Gay Patriot

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  Why do Gay Leaders Have this Compulsion to Out their Adversaries?

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:10pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 20
  

  It seems gay leaders exist to make my point about their incompetence to appeal to those whose minds they most need to change.  Now, we learn that the leader of the No on 1 campaign in Maine, instead of learning from the campaign’s mistakes, intends to target those [...]

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  Carly Fiorina: Reagan Republican

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:26pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 6
  

  It seems some conservative bloggers are so devoted to defeat the more establishment Republicans in the race that they assume all contests on the right are between a “stimulus” supporters like Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio or Dede Scozzafava and Doug Hoffman.  Here, in the Golden State, some of my [...]

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  Maybe Doug Hoffman Should Have Better Attended to Local Issues

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:40pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 4
  

  Shortly after Bob Dornan lost his Orange County congressional seat by fewer than 1,000 votes (many of which turned out to be cast illegally), I was talking with a Republican political consultant who said that a number of his associates (in the political consultancy world) had warned the right-wing firebrand [...]

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  Thank you, President Obama!

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:24pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 4
  

  . . . and Rahm Emanuel and Anita Dunn and David Axelrod.

  Fox News pulls huge election day ratings. Mr. President, White House aides, they couldn’t have done it without your support, er, condemnation. On election night this week,

  Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern [...]

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  Did Gay Issues Help Sink Hoffman?

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:10pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 11
  

  Active in Virginia politics when living in Arlington in the 1990s, I reached a conclusion about most suburban “swing” voters, they are neither pro-gay nor anti-gay, but are rather anti-anti-gay, that is, they really don’t like candidates who make opposition to gay issues the centerpiece of their campaigns.  This applies [...]

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  The Obama Democrats’ Real Dilemma:When the Rubber, er, Rhetoric Meets the Road

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:46am EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 9
  

  Young people swarmed to the Obama bandwagon last year because of the Democrat’s hip campaign and powerful presence. Many had little idea what exactly their man stood for save the amorphous appeals to hope and change, but they sure liked the contrast between his image and that of then-the tongue-tied [...]

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  On Conservatives & the GOP

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:07am EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 6
  

  Grover gets it:

  Conservatives cannot win without the Republican party and the Republican party cannot win without conservatives. Everything else is commentary.

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  Reflections on the Impending Death of Obamacare

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:54am EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 16
  

  If President Obama and congressional Democrats want to prevent more Democrats from suffering the fate next fall as outgoing New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, outgoing Westchester County Executive Andy Spano and various Democrats across the Commonwealth of Virginia did last night, they would do well to ditch health care as an [...]

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  Needing Gay Leaders Who Can Change Conservative Minds

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:07am EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 20
  

  The other night I attended a screening of a friend’s documentary-in-progress following a number of gay couples who, in 2004, went up to San Francisco to get married when Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed his city to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  A number of things struck me about the [...]