{"id":3189,"date":"2008-11-15T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/15\/not-gay\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T16:51:55","slug":"not-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/15\/not-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Not gay."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Savage releases this\u00c2\u00a0item of sarcasm\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>regarding\u00c2\u00a0gay marriage election outcomes, and\u00c2\u00a0placed at the feet of Florida Governor Charlie Crist.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

But let’s look on the bright side of the anti-gay-marriage amendments, shall we? The openly Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho got engaged to a real live girl when he was in the running to be McCain’s VP\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwon’t have to marry a real live girl now. Because it’s illegal for gays to get married now in Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u201dright, Charlie?<\/em><\/p>\n

Interesting<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, the conference of Republican Governors presented some fairly odd moments, and what people were paying attention to was friction between Sarah Palin and the rest of the conference.\u00c2\u00a0 The friction was especially acute amongst the half a dozen 2012 presidential hopefuls in the bunch — presenting telling spittings such as this one<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, Crist is not in that group who have touched down in Iowa<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Race, race, race.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all one stupid race after another.)<\/p>\n

Charlie Crist is probably basically unstoppable in\u00c2\u00a0his re-election bid for 2010, having just solidified a portion of Democrats by extending early voting in the election — an act which caused the famed anonymous Republican operator comment, “He just blew Florida for John McCain<\/a>“<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think that may rub his presidential ambitions in the Republicans primary a\u00c2\u00a0little raw, but moreso I think the supposition that he is gay likely would stop such a thing as a Republican Presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

The rumblings are that Sarah Palin was snubbed, as (first source I can find) the governors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vote this morning that elected, HUMAN EVENTS has just learned, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vice-chair, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist chair of the RGA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s February 2009 Annual Gala in Washington, D.C.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 That Governor Charlie Crist was elected to organize the Annual Gala doesn’t help Crist’s case.<\/p>\n

Not that I care too much.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t openly (er… “openly<\/a>“?)\u00c2\u00a0 campaign for Florida’s ballot initiative, which puts him in a different place than the gay-baiting Democratic Senate candidates in Kentucky and Mississippi.<\/p>\n

The rumors of closeted homosexuals in\u00c2\u00a0elected Republican Party members swirl around, occasionally proven right and occasionally not.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I won’t mention his name, out of\u00c2\u00a0a sense of prudence, but there is a\u00c2\u00a0senator from South Carolina who\u00c2\u00a0is supposedly a closeted gay man.\u00c2\u00a0 He hasn’t been caught making out with a man yet.\u00c2\u00a0 But I remember a few years back seeing that a Senator from Idaho was well known to be gay.\u00c2\u00a0 It turned out that he wasn’t, and Larry Craig has set that matter straight.\u00c2\u00a0 I quote, “I am not gay; I never have been gay<\/em>.”\u00c2\u00a0 Though, in that case, it becomes a bit of a he said \/ he said situation.\u00c2\u00a0 To further settle that matter, Craig — along with David Vitter — sponsored a “Marriage Protection Act<\/a>” in that last Congress, which read like a bad Onion parody.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other news, Silverton’s mayor has himself some breasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Savage releases this\u00c2\u00a0item of sarcasm\u00c2\u00a0regarding\u00c2\u00a0gay marriage election outcomes, and\u00c2\u00a0placed at the feet of Florida Governor Charlie Crist.\u00c2\u00a0 But let’s look on the bright side of the anti-gay-marriage amendments, shall we? The openly Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho got engaged to a real live girl when he was in the running to be McCain’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}