Usually it makes me smile when a self-righteous republican gets outed as a gay man (there are so few republican women that the probability of one of them being a lesbian is pretty low).
Lindsey Graham being accused of being gay is only slightly less amusing for me. Not only because he seems like a decent guy and senator, but because it's almost like watching the kids in
Lord of the Flies go crazy and kill the fat kid. You wish that we were civilized enough not to kill the weaker members of the pack, but the GOP proves that we are not.
This seems to be just another example of the infighting going on in the GOP, but also it reveals that when you want to discredit a republican all you have to do is insinuate that they are gay. It may or may not be true (Lindsey Graham seems like he could definitely be gay), but the point is that the insinuation is enough to make national news. The GOP really thinks they are not homophobes and bigots? I'm sorry, but if your whole strategy is to destroy someone's career by stoking fears that they MIGHT be gay, thats textbook homophobia.
On to a deeper point, lets say Lindsey Graham is gay. If you've seen the movies
Outraged (which you should watch to gain some perspective on the subject of closeted republicans) or
Gay Republicans, you know that being gay on capitol hill is common for either party. The republicans even have very open gay supporters. So, why are they attacking their own people? for the extreme anti-gay religious right? for a voting block of a few million people? As they say in Outrage, the gays make the capitol run on time. In my experience the gays really do influence everything. From the stereotypical gay fashionistas to the powerful mega-lesbian CEOs and senior business women. Those are just stereotypes, gay men and women come in all shades in between those two extremes, but the point is YOU can't live without us, so why are you taking us on?
Common Sense
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