Are Gary Welsh and Jocelyn Tandy doing ghost-writing jobs for the Cleveland LCRs nowadays? That statement sure sounds like our local GOP nutterballs hacked it out for them!

You should have titled this, "Log Cabin Republicans Lash Out . . . Again." I have to say it isn't very hard to show their hyprocracy because they demonstrate it on such a continous basis. As a person who likes to point this out about them, they make your job writing about them sooooooo much easier. I'm sure you could put together a stand-up comedy routine from just the material they've given you.

"Take my gay Republican. Please!"

Geees. Gay Republicans. Ya gotta love 'em . . . NOT!

Hope will not help us. Although the LCR's remind me of a "Jews for Hitler," club. I can understand fiscal conservatism, but why would you vote for someone who wants you not to exist?

They have a very good point about Bill Clinton. How many times to gays have to be bashed (physically or politically), before they will return the volley as did the brave heroes of Stonewall?

What will it take for us to band together? Can we find each other and agree long enough to work on our common cause--liberty?

They're right about don't ask don't tell. Clinton wasn't willing to spend much political capital on gays in the military. He was handed his head by a fellow Democrat - Sam Nunn. And the gay democrats gave him a pass on it. Clinton bragged on conservative talk radio about being for the Defense of Marriage Act, and gay democrats gave him a pass on it. Hillary essentially ran on her husband's record which includes his failures in the gay rights arena. Gay Democrats gave her a pass on it.

If we're going to ask LCR- members whether they're gay first or Republican first, we need to ask the same thing of gay Democrats.

They're wrong about HRC though. HRC has taken heat for endorsing proGay Republicans. Does anyone remember the furor over the endorsement of Al D'Amato?

They should change their name to reflect what they really are: The Log Cabin Sellouts

The worst part of all of this is that we're debating, "Why would someone want to be a gay Republican?" and our alternative - Democrats - are usually painted to be the good guys.

Sadly, there are plenty of "blue dog" Democrats (like the 3 here in Indiana!) who might as well be Republican-lite.

I hate to sound like Bill Purdue, but it does make me long for a time when there are viable 3rd parties. (That's where Bill and I part ways; I said viable.)

Which 3rd party candidate did the best in modern history, btw? Was it Ross Perot?

This statement has to be a joke, it is so far out of touch with reality!

No, wait...being light-years out of touch with reality has become the defining feature of the modern Republican Party--vis-a-vis the "War on Terror," evolution, global warming, energy policy, the economy, healthcare, LGBT rights, etc. etc.

Back in the day, when you created your own reality, it got you a one way trip to a padded cell wearing a stylish white strait jacket.

Now, it's a qualification for being a Republican.

The best way to handle the LGR is to ignore them. Simply don't react, and give them no attention. They are like a weed in a field on the farm where I lived as a child. If it keeps getting light it will keep growing. Pull it up by the root cast it aside in the shade and then forget it.
Educate our young people and this will pull it at the root then forget this twisted vine and let it fade away in the dark cast into a place of forgetting.
As far as I am concerned Log Cabin is for pancakes.