Such a sweet photo of two cute politicians
Marco Rubio, a fully credentialed “true conservative,” is running for the GOP Senate nomination in Florida against Gov. Charlie Crist, the more moderate candidate endorsed by the Republican establishment. Until yesterday, conservatives envisioned Rubio playing the same role in Florida that Doug Hoffman played in New York’s 23rd congressional district, a script they’re going to have to rewrite a bit.
The screengrab above is the front page of Rubio’s Internet fundraising site. Any suggestion that the picture was selected as a sly reference to rumors regarding Crist’s sexual orientation are surely false.
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Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:49 pm
…and don’t call me Shirley!
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:51 pm
Mrs. G. I disagreed with you below on the hot sandy beach thing…
#1 Foxy Lady
November 4th, 2009
2:00 pm
FAAABOLOUS!!!
The silver fox has my vote!!! Meoowwww…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
2:02 pm
Normal
We found common ground/sand….
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:02 pm
It’s likely I have more conservative friends than the liberals here. I haven’t heard ANY inferences as to Crist’s sexuality.
YOU think he’s gay, jay?
Obama’s the one whose lips are “pursed”.
jconservative
November 4th, 2009
2:03 pm
The campaign of McDonnell in Virginia would suggest Crist would be the better candidate. Unless Rubio is capable of running to the center as McDonnell did. Some can, some cannot.
But, being a Georgian I do not get a vote & I do not make contributions to other states’ candidates.
So good luck to the survivor.
Brad Steel
November 4th, 2009
2:03 pm
Leave it to the troglodytes to use sexual-orientation innuendo attacks in 2009.
True or not, what up-right walking human being cares?
Brad Steel
November 4th, 2009
2:05 pm
Hey Conservatives!
The 1950’s called. They want their political strategies back.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:05 pm
@@,
Who the hell cares if he’s gay?
Are you trying to pull the George W. Bush tactic of spreading that rumor like he did with Ann Richardson which won him the governship? Tacky, truly tacky.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
That games doesn’t work wingnuts – but please, go ahead and keep trying.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:08 pm
Mrs. G.
I can’t make it to the beach anytime soon, but as to the other – I’ll get to work later tonight!!! I’ll pull out the Mozart.
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:08 pm
Now that I look closer, Crist is looking into Obama’s eyes. Obama….with lips “pursed” is looking at Crist’s lips.
Are you sure it’s Crist that’s gay, jay!!?!! Maybe you should frisk the liberal.
/snark/
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:11 pm
Who the hell cares if he’s gay?
Bosch:
Like I said, I’ve talked to no conservative who’s even hinted that Crist may be gay.
Personally, I don’t care but jay seems interested.
carolelynne
November 4th, 2009
2:12 pm
@@
I’
Peadawg
November 4th, 2009
2:13 pm
“Who the hell cares if he’s gay?”
Obviously, people in Maine care.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
2:14 pm
Bosch
Crank up the heat……We’re rootin’ for ya’!
Joey
November 4th, 2009
2:16 pm
I’m with @@ on this. The first comment I heard or read ever about Crist possibly being gay, was Jay post. I don’t care if he is or is not.
What is noteworthy here is that it is typical of you Progressives to make a statement about a person’s sexuality, then follow that up with wild accusations about Conservatives not being tolerant.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:17 pm
Peadawg,
People in Maine care about gay marriage – not whether or not someone IS gay.
@@,
Jay seems interested how? By the short blurb he put under the picture? No, that’s a far leap for you and it apparently made you lose all control of your senses just thinking about it.
RW-(the original)
November 4th, 2009
2:17 pm
Jay B takes a shot at this guy’s possible sexual orientation and it gets blamed on us wingnuts??? How’s that work exactly?
Normal
November 4th, 2009
2:18 pm
I’m surprised thay haven’t put a caption on it like…”but Mr. President, you will stain my dress…”
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:19 pm
“What is noteworthy here is that it is typical of you Progressives to make a statement about a person’s sexuality, then follow that up with wild accusations about Conservatives not being tolerant.”
Good lord, when did that happen?
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
2:21 pm
Obobo must know Crist is gay! Why else would he be about to kiss Crist flush on the mouth?
“A man is white, a man is black, together they love to kiss and smack”
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
2:28 pm
It appears Crist is trying to push away Obobo and his sexual advances…
Crist: Mr PRESIDENT, well I never!
Obobo: Cmon…Come oooonnnn.
Crist: Mr President, Im not that kindve boy.
Obobo: Cmon…Come oooonnnn.
Crist: Mr President, Im a married man.
Obobo: Cmon baby, Air Force One is waiting and I havent got all day. Just gimme one big wet one…a lil sumpin to remember you by.
Crist: Im sorry Mr President.
Obobo: Do you not find me attractive?
Crist: Well yes, I mean no, I mean *sobbing* I dont know Mr President
Obobo: There there Charlie…come fly with me on Air Force One.
Crist: Yes, Mr President…Yes Sir!
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:28 pm
So tell me, Bosch….what happened to the “sensibilities” of libs who have repeatedly posted these photos here? They come in twos.
Here’s the first two:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l176/musiclover1992/BushSaudiKing.jpg
http://stevecotler.com/tales/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bush-mccain-hug.jpg
They’ll all be coming from left-wing sites.
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:29 pm
Another two:
http://obama4usa.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/mccain_bush_brokeback.jpg
http://soupytrumpet.com/uploads/2008/02/w.jpg
Normal
November 4th, 2009
2:29 pm
Turd, how often do you have those fantasies?
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:31 pm
@@,
Who gives a crap about them too? Obviously you?
Normal
November 4th, 2009
2:31 pm
@@, I noticed George got one in when Condi wasn’t looking
carolelynne
November 4th, 2009
2:34 pm
@@
What Jay delicately refers to as ‘rumors’ aren’t rumors in Florida. And that picture is no accident. I’d personally love it if Kendrick Meek winds up as the new (D) Senator from Florida. By the way, I’m a Floridian, so you still haven’t heard it from a conservative while you’re not interested.
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
2:34 pm
A special moment caught between Obobo and Crist…Obobo picks up the microphone and lets it all hang out…
I’m sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
Like all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knockin’ at my brain.
Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread:
“I think I love you!”
This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn’t know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I’d hide it to myself and never talk about it
And didn’t I go and shout it
When you walked into my room.
“I think I love you!”
I think I love you.
So what am I so afraid of?
I’m afraid that I’m not sure of
A love there is no cure for.
I think I love you.
Isn’t that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
I’ve never felt this way.
I don’t know what I’m up against.
I don’t know what it’s all about.
I got so much to think about.
Hey, I think I love you.
So what am I so afraid of?
I’m afraid that I’m not sure of
A love there is no cure for.
I think I love you.
Isn’t that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
I’ve never felt this way.
Believe me,
You really don’t have to worry.
I only want to make you happy
And if you say,
“Hey, go away,” I will, but I think better still
I’d better stay around and love you.
Do you think I have a case?
Let me ask you to your face:
Do you think you love me?
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
2:35 pm
@@
Being somebody who often posted the first two….
Did you think I was implying either of those 3 individuals were gay?
Really? You thought I was suggesting McCain, Bush or Prince Whatever
were homosexual?
Hell, that’s a lot nicer than what I was really implying.
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:37 pm
Bosch:
Who gives a crap about them too? Obviously you?
All too often, you conveniently claim lack of knowledge.
The only crap I give is the crap you leftists have thrown out over the years.
You’re either the homophobes or the hypocrits. Which is it?
Swami Dave
November 4th, 2009
2:38 pm
Interesting……..
Proposing an expected denial for something that was never said as an apparent attempt to require the individual or campaign to actually offer the denial to grant some foundation to the assertion that what never happened might have is a pretty laughable framework.
On behalf of the Rubio campaign, I will go ahead and state that the picture was never meant to infer that Gov. Crist is a Martian or that President Obama is a bad whistler either.
Until -your- mention of it, I had never even heard of this alleged “rumor”. How long before Rubio is blamed for “making this an issue” when it is posts like this that brought it up?
Honestly, Jay, I expect better of you than to base an attack on what “you are sure they didn’t mean”.
-SD
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
2:41 pm
I guess the whole Republican platform can be summed up in three words -get the picture.
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
2:43 pm
Or perhaps something like this.
Crist: Yes honey you too are sexy, here have a breath mint.
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
2:44 pm
I smell another NY23 getting ready to happen to the conned in Fla.
I wonder if Ralph Nader isn’t laughing at the irony.
And all JB has to do is reference rumors that have existed for a year or more and the godly ones go ballistic?
Like he just made it up?
Thin skinned and self-righteous conned…
http://www.google.com/search?q=rumors+governor+christ+gay&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Joan
November 4th, 2009
2:44 pm
Ok, Bookman’s take on this is silly. But, truth is that there are a lot of us conservatives out there who are fiscal conservativies–who simply care how deeply government is burrowing into their pocketbooks, than social conservatives. I couldn’t care less if people abort their fetuses–heck they created them. I don’t care if gays or interracials marry. Why should I care. I don’t think it is consistent with conservative principles of individual responsibility to even have a stance on those social and religious matters. Conservatives and republicans would do a lot better to back off their zeal on social issues–they aren’t wanted there.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:44 pm
@@,
“All too often, you conveniently claim lack of knowledge.”
As Doggone puts it so nicely – don’t ask me to defend myself with something I’m not party too, but you are the one who brought it up to begin with.
“The only crap I give is the crap you leftists have thrown out over the years.”
Oh please spare us – do you need someone to come flufff the pillows on your swooning couch?
“You’re either the homophobes or the hypocrits. Which is it?”
Neither – again, the world does not revolve around you – you don’t get to make the ultimate decision of what it is and isn’t.
But tell me how is it that somehow WE are the homophobes when YOU are the one who not only brought it up to begin with?
Normal
November 4th, 2009
2:45 pm
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
2:41 pm
Bruno
November 4th, 2009
2:46 pm
“Oh, and Bruno? Thanks again for your early morning “smoothical” for teacher.”
Anytime, @@. I didn’t like the way that lowlife GODD was ripping into you and your students and wanted to send you a pick-me-up.
I dated a lady for three years who had a profoundly handicapped daughter, so learned a lot about the challenges that must be faced in caring for them. Blessings on you!
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:48 pm
@@,
And in this case, how can those on the left be considered hypocrites when it’s the right wing who put this picture out?
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:49 pm
This thread reminds me of a post I had intended to leave for josef. Here goes…
Sorry about Maine, my friend. Because I care, I’ll say this one more time. M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E is but a word. There are 20 other letters in the alphabet. It is in the best interest of the gay community to pull from those twenty for definition. HECK! the “I” can pull double duty.
Declare your Independence. It makes you special, which you are.
(ISH)
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
2:50 pm
Only fools fall for this kind of crap. Unfortunately…
mike
November 4th, 2009
2:52 pm
“Any suggestion that the picture was selected as a sly reference to rumors regarding Crist’s sexual orientation are surely false.”
Huh? Is there something homosexual about this photo?
Keep looking for that scandal Jay. This bizarre fantasy of yours or the “uppity” outrage don’t quite qualify, but you might actually find one some day.
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
2:53 pm
Every time I see the “new” Republicans purging anyone who doesn’t swear a blood oath to their dogma of rule by wealthy WASP’s …
I see the end of the Republican party drawing closer and closer.
mike
November 4th, 2009
2:53 pm
” do you need someone to come flufff the pillows on your swooning couch?”
Are all of the liberals on the “swooning couch” crap now? Is this phrase popular on liberal blogs or something?
@@
November 4th, 2009
2:55 pm
Bosch:
jay brought it up. jay put up this picture. I never would have seen it had he not.
Leftists have repeatedly brought it up with their “cutesy” little photo-ops.
None of which can be denied, no matter how hard you try to spin it.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
2:57 pm
@@,
Again, this is not a lefty “cutesy” photo-op – it was put out by the further right candidate.
And if you really want to sit there and pretend that conservatives don’t have their own fun with Photo-shop then you really have problems.
Off to work – later all.
Dave R.
November 4th, 2009
2:59 pm
If there isn’t a good story to be found, you can depend on a liberal to manufacture one. Bravo, Bookman, bravo!
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:00 pm
I see nothing homosexual about this photo at all. This reminds me of Bob Herbert bizarrely declaring that the photos of Obama in front of the Victory Column in Germany were created by the GOP to show him in front of “phallic symbols”:
“You guys have seen the ad a number of times, I am sure, and you have it here in-house. First thing you see are a couple of images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, right? And we see an image of Barack Obama right after that, comes quickly at the beginning of the ad. You remember that, right? Do you remember any other startling images right there at the beginning? All right. There is an image right there in that very beginning of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and there is an image of the Washington Monument. Look at the beginning of that ad again. And you tell me why those two phallic symbols are placed there. Pow, right at the very beginning of that ad. You tell me.”
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjQzNzBhZTllZDEwMjAzNzNkZGI0NTc4YjRjM2NhY2Y=
Anybody want to tell me why the nutty conspiracy theories of Bookman and Herbert are any different than Glen Beck’s nutty conspiracy theories?
Shawny
November 4th, 2009
3:00 pm
If that is the best Marco can come up with, he will get destroyed.
Lame.
Crist is a good guy and a credit to his party. That is, if he is against the impending huge increase in the federal govt all the while staring down 12T in debt. If he is against that, I like him.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:01 pm
Bosch –
“Again, this is not a lefty “cutesy” photo-op – it was put out by the further right candidate.”
This is no different than the photos that liberals pushed of McCain hugging Bush. You guys are the ones ascribing homosexual connotations to it that are not there.
Peggy Noonan
November 4th, 2009
3:01 pm
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!
Dave R.
November 4th, 2009
3:01 pm
Bosch, as usual you are missing the point. The candidate brought up the photo, but there is ZERO sexual reference in the ad. ZERO. The candidate was linking Crist and Hope & Change together, but not in a sexual way. The sexuality reference was Bookman’s and Bookman’s alone.
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
3:02 pm
Bosch, good point.
The fact that he may or may not be a homosexual is not very relevant. Not to vast majority of non-Republicans and even moderate Republicans like Crist himself.
But it sure as hell is to the social “conservatives”, who insist on making this non-issue an issue. At every possible opening. (DO NOT go there!)
As Joan noted so well.
A show of hands, how many “conservatives” around the country want to amend the most sacred document ever written – the United States Constitution – with verbal pollution defining marriage and banning equal rights for homosexuals?
Don’t kid yourselves, there are plenty, including the caveman Paul Broun from Georgia.
And they are likely the TRUE Republicans who want Crist gone…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Marriage_Amendment#2005.2F2006
@@
November 4th, 2009
3:02 pm
Off to work – later all.
Of course you are, Bosch.
The inference was jay’s. He’s “speculating”. Based on previous columns, his speculation should be met with swift regulation or penalty of law.
Bruno
November 4th, 2009
3:02 pm
“There are 20 other letters in the alphabet. It is in the best interest of the gay community to pull from those twenty for definition.”
It’s only anecdotal evidence, @@, but most of the gay people I know don’t seem to be hung on the verbiage and aren’t specifically using the gay “marriage” legal issue to surreptitiously secure the blessings of society at large for their lifestyle. What they are asking for is a legal vehicle by which the privileges of heterosexual marriage are extended to their unions as well, thus sparing them substantial legal fees in filing all the separate legal forms such as power of attorney.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:03 pm
marsh –
“I guess the whole Republican platform can be summed up in three words -get the picture.”
Well, your platform can be summed up as “baaa baaa baaa”. Do you always swallow the partisan spin from pundits so mindlessly?
Taxpayer
November 4th, 2009
3:04 pm
The only thing I’m surprised at is why they did not hire Hannity to Photoshop the picture and show the two lip-locked. Republicans know no bounds.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:05 pm
Bookman’s scandal mongering has reached an embarrassing new low.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:08 pm
This is classic. Bookman throws out some unsubstantiated and flat out absurd accusation and Taxpayer comes roaring in bleating in agreement without thinking for a second. Baaa baaa baaa.
Can someone tell me what is more homosexual about this picture than the picture of McCain hugging Bush that was so popular among liberals?
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
3:08 pm
mike @ 3:03,
I believe that picture really got to you. Calm down.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
3:10 pm
Here’s a smile for y’all…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:10 pm
@@,
“I haven’t heard ANY inferences as to Crist’s sexuality.”
Do a Google search for Bruce Carlton Jordan and see what pops up. Crist was also prominently covered in the documentary Outrage by Kirby Dick.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:11 pm
LOL. This is classic:
“Democrats are planning to use images of Sen. John McCain embracing President George Bush on billboards and in bus stops around Minneapolis and St. Paul next week, part of an effort to drive home their message that McCain represents “more of the same” in Washington.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/08/27/turning_bush-mccain_hug_into_a.html
Of course, when a conservative does the same thing, it is a homosexual reference.
This is a new low for Bookman. How pathetic.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:11 pm
Sometimes it’s better to find alternative news outlets besides television news…
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:12 pm
jewcowboy –
This is the first that I have heard about Crist’s orientation and I could not care less. Apparently, liberals are the only ones obsessing about it.
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
3:12 pm
President Bush has come out in favor of amending the United States Constitution to make marriage legally defined as only between one man and one woman. This would ban gay and lesbian couples from marrying and quite possibly could do away with civil unions and partner benefits.
What exactly does the amendment say? The first version of the proposed amendment submitted by Representative Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado reads as follows:
“Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.”
A new version was released in March 2004, that supporters say would leave the room open for states to recognize civil unions. The revised text reads as follows:
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the Constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.
You know in Iran they don’t even have homosexuals!
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:14 pm
jewcowboy –
“Sometimes it’s better to find alternative news outlets besides television news…”
Apparently, if you are obsessed with sexual orientation like Bookman apparently is.
Do you see any sexual innuendo in the publication of this photo? I sure don’t.
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
3:15 pm
Normal @ 3:10,
I love that website!
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:15 pm
AmVet –
“President Bush has come out in favor of amending the United States Constitution to make…”
Well since the onset of your last delusional spell, we have had an election. The President is some guy named Obama.
Taxpayer
November 4th, 2009
3:17 pm
mike,
You actually ROARED in well in advance of me. I’m just following your lead. Squeek, Squeek.
Dave R.
November 4th, 2009
3:17 pm
Taxcheat: “Republicans know no bounds”.
Yet it is Bookman who brings up the sexual reference. Not the candidate.
You libs really need to get a clue.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:17 pm
mike,
“Bookman throws out some unsubstantiated and flat out absurd accusation and Taxpayer comes roaring in bleating in agreement without thinking for a second.”
The rumors surrounding Crist have been swirling around for ages…as for corroboration check out Bruce Carlton Jordan and Jason Wetherington.
Marsh
November 4th, 2009
3:17 pm
I love watching the Republicans turn on, and devour, each other!
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
3:18 pm
Some folks do such a great job channeling Sgt. Schultz…..
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:18 pm
Marsh –
Nah. The only thing that got to me was to see you acting like such a partisan sheep and swallowing Jay’s fabricated scandal without even slowing down to think for yourself for even a millisecond.
The only thing more laughable than Jay’s silly conspiracy theory are the fools who just swallowed it down like the gullible sheep they are.
Bruno
November 4th, 2009
3:18 pm
“Bosch, as usual you are missing the point. The candidate brought up the photo, but there is ZERO sexual reference in the ad. ZERO. The candidate was linking Crist and Hope & Change together, but not in a sexual way. The sexuality reference was Bookman’s and Bookman’s alone.”
Dave, mike, and @@, I’m with you guys regarding the “secret agenda” component of Jay’s argument today. I don’t think the vast right wing conspiracy has anything to do with this one.
“Obama….with lips “pursed” is looking at Crist’s lips.”
Is it just me, or does Obama seem to project a feminine side? Not that there is anything wrong with that, to borrow a line from Jerry Seinfeld.
“I don’t think it is consistent with conservative principles of individual responsibility to even have a stance on those social and religious matters.”
“The fact that he may or may not be a homosexual is not very relevant. Not to vast majority of non-Republicans and even moderate Republicans like Crist himself.”
As a self-described ultra-conservative, I agree with both Joan and AmVet. It’s not my business to choose a lifestyle for anyone as long as (1) No one is being harmed or forced to do something against their will and (2) No one is asking me to pay for it.
Taxpayer
November 4th, 2009
3:19 pm
How does that Disney song go,
M-I-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mikey Mouse,
Mikey Mouse.
Squeek, Squeek.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:20 pm
jewcowboy –
“The rumors surrounding Crist have been swirling around for ages…as for corroboration check out Bruce Carlton Jordan and Jason Wetherington.”
Yeah, but the rumors never swirled around to me and @@. The rumors seem to be well known among the liberals here though.
Do you agree with Bookman’s conspiracy theory or do you think he is he just scandal mongering?
Taxpayer
November 4th, 2009
3:20 pm
Dumb R,
Do you also go by the handle NIF. You are about as ignorant.
Dave R.
November 4th, 2009
3:20 pm
Mike, AmWet loves living in the past. It’s the only thing he has going for him. He loves to quote 2006 and 2007 data and articles when new information trumps those old findings.
Leave him be to revel in his past. He’s not worth the time.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:20 pm
mike,
“Do you see any sexual innuendo in the publication of this photo? I sure don’t.”
I do not see any sexual innuendo in this photo. However if I was a slimeball politician willing to use anything necessary, even a wink wink whisper (you know what I heard about Crist) then any picture of Crist with another man would suffice.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:24 pm
jewcowboy –
“However if I was a slimeball politician willing to use anything necessary, even a wink wink whisper (you know what I heard about Crist) then any picture of Crist with another man would suffice.”
Right and since Jay think that every person who does not share his political views is a “slimeball”, he feels comfortable making such low accusations about people without bothering to provide evidence. In essence he is guilty of the exact kind of baseless rumor mongering that he is accusing others of committing.
The fact that Jay is willing to make such low accusations without any evidence demonstrates that he is no different than Beck, Limbaugh or any of the other stokers of partisan hatred and destroyers of civil discourse.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:24 pm
mike,
“The rumors seem to be well known among the liberals here though.”
The rumors are well know in Tallahassee and thanks to the Tribece film festival, they are well known through out the country as well.
Taxpayer
November 4th, 2009
3:24 pm
Mikey Mouse and Dumb R just cannot even bring themselves to think along the lines that their party leaders use to swoon the votes from them and their fellow 17 percenters. They’re truly worthy of the title of core Republicans. Like a Rock.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:25 pm
Dave –
“Leave him be to revel in his past. He’s not worth the time.”
Oh I learned that a long time ago. That comment was for my own amusement, not any attempt to pull him from the hammerlock that insanity has him in.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:26 pm
mike,
“The fact that Jay is willing to make such low accusations without any evidence demonstrates that he is no different than Beck, Limbaugh or any of the other stokers of partisan hatred and destroyers of civil discourse.”
Have you watched Outrage yet?
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:27 pm
mike,
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2006-10-26/news/crist-denies-trysts/
Chaz Bono
November 4th, 2009
3:28 pm
I prefer the people of the United States make the decision to “lop” off Maine from the Mainland like a moldy piece of wedding cake at a gay commitment ceremony.
PS…I hope Obamas new love of Crist doesnt upset Michelle to badly.
Dave R.
November 4th, 2009
3:29 pm
Sorry TaxCheat, I post only under one name, and it is my real one. Shame we can’t say the same for you.
I’m also not seeing very many references to “the 17%-ers” this day. Maybe because it is never about party labels but about beliefs when people go to the polls. Maybe because in the real world, it is about conservatives, moderates and liberals, not party affiliations that matter.
You libs got handed your heads yesterday by the moderates and the conservatives, and you should be more worried about that than whether Bookman thinks Crist is gay or not.
Of course, except for AmWet, who hates everything and everybody (except the kook Ralph Nader), you libs are the only ones swooning over Hope & Change. The moderates and conservatives? No so much.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:29 pm
jewcowboy –
“The rumors are well know in Tallahassee and thanks to the Tribece film festival, they are well known through out the country as well.”
That’s great, but it also seems to be common knowledge among the liberals here but was not known by the conservatives here. I guess conservatives and conservative outlets are less concerned about the issue than liberals are.
I guess the “gay campaign” that Jay is imagining would not have been that successful as conservatives never would have gotten the innuendo. But, as the innuendo is only a product of Jay’s fevered imagination, the point is moot.
jewcowboy
November 4th, 2009
3:30 pm
mike,
“Yeah, but the rumors never swirled around to me and @@.”
Someone had to explain who Miley Cyrus was to me the other day…we can’t know everything.
Curious Observer
November 4th, 2009
3:31 pm
Anybody who hasn’t read the rumors that Crist is gay has been living in a political cave. They have been all over the Internet for months, including allegations that his relatively recent marriage is a Hollywood-style cover-up. Jay Bookman requires no defense from me, but I’m surprised that some bloggers here are reacting as though the rumors are something brand-new, put forth by liberals to discredit Crist. In fact, the people apparently most anxious to spread the rumors are the conservatives who are unhappy with Crist’s likely obtaining the nomination for the Florida Senate seat. You see, Crist is one of those (shudder) moderate Republicans.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:31 pm
jewcowboy –
Well, I can see that it might be a more compelling local story. The fact is that it appears that only liberal pundits and liberal outlets have jumped on it after that, as conservatives here seem to be pretty unaware of it and liberals here seem to have known about it for a while.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
3:33 pm
So it seems “our” conservatives don’t know what many other conservatives know……
Is that unusual?
@@
November 4th, 2009
3:34 pm
Forgot about another leftists’ contribution during the presidential campaign.
Rudy Giuliani. Every conservative on this board would have gladly voted for Rudy had he been the Republican nominee. Even before the primaries though, liberals kept posting their pictures of Rudy in drag to discredit him.
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/N/q/1/rudy_giuliani_rockette.jpg
http://www.keshertalk.com/images/blogpix/Giuliani_Drag.jpg
Slimeball liberals. What’s not to luv, eh?
Peggy Noonan
November 4th, 2009
3:35 pm
I suppose this website is not a joke. If I’ve been punked, oh well.
Anyway, this guy’s Baptist church is one of those “liberal” outfits who are obsessed with Crist’s homersexuality. See also this information page, linked from his “hot topics”, wherein we learn that…
Enough information has surfaced to make it highly likely that he may be [gay]. If he is not, he certainly, in my opinion, does not do much to repudiate the accusation once and for all. Certainly, if I were charged with such a claim, I would repudiate it vehemently and provide all manner of evidence to back the truth. Governor Crist has not done this, or anything close to it, to my knowledge.
For example, when I first heard the rumored possibilities that our newly elected Governor may be a homosexual, I had a personal conversation with a high ranking official in the Governor’s Office whom I have known for over 35 years. This person, in defense of the Governor said, “that is none of your business, his personal sex life should be private.” Well, yes…except that he IS THE GOVERNOR and if his sex life is homosexual in nature…it raises all kinds of policy, health and morality issues…because he is now the Governor, it IS MY BUSINESS! And…If he was NOT A HOMOSEXUAL – why not just simply say, “no, he is not, that is simply a vicious rumor.” There simply is not a vehement repudiation of this claim coming from the Governor’s Office…when by all rights, there SHOULD BE, if he indeed is not a homosexual.
Why does this matter now, you might ask? Apparently Charlie Crist has other political ambitions that may indeed, one day land him in or near the White House. Florida and national voters – and especially Christian voters need to know what the possibilities are.
Bruno
November 4th, 2009
3:35 pm
“He’s not worth the time.”
I guess that all depends on your purpose for coming to the blog. I’ve gotten a lot out of my interactions with AmVet, regardless of any differences in political outlook.
mike
November 4th, 2009
3:36 pm
Curious –
“Anybody who hasn’t read the rumors that Crist is gay has been living in a political cave. They have been all over the Internet for months, including allegations that his relatively recent marriage is a Hollywood-style cover-up.”
What national news outlets or non-partisan sites have made such allegations?
“Jay Bookman requires no defense from me, but I’m surprised that some bloggers here are reacting as though the rumors are something brand-new, put forth by liberals to discredit Crist.”
No you are not reading closely. People are reacting to Bookman’s absurd claim that the photo was put forward to highlight these rumors. It is Bookman who is actually pushing rumors to discredit conservatives.
” In fact, the people apparently most anxious to spread the rumors are the conservatives who are unhappy with Crist’s likely obtaining the nomination for the Florida Senate seat.”
Any evidence of this? Sounds like you are making the same baseless allegation that Bookman is. He is unable to back up his silly claim. Can you back up yours?
Frankly, the only people I see making an issue out of Crist’s sexual orientation are liberals.
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2009
3:36 pm
crud. Sorry, my one-liner joke name popped back up. Post @ 3.35 is mine.