Let's See if I Can Get Some Hate Mail ....

Speaking of Carrie Prejean, I’ve stayed away from the Miss California story because I think there are many sides to it and it doesn’t lend itself to a simple conclusion. Of course we all know that it all started when one of the most despicable pieces of human debris, Perez Hilton, asked Miss California about her position on gay marriage during the Miss USA pageant. She said she was agin it and that set off arguments all over the country and brought Carrie Prejean more fame and fortune that she ever dreamed of.

To make a long story short, Ms Prejean then became the ultimate victim claiming that she would have won Miss USA had she given the “politically correct” answer and then almost lost her Miss Cali crown and then just last week was finally fired and forced to give up her crown. And she is now a HERO to the anti-gay marriage crowd, is getting HUGE speaking fees to go and speak to right-wing groups, and will probably have both a book deal and a show on Fox News soon.

Good job Perez.

My take on the whole thing, and I’m sure you’ve been wondering about that, is that the question asked by the Dirt Bag was unfair. Nobody else had to answer any political questions or questions about any other hot button issues. And the whole thing backfired on Hilton because he has created a monster. As for getting fired, I think Prejean deserved it because of her breach of contract. I also think she wanted to get fired.

Prejean is a quick learner. She realized that getting fired by the Miss USA people would allow her to become another professional victim and that would give her even more attention and it would give her even “credibility” with the haters out there. This has all played out perfectly for her and her desires for fame (or infamy) and fortune. Prejean now joins many other professional victims like Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Mike Huckabee, Bill Donahue and the list goes on and on and on.

While I completely disagree with Carrie, I think this whole incident has hurt the pro-marriage crowd. It has made them look mean, petty and intolerant themselves. In a battle for hearts and minds, you can’t go out of your mind in anger at one insignificant person and lose sight of the big picture.

And while people on the left are constantly admonishing people on the right for the intolerance and meanness, they can’t just sit back and let people like Perez Hilton spew their own brand of meanness and hatred go unchecked.



Which brings us to this ...

If I were advising the republican party, and again, they would be soooooooo much better off if they would listen to me, I would tell them to drop the official party opposition to gay marriage AND that some republicans should introduce a measure in congress to do away with Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

Yes I know this would cause the right wing of the republican party to go completely bonkers. But, if you haven't noticed, those people have been going bonkers since Nov 4, 2008. This really wouldn't be anything new. And yes, I know that elected republicans live in mortal fear of Rush and Ann Coulter and the rest of the professional conservatives, but in the long run taking these positions will be a plus for the repubs.

First of all, they will be joining with the rest of the mainstream on these issues. I know they talk all the time about "keeping the base excited," but the reality is they need to get some independents and moderates excited sometime too. And, the truth is they will finally be able to publicly take the position that most of them believe in private.

And the best thing that would happen for the republicans if they would do what I say??

They would be able to call the smug, holier-than-thou democrats’ bluff on these issues.

See, the dems love to talk a big game about gay marriage and DADT and that stuff, but they don't seem to motivated to actually do anything about them do they? That's because they have been able to use the strangle hold the haters on the far right have on the republican party as cover for THEIR OWN bigotry. Although I think Obama has been a coward on DADT and gay marriage, there really wasn't ever any reason to think Obama would do anything other that what he has done on these issues.

I've always said that the people who were opposed to gay marriage and gays in the military are on the losing side of history. And, they see that. That's why they are so desperately holding on right now. If the republicans would come out in support of repealing DADT and at least drop their official party position against gay marriage, then they could put the democrats, and Obama, on the losing side of these issues too.

And republicans, wouldn't it be nice to win one every once in a while?


Since you skimmed had to read through all that here’s a pic of Sarah Chalke who I would go lesbian for if I were a chick…