RNC Chair Candidate: "Homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed."

[Are_grits_groceries]

Yes, that's what Ken Blackwell, the sketchy former Ohio Secretary of State who now has a good shot at running the Republican National Committee, told me a few months back, among some other very interesting and kooky things. It's a far cry from the days when the RNC was led by the 38-year-old "bachelor" of questionable sexual orientation, Ken Mehlman, but, according to The New York Times, Blackwell, a failed Ohio gubernatorial candidate who compared homosexuality to arson and kleptomania at the height of the campaign, may well be the RNC's next chair.

http://www.signorile.com/2009/01/rnc-chair-candidate-homosexuality-is.html

Who else does he want to piss off??

[Ioo]

1. He is shooting for RNC Chair... what do you want him to say? RNC = HATE (nt)

[roguevalley]

17. actually, he is probably speaking from personal experience. if

anyone ever says that, say that.

[BOSSHOG]

2. BLACKWELL FOR RNC CHAIRMAN

Lets all get on the bandwagon. What better representative of conservative values then ole ken.

[Marr]

31. Couldn't agree more.

I'm all for promoting every nut in the GOP. Let them marginalize themselves completely. It's the guys like Orrin Hatch that I'd really like to get rid of.

[WI_DEM]

3. and he knows this from his own experience?

[KurtNYC]

15. He and Larry Craig have researched this topic.

[YOY]

4. Say Ken. Have you had some "compulsions". I really haven't.

I mean come on, have you?

I really haven't woken up and thought...gee, I'd really like to go down on a dude today.

I recommend the patented YOY "Are you Gay" test. Approved by all sexual walks in verifying if someone is Homo-, Bi-, or Heterosexual.

[Confusious]

5. Republicanism is a deviance and a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed.

Hohohomooosexuality is just the way someone is. It can't be changed.

( See Stephanie Miller for the Hohoho reference) :)

[stevietheman]

6. Sounds like he is declaring himself to be a former homosexual, or....

one who had rampant homosexual feelings he had to repress so he could be "normal".

[spanone]

7. that's the kind of thinking that got us elected in november....keep it up guys

[Political_Junkie]

8. Good one!

:applause:

[Donnachaidh]

9. republicans are authorities on repressed homosexuality

:rofl:

[closeupready]

26. I guess so - they certainly love to tell us how easy it is to do it, don't they?

Voices of experience, they! :rofl:

[stillcool]

10. Republicans are good at repressing, suppressing..

and all in all putting a choke-hold on society.

[Stevenmarc]

11. It wont be long now

Before Ken is found tap, tap, tapping away in a bathroom stall. The ones that protest too much are always the biggest closet cases.

[LynneSin]

12. Too bad being an asshole can't be contained, repressed or changed...

because Kenneth Blackwell is the biggest asshole.

I mean how much does RNC scream "We're Losers" than to appoint the guy that setup the corrupt voting system in Ohio and then still managed to lose BIG time along with unseating one of their republican senators.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. It's not who he wants to piss off -

it's who he wants to piss on...

[Arkansas Granny]

14. To make a statement like that a person would also have to believe that the

same would be true of heterosexuality. If one sexual orientation can be "contained, repressed or changed" then it stands to reason that all sexual orientations could be. I have never seen any of these homophobes applying that logic to their arguments.

[Touchdown]

16. No. I don't even think grits is a food product.

:P

Oh' and Blackwell is a total douchebag. I do contain my anger at douchebags. I do repress the urge to throw large stones at douchebags. And I have changed ... from the couch to the ez-chair to fuck my too hot boyfriend in it.

[Karenina]

19. What's"grits" got to do, got to do with it?

What's "grits" but a reference of racism? :shrug:

[Touchdown]

25. Do I answer or shake my head?

:spank:

Look at the OP's username.

[Karenina]

27. My bad!!!

:blush: Yeah, but you ain't off scot-free yet. Douchebag is a sexist reference. Ken is an Uncle Tom slimebucket! :hide:

[Touchdown]

29. How so?

I've got one. Too much information, I know. :blush:

[Karenina]

33. Just Tante K. covering all the bases

for us quick-on-the-trigger types. ;-) (I think it's about the female=dirty equation. :shrug: )

[Are_grits_groceries]

28. LOL! Grits is redneck polenta! nt

[Ian David]

18. Obviously, Ken Blackwell is speaking from his own, personal experience of his own sexual orientation

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Well, he certainly fucked the state of Ohio in 2004.

I guess you could reasonably estimate half of that is male. :rofl:

[populistdriven]

20. my repuke coworker this morning said the same, i told him he was ignorant nt

[Ian David]

22. He's not ignorant. He must have just personally made a choice to suppress his own gay urges.

You should ask him how he did it.

Ask him to tell you all about it.

During drinks.

At your place.

Just the two of you.

Find out what kind of wine he likes.

[populistdriven]

24. ok, i must to deploy that tactic soon, !

[closeupready]

23. Why would I want to do that? Why would anyone so inclined? What a miserable bunch they are.

No thanks. No sex orientation pills or operations for me.

Exclusively homosexual, and I thank God every day that I am. :) What a smart guy He is!

[saltpoint]

30. So all the Republicans out there hanging on every word Blackwell utters --

why not phone up some of your psychiatrist friends or colleagues and ask them if Blackwell's insights ring true or false?

One phone call's all it would take.

[coruscate]

32. So is being a Republican jerk

But no one is telling him to go hide in the closet.

[ColbertWatcher]

34. Ken Blackwell said that? Will he be speaking at the inaugural too? n/t

[Skittles]

35. I wish the same could be same of conservatism