Before Mark Foley was caught, drunk, trying to break into the underage male pages' dormitory after midnight and sending sexually explicit IMs to pages and then subsequently forced to resign from Congress, "everyone" knew he was gay with a yen for teenagers. Everyone but the voters back in St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach counties. My first story on Foley as predatory closet case was 3 or 4 years before he was finally exposed. But the mainstream media wouldn't touch it... even though... "everyone" knew.There's no one in Washington unaware that Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is gay and that Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is gay. Most DC insiders are aware that Aaron Schock (R-IL), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Patrick McHenry are basically or totally gay and trembling in the closet. There's even a gay Blue Dog running around off his leash. Long before right winger Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested in a public toilet trying to have oral sex with a police officer, there was virtually no one in either the DC or Boise political establishments who was unaware that he was a closet case who reveled in toilet sex and male prostitutes. Former GOP closet case Congressman Bob Bauman (R-MD) wrote a truly important book, a kind of a primer for Republican gays who go to Washington and, for obvious reasons, have to hide their true nature from their bigoted, conservative constituents, The Gentleman From Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative . More recently, Californians watched the tragedy of state Senator Roy Ashburn unfolding in real time. When asked, after being arrested drunk with a young gay prostitute and then coming out, why he had such a conspicuously homophobic voting record, Ashburn replied: "The best I can do is to say that I was hiding. I was so in terror, I could not allow any attention to come my way. So any measure that had to do with the subject of sexual orientation was an automatic 'no' vote. I was paralyzed by this fear, and so I voted without even looking at the content. The purpose of government is to protect the rights of people under the law, regardless of our skin color, national origin, our height, our weight, our sexual orientation. This is a nation predicated on the belief that there is no discrimination on those characteristics, and so my vote denied people equal treatment, and I'm truly sorry for that."It was known in Sacramento for years before he was outed that he was gay and frequenting gay clubs and social events. David Dreier is the biggest non-secret secret in politics. He lives with his lover/chief of staff, travels the world with him (at taxpayer expense) and votes the same way all the other rabid homophobes vote, even though he was disqualified from being Republican House Leader-- by Roy Blunt more than anyone--he is gay.Mainstream media never reports about conservatives being gay unless they're caught, in the immortal words of Stiv Bators, "with the meat in their mouth ." They couldn't wait to jump in about Eric Massa, who consistently denied-- including to himself-- that he's gay. But Miss McConnell? Lindsey Graham? Even David Dreier? So why do you think I started this post off with the CNN clip above?

Labels: gay Republicans, Republican hypocrisy