{"id":199084,"date":"2007-09-10T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/self-hating-gay-republican-update\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T03:01:00","slug":"self-hating-gay-republican-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/self-hating-gay-republican-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Hating Gay Republican Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/leupp08302007.html\">Counterpunch.org<\/a>, which is a highly controversial source.  That being said, Mike Rogers of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactive.com\/\">Blog Active<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/\">Down with Tyranny<\/a> also confirm this, so there is backup.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>It looks like two more conservative &#8216;family values&#8217; Republican senators may be &#8216;outed&#8217; soon. Mike Rogers, the same blogger who originally fingered Craig, claims that South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham is gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has got to be the worst kept secret in Washington, D.C., it&#8217;s common knowledge in the Baltimore area too.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Howie Klein meanwhile claims that, &#8216;Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s quick expulsion from the Army&#8212;for fondling a private&#8217;s privates&#8212;is finally being discussed in Kentucky.&#8217; He notes that McConnell, discharged after just 10 days in the Army in 1967, &#8216;has consistently prevented anyone from seeing his military discharge papers&#8217; but a Freedom of Information suit may bring them to light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, even if the reason for discharge is true, McConnell might not be gay.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a draftee in 1967, and I were given the choice to go to Viet Nam, or pretending to be gay, I might very well go that route to stay out of Nam. <\/p>\n<p>I make no claims to personal bravery.   Had I not been exempt from the draft by reason of being 5 years old, I probably would have kissed my CO full on the lips to stay out of South East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m not sure that an admission of cowardice would help good the distinguished gentlemen from Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, taking down McConnell needs to be a priority, as payback for going after Daschle<sup>*<\/sup>, which was unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Truth be told, I&#8217;m glad that Harry Reid is now in control of the Senate.  On his worst day, he&#8217;s better than Daschle on his best day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Counterpunch.org, which is a highly controversial source. That being said, Mike Rogers of Blog Active and Down with Tyranny also confirm this, so there is backup. It looks like two more conservative &#8216;family values&#8217; Republican senators may be &#8216;outed&#8217; soon. Mike Rogers, the same blogger who originally fingered Craig, claims that South &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}