California openly gay Republican candidate
GMGINSFO- do you know anything about this openly gay candidate? Interview with the candidate from Boi from Troy weblog

[ December 07, 2005, 06:35 AM: Message edited by: copman ]

He and his domestic partner are pretty cute but I just can't get past the "gay republican" thing. eek!

My question is for "boi from troy."

Why is a guy in his 30's calling himself a "boi?"

why do we expect straights to accept our being gay, but we can't seem to accept those of us who are republican?

It just says a little something about self hatred or at least being willing to align yourself with people, and a party structure as a whole, who vilify you. This is an age old argument that we've had here and everywhere else ad nauseum, but it is still the case. I find that I am much more conservative that most Democrats, but nevertheless, I would choose to still be in a party that I had differences with other than whether I was equal to them as a person. Not negotiable.

What I don't understand is why if his positions are so to the left he's calling himself a Republican, especially given how right-wing the California GOP is (and I don't mean Arnie, who just hired an out lesbian feminist Democrat as his Chief of Staff) or people like Gmg. All of the ballot measures the California GOP pushed, which were to the RIGHT of most of the state's voters, lost.

Also, what are his areas of common interest with the national Republicans? Certainly it can't be smaller government, fiscal responsibility, a strong military, anti-corruption...is cutting taxes the ONLY thing that defines Republicans, and ultimately if taxes are slashed to the bone, how will we pay for our domestic infrastructure needs, let alone the foreign expeditioneering the current Republican Party is so fond of?

(Also, why does he look SOOOOOO much older than his very cute partner?)

Have you ever read the republican party platform?
Check it out, then you might figure out why.

Yep. Indeed. Then there is another example of my recalled Mayor Jim West, whose party only started to distance themselves from him once the charges got more serious. Even though as I have posted before it was known along time ago, when he was in the State Legistlature in Olympia, that he liked/preferred young boys. How it was kept such a dark little dirty secret for all those years without getting out is beyond me. If I was gay, and Republican, I would think twice about running for anything. The Party still has too many issues/problems with one being gay and being within the party. As long as the hard right controls the shots, forget it. I am not saying the Dems. are perfect here, just that I would do some serious soul searching if I were thinking about running, gay and Repuglican.

I can't accept a gay Republian is because of what the Republican Party has done to the gay community

if you're a gay and voted for Bush or any of the Republicans in the last election, you need to examine your principles

you're voting against your own best interests and those of your gay brethern

Because other than a few tokens for image sake, the GOP doesn't do minorities. Why do you think the entire South ended up Republican? Because they don't do minorities. The party of rich white dudes doesn't like us - of course they'll take our money and then give us the shaft, like they do other minorities, but come on, the GOP has never been the "umbrella" party. And the poor Dems, trying to keep all us minorities on the same sheet of music? It's like herding cats.