The Advocate: Dear Republican Friends... by Christopher Rice

[Duncan Grant]

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Some of my best friends are Republicans. I grew up in the Deep South, so they were hard to avoid. While none of them supports the
Federal Marriage Amendment—not to my face, at least—none of them is willing to break ranks with the Republican Party over it either. They spent the past year reassuring me with promises that the amendment would fail and that their president had put it on the table for just that reason. Before gay marriage bans were passed in 11 states, my Republican friends had a simple message for me: “Don’t panic. We hate those right-wing nut jobs as much as you do.”

Now I have a message for them.

Prove it! Take back your party from the religious extremists who are doing so much to demonize the friends you’re always willing to console. Stop posting maudlin, disingenuous e-mails on blogs about your deep regret over having to sacrifice your gay friends for more important issues. David Brooks, your esteemed representative on The New York Times op-ed page, is claiming that this whole moral values platform thing is bunk anyway. He says no right-wing mandate emerged from this election. Instead, we’re seeing the “big middle.”
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http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/929/929_rice.asp

[ibegurpard]

1. If I'm not mistaken, he is the son of Ann Rice.

eom

[Melodybe]

2. Nice, go Christopher, Anne didn't raise no fool.

[liberalhistorian]

3. I'm sick to death of hearing

about how "real" republicans are disgusted with Bush and the neocons, how "real" republicans don't feel the same way the RW religious wackjobs do about cultural issues, how "real" republicans are upset at what's happening to and in the name of their party and how they don't want it taken over by the RW religious wackjobs. SICK, SICK, SICK OF IT!

Why? Because I don't see any real action to back it up. I don't see them trying to change things within their party or speaking up against the nutjobs who've taken over said party. They can whine and moan and wring their hands all they want, but if they don't walk the talk, and I don't see that happening right now, SCREW THEM! They're as bad as Dems who don't speak up about our party's loss of backbone.

[Skittles]

4. THANK YOU

they vote for the incompetent bastard twice and then whine about the results? FUCK THEM.