Comments on: LaBarbera Award: Two Tennessee Tea Party Candidates

By: fannie

fannie — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:41:28 +0000

"Wouldn’t that behoove an investigation if the word homosexual were replaced with the word female?" Oh, please. 4 in 10 female veterans report being sexually assaulted in the military and only 8% of those are ever even tried in court martial. Yes, abuse perpetrated on gay men (and LBT people) in the military is repugnant, but painting a picture as though women have all of these protections and perks because they're women is ignorant and insulting.

By: TonyJazz

TonyJazz — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:19:23 +0000

The whole Teabagger/teaparty concept remains a Republican funded & supported construct, which includes a major focus on social conservatism.

Reality check: this whole so-called movement is the result of endless hours of promotion on the Fox network. There is no legitimate organization, and the membership is nearly exclusively older white males, mostly in the southeast.

This is the ‘moral majority’ renamed and rebranded.

What evidence speaks otherwise?

By: Désirée

Désirée — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:45:47 +0000

what I don’t understand about Tea Partiers is why they don’t just join the Libertarians, who already support the small government, capitals economic policies the Tea Partiers claim to support. Oh yeah, this crap like this why. Libertarians aren’t racist or anti-homosexual. So basically, the Tea Party is revealed as nothing more than people trying to be more Republican than the Republicans.

By: Jose Soto

Jose Soto — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:51:16 +0000

What a shame, yet this stuff is tolerated in the GOP, I don’t think it is a Tea Party thing (being involved in both) With confidence I can surely say that the Tea Party is a whole different monster, one that the GOP wishes to emulate (but will never become). The GOP leadership DOES NOT WANT (this directive has come from RNC headquarters) any gays running for office or doing anything big in the GOP, that is why we always here that gay GOPers are in this never ending quest to change the party within, but never explained how or if any progress has been made to get the party to relax on gay issues. Trust me as a former Republican activist this is the same BS all over the GOP. Truly what a shame.

By: Have Decency

Have Decency — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:12:07 +0000

Well-deserved LaBarbera Awards there. Those guys’ comments are repellent.

Could Peter LaBarbera himself get the next LaBarbera Award? He earned one for his off the charts crazy/nasty/Randall Terry-esque public prayer at a May Day event yesterday in Washington, DC. Right Wing Watch has the video. He prayed for an army of young people who don’t tolerate homosexuality.

By: Maurice Lacunza

Maurice Lacunza — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:17:06 +0000

Criminal Behavior Should Be Investigated.

Those comments from the two veteran soldiers sound criminal in nature.

Wouldn’t that behoove an investigation if the word homosexual were replaced with the word female?

I think that these two have inadvertently admitted to criminal acts and it would seem appropriate if the military investigated them.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:24:46 +0000

What does Timothy now think about the Tea Party Movement?

good question. I think there is more info and that the picture is gelling.

I still think that it is a good thing that the focus of the Tea Party in gerenal is more towards economic conservatism than towards social conservatism. But it’s becoming clearer that – as with the Republican Party as a whole – the leadership of the Tea Party movement appear to be adopting and promoting the more conservative positions on social issues.

It seems to me – at present – that they’ve said, “we care about fiscal issues, but if we are raging loons on gay issues then we’ll pull in the social conservatives.”

Or so it appears to me.

Very disappointing.

By: justsearching

justsearching — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:08:14 +0000

Smith is aware of the concept of “taking care of that kind of stuff”, never saw it happen for himself or heard about it happening from anyone else, but still is willing to mention this pleasant concept to get brownie points with the constituencies who relish the idea of some faggot getting bullied and bashed in the communal showers. Classy.

I’m all in favor. Anything to get a vote!

By: hb

hb — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:05:58 +0000

Wonder what unit Kirkland was in?

I work in a convenience store, and one of the regular customers is a Viet Nam vet. I asked him what he thought of gays in the military. He answered the way so many soldiers seem to: he shrugged and said, “As long as he could do his job, I didn’t care.” He went on to say that he certainly would never have given a fellow gay soldier a hard time, because “there might come a time when my life depended on him.”

He then laughed and said: “heck, if he liked looking at my ass enough that it gave him extra incentive to keep me alive, let him look!”

You have to wonder if it was really so different from unit to unit.

By: paul j stein

paul j stein — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:14:05 +0000

Same shit different day… the REAL Republicans are back. Now go plan the weddings, decorate the homes to make the appearance of taste, cook fabulous food, serve them great vintages of select wines they have not heard of but can surely pay for, make their first wife look presentable enough, and the second wife they are still shopping for young and nubile to make the divorce worth the money, teach/babysit their spawn till they go out on their own(they are the chosen after all) The GAYS are here to serve the wealthy and upscale with CASH. Till that stops we will be second class to them forever.