$5 mill for a secondary-scale operation, legal risk free, that might generate another million Republican voters if Karger does his Judas-goat job well and devotedly? Seems like a very good deal for the GOP. That million voters -- half that-- might win two or three close states, and put a Republican candidate over the top in a close election with low Democratic voter turnout, depressed by a constant drumbeat of Republican negative campaigning and outright spreading of lies.
What brilliant strategy! These freakin Democrats had better wake up!
I have been exhaustively through Fred Karger's website. There are no position papers. There is nothing but his advocacy of gay marriage that would indicate anything progressive about Fred Karger.
And besides that, he and the Log Cabin Republicans are allies. They are fighting Mitt Romney over his flipflops on gay rights.
Any friend of the Log Cabin Republicans, no matter how Arab-style enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend, is not to be trusted. And Karger's relationship to them dates from the 1990s.
Just the fact that Fred Karger, a Republican without a snowflake's chance in hell to win the nomination of his party, rather than a gay Democratic congressman, say, with at least a party behind him that backs gay rights (however lukewarmly), is the one making this run that one article compares to that of U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm demonstrates another point I have been making from the time of the first DADT Repeal White-House-fence Chain-up, when it became really clear to me what the game was: that the Republican Party, with brilliant strategy and tactics, has hijacked the GTBL civil rights movement, and for reasons that I still haven't gotten to the bottom of, gay and gay-ally Democrats, liberals and progressives, have allowed them to do so without any audible protest.
One of "Trent's" disingenuous Democrat-bashing memes is that a progressive Democrat should challenge President Obama from the left for the 2012 nomination. The best thing that could happen for gays would be for an actual progressive gay candidate to challenge Fred Karger, and challenge him pointedly in the places where Karger is picking up "low hanging fruit"-- naive young undergrads-- for the Republican Party.
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