Log Cabin Republicans Conclude Denver Convention

[BushOut06]

Source: EDGE Boston

Log Cabin Republicans ended their 2007 National Convention Sunday in Denver, Colo. May 6. The convention, which lasted for four days, concluded with a commitment to return the Republican Party to what the Log Cabin Republicans called "GOP core values."

"Our grassroots membership leaves this convention feeling energized and optimistic about the future of our Party and of this organization," Patrick Sammon, Log Cabin president, stated. "We are committed to helping build a new sustainable governing majority that refocuses our party on its core values."

Throughout the convention, members of the organization, which bill itself as "the nation’s largest organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans," received training in organizing grassroots support and discussed their goals for the future of their party.

Members also heard from party leaders who shared their goals. "Don’t give up on the Republican Party. Don’t stereotype the party on a few cuckoos who never give up on their bitterness, hostility, and venom. Don’t be impatient. Stay in the party. Don’t leave because you can change it," urged Alan Simpson, former senator from Wyoming, in a speech.

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[MrModerate]

1. While not pretending to have read the story linked to . . .

I do believe that Log Cabin Republicans can be a bit optimistic that the GOP will temper its anti-Gay rhetoric and sick obsession with what goes on in people's bedrooms in the run-up to 2008. The psychopaths on the far right *have* lost power, as both their natural constituents and voters who are merely right-of-center have had their faces rubbed in the fact that American Doesn't Agree with their illiberal fanaticism.

I still think that being a gay Republican would make your ears ring from cognitive dissonance, but I also think there's some hope for such folks to look forward to.

Since I lean Dem (otherwise why would I be on DU), I'm not entirely happy the 'Licans are beginning to get a grasp on the reality-based world again, but as a human being I can still appreciate them coming in from the cold.

[Strathos]

37. LCR are useless

It's like pretending you're in a club but the actual club doesn't want you to be a part of them. It's like a black man wanting to be a part of the KKK.

What makes these people think they are going to change anyone, especially when they repeat the same talking points as the GOP.

Return to core values my ass. They're such fuckin' lap dogs.

[rurallib]

2. I continue to be amazed that there are gay republicans

Any presidential candidates make speeches there? Can't imagine they'd go within a state of the log cabin republicans.
Oh and Mr. Simpson, it is not "just a few cuckoos" in the republic party that condemn gays. Those 100% republican vote against civil rights and defining marriage as 'one man + one woman' etc. are not just a 'few cuckoos'.

[BushOut06]

3. Even Ah-nold caved in to the rabid right-wing rethugs

When he was running for governor of "Kaleefonya", didn't he position himself as a 'moderate' Republican, friendly towards the gay-rights crowd? Then when he was presented with a chance to actually do something meaningful, he turned against them and sided with the religious right.

[bigscott]

5. GOP core values

like hating gays - LCR are complete in-denial assholes

[luckyleftyme2]

4. did u notice?

they were well rehearsed,all said basically same spiel! we are the one ;but if not pick one of us.
pray its gulliani or rommeny sure losers in 2008!

[Oddball]

7. a few cuckoos???? You're Spot On with that observation.

The Religious Right controls the Republican party machines in virtually, if not all, of the states. That means that no presidential candidate can be nominated without toeing the line on being against both abortion and gay rights.

The LCR's are delusional. Don't they know what would happen to them if the lunatics on the Religious Right got to actually implement their agenda? Don't they understand what kind of sex laws they would pass and the kind of discrimination that would become even more legal than it is today?

They make about as much sense as Log Cabin Gypsies for Hitler.

[aggiesal]

18. Didn't the Repugs, just vote ...

last week against adding Gays to the "Hate Crimes" bill?
And then Tommy Thompson said it was OK to fire an employee based
on their sexual orientation?

And they still support this party?

[rurallib]

20. They keep thinking these religious zealots will change.

What is the definition of crazy again?

[Name removed]

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[leQ]

27. i think you mean gays who are into mindfuck attitudes have a cozy relationship with fascism

[happydreams]

33. Well, its a little worse than simply into mindfuck...

Its like into the totally psychopathic man.

[MonkeyFunk]

28. wow

just wow.

[HEyHEY]

31. Dude, get a fucking grip. Look at how many straight people have done evil shit

over the years. But where are you to say Straight people have a cozy relationship with facism, torture, ect...

Sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.

[happydreams]

34. Duuude...I was merely replying to the "amazed" above.

Or would you rather I leave these truths in the closet? :eyes:

[HEyHEY]

35. Hey, make some more homophobic comments why don't ya

Plus, you implied there is some kind of connection between being gay and being a bastard. Better go check on the corn whiskey brewing in the backyard, Bueford, you're making it too strong.

[TygrBright]

6. Chickens: Col Sanders isn't such a bad guy, really... it's those people who work for him. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

8. A gay person being a repuke these days is

like a black guy joining the KKK.

"A few cuckoos." More like a bursting-at-the-seams insane asylum.

[Frank Cannon]

16. That's the first thing I think of whenever I hear about them

I'm reminded of that classic Dave Chapelle skit where he was the blind black guy who was a Grand Wizard in the KKK. You can look it up on YouTube if you haven't seen it. It's hilarious.

[gratuitous]

9. Their convention is over? Great, can I please use that phone booth now?

Sheesh.

[endarkenment]

10. Jews for Hitler, nt.

[Jade Fox]

11. Those "few cuckoos" have had the GOP by the short hairs.....

and the GOP was happy to do their bidding.

How can gays forget the ugly homophobia at the root of the way the GOP used gay marriage as a wedge issue???

[Terran]

12. Oddly enough, I never thought about this, but...

I wonder if there are any female members of the LCR's? I mean, are any gay women so self-delusional, the way these guys are? I've never heard of a Lesbian Republican, except for Mary Cheney.

I also have to laugh at the idea of a Log Cabin Republican convention. I know pretty well what happens when you get a bunch of gay men in a hotel together, and it's not something any non-gay Republican would approve of. :wow:

[annarbor]

23. Hell, I bet Mary Chaney wasn't there either!

Wake up people!!!!
What is with their need to be accepted by the Republican Party? Honestly, couldn't all of that energy be used to help elect a Democrat to the White House?
These people are clueless...

Ann Arbor

[Toots]

40. Most Republican women "Know their place"

They are not allowed to make appearances. Only the few select Republican women are authorized to make comments. Like Ann Coulter for instance. She is such a good representative of Republican values she is not only allowed but encouraged to speak as often as possible..

[zehnkatzen]

13. Reminds Me of a Time Past...

I swear I am not making this up.

Whenever I think of the Log Cabin Republicans, I'm reminded of a time, oh, must have been fifteen years ago when, outside of a local burger joint, me and my wife happened to make the passing aquaintance of two women.

They were lesbian partners. One was blind, and had a service animal. And, as Gawd is my witness, I can't remember how we came on it, we discovered (I think they offered it up) that they were proud to be registered Republicans.

So, I'm looking at these two rather nice individuals, nothing at all wrong about them, friendly, apparently intelligent, but having otherwise just enough dain bramage to support a party of individuals who, even when they weren't "being hijacked by whackjobs" (as I believe the trope goes nowadays) were more or less committed to deleting them from free society and ending as many social services as possible to them whether or not they were gay, and was absolutely gobstopped.

What I wanted to say was "you support people who hate you?"

Unfortunately, I was a bit more polite then than I am now.

I get the same sort of reaction whenever I think of the LCR.

The speaker at the LCR convention spoke of a "return to core GOP values". As a party the only thing the Republicans ever got right was the ending of slavery, though I have so little good faith in Rs as a group that I imagine they did it just because it was good business (not because it was the Right Thing To Do). The R's stock in trade for communications have been code words for so very long that when they riffle off the usual list of "small government", "personal responsiblilty", "free markets", I know I can't take it seriously.

LCR? More like WTF.

[Robb]

38. Welcome to DU!

Thoughtful first post! :hi:

[mitchum]

14. They are loathsome

[happydreams]

26. Yer not being homophobic are you?

:evilgrin:

[truthisfreedom]

15. "Don’t leave because you can change it" is right. You can change it, republicans, by voting DEMOCRAT

It's easy. Stay in your party, but vote for the people who actually represent your core values.

[queerart]

17. Another Successful Self Loathing Convention

The Log Cabin's love to mince around the convention corridors chortling, & snorting about Democrats, & Greens.........

Partaking in Cucumber Triangle Sandwiches, Braunschweiger Foie Gras on a Ritz, and Boones Farm wine in "Crystalcrock" genuine lead crystal glasses from the local discount store........

.... and when everyone's back it turned.........

They race their sad asses to Massachusetts for a "Quickie Marriage".........

A right that Democrats, & Greens fought for... and a right "sadly" they also get to enjoy......

[IronScorpio5]

19. *THE* most confusing political group in america.

nt

[arewenotdemo]

21. GOP core values = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Log Cabin Republicans represent a quintessential American voting bloc...they'll vote the Greed Ticket whether it kills them, their loved ones and the world around them or not.

[UTUSN]

22. I dunno - LCR just make me LAUGH and LAUGH and LAUGH!!1 n/t

[auburngrad82]

24. Did they decide which GOP hatemonger they're backing? nt

[MonkeyFunk]

29. Did all 6 attend?

the LCR won't ever publicly state their membership numbers. I got into a fun email exchange awhile back with their Executive Director who just flat out refused to say how many members there were.

But I suspect they could all meet in my garage and I wouldn't have to pull my car out.

[Bucky]

36. It would be ironic if they held their convention in an actual log cabin.

And you'll never guess what they put on their pancakes at the welcoming breakfast.

[BigDDem]

30. "Members also heard from party leaders ....."

Party leaders???
Alan Simpson?

That's sad, just sad.

[MonkeyFunk]

32. I gotta give Simpson credit...

He and Gerald Ford were two guys who really bucked the party base and have lobbied for greater inclusion for gays. Good for them.

[Nevernose]

39. African-American Klansmen to refocus on "our core values."

African-American Klansmen to refocus on "our ... core values."

Wasn't it J.C. Watts' own father who famously said that "a black man voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."

Hello? Log Cabin Republicans? Bigotry IS a Republican core value. Always has been, always will be.

[Sapere aude]

41. "helping build a new sustainable governing majority" those are the words that have me scared.

That's what the right has been trying to do ever since St Ronnie was elected. A permanent right wing government and to do it they have to suppress voting in poor communities. These are the people who not only hate themselves but hate America. America is for all of us not just for rabid right wingers!

[BornagainDUer]

42. BUSH MALE ESCORT SERVICE

http://www.internetweekly.org/2005/02/cartoon_bush_scalp_fetish.html

[stanwyck]

43. Was Jeff Gannon the keynote speaker?

It's only a matter of time before Jeff goes broke and starts selling his story about who he was visiting in the White House at 3am during numerous nocturnal visits. And that is what will be the final outrage for that stubborn 30% who still support Bush. Not Iraq. Not all the lies. Not Katrina. Or Gitmo. Or Gonzalez. Or Plame.
No. The end for the Bushies will be Jeff Gannon.
And that is the mystery of the Log Cabin Republicans. They are what their party hates most.

[BigDDem]

44. It lasted 4 days

that's nice, a day devoted to each member.

[TankLV]

45. Gee - must've forgot about the Human Rights Campain -

the DEMOCRATS, you know...

This "jews for nazi's" group" is getting woefully tiring...

[yurbud]

46. these guys might as well start building their own camps and ovens

to save their fellow republicans the trouble.

[donco6]

47. Wow. I live in Denver and didn't even notice.

It wasn't mentioned in any paper here - and I read them every day. Odd.