R. Clarke Cooper
Shockingly, the GOP presidential candidates weren’t specifically asked about LGBT issues during Wednesday night’s two-hour debate in Simi Valley, Calif. Which prompted Log Cabin Republicans, the gay GOP group, to issue a press release this afternoon lauding the candidates for their “focus on jobs.”
“Americans tired of President Obama’s failed leadership tuned in to the GOP debate looking for an alternative to the gimmicks and empty rhetoric they will hear in tonight’s speech before Congress,” Log Cabin Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper said in the press release. “They were not disappointed. While the candidates onstage represent a broad cross-section of the Republican family, all were united in the belief that our government is spending beyond its means and making too many promises it can’t keep. Despite our differences, Republicans today are united in our mission to send Barack Obama back to Chicago and get our country back on the right track.
“Several of the candidates acquitted themselves well in the debate, such as Governor Huntsman’s declaration of independence from documents like the National Organization for Marriage’s anti-federalist marriage pledge,” Cooper said. “Log Cabin Republicans urge all candidates to be relentless in their focus on the Obama’s greatest weaknesses — jobs and the economy. Divisive special interest pledges like NOM’s only distract from that message and turn off the voters we need to be including to win the White House.”
To me, the Log Cabin republicans seem just as distasteful as the republican party as a whole.
It sounds as if Log Cabin hadn’t made an initiative to ensure that LGBT issues were brought up by the questioners. Who won the debate? Owing to the paper mache panel consisting of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, President Obama won the debate by default. Remember, little Ricky Santorum owed his second senate victory partially to calling the LGBT community no better than dogs.
As per usual, the Log Cabin Republicans have proved they are not a gay group. They are a Republican group. And bully for them. They have every right to be. But if they really are concerned with advancing gay equality they have to face up to the fact that every single person in that Republican debate with the possible exception of Huntsman will set the process back. But the LCRs will be their apologists.
Si bien los candidatos en el escenario representan una amplia muestra representativa de la familia republicana, todos estaban unidos en la creencia de que nuestro gobierno está gastando más allá de sus medios y hacer demasiadas promesas que no pueda cumplir Ellos tienen todo el derecho a ser. Pero si realmente se preocupan por promover la igualdad de gays que tienen que hacer frente al hecho de que cada persona en el debate republicano
“Americans tired of President Obama’s failed leadership tuned in to the GOP debate looking for an alternative to the gimmicks and empty rhetoric they will hear in tonight’s speech before Congress,” Log Cabin Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper said in the press releas Republicans today are united in our mission to send Barack Obama back to Chicago and get our country back on the right track.