Ken Mehlman, former wunderkind power lawyer, campaign manager for Bush-Cheney 2004, and GOP chairman from 2005-2007, has come out as gay.
In 2006 when Bill Maher referred to him as a closeted gay man in a Larry King interview he made calls so fast that the video was edited to delete that comment before it aired for the late showing. He also told the New York Daily News, the New York Times and the Washington Post all “I’m not gay" after this, no “might sorta kinda be” or “my personal life is nobody’s business” or “no comment”, but flat out “I’m not gay”. He also said “those stories did a number on my dating life for six months"; no idea what happened at the end of those six months but presumably it was a case of three denials before the cock grew.
But now he tells Atlantic Weekly he isn’t as not gay as he may have previously implied or outright stated on numerous occasions.
He says he only arrived at this conclusion “relatively recently”. He’s 44, so I’m not sure if relatively recently means he figured it out in 1992, March of 2008 or last Wednesday, though I’m interested how any man capable of an erection can fail to notice which gender makes their dick hard when looked at, felt up or fantasized about, but then maybe he hadn’t discovered his right hand until relatively recently either.
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That’s beautiful, man, beautiful. You know what would be a good way to do that? Start by towing the party line like a Hitler Youth captain wanting a Christmas bonus until you get a chance to run the re-election campaign of an administration that wants to govern based on the “greatest hits” selections of a bunch of desert nomads claiming to hear a sky god 2500 years ago (not all the things they say, just the ones that don’t really affect the majority of the party anyway and claim the rest are meaningless). What’ really cool about this is that you’re not just working for a guy who wants to make the first ever homophobic Constitutional amendment, you get to destroy the middle class AND send thousands of Americans in the prime of their lives to die in a pointless war based on lies while you do it and yet lead your meetings with prayer meetings!
Then what you do is you can lick ass in a straight Christian non-sexual way until you’ve become one of the most powerful voices in the party and have a chance to REALLY make a difference simply by saying “I’m queer, I’m here, I’m Republican, try the veal” at a rally. Or… or… if you don’t want to be that bold, how about waiting out your tenure and the whole Bush regime and then after Bush is out of power and the Republicans are winged a bit and you are essentially a dead-in-the-water former GOP spokesman, THEN come out when nobody gives a fuck and you can’t do jack shit to change anything in your party! It’s always easier to open the gates of a fortress from the outside with a pointed stick you call a battering ram than it is to open them from the inside when you’re holding the keys.
In fairness he admits that he “probably” could have done more when he was GOP spokesman, which is “probably” true. And he says he can understand if some people are irked with him but he’s going to work hard to help undo the anti gay rights agenda (that he worked very hard to put the people who were most powerful in implementing into place). The CNN article also says that many gay activists are happy for this- it does after all give them a chance to say “I’m happy about this” and their name in the news.
I’m not an activist. I’m just a guy Mehlman’s age who grew up in and has lived his entire life in places one hell of a lot less conducive to being openly gay than metro Washington D.C. where Mehlman has lived most of his life but who nevertheless thought to himself many years ago “You know, fuck people who can’t deal with it, I’m not chicken shit enough to hide in a closet or deny what I am for the benefit of others”, but who am I to judge? Well, actually that kind of is my qualification to judge I suppose, but then other than having the chance to actually make himself heard loud and clear in the Republican party and instead blowing it like it was the $20 hustler behind the truckstop in his college town what has Ken of Narnia done that’s worthy of contempt? Well, I can think of many actually, like sending the message that “being openly gay is so repulsive and so scary even rich guys with lucrative careers can’t risk doing it” bullshit, and…
But anyway, the point is, let me join with the alleged happy gay activists in welcoming Brother Mehlman to the fold and even giving him some free New Queer Handbook advice:
It is said we can never truly learn to love another person until we start by loving ourself.
You say you have very little sexual experience with other men, so if you want to learn to be a good lover in your new openly gay life, start by fucking yourself. Hard.
[SIZE=1]Bitch*.