Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message In Final Days Of Gov Race
Going into the home stretch in in the Kentucky gubernatorial election, the Republicans appear to have brought out one last card: Paranoia against gays.
The state GOP is now sending a robo-call throughout the state featuring none other than Pat Boone, warning that as a Christian he is concerned that Democratic nominee Steve Beshear, who has been way ahead in the polls, will work for "every homosexual cause."
"Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?" Boone asks. "Please re-elect Ernie Fletcher."
And at a campaign stop last night, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor made a direct attack upon the Democratic ticket: "Do you want a couple of San Francisco treats or do you want a governor?"
Boone's robo-call is available after the jump.
Comments (75)
TJ wrote on November 4, 2007 4:42 PM:Even in KY the dems have a majority, but you need to vote to have en effect on an election. People should but dont seem to learn from how Rudy lied & said/did anything to get elected mayor where dems are a far majority & of course there are many examples of how repub's have gotten into office by smearing others, somehow this works, it's sad. But at least I hope the people of NYC are getting a good look at who they elected for so many years. I dont see how such a fascist like Rudy can get elected in NYC. Guess the same way Romney was elected as the gov of Mass. I hope the dems will finally get out next year & vote or take advantage of the absentee option for a change. The repubs are by far a minority, but, they vote! If they win elections, it's because non-repub's let them!
barkleyg wrote on November 4, 2007 5:42 PM:Well, there goes the white, geriatric vote for the Dems. For the probably 70+ % who are asking"who the h ll is Pat Boone", this commercial will have the same effect as when you close your eyes and tell someone what you see- NOTHING!!
Daniel wrote on November 4, 2007 5:53 PM:Meanwhile, the latest Washington Post poll has Clinton crushing all Republicans nationally.
cd wrote on November 4, 2007 5:59 PM:
Hmm...it's got the whole shtick of "Kentucky", "heritage", "Christian" (with a twang and WASP name). And it brings up the homersexuals and tranz-jendery. Well, that should decide all the undecideds nicely.
Beshear, 55-45.
I guess the anti-Latino thing didn't fly, and Kentuckians aren't as paranoid about their guns getting 'grabbed' anymore.
Steve in CA wrote on November 4, 2007 7:05 PM:I really hope the GOP ticket in Kentucky gets crushed right now. Is there any Republican that is capable of running a campaign based on anything other than fear?
Fear the "islamofascists". Fear the brown people. Fear the queers.
If they had to run on their record, they'd be virtually eliminated as a party. So they have to run on making people afraid of things.
What a pathetic era for one of America's two stalwart political parties.
CalD wrote on November 4, 2007 7:05 PM:Pat Boone! Wow. I thought he was dead... and gay.
Steve in CA wrote on November 4, 2007 7:11 PM:CalD--This is very funny.
I should also note...this is the SECOND time that they have tried to call the sexual orientation of Dan Mongiardo into question.
When he almost defeated Jim Bunning for the US Senate in 2004, two prominent Kentucky GOP politicos dropped the hammer. One referred to him as "limp-wristed", while another declared he was "not a man."
The Kentucky GOP is particularly loathesome and hateful, it would seem. Here is hoping that they wake up on Wednesday morning with only Richie Farmer on their statewide elected roster.
CalD wrote on November 4, 2007 7:18 PM:Yeah. They can be some pretty nasty creatures anywhere you go, but some places do seem a little more blessed than others in that respect. I grew up in Southern Indiana myself, so I'm familiar with the breed.
amberglow wrote on November 4, 2007 7:41 PM:I'm willing to bet Fletcher is trolling bathrooms for blowjobs just like all the rest of the GOP.
canadian visitor wrote on November 4, 2007 7:46 PM:With the way the republicans are acting lately, I am sure if I lived there I would gladly vote for "a couple of San Fransisco treats" over him any time.
KY3 Democrat wrote on November 4, 2007 7:52 PM:Haha! Don't worry about the KY GOP, they've already crawled up their own a**es and died there. Everyone knows this, even the aforesaid mentioned KY GOP.
Northup was Mitch's bee-atch, and we sent her home. Ernie was a project of Mitch, before he embarrassed himself with constitutional scandals. Now we're drawing the bead on Mitch himself; he's obstructed the Senate for too long now.. And Jim Bunning? He's just a lump, a placeholder. How did a spud like that ever get into the Senate?
It's gonna feel good to vote against Ernie. Just a warm-up for Nov 2008...
Another gay republican comes out of his closet to campaign for family values. Pat, at your age, you don't have to hide your skeletons, that is all that is left of you.
rufusmarvel wrote on November 4, 2007 8:36 PM:talking about sucking dick.
Orwell's Intuition wrote on November 4, 2007 8:56 PM:Hey, Pat. Go jump in the Moody River, you bigot.
xjt wrote on November 4, 2007 9:00 PM:"San Francisco treats"
"Pat, you don't have to hide your skeletons"
"I thought he was dead...and gay!"
It's amazing how homophobic you supposedly liberal commenters sound. You disapprove of the campaign tactic, yet you degrade the person who is doing it by implying that they're gay as a way to insult them.
john wrote on November 4, 2007 9:10 PM:Governor Fletcher is on the front page of this weeks Paris {Ky} Advertiser shaking hands with a local limp wristed restuarant owner.Hope he doesnt catch anything.
BlueBob wrote on November 4, 2007 9:27 PM:The worst of it is this bullshit may work.
Marco wrote on November 4, 2007 9:28 PM:In new Washington Post poll Clintons lead is cut by 33% by Obama. Obama O8
rufusmarvel wrote on November 4, 2007 9:30 PM:Dear xjt,
It's called IRONY.
Clem Cadiddlehopper wrote on November 4, 2007 9:46 PM:xjt wrote: "It's amazing how homophobic you supposedly liberal commenters sound. You disapprove of the campaign tactic, yet you degrade the person who is doing it by implying that they're gay as a way to insult them."
It's obvious that this person is a typical hypocritical homophobic conservative -- he/she doesn't grasp the facts that (1) Pat is being criticized for being hypocritical (if, indeed, he's one of their closet cases) and (2) it's not degrading someone (or an insult) if that person is called gay -- what's wrong with being gay, hmmmmmm?
Butt-Head wrote on November 4, 2007 9:55 PM:"KY GOP"
He said "KY". Heh. Heh. Heh.
Most republicans, at least 98% of them are closeted gays. Why else would they be trolling the airport bathrooms.
Richterscale wrote on November 4, 2007 10:21 PM:XJT
Since we're the bad guys here, why don't you fill me in on all those Democrat mens room trolling, hooker frequenting, pageboy harrassing scandals I seem to have missed?
jamesincincy wrote on November 4, 2007 10:23 PM:And guess where Pat Boone lives? Beverly Hills, California. At least according to his campaign contributions.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=Boone&first=Pat
By the way, this whole thing reminds me of the Ohio Governor's race in 2006. At the end of the race, when Blackwell had consistently been down by double digits, he tried to imply that Strickland was in the pocket of the pedophile lobby and had had a tryst with one of his aides once. It was universally perceived as an act of desperation and did nothing to help the Republican ticket.
Aaron S. Veenstra wrote on November 4, 2007 10:34 PM:Crazy, but that's how it goes.
Mike B. wrote on November 4, 2007 10:35 PM:The worst of it is this bullshit may work.
Robo-calls from Pat Boone calling the frontrunner gay are going to work?
There's a difference between "dirty but effective" and "desperate and pathetic." Let's not overestimate the abilities of the GOP, which is about to lose this one big.
gavin immerson wrote on November 4, 2007 10:46 PM:Chuck Berry killed the talentless, white-buckeroo Boone long ago.
That's just a sock puppet doing late-nite infos for Christain Colostomy Gear.
Because, you know, there's no one with more credibility in the heterosexuality department than Pat Boone.
jval wrote on November 4, 2007 11:37 PM:Beshear is up by 24% in the latest poll, but Fletcher's lackeys (including US Rep. Hal Rogers) say that they're expecting a "big silent vote" for Fletcher and that all of the polling in the past three months has been wrong. Fletcher, like every other Republican running for state-wide office in Kentucky this year (with the exception of Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer and possibly Secretary of State Trey Grayson), is kaput. The rats have been leaving Fletcher's campaign ship in droves. The only question is how badly Fletcher will get beaten. Even Fletcher's tour bus was in a minor accident today. Talk about prophetic!
vickiS wrote on November 4, 2007 11:42 PM:Hoo, boy! I live in Louisville and Ditch Mitch is going DOWN. This gay bashing crap does NOT go over well here.
mac2151 wrote on November 5, 2007 1:01 AM:Cannonfire recently had a link to spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnugan.htm that described the Pat Boone connection to the drug money laundering Nugan Hand Bank & Rupert Murdoch.
This would seem to go hand-in-hand with the Fred Thompson/Philip Martin drug charge revelations.
"Meanwhile, the latest Washington Post poll has Clinton crushing all Republicans nationally."
Hmmmm. A 4-point lead over Rudy isn't exactly 'crushing'.
Donald from Hawaii wrote on November 5, 2007 3:16 AM:The image of the San Francisco gay man is sooo cliche. All Ernie Fetcher's desperate campaign tactics do is conjur up images of another tired cliche about poor white trash, accompanied by the tune "Dueling Banjoes."
Mud Dauber wrote on November 5, 2007 3:50 AM:Yeah, what happened to Pat? I thought he temporarily flirted with his fem side trying to turn over a new leaf spring or something. Last time I saw him he was sporting a ear ring (left side), and a leather vest that showed his thong riding up in the back. Did he go in for a tune up to the Dobson fix-a-fag clinic? Has he back-slid and needed to redeem his intitial cure coupon for one additional visit.
Is Anita Bryant still around? Will she help save the Kentucky Derby from being overrun by geldingofascism?
Will a majority of American voters install a transvestite Republican in the White House a year from now?
Only THE COMPANY knows for sure.
CranialRectalLoopback wrote on November 5, 2007 6:05 AM:The Dumbocrats should run campaign adds featuring Pat Boone's Fruit-of-the-Loom commercials from the '70's and ask rhetorically, who is the "treat"?
And yet it still widely believed that the next election will be about Iran and Iraq.
Big River Bandido wrote on November 5, 2007 7:32 AM:Wow...Pat Boone? Who's next, Anita Bryant? These types of "stars" are playing to an increasingly small house; the folks who tapped their toes to "April Love" (on the wrong beats no less) are a dwindling audience.
Kinda like Republican voters.
bwindrip wrote on November 5, 2007 7:36 AM:By all means, take advice on manly issues from someone who wears white shoes.
Hephaestion wrote on November 5, 2007 8:38 AM:What's really hilarious here is that Pat Boone asked them "Do you want Kentucky to be another San Francisco?"
Ha! Kentucky should be so lucky! San Francisco is UNQUESTIONABLY the nicest city in America, and is the only one many Europeans and Asians deem worthy of visiting in America. KENTUCKY is basically a bunch of inbred illiterate goobers scattered across a bunch of litter-strewn hills. I lived there for 5 years, I know. If Kentucky COULD be San Francisco by electing this guy, by God they had better vote for him!
Jeff wrote on November 5, 2007 8:55 AM:Thanks to Larry Flynt, the world has a not-safe-for-work pic of exhibitionist Pat Boone:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_97xiVJFB8jo/RgdOmt5hZUI/AAAAAAAADa0/xjxbeiHDx-A/s1600-h/pat+boone.jpg
Hi Hephaestion, let me introduce myself: I'm European.
San Francisco to me is little more than a worthless hellhole which the Union would only benefit from having crumble into the ocean and disappear. I'd MUCH rather visit the Great Sovereign State of Kentucky and its proud people (that's excepting YOU of course) than I'd ever wanna set my foot in the useless dump known as San Francisco.
Also, a more "sensitive" person might categorize the kind of generalizing you're guilty of in ascribing to Europeans certain preferences as a form of bigotry. I wouldn't go so far as to call you bigoted though, I'll settle for just calling you an idiot.
Pat Boone, on the other hand - though it would be an understatement to say I'm no fan of his recorded works - should be commended for lending his services to the GOP in this instance.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on November 5, 2007 9:40 AM:The Republicans are crashing quicker the the Whigs and the Federalists . . . Please let them be memory-dust by 2010.
nitpicker wrote on November 5, 2007 9:42 AM:Um, this Pat Boone?
Shaun Dakin wrote on November 5, 2007 9:54 AM:Hey,
Robo calls are annoying, no mater who does it.
There is a new National Political 'do not call' Registry that launched a few weeks ago that is aiming to combat these things on both sides.
http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org
Shaun Dakin
I see a headline like this, it just makes me assume everyone on Kentucky is gay.
Josh Elder wrote on November 5, 2007 10:38 AM:As a gay Kentuckian, I have to say I'm not surprised at the ignorance of this message.
Fletcher violated the exact thing he swore to uphold, the KY Constitution.
He allocated 11 million dollars of taxpayer money to a private, religious college; which is strictly against our Constitution.
This college just so happens to be the same college which expelled, and attempted to flunk, a Dean's List student due to his sexuality. (Even though the 'rule' against gays was placed into the handbook a year after he enrolled)
Fletcher refuses to protect me, as a citizen of the Commonwealth. He refuses to treat me EQUALLY and continues to acknowledge that I am a 2nd class citizen due to my sexuality.
There are teens and adults, every day, who are physically and verbally assaulted every day of their lives due to their sexuality and Fletcher refuses to protect them, citizens he swore to protect.
Beshear does not support Same-Sex Marriage and neither do I. Let us not forget the KY Republican Party is also the party (thanks to Jim Bunning) that brought you the name-calling of their political opponents "Limp wristed".
I have no respect for this man and would not spit on him to save his life. He disgusts me and is not fit to be a governor of any state or commonwealth.
Truthwhip wrote on November 5, 2007 10:50 AM:Hephaestion, very funny, and spot on!
Michael wrote on November 5, 2007 9:06 AM:
"Hi Hephaestion, let me introduce myself: I'm European.
San Francisco to me is little more than a worthless hellhole which the Union would only benefit from having crumble into the ocean and disappear. I'd MUCH rather visit the Great Sovereign State of Kentucky and its proud people (that's excepting YOU of course) than I'd ever wanna set my foot in the useless dump known as San Francisco."
Truly hilarious! The only people I know who would never "wanna" make a visit to SF are mouthbreathing Fox"News"-Crazed Republicans -- who as we all know are about as "European" as a thick layer of Cheezwhiz served on Wonderbread.
I live in the SF Bay Area -- and can easily confirm that all of Northern California is constantly crawling with foreign tourists from all over the world.
I think it's the amazing natural beauty as well as the enthusiastic excess of culture that brings so many people here.
Kentucky can be a beautiful place, but most of that beauty seems to be connected to the Millionaire Horse Breeders.
Pat Boone used to live next door to Ozzy Osbourne.
Truthwhip wrote on November 5, 2007 11:25 AM:Josh Elder wrote on November 5, 2007 10:38 AM:
"Beshear does not support Same-Sex Marriage and neither do I."
Josh, I'm a married hetero female, and I honestly don't understand it when gay folks say things like this. Don't gay Americans pay taxes just like every other American? Isn't it "self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"? If we believe the first amendment -- that there exists a separation between Church and State -- then marriage can only be a legal distinction in the eyes of our government. So, why shouldn't civil unions/marriages of same sex couples be allowed, to ensure that everyone truly is treated equally, and therefore, is entitled to the exact same rights held by every other American?
Daryl wrote on November 5, 2007 12:12 PM:Saw an episode of the Munsters last week where Grandpa had all these pills to turn Herman into a cool guy.
Grandpa: "Let's see, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Pat Boone...Pat Boone?! How'd that get in there?!
(Grabs bottle and throws it away)
It was true then and its still true today.
John Keller wrote on November 5, 2007 12:23 PM:
OH MY GOD ITS THE GAYS RUN!!!!!!!!!!! THEY MUST BE WITH BIN LADEN!!!!!!!!
I NEED DUCT TAPE AND PLASTIC FOR MY WINDOWS!!!!
HELP ME G.W. BUSH YOUR MY ONLY HOPE!!!!!
Of course SF is crawling with tourists. So's a lotta other places. That don't necessarily mean that every citizen in the respective country from whence them there tourists came think those places are all fine and dandy and worthy of a visit. And a lot of times that ain't even remotely the rationale for visiting someplace. Or are you gonna tell me that Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen for example draw tourism 'cause of their "enthusiastic culture"? But me, I wouldn't even wanna visit SF out of that reason. Nah, I reiterate my opinion that America - the real America, of which you libruls ain't a part - would do a whole lot better without SF in its current state, or the whole left coast for that matter. But hey, might just be that one of these days, them pesky earthquakes are gonna get ya. And on that day, it'll be too late for you to repent.
Also, are you insinuating I'm not European? You're welcome over to see me anytime you'd like, buddy. Or wait, scratch that, we have enough of y'all as it is. And by y'all, I mean your "kind", not Americans per se.
Ta-tah now!
Jeff wrote on November 5, 2007 1:03 PM:Michael, since you're a "European," I'm sure that you speak other languages. So to prove your international status, please translate this quote for us in each of the languages you speak:
"I'm a tool who gets his talking points from right-wing radio. I think that suggesting the deaths of millions of people by earthquake is funny. It's only okay if people on my side do the bullying. I get very upset if I feel I am being bullied, because inside I'm just a high-school tough who never made the transition into a nuanced, grown-up world. I'm actually a very confused and scared person."
We'll be waiting!
Also, I know no "Europeans" who call themselves that -- so will you please specify your country of residence for us?
RW wrote on November 5, 2007 1:22 PM:@Donkey:
"Most republicans, at least 98% of them are closeted gays"
I sure hope not. No fashion sense, those guys.
But just in case you're right, here's a message for the closeted hypocrites: c'mon out and be your true self; makes it a lot easier to laugh and to sleep at nights. No, you don't have to wear pink feather boas unless you want to.
As for Michael, funny how this "European" (which country, honey-buns?) writes flawlessly fluent, idiomatic American English.
Somehow, the brain, she has doubts.
And finally, that tired old bugaboo, gay marriage: We've had it here in Canada for some years now and guess what? The sky hasn't fallen in. Even the most virulent homophobes admit that their marriages have survived. Churches are still doing churchy things. Life goes on. The only difference is that some thousands of same-sex couples now have air tight financial arrangements. That's all.
I live in Ky, and I think it's sad that Fletcher is trying so hard to get the vote of the religious right. "No Casinos, No Fags." Give me a break! This is a desperate incumbent grasping at staws, I hope every gay person and gambler in the state shows up at the polls tomorrow to vote this HATEMONGER out of office. I'm not 100% for Beshear either, but Fletcher is a dolt who hired a ton of his political cronies into state offices that were supposed to be based on merit. Then, when he got caught, he pardoned everyone involved. This is not the kind of man I want running my state. I find his remarks personally offensive, and I'm sure all my "San Francisco Treat" friends do too. What a dumbass. ANYONE FROM KY READINg THIS, GO VOTE THIS ASSHOLE OUT TOMORROW!!!
Tom, Portland, OR wrote on November 5, 2007 1:28 PM:Old plastic face is at it again.
Pretty hypocritical for someone who sucks Hannity's member every chance he gets.
As a Christian, I'm concerned about dishonesty, bigotry, hypocrisy,etc...
me wrote on November 5, 2007 2:35 PM:If Pat Boone's for it, I'm against it, whatever it is.
Check the leather vest over tanned, bare skin. Check the gold neckchain and the earring. Why, it's....Pat Boone, on the cover of his 'In A Metal Mood' CD. 'Nuff said.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dio.net/pictures_cd/pat_boone_in_a_metal_mood_front.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700718/posts%3Fpage%3D167&h=197&w=200&sz=19&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=mWi7BXz8J3h46M:&tbnh=102&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpat%2Bboone%2Bin%2Ba%2Bmetal%2Bmood%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rls%3DGGLR,GGLR:2006-04,GGLR:en%26sa%3DN
I like San Fransicso. Kentucky should be so lucky!
TEL wrote on November 5, 2007 5:50 PM:As a Bay Area resident, my reaction to the San Francisco = evil (or equivalent) stereotype is always the same. Why don't you visit before you judge? You might be surprised at what you'll find.
The Bay Area is one of the most diverse, tolerant, and colorful places I've ever lived. It has it's negatives, but the positives far outweigh those negatives.
Michael wrote on November 5, 2007 6:09 PM:Hephaestion used the categorization European, thus I responded as such. My nationality is Swedish.
Here Jeff, I'll humor you:
"Jag är en skarpsinnig och intelligent - därtill övertygat konservativ - person som till skillnad från den gemene, sinnesslöe liberalen inte sitter och runkar bort all sin vakna tid till Air America. Visserligen kan endast Gud döma er, men ni har mycket mer att förlora än jag om ni någon gång skulle finna att ni stod inför Honom. San Francisco må en gång ha varit en vacker stad, men idag är den ett pestsmittat avloppshål för allsköns degenererade sodimiter, moraliskt förfallen bortom all räddning. Det rör mig egentligen inte i ryggen om du tycker annorlunda, för inombords står jag stark i min tro. Jag är faktiskt en mycket klarsynt och modig person."
I also speak German, and enough Spanish to get by, but I'd say it's hard enough for you linguistically challenged Americans to dissect one foreign language at a time, so let's leave it at that, shall we?
beergoggles wrote on November 5, 2007 7:02 PM:donkey wrote on November 4, 2007 10:10 PM: Most republicans, at least 98% of them are closeted gays. Why else would they be trolling the airport bathrooms.
That's the straight lifestyle you're speaking of. Curtis, Haggard, Craig; they are all completely heterosexual don't you know.
Yellow Dog wrote on November 5, 2007 7:29 PM:UPDATE!
"Somebody" has been running illegal robo-calls pretending to be from the "homosexual lobby" urging people to vote for Beshear if they want more homosexual teachers.
This could land Ernie in prison.
BlueGrassRoots has the details, including a recording of the phone call itself.
Mynah Bird wrote on November 5, 2007 7:43 PM:Here Jeff, I'll humor you:
"Jag är en skarpsinnig och intelligent - därtill övertygat konservativ - person som till skillnad från den gemene, sinnesslöe liberalen inte sitter och runkar bort all sin vakna tid till Air America. Visserligen kan endast Gud döma er, men ni har mycket mer att förlora än jag om ni någon gång skulle finna att ni stod inför Honom. San Francisco må en gång ha varit en vacker stad, men idag är den ett pestsmittat avloppshål för allsköns degenererade sodimiter, moraliskt förfallen bortom all räddning. Det rör mig egentligen inte i ryggen om du tycker annorlunda, för inombords står jag stark i min tro. Jag är faktiskt en mycket klarsynt och modig person."
Well Michael that's all Greek to me. Still it's only fair to warn you that I'm still suspicious about you so I have reported your comments to Homeland Security and it is likely that very soon you will see up close and personal how Right Wing America treats foreigners.
Utopia wrote on November 5, 2007 9:37 PM:TEL wrote on November 5, 2007 5:50 PM:
The Bay Area is one of the most diverse, tolerant, and colorful places I've ever lived.
[B]Diverse? Tolerant? Those are exactly the things the GOP hates![/B]
It has it's negatives, but the positives far outweigh those negatives.
[B]Hey, that's what Rudy says about Bernie Kerik so it must be OK!
U
Shaun Dakin wrote on November 5, 2007 9:54 AM:
Interesting, I think we should also have federal and state laws prohibiting political advertising or campaigning of any sort at least 10 days before the election. This will help prevent last-second smearing, with no time to respond in the press.
Interesting, I think we should also have federal and state laws prohibiting political advertising or campaigning of any sort at least 10 days before the election. This will help prevent last-second smearing, with no time to respond in the press.
Dude Abides wrote on November 6, 2007 8:20 AM:Michael,
That is not a translation of the paragraph you were asked to translate. Just a bunch of crap about how San Francisco used to be nice but now is full of sodomites and that God will judge them harshly and all that. I call bullshit. I think you wrote some crap in an online translation machine and cut and pasted the result.
BurnDaddy wrote on November 6, 2007 9:49 AM:@ CalD
"Pat Boone! Wow. I thought he was dead... and gay."
Priceless!!!! (me too)
Tom wrote on November 6, 2007 10:42 AM:I had to google Pat Boone because I've never heard of him. Maybe the Republican Party's base is just old senior citizens. People in their 20s and 30s are lot more tolerant and respectful towards gays and lesbians than older people.
jamesincincy wrote on November 6, 2007 10:48 AM:Michael, here is a site I am sure that you love, being from Sweden
http://www.godhatessweden.com/
Truthwhip wrote on November 6, 2007 11:40 AM:Michael the "European" wrote:
"Of course SF is crawling with tourists. So's a lotta other places. That don't necessarily mean that every citizen in the respective country from whence them there tourists came think those places are all fine and dandy and worthy of a visit."
Most normal people with fully functioning brains (whatever country they hail from) do think this region is extremely worthy of a visit Michael, even if you don't. It's not just the lovely and vibrant city of San Francisco (great museums, beautiful parks, fabulous food, etc. etc.) that brings huge numbers of people here, but many, many other amazing destinations that fan out in every direction.
Things like giant redwood forests, the Wine Country of Napa Valley and Sonoma, or the entire gorgeous northern California coastline which has charming towns like Mendocino to the north, or wilderness areas like Big Sur to the south. Things like the Sierra Nevada Range which includes places like Mount Shasta, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite Valley. Things like old growth Sequoias at Redwood National Park, or volcanoes at Lassen Volcanic National Park in the Cascade Range, or vast wilderness like the Trinity Alps area. So to sum up Michael, you seem very, very ignorant, because Northern California naturally gets a lot more visitors than the large majority of places in America do.
"Also, are you insinuating I'm not European?"
I'm not insinuating it, I'm plainly stating that I don't believe you're European. I have friends and relatives in Europe, and I've never heard anyone there talk the way you do. Instead, I think you sound exactly like a dumb-ass American redneck on a steady diet of enraged Limpballs, Coultergeist, and InsHannity.
"You're welcome over to see me anytime you'd like, buddy."
I'm a woman, and I swear I've never heard a European who was able to do such a convincing impersonation of vintage American Trailer Trash.
Repuglycon wrote on November 6, 2007 12:12 PM:Pat Boone the religious right's spokesman who made a living covering Little Richard's hit songs
H. Rock wrote on November 7, 2007 11:53 AM:He didn't cover them... he dehomosexualized them.
GO, TEAM MASCULINITY!
If Pat Boone is straight, then he will always be able to rally the lords and ladies of the trailer park... tarnishing the gay community.
If Pat boone is gay, then simply being Pat boone tarnishes the gay community.
The million dollar question: which is the lesser of two evils to hope for?
