What would happen if we ran someone openly Gay for President?

[AnIndependentTexan]

[mike_c]

1. fundies would sacrifice themselves against a wall...

...of secret service officers at every campaign stop.

[ecstatic]

2. wouldn't work nt

[tritsofme]

3. 535-3

An unfortunate indictment on our bigoted society.

[readmoreoften]

4. HA HAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA HA!

no seriously

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Okay. Now that I'm done laughing. I think that we would um, lose. Um, big. BUT, I think it would pave the way for more respect of gay people in general in the long run.

How funny that I'm gay and it never crossed my mind that America could ever have a gay president.

[Newsjock]

6. Chances are we've had at least one already

http://www.stanford.edu/~lindholm/chinf_buc.html

From The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 15, 1999

Buchanan, gay? Who’d have thought?

Anyone who bothered to look into his living arrangements, says James W. Loewen, an adjunct professor of sociology at Catholic University. Of course, in his new book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (The New Press), Mr. Loewen is speaking of the first Buchanan with Presidential politics in his blood, James.

Mr. Loewen, author of the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New Press, 1995), sets out in his new, self-described “rant” to dispel the myths that befog the American landscape. In a chapter titled “You’re Here to See the House,” he recalls asking a tour guide at Wheatland, Buchanan’s mansion near Lancaster, Pa., whether the 15th President was gay. “He most definitely was not,” came the outraged reply.

“Most likely was,” insists Mr. Loewen. Buchanan’s long-time living companion, William Rufus King, was referred to by critics as his “better half,” ‘’his wife,” and “Aunt Fancy."

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[The Straight Story]

5. What if the right did?

Like my libertarian gay friend? What would the right do then??? Heh heh...

[Obviousman]

7. Ever see that simpsons?

Elect a gay republican in 2084
"We're being realistic"

[tritsofme]

8. He would never get through the primary

In IL as soon as the GOOPers found out our Senate GOOPer candidate had some fun with his wife at a night club they purged him and nominated Alan Keyes.

So my assumption is that they would drop him and nominate Alan Keyes for President.

[theboss]

9. My guess: he would lose

Yep, that sounds right.

[DRoseDARs]

10. If he/she ran as a Log Cabin Republican, fundies would meltdown...

...and we'd be cleaning up their poisonous brain matter off the streets for weeks. At least we'd be rid of them. :)

[bullimiami]

11. if their policies were "democratic", liberal or progressive

i hope we would all support them.

makes no difference to me the color, sex, preferance, living arangement, religion etc..

its all about policy and priorities. There is NO policy or priority that I support in this administration (sic).

[nevergiveup]

12. don't be surprised

if GW appoints an openly gay person to some supposedly important position in the next four years. Repubs love their tokens....it frees their souls.....they think.

[tritsofme]

13. A token black or a token women are one thing

But I think there would be open revolt in the GOP if dumbya appointed a gay to any position, prominent or not.

[LifeDuringWartime]

14. he would probably get shot

by a fundie before the convention was over