have that luxury...not always the case in other places. i don't want to leave the bay, but considering bracing myself and heading to the south in a few years. the good thing about the south is their is (and has been) a migration of folks (especially african-americans) to the south from the north and the west. my sister made that transition from LA a few years. ago. I feel your pain...the bay is the BEST.

[femrap]

63. I've read that

lots of AAs have moved to the South. I can't stand the heat...I have DNA similar to that of Polar bears. That's why SF was great....I never got cold and never got hot.

I was in SF when DIFI was mayor of SF. And now she is a Senator. I'm with you....I've never voted for a Repugnant. Sometimes, I have to hold my nose and vote for the Dem.

Sherrod Brown is up for OH Senator. He has to win. His opponent is only 34 yrs. old and has held 4 political positions in 7 years. He's a real brat. I just want to spank him. He hates women...the feeling is mutual. How do these dudes get away with supporting rapists????

[noiretextatique]

65. just when you think republicons can't get any lower

they do i will send sherrod brown a donation. all the rape apologists and misogynists should be defeated...enough is fng enough!!!

[femrap]

66. Sherrod and I

thank you very much. Sherrod Brown is a pretty decent guy. I've written him a couple of times and damned if he didn't write me back! I've kept the letters.

Sherrod has somewhat stepped into the shoes that Teddy Kennedy wore in the Senate...fighting for the working people.

[Texin]

11. I've heard of self-loathing

but this takes the effin' cake.

I can't believe, let enough understand, how it is that people would actually be able to bring themselves to cast a ballot for the same rethug cretins who would just as soon see every GLBT person in the world strung over a barbwire fence like Matthew Shephard. I wouldn't even be able to muster enough concern to even spit on these hateful asshats politicos if they were on fire. It just boggles my mind that roughly half of the population of the United States can reconcile themselves to the fact that they repeatedly make decisions and vote for people that are openly and notoriously against their own personal and economic self-interests.

[SoapBox]

12. If the Pukes/Baggers had their way, they would ship even THESE clowns off to Gay Gitmo.

Such idiots...voting against their own self interests.

Hey, Dumb Cabin Repukelicans...get it through your stupid heads, Pukes/Baggers HATE you!

[AlbertCat]

13. "active in our support for House and Senate candidates....

... growing the pro-equality Republican presence in the House and Senate is our highest electoral priority this year."



Jesus, girlfriend! Make it easy on yourself. Forget friggin' Repugs and especially the almost non-existant "pro-equality" Repugs (Cheney???) and just vote for an entire party that is "pro-equality"!!!!

[eaglesfanintn]

51. They just want Marcus

Bachmann to keep his presence in D.C. With Michelle going to meetings and doing all that "congressy" stuff, he'll have time to play around with the Log Cabiners.

[AlbertCat]

52. he'll have time to play around with the Log Cabiners.

Yuk!

Log Cabiners must be the gays with no taste.

[kestrel91316]

14. SHAMEFUL.

[classykaren]

15. Are they still sending their checks back?

[NYC Liberal]

16. They're Republicans first. Being gay doesn't mean you can't be greedy or a right-winger.

[progressivebydesign]

18. I can save the ink: "We don't care about anything but money. We want our 1%er tax cuts."

The End. Truly if you look at the LCR they are a bunch of 1%ers. They could care less about the social aspects of Mitt's policies, they are all about greed.

"today's economic climate." WTF would that one be??? the improving economy??? They also share a vision of America where the middle class jobs continue to flow to China and India because of Romney's business model (from which he has lived without a job, supporting numerous estates, btw,) and denying services to the poor, while deriding the 47% for their existence??

Fuck them. They're a bunch of republican lobbyists who happen to be gay.

[we can do it]

22. WTF is wrong with them, really. How greedy can they be?

[bluestate10]

24. THose fools vote the way they do because they know the rest of us will save their asses.

If the religious right gain full control of the legislative, executive and judicial branches, the log cabin republican ass-hats will be burned on stakes one by one.

[atufal]

25. As a black man, I am pleased that there is a dumber form of Republican than a black one. NT.

[kxm40]

46. GINO

LOL, I was thinking the same thing.

[SDjack]

26. Never saw that coming. nt

[onehandle]

27. Log Cabin Republicans = Selfish 1%ers or 1%er wannabes.

Every gay Republican I've ever known was pretty well off. Mostly lawyers and money managers.

[NICO9000]

28. I'm so glad all my gay friends and relatives are liberal Dems

The way they should be! I don't think I could be friends with a gay or African-American Republican. I do have a couple of white male R's in my life, but they're reasonable guys and do not like what their party has become. I think they're inching closer to our side every day. My wife and myself can be quite persuasive!

[defacto7]

29. Is it just me or is there a

anecdotal resemblance to the Westboro gang? Only not? Like a very small bunch of screaming attention seekers?

[Liberalagogo]

31. It's always "qualified"

RW Gays, hereby know as "garbage", will never endorse a D. The reason being if not closeted to their family, they know they will be disinherited if it becomes known they voted D. It's all about the self-hate and the money. They claim "change from within", but it's NEVER happened in their existence and has only gotten worse. Most tend to be rich Hollywood Rethugs who live in their own little bubble, like Marc Cherry, creator of "Desperate Housewives". No concept of what life is for gay people in the real world at the hand of the RW. These pieces of garbage are as delusional, self-hating, and sociopathic as a certain candidate known as The Stench.

[Liberalagogo]

58. I never read that user's response....

But thanks.....it validates my feelings over the fact he just got BANNED at DailyKos for being an asshole.

I'm glad he feels so enamored of me to stalk me on a completely different site...I'm quite flattered.

Kisses to you The Swimmer.

[heaven05]

32. ??

talk about voting against your own best interest.

[slackmaster]

34. Cognitive Dissonance in action

http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/dissonance.htm

[beac]

37. If, year after year after year, you are going to endorse the anti-gay candidate

why BOTHER to call yourselves a special gay group? You are just Republicans-- Republicans who worship money over human rights, just like every other Republican.

[LaPera]

38. Log cabin Republicans must be the most confused, masochistic, out of touch

needy people on the planet!

Fucking amazingly absurd degrading to gay people, activist and supporters everywhere.

Slimy fucking republicans....disgusting elitism, selfishness, lust for power & control republican ideology & agenda - A sick republican arrogant vindictive philosophy of greed & exclusion of groups unlike their narrow mindlessness and views.....their public displays of racism, homophobic hatred & threats, spewing backward garbage at women as second class citizens and complete disregard for the middle-class and outright despise of the poor & less-fortunate.

These are republicans ALL republicans - If they vote republican - They are republican & support these disgusting republican views - each and every one of them!!

[reflection]

39. If the worm hops off the hook into the fish's mouth while saying "qualified"

it is still eaten. You reap what you sow, LCRs.

[Arkana]

40. Ah, the "We Fucking Hate Ourselves And Wish We Were Dead"

wing of the GOP. Was wondering when these guys were going to crawl out from under their rocks.

[SpankMe]

42. Conservative gays should sit this one out and stay mum.

Gays aren't by necessity or nature liberals and can't be treated as such. A conservative gay person is not an oxymoron.

But, supporting a party that is monolithically against your very nature, being, existence and equal rights - even if that party has other policy positions you agree with - is just plain crazy.

There are plenty of black people who have some favoritism toward states rights, I'm sure. But, I can't see them voting for a candidate who's openly a KKK member because of that. Gays who vote Republican are essentially voting in favor of their own expulsion from being equals in this society - even if they are free-marketeers and government haters.

[Caeser67]

48. Black, Hispanic, Gay, Lesbian, Asian, Female Republicans=

Stockholm Syndrome.

[Honest_Abe]

49. Whaaa!??

Have they not read the National Republican Party platform or ANY of the state Republican Party platforms? How can you vote for a group that AT BEST officially considers you a second-class citizen and in many cases considers you less than human?

[workinclasszero]

54. WTH?

I don't get why any gay would vote for a man and a party that despises and loathes them.

Talk about voting against your own best interests, damn. Greed is a terrible, terrible thing to be able to do that to people.

[TheDonkey]

55. "equal opportunity is ensured" Um' say what?

What a bunch of morons. Log Cabin Republicans are an embarassment to the GLBT community.

[jsr]

62. Well, they're Republicans