As the world now knows, former RNC chair and Republican campaign mastermind Ken Mehlman is gay.
That would be the same Ken Mehlman who helped craft the successful anti-gay fear-mongering Presidential campaign of 2004, for which he has now apologized.
We cats have never been impressed with Mehlman's attempts to wipe his very dirty slate clean, and we're even less impressed with Republicans who try to hold Mehlman up as proof that the party has evolved from its well-established, platform-embedded homophobia.
But just when you think that the GOP's whitewash is going to be successful, something like Alabama happens. The state's in an uproar, thanks to "Mr. Ten Commandments" and his anti-gay-marriage defiance of Alabama's US District Court (not to mention SCOTUS) — and now, itty-bitty US Senator Jeff Sessions is weighing in. And as you'd expect, not on the side of equality.
"While a number of courts have held the way [the] Alabama court has," tiny little Jeff Sessions said, "others have not, and to me this line of cases…represents an activist judiciary." (Oh, that term "activist." Right wingers trot it out whenever a court does something they don't like.)
So our questions are these: When he was RNC campaign pooh-bah-in-chief, did Ken Mehlman ever bundle contributions for Mr. Sessions? Did he ever contribute money himself to Mr. Sessions? Did he ever meet with Mr. Sessions or with his political team when the GOP's gay-bashing amendment was on the Alabama ballot? In short, what does Ken "Mr. Republican" Mehlman have to say about all this?
The handful of Republicans who have flip-flopped on marriage equality — like Mehlman, Rob Portman and Susan Collins — and who are being used by current RNC chair Rancid Pieface and other GOP political hacks to show that Republicans don't hate, need to be asked to comment on Jeff Sessions and every one of the party's George Wallace wannabes. Until they are, we cats HISS.
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