Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay, The Atlantic magazine's politics editor reported Wednesday.
I must be reading too many liberal rags, because I thought that issue was settled back when Mehlman held office.
Marc Ambinder, who is also chief political consultant to CBS news, said in an online post that Mehlman told him in an interview that he concluded he was gay fairly recently and now wants to be an advocate for gay marriage.
Yes, now that he’s done the damage to gay rights when he had some power and influence, he’s ready to advocate when he has none. Very helpful.
“Fairly recently.” Right.
Mehlman, The Atlantic said, acknowledged that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda.
This is where Ken Mehlman's lack of personal integrity, his self-serving and cowardly disposition (not to mention self-delusion), and the "fairly recently" lie become apparent. If he had acknowledged publicly that he was gay at a time when he “might have played a role,” that would have been when he was in office, and that is “fairly recently” only if you consider his entire lifetime.
Ed Gillespie, a former RNC chairman and longtime friend of Mehlman, told The Atlantic that "it is significant that a former chairman of the Republican National Committee is openly gay and that he is supportive of gay marriage." Gillespie told the magazine he opposes gay marriage, but stalwarts like former Vice President Dick Cheney and strategist Mary Matalin advocate for gay rights.
Oh, yeah, every day Dick Cheney is out there on the front lines for gay rights. Pushed hard for them when he was V.P. – or rather, the power behind the presidency. You bet.
But, Gillespie told the magazine, he does not envision the party platform changing anytime soon.
No, I don’t imagine it will. They will just keep lying and being hypocrite closet queens till the end of time. Or at least until, like Mehlman, they’re out of office.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
P.S. UPDATE 1:20pm: And let me just go on record here now to say that for my money, the current RNC chairman is also a closeted gay. Maybe when he gets out of office he can admit it and just feel real sorry that while he was in that office he didn't do more to change the party's stance on gay rights.
I should also say that I mean no disrespect to people who choose to keep their homosexual identity closeted. Who can blame them in this world? And t'aint nobody's bizness but their own. But those who do so while holding a position that opposes gay rights can slink back under the rock they crawled from beneath.
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