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...Quite frankly, you owe us, Mary. Big time. And you better believe that people—including many a gay Republican, at least if my e-mail inbox is any indication—will be coming to get you, demanding that you fork over that debt, pronto. Unless you speak out now, every time your father or the president or Karl Rove stokes antigay hatred in the coming campaign, folks will be pointing fingers at you and asking, "What the f***, Mary?!" Perhaps you don’t have a conscience and none of this will affect you. But the next time you walk into a gay public place, be prepared for a chorus calling you everything from a quisling and a betrayer to a selfish, fiendish, nasty example of a human being.
It would be one thing if you had simply slithered away into the background when it was announced that your father would be Bush’s running mate in 2000. (People can’t, after all, pick their parents, as Patti Davis and Ron Reagan Jr. are painfully aware.) Instead, you became active in the Bush/Cheney campaign. As the lesbian poster child, you helped sell the snake oil of "compassionate conservatism." You went along with the program, tricking people into thinking that your father and W. would be tolerant on gay rights. Your father even said during the campaign that the whole issue of gay unions should be left to the states (though he told the Denver Post last week that he would now support an amendment to the Constitution that could very well strip gays of most legal rights, from domestic partnership benefits to adoption rights). As one of Dad’s political advisors, you helped bring in votes from moderate straights and gay Republicans.
Yes, Mary, I’m laying part of the blame for the 2000 election fiasco on you. Had the election not been so close, it wouldn’t have been so easy to steal. And it was close, in part, because you conned a lot of people. The 25 percent of gay voters who cast a vote for Bush/Cheney—not to mention the moderates of all sexual orientations—would have made the difference in Florida and New Hampshire (as gays made up at least four percent of the electorate in both states), giving the election to Al Gore. I hear from the voters you misled every day via my website and radio program—gay Republicans and others who are infuriated with the president, with your father and with you, Mary.
Some people—mostly Democrats, actually, who sometimes are just a bit too generous, if you ask me—have mildly defended you, claiming that you truly, if naïvely, believed you could make a difference. Shortly after the election, you joined the board of the Republican Unity Coalition, the gay/straight alliance. But at about the same time that the Christian zealots began complaining that Bush wasn’t harsh enough toward gays, you left RUC and went as far underground as your father, who runs things from his mystery bunker as often as the White House.
And now you’ve joined the re-election campaign, just in time to hear the president and your father say that they would support a federal marriage amendment.
What is it like, I often wonder, to have your own father court the very religious zealots who believe your kind are emotionally disturbed child molesters? What does it feel like to have your own father empower people who, if they could have their way, would force you to go through "conversion therapy"? What is it like to know that your own family takes cash from people who think you’d be better off dead, and think you’re going straight to hell when that happens?
Much more...
So enough about the Greens, folks; there were numerous reasons why Selection 2000 came about, and given the numbers, the Greens are as much of a threat as a comatose mosquito. Nader was one reason, I'll agree there... But the other reasons: Mary Two-face was another reason. Jeb and Katherine's slithering was another. The Stuporeme Court was another. Gore pulling a lacklustre campaign, to say the very least, was the other. Remember, 25% of the gay population voted for the two-faced creep*, partly lured by the wench. That's still way more than the 3% of Floridians (or 6% of the whole nation, as at least 10% of the nation's population is GLBT, as high as 20% I'd reckon...) who voted Green.
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