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I don't like Ken Mehlman
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And this article makes me really dislike him more. I didn't actually knwo that was possible. Go figure.
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Few political figures in contemporary politics embody America’s
transformation on same-sex marriage as much as Mehlman.
Well, I tend to think
many figures embody this “transformation”. It is a simple twist in the wind because the
times have changed. Be it same-sex
marriage now, or civil rights by George Wallace, or anti-Iraq war by Hillary
Clinton (who I still love). Political
animals will turn which ever way buys them admiration, votes or nice big fat
board-ships at a Private Equity firms.
Their hateful, mean, nasty past performances swept under the rug as they
have “seen the light”. They don’t care
who they hurt, as long as they get ahead now.
After years of whisper campaigns about his sexual orientation, as
well as personal criticism for managing Bush’s reelection, Mehlman announced in
2010 that he is gay; since then, despite taking flak from both right and left, he has fought on behalf of equality.
Well, this is a
pretty self-serving paragraph isn’t it?
I hope some got some sort of kick back for this.
“Whisper campaigns”… sounds so, insidious. He was asked if he was gay and said no. There were no “whisper campaigns”, everyone
knew he was gay because he had been promiscuous. Those of us who knew he was gay couldn’t
believe he demonized us in the press.
That isn’t a “whisper campaign”, that is pointing out hypocrisy within
an administration who demonized gay men as child abusers, predators and
(famously) equivalent to man-on-dog sex perverts- and yet has a reelection
campaign manager who, per your own propaganda, is a poodle screwing deviant.
As for taking flak
from the “left”.
Boo-de-fucking-hoo. He used my
rights as a wedge issue to get George Bush re-elected, because he and Karl Rove
were afraid Bush the Younger wouldn’t be re-elected on his own merits.
As for taking flak
from the right.
Big-fucking-surprise. If you LEAD
a campaign that says fags are evil – you don’t get the free pass when you come
out as a homo.
When I asked Mehlman, a partner at a New York
private equity firm…
A "partner at a New
York private equity firm." Nice work for
an unqualified hack. Oh wait, he worked
for the man who arraigned the Wall Street Bail-Out. I take back “unqualified hack” and replace it
with "well connected Corporate Welfare Hack".
… to handicap gay marriage as a state and national
political-electoral issue today, he said: “Most polls now show that a majority of
Americans support gay marriage. What you see in Maryland and Washington, and
states like New York earlier, is a reflection of politicians representing their
constituents.”
And in New Jersey
too...
. Oh wait, in that state a Republican Governor veto’ed the “reflection of politicians representing their constituents” to save his Republican political ambitions. Maybe he will come out later, like Ken Melhman, as the great Republican savior of gay rights. You know, when it is politically convienent or he needs a partnership in a New York private equity firm.
. Oh wait, in that state a Republican Governor veto’ed the “reflection of politicians representing their constituents” to save his Republican political ambitions. Maybe he will come out later, like Ken Melhman, as the great Republican savior of gay rights. You know, when it is politically convienent or he needs a partnership in a New York private equity firm.
As for his role in the 2004 Bush campaign and
its exploitation of marital politics, Mehlman is candid — and remorseful.
“At a personal level, I wish I had spoken out
against the effort,” he says….
“I wish I had
spoken out against the effort.” You call that
candid? Are you fucking serious?
SERIOUSLY!? Ken Mehlman SPEARHEADED the “effort.” This is like BP saying, “We wish we had
spoken out against off-shore drilling.”
It is like Harvey Weinstein saying, “I wish I had spoken out against
excessive Oscar campaigning.” It is like
Barak Obama saying, “I wish I had spoken out against Universal Healthcare.” He doesn’t regret he DID it, he regrets he
didn’t SPEAK OUT against what he was doing?
My head wants to explode!
“As I’ve been involved in the fight for
marriage equality, one of the things I’ve learned is how many people were
harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved.
“One of the things I’ve
learned...” He has learned this because he wants a big fat pay check from faggots,
and maybe a little sex on the side. He
didn’t have to wait until he fought for marriage equality. He could have “learned” this amazing discovery if he pulled his
head out of his ass when he was running Bush The Younger’s campaign. I can go through articles about hate crimes,
dead kids who committed suicide rather than face the hate that he and his minions
stirred up. A 2 year old “learns” that
the hateful awful things they do cause pain. Functioning adults "learn" that there actions have repercussions long before they lead the National Republican Party.
Ken says “learned”
like he sought out this information. Perhaps
a better word is to acknowledge, or admit or own up to but to say “learn”
is disingenuous in the extreme.
“I apologize
to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this
could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I’ll do my
part to be helpful.”
Dr. Laura says that
for an apology to be sincere, it should be honest and hearfelt. I believe that it is heartfelt. I believe that Ken Mehlmen is sorry. But I don’t believe that his apology is
honest because he doesn’t acknowledge the truth of his part on what happened.
By the by, it isn’t important to me that he
apologies. I am not asking for it. I am not waiting for it. And it gives me no pleasure. He used my long term monogamous relationship (now 16 years, 6 - 10 years during the height of his Dr. Evil impersonation), he used my relationship to whip up hate, violence and internal strife. Desiring an apology from a man like this would be pathetic.I comment only because he is apologizing. But if he wants to give an apology at least make this one honest.