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Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« on: February 28, 2012, 09:24:21 AM »
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Arizona teabaggers support gay sheriff (anti-illegal immigration star)

A few days ago, the Yavapai Tea Party gathered at a church in rural Arizona to discuss the all-too-familiar topic of illegal immigration. Among the conservative, mostly over-55 crowd, it is a subject seen in black and white. Build a fence, add agents, reject amnesty — period.

And so it was all the more striking when, off to the side in a room with “Jesus Loves Us!!” written on a chalkboard, the conversation turned to the subject on everyone’s mind, if not the agenda: The conservative Arizona sheriff and Republican candidate for Congress who less than a week earlier had admitted to reporters, his constituents — indeed to the world — that he is gay.

Consider the comments of Bill Halpin, a 64-year-old ex-Air Force pilot who serves on the local tea party board: “I care less. I just care less. Don’t preach it on me. Don’t push it on me and, by golly, I respect your rights.” And this from Mona Patton, the 60-year-old real estate agent who is the group’s president: “I’m a Christian, but who am I to make a judgment about somebody else? I don’t have that right, and I look beyond that. ... I still believe in him. I still back him. I still like him. That doesn’t affect that.”

Before all of this, the 43-year-old was considered a rising star in Republican politics. A retired major in the Army National Guard and an ex-police officer, Babeu was the first Republican elected sheriff in Pinal County, nestled between Phoenix and Tucson in a culturally diverse part of Arizona. Having previously commanded a National Guard unit in the border town of Yuma, Babeu quickly became known for his tough stance on illegal immigration. He appeared alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 ad in which McCain advocated completion of a border fence, and last year was chosen as America’s “Sheriff of the Year” by his colleagues in the National Sheriffs’ Association.

(Phoenix political consultant Chuck) Coughlin and others noted that Babeu has a few things working in his favor: He’s charismatic. Arizonans like his stance on illegal immigration and other conservative issues, but they also genuinely like him. Several voters also said that the sheriff’s sexual orientation was one of the worst-kept secrets in Arizona political circles and that while they wish it hadn’t come out the way it did, the fact itself was hardly surprising.

http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2012/02/28/front/doc4f4b9f0f32fc5350966469.txt

I love the comments from teabaggers about Babeu: "I care less. I just care less (about him being gay)." and "I’m a Christian, but who am I to make a judgment about somebody else?". Ahh, the mental gymnastics required to support a closed mind. If they could only really hear themselves, they might learn something.

If Babeu wasn't such a star of the anti-illegal immigration movement, he would have been in a lot more trouble with his conservative base. Is it a sign of progress that teabaggers will support a gay candidate because he is "one of 'us'", even if he achieved "us" status, by proving that he is as contemptuous of "them" (illegal immigrants) as the rest of the teabaggers?

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1. They hate brown people more than they hate gays

Not exactly news, really.

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4. I must admit I wasn't sure which they hated more.

I wouldn't say that I was shocked, but I did find teabagger support for a gay (anti-illegal immigrant) candidate illuminating as far as their priorities and where they draw the "us vs them" lines in the sand. 

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2. It's a wonder their pointy little heads don't explode with all their internal conflict.

All illegals are gay?

Who knew?

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MarianJack (5,619 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. And so, once again,...

...if a republican does it, it's A-OK!

Does what? Obey and enforce the law?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002359412

Note how they have to resort to hate to eplain what they assume must be hate on our part.

There can be no assumption of principle or innocence for those they consider to be "The Others."

All is nefarious. All is malicious.

It must be...


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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 09:40:24 AM »
They simply cannot untie themselves from thinking in terms of pigeonhole boxes.  Why is this?  It drives me crazy!  I don't care if you're kelly green with purple stripes, gay, and have a father from Jupiter.  If you're for low taxes, small government, sensible and responsible spending of gov't revenues, and respect the military and the rule of law, you're my man/woman. 

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2012, 09:44:32 AM »
No, moonbats, we don't hate him because he's gay.

But if he starts mouthing off about rights he doesn't think he has, or starts parading around the streets in BDSM paraphernalia and blowing strangers in public, we probably would.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2012, 09:59:50 AM »
i hate him


he was a romney supporter, until he wasnt anyways.

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2012, 10:01:30 AM »
Wasn't this the guy that blamed the Tea Party for Jared Loughner, or was that another Arizona sherrif?

edit: nm, that was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2012, 12:45:38 PM »
We don't hate him because there is no reason to. He got himslef all toejammed over his relationship with another guy. So what. HAs nothing to do wit hhis job performance from what anyone knew of him before. If what they say is true and he tried to use his office to force someone to shut up then he needs to go . Otherwise what he has done really has no impact on all of us.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 12:54:13 PM »
I like the idea of conservative gays, log cabin republican types, but I don't trust them. There's just something about gay and liberal going hand in hand, so to speak.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2012, 01:15:41 PM »
We don't hate him because there is no reason to. He got himslef all toejammed over his relationship with another guy. So what. HAs nothing to do wit hhis job performance from what anyone knew of him before. If what they say is true and he tried to use his office to force someone to shut up then he needs to go . Otherwise what he has done really has no impact on all of us.

Oh for cripes sake! I don't even give a **** what you DUum****s do in your bedrooms! As long as it doesn't effect your job performance I could care less if ya suck door knobs or hump sheep!

Get a new line. You morons have worn this one out. Nobody believes yer shit any more!
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2012, 01:39:06 PM »
That's Pima County Sheriff Clarence DUchnik.

More mirror gazing by the tolerant Liberal left.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2012, 02:25:37 PM »
Ever notice how tolerant they are until you tell them your viewpoints then its all about banning your speech or telling you your religion is wrong but it's OK for some nut job to behead or blow someone up. It's on if you serve in the military as long as your a deserter or some other treasonus bastard. They respect you so long as you go about "Sitting in the back of the proverbial bus" and don't say a damn word least you offend someone. Don't even think of defending your family against their ideas because "its a right to go out and have an abortion at 13 and mom and dad have no say in it". Yeah they are some tolerant people alright.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2012, 03:47:31 PM »
They've spent so much time telling each other what we believe, that when they get around to telling us, they're stunned when we goggle and "wha--?" at them.

I had a liberal boss like that.  One day we were talking about stuff and things, and he said "well, as a fundamentalist Christian you believe xxx (I don't even remember what it was, but it was so crazy I wouldn't like someone who believed it)..."

Naturally, I said something like "uh....no?"

And then had the opportunity to tell him the truth.  Not sure he believed me, though.  After all, all fundamentailst Christians believe xxx, and I must be the exception...

That boy was hard-headed.  Got greatly PO'd when I told him that the one factor you cannot ignore when judging the reality of AGW is global temperature trends.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2012, 03:49:10 PM »
Christopher Horner wrote an excellent book about just that.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2012, 05:13:51 PM »
Democrats are all about diversity as long as everyone thinks that a big totalitarian statist government should be ruling everything in all of our lives. Even if you are female black muslim lesbian you will be kicked hard to the ground if you believe otherwise.
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2012, 09:28:27 PM »
Republicans are not anti-GAY, we are anti gay-ACTIVISTS.  No one cares what anyone else is doing in the bedroom.  Just leave it in the bedroom already! ::) ::)

A conservative doing a good job and not pushing for all kinds of "equaler than you" so-called "rights" is someone we'd all vote for...unless we disagreed with his policies.  We don't judge by race, color, gender or orientation, we judge by actions.   
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #14 on: February 29, 2012, 12:26:10 AM »
See, you myopic Progressive thinkers assume us Conservatives march in lockstep like you do.  We can see the forest for the trees, which is why we kicked your ass in 2010, and will seal the deal in 2012. 

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #15 on: February 29, 2012, 12:37:52 AM »
To me, homosexuals are a repulsive abomination.

I don't want to see them, hear them, or be around them, because the very thought makes my skin crawl.

But I don't hate them the way I do democrats. I'd vote for a homo before I'd vote for a democrat.

 

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #16 on: February 29, 2012, 05:09:32 AM »
To me, homosexuals are a repulsive abomination.

I don't want to see them, hear them, or be around them, because the very thought makes my skin crawl.

But I don't hate them the way I do democrats. I'd vote for a homo before I'd vote for a democrat.

 

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #17 on: February 29, 2012, 05:58:35 AM »
Republicans are not anti-GAY, we are anti gay-ACTIVISTS.  No one cares what anyone else is doing in the bedroom.  Just leave it in the bedroom already! ::) ::)

A conservative doing a good job and not pushing for all kinds of "equaler than you" so-called "rights" is someone we'd all vote for...unless we disagreed with his policies.  We don't judge by race, color, gender or orientation, we judge by actions.   

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #18 on: February 29, 2012, 08:22:03 AM »
Oh for cripes sake! I don't even give a **** what you DUum****s do in your bedrooms! As long as it doesn't effect your job performance I could care less if ya suck door knobs or hump sheep!

Get a new line. You morons have worn this one out. Nobody believes yer shit any more!

Have to sort of agree, times have changed.

Last Xmas party Hubby and I attended there was a new worker that had come to work since I retired.  A new man hubby worked with, it was only when someone at the table called the new guy a SHE that I did a double take and was surprised that the He was a She. 

I had known HE's that dressed in drag and were better looking then most woman but this was the first time I had seen a She/He.     

No one seemed the least bit taken back, just another worker that did their job well.   Me I was fascinated about how this female had managed to learn to walk from the knee as a man does--woman walk from the hip--- and how there was no one questioning their using the men's room.    Just another guy except they did not adjust themselves leaving the men's room.

Must say the new guy was on the dance floor all night and danced with all the younger woman that thought they knew how to dance, [he ] put them to shame.

Now for me a former Nurse that worked with Gay male Orderlies and though I knew the Gay culture, this part I had never seen.    This was not the Lesbian life style, this was something else,  the transgender life, and every one took it to be mean nothing, the worker was good at their job and  no dick under their pants was of no concern to them.

New world for me, I was suspicious years ago when the commander of Hubby's Boat was single and claimed to be a Jesuit, today we know some of our best leaders after retirement have come out of the closet.

So unless  a Barny Frank, a gay corrupt person pops up, who knows look at the hetrosexuals that have done worse then him.    New world, or old world we are just finding out about today.





     

 

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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #19 on: February 29, 2012, 10:16:04 AM »
You want hypocrisy, DUmmies?

Gerry Studs (Democrat) HAS SEX with teenage Congressional pages and is regarded as a hero by the left until his death.

Mark Foley (Republican) sends a few naughty texts to a teenage Congressional page and the left goes, "FAGGOT!!!  GET 'IM!!!!"

See the difference?
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Re: Teahadists refuse to reflexively hate gay sheriff
« Reply #20 on: February 29, 2012, 12:33:48 PM »
You want hypocrisy, DUmmies?

Gerry Studs (Democrat) HAS SEX with teenage Congressional pages and is regarded as a hero by the left until his death.

Mark Foley (Republican) sends a few naughty texts to a teenage Congressional page and the left goes, "FAGGOT!!!  GET 'IM!!!!"

See the difference?
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