Candidates Backstab With the ‘Gay’ Blade

July 2, 2010 by James Hipps

It’s rather pathetic when you think about it, and hopefully neither candidate will win the election, but the conservative candidates running for the Republican shot to be Florida’s next Governor are using the gay community in an attempt to thwart each other’s campaign.

According to a post on CNN:

On Thursday, McCollum’s campaign reacted to a memo released by the Scott campaign the day before.
The memo listed what it claimed were “Top 7 “Reasons Conservatives and Republicans aren’t supporting Bill McCollum.” Among them, the memo stated: “McCollum endorsed pro-abortion and pro-homosexual rights candidate Rudy Giuliani for president in 2008 and was a Giuliani campaign leader in Florida.”

But, as usual in politics, it’s tit for tat as McCollum fired back with this:

McCollum’s campaign is pointing out that Scott is an investor in a social networking site that, among other things, features the profiles of gay men.
QuePasa.com bills itself as “one of the world’s largest trilingual Latino Social Networks online” serving users in the U.S., Mexico and Latin America. It features content on entertainment, sports and music.
But as McCollum’s campaign ties Scott to the site, it points out that gays also use the site for dating.

What I would like to know is why is the Republican party refusing to let go of the anti-gay sentiment. Are their ties to the religious right so strong they couldn’t possibly think of simply saying “so what”?

And why are they throwing ‘gay’ stones at each other? This is why come hell or high water, I will support a Democratic candidate even if they say or do nothing about or for LGBT equality. I would rather have nothing than the negativity. If Scott was smart, and really wanted to use they gay card against McCollum, he should be pointing to the fact that McCollum paid George “rent-boy” Rekers hundreds of thousands of state funds to testify against gay adoption and if McCollum had half a brain, he’d be playing up the fact that a health care corporation founded by Scott was found guilty of the biggest Medicare fraud case in history…which sources say, Scott, the self made billionaire was completely aware of.

Since when was being gay worse than fraud or wasting tax-payer dollars? Isn’t it the fringe right who is screaming about taxation, yet they’re willing to put that issue down when it comes to providing equality for LGBT tax-payers? Things that make you go hmmmmm.