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I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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T R E 4 5 O N

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Democrats are back in array!

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

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President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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A Ringing Endorsement

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For the first time in decades, the Advocate is endorsing someone for President:

Never has the substantial progress in equal rights and treatment of LGBT people been more at risk than in this presidential contest. This election presents a choice between starkly opposing futures.

Barack Obama is a leader of undeniable accomplishment, vision, and integrity on LGBT rights. His opponent Mitt Romney betrays equality on numerous issues and aligns himself with a faction of the Republican Party that does not include equality among its declared ideals.

The Advocate’s last endorsement was decades ago, but the president’s statement of May 9, unequivocally in favor of marriage equality, along with his record on LGBT rights, has distinguished him for the ages and has made it clear that he is a transformational leader and our best choice for president.

That’s a pretty big deal.

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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    So let’s see how many comments it takes before someone writes off the Advocate as yet another nest of corporatist hackery.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Good for them. Seems like an easy choice but then, everything these days is fraught with complications I can’t follow.

    Have the Mormons(tm) endorsed yet?

  4. 4.

    Cargo

    And yet I still know quite a few gay folks who are voting Romney because “too many illegals”, “taxes are too high”, “obamacare is socialist”, “he’s taking away all our guns”, “light bulbs”, “large sodas” (obama got blamed for that even though it was the half-Republican Bloomberg’s idea).

    most of the gay dudes I know with this viewpoint really liked Ron Paul, but are going with Rmoney anyways because they just hate democrats that much.

  5. 5.

    NonyNony

    @Cargo:

    And yet I still know quite a few gay folks who are voting Romney because … “large sodas”

    Welp, you can’t fix stupid.

  11. 11.

    Cargo

    @Violet: Oh yeah. Your basic red staters. of course they can’t stand the Christian Right, but they just wish errybody, left AND right, would leave them alone. not realizing that things like gay marriage aren’t going to happen without liberals to fight for it.

  12. 12.

    bk

    OT, but watching “The Cycle” on MSNBC, and even without now having the “opportunity” to watch the horrible Sippy Cupp on a daily basis, it’s terrible.

  16. 16.

    Derelict

    @Cargo: It always warms my heart to hear about folks voting for the party that, if its base had its way, would have them extirpated from the face of the Earth.

    Good thinking, there!

  18. 18.

    Cargo

    @Derelict: you and me both dude. I think of these dudes as chickens for colonel sanders when I am being charitable, sonderkommando when I am not.

  20. 20.

    Violet

    @Cargo: I remember after Obama said he supported gay marriage Andrew Sullivan made some comment about how he thought the Republican party would be the natural home of gay men, while he figured lesbians would still stay with the Democrats. Well, DUH! If gay men are treated equally and not as second class citizens, what do they need with the Democrats anymore? They can just go hang out with the IGMFY party. I don’t think Sullivan realizes how transparent he is half the time.

  21. 21.

    Matthew Reid Krell

    Obama sold us out. What has he done for gay rights? POOOOOOOOOONNYYYYYYYY!!!!!

  23. 23.

    KG

    @burnspbesq: there’s an appeal on the same issue in the Second Circuit, which is where the Connecticut court is. The governing case law could be changing shortly within the Circuit, makes sense as a matter of judicial economy to stay proceedings pending a decision.

  24. 24.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    @Derelict: Every demo is gonna have its counterintuitive “Alan Keyes” contingent.

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    Next up: The Uncle Tom’s Log Cabin Republicans come up with some reason why gays should vote for the candidate who hates them rather than the one in favor of equal rights.

  27. 27.

    BGK

    @Violet:

    Let me guess…they’re all male.

    Not where I am. The two lesbians of my closest acquaintance, a co-worker and a friend, both love them some Ronpaul. The former styles herself a gun-toting hipster punk (confuses me also), and is a total grind (at least when not around me – she knows better) about it. The latter isn’t very forward about it and usually doesn’t talk politics because it gives me red-faced fits.

  28. 28.

    Riilism

    @Violet: I’m of the opinion that gay men who are likely to vote Republican are already doing so and vice versa for gay men who are likely to vote Democrat. I think we’re more likely to see more gay republicans come out and be more vocal if the Repubs suddenly embrace gay rights. I’m not convinced we’ll see a major change in voting patterns among gay men though there may be a bit more crossover. Too many years of distrust to overcome for most gay men to suddenly start voting for conservatives in droves.

    Also, Sullivan’s self-serving statements/conjectures rarely bear any resemblance to reality…

  29. 29.

    taylormattd

    HOW DARE THEY, CORPORATE BASTARDS.

    Obama offered his support too late, and it was too little.

    This is a slap in the face to Hillary.

  32. 32.

    Culture of Truth

    This only proves he put gay rights ahead of my personal pet project.

  34. 34.

    Birthmarker

    Wasn’t there a flap about revealing names of people who contributed to Prop 8? No proof Romney contributed?

  35. 35.

    JGabriel

    @Roger Moore:

    Next up: The Uncle Tom’s Log Cabin Republicans come up with some reason why gays should vote for the candidate who hates them rather than the one in favor of equal rights.

    “It doesn’t matter if Republican leaders hate us, so long as we have more money, which we can use for more donations to people who hate us and … wait, I sense a vicious cycle somewhere.”

    .

  36. 36.

    Steve

    Like others, I am disappointed at the lack of any “worse than Bush” comments in this thread. The “droooooones” thing took the anticipatory mockery a little too far, though.

  40. 40.

    beergoggles

    Even without that endorsement PBO would have gotten most of the gay votes other than the goproud ‘house faggots’ and whatever demeaning term you want to call Mary Chaney.

  43. 43.

    Peregrinus

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Not a new phenomenon. I do think some libertarians are well aware that Paul has anti-gay views, but they think that since his commitment to letting the states decide whether they’ll endorse marriage rights or not is “sincere,” it wouldn’t be a problem.

    Which tells you a lot about the problem-solving capability of the average Paulite.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    @Peregrinus:

    I do think some libertarians are well aware that Paul has anti-gay views, but they think that since his commitment to letting the states decide whether they’ll endorse marriage rights or not is “sincere,” it wouldn’t be a problem.

    They probably also don’t connect the dots and realize that he’d prefer a pre-Lawrence approach to the legal status of gay sex.

  47. 47.

    Peregrinus

    @Roger Moore:

    I’m sure at that point they’d just point out the Supreme Court ruled on that already and so Paul’s views on it wouldn’t matter. Paul himself encourages this from time to time – he’s got a kind of weird abnegation thing going on where, while his views and the Constitution’s are theoretically homologous, he’s willing to say “I don’t agree with this but I guess [he says resignedly] the Constitution would let other people [he says, barely restraining himself from making air quotes] do it.”

    His followers eat this shit up.

  48. 48.

    burnspbesq

    @KG:

    Yeah, that’s what they said, but the District Court in Connecticut didn’t buy it, and neither do I, because the decision in Windsor may not (in fact, probably will not) control the outcome in Pedersen.

    And while im ranting, let me also say that If standing is the basis for their appeal of the Windsor case, their should be sanctions, because it’s just frivolous to suggest that the executrix of an estate, who is personally liable for the tax, doesn’t have standing to bring an estate tax refund case.

  52. 52.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @trollhattan: oh yes, the Utah donations were widely commented on at the time, leading to all those idiotic calls to boycott the state in retribution.

  53. 53.

    David

    Why haven’t they endorsed anyone in years? They didn’t see any difference between Bush and Gore, Bush and Kerry? This sort of annoys me.

  56. 56.

    David Koch

    BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

    For 4 straight years he’s been constantly accused of being a homophobe. A year ago at this time, Dan Choi was tearing up his photo at Netroots. They even tried to deny him credit for repealing DADT.

    Now they finally come around. O My Fickle Liberals

  57. 57.

    David Koch

    @Steve:

    The “droooooones” thing took the anticipatory mockery a little too far, though.

    Then you haven’t been reading enough. On too many occasions to count, some one will run into a complete unrelated topic and post how much they hate obummer because of unmanned aircraft.

  58. 58.

    Peregrinus

    @David Koch:

    Was The Advocate really at the forefront of that? I get that they reported on everything Dan Choi did, but that might be because he was of interest to their readership?

  62. 62.

    Patricia Kayden

    @CW in LA: Had to laugh at your post because it looks like PZ Myers and many of his supporters are using the drones issue as one reason tonot vote for Obama. Wonder if he refrained from voting for other Dems who used drones/military tactics that he didn’t like. Also, wondering why there isn’t a bigger outcry among Dems re the use of drones.

    Good for the Advocate. No doubt that President Obama supports civil rights for all citizens. Cannot say the same about Romney and the Repubs.

  63. 63.

    Cargo

    I’m not a fan of drone strikes, civil liberties, etc. but I don’t think for a minute that a President Romney or a President Nader for that matter would do any differently.

    I was thinking the other day that if Romney wins, most white dudes will instantly shut up about the TSA for example. And they only hate it now because the airport is the only time in their lives when they get treated like an immigrant or a minority, who puts up with strip searching and intrusion every day of their lives, and the white dudes are ace with that.

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