Mehlman in Purgatory
That noisy hum we're hearing on the gay blogs I read is all about "Repulsive Anti-Gay Quisling Homophobic Scumbag Asshat Closeted Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman" 's [to quote Joe.My.God, a useful place to find summarizing evidence for the epithets] coming out as gay.
You may recall that Mehlman, in his role as chair of the Republican National Committee, he was responsible, along with Karl Rove and G.W.Bush, for designing and implementing Bush's re-election campaign strategy in 2004 that used gay and lesbian people as a wedge issue and thereby littering 11 state constitutions with anti-marriage-equality amendments by the end of the election season. That's just one of his visible infractions as a gay-wolf in Republican-sheep clothing.
I'm no apologist for Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republic National Committee during George W. Bush's presidency and was the architect of much of the anti-gay rhetoric and policies during that time. But […]
No matter how anti-gay Mehlman's previous positions have been – and there's no argument here about the veracity of that record nor how much he was rightfully despised by the LGBT community – the former GOP chair must be acknowledged for finally coming out.
Steven Petrow, "In Defense of Ken Mehlman: Former GOP Chair is no Roy Cohn", Huffington Post, 26 August 2010.]
I'll acknowledge it : he's finally come out. However I find that I'm in no mood to engage in the tidal wave of platitudes congratulating his courage (courage would have been coming out in the summer of 2004), or his personal struggle on the long road to self-realization. Many of us have been on that road; few of us were able to rest our heads in our own $3-million New-York condo during the struggle.
Thanks to the investigative journalism of the frequently reviled Mike Rogers we've known since 2004 that Mehlman is gay but, inexplicably, this was one juicy bit of sensationalism that Fox Entertainment failed to "report". When it comes to lying hypocrites like Mehlman I'm sure you can deduce my feelings about political outing.
There is one potential silver lining : by coming out now Mehlman is still young enough that he might, with a great deal of hard work, personal application, and expenditure of wealth, still have enough time to right some of the wrongs he was responsible for and start making amends, but he'd better get a running start. I'm sure he'll feel better but this is no paradise yet; it's merely his entry to political purgatory.
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on Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 16.40
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I'm glad he's finally out. Now he has a lot of penance to do for what he has done.
I don't want to hear about his tough journey. I've had my own, too. Very tough. It took me decades, too. But I never tried to bring us down as he did.
I'm trying to be understanding. But it's not working.
on Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 17.39
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on Friday, 27 August 2010 at 22.17
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From what I've read of this (not extensive) and the piece on MSNBC on it, no one had better hold their breath waiting for Mehlman to do a political turnaround. It seems he now supports gay marriage, and that's about it.
Because I saw Mehlman spout so many lies and distortions back in the 2004-2006 period, I afford him no credibility on anything.
When it suited his career ambition and political priorities, Mehlman remained in the closet. He got his name on the door, carpet on the floor and, I'm sure, in a handful of years earned the sort of money most Americans have no hope of acquiring in a lifetime of hard work — their lesser horizon being thanks in great part to the people and interests Mehlman helped get and keep power.
Whether or not the gay community finds reason to consider Mehlman somehow rehabilitated, a larger portion of the population will still have plenty of reason to consider him a pariah.
on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 at 15.17
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Isn't "lying hypocrite" a redundancy?
What's wrong with being gay, and being against the gay agenda, which is a quasi-liberal political and nihilistic social movement? It is kind of like the White Nationalists complaining that all white people don't share their agenda.