MISS McCONNELL'S KENTUCKY GOP GOES ON A VICIOUS SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEMOCRATS, ACCUSING THEM-- FALSELY-- OF BEING LIKE McCONNELL

For many years-- over a decade-- "everyone" knew Republican congressman Mark Foley was gay. "Everyone?" Well "everyone" who read DWT knew because we often complained when he voted for the viciously homophobic Republican agenda. We call that hypocritical and... well, insane. Many other websites all talked about Foley's hypocrisy. Then there are the gay communities in South Florida and Washington, DC. Long before he was trying to drunk and trying to break into the boys dorm of the congressional page program after midnight, he had gradually stopped being circumspect about being gay, even around his fellow homophobic colleagues. He had gotten away with so much he was, for all intents and purposes "out" to official Washington. Both Republicans and Democrats knew he was gay and many-- far too many-- knew he was molesting underage pages. "Everyone," on the other hand did not include the sugar cane farmers and churchgoers in the mostly rural district west of West Palm Beach Florida and goes right across the middle of the state from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. No one bothered to tell the voters that their congressman, who voted a straight party line-- voting against the most crucial interests of ordinary gay men and women-- was an anguished, alcoholic, self-medicating and mentally disturbed closet queen, having sex with young men while being torn apart mentally and emotionally by his severe psychological conflicts. "Everyone" never includes the voters back in the district.

And "everyone" knows that the far more closeted and discreet Miss McConnell is another Republican who has been gay for decades, hiding in the closet, pretending to be married to another Bush Regime automaton, while pushing through an agenda that is destructive to the well-being of gay men and women who are not afforded all the opportunities that millions and millions of dollars in legalized bribes give Kentucky's highest ranking-- albeit hidden-- closet case.


All that said, it strikes many as rather odd that Miss McConnell's Kentucky Republican Party should launch a smear campaign against Democratic politicians, implying--falsely-- that they are gay (as though there is inherently something wrong with being gay. The KY GOP isn't accusing the Democrats of being hypocritical the way McConnell is-- sneaking around and getting some nookie on the sly while maintaining a career by proselytizing for a gratuitously homophobic agenda, bringing misery and destruction to the lives of countless gay and lesbian Americans. They're just accusing them of being "limp-wristed," or a "switch-hitter" and "not a man."

Jack Conway, one of the victims of the GOP smear campaign, is a respected Louisville attorney and former candidate for Attorney General reacted angrily. "'They start a false rumor and they peddle it,' he said in an interview, referring to Robertson and Gov. Ernie Fletcher. 'When they can't lead, they lie. They are hate-mongers and fear-mongers that owe my wife an apology.' The other Democrat the State Republican Party is accusing of being gay is Dan Mongiardo, currently a candidate for Lt. Governor.

It's not the first time Republicans have made such a suggestion about Mongiardo.

They were accused of gay-baiting in his 2004 campaign against Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning. State legislators campaigning for Bunning said that Mongiardo, a state senator from Hazard, was "limp-wristed," a "switch-hitter" and "not a man."

...Jimmy LaSalvia, president of the Kentucky chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that supports gay rights, said Robertson's letter was an "embarrassment" to him. He called the reference to Mongiardo and Conway "despicable."

"I'm just disappointed, and it really makes me sad that he is the head of our party. We need strong leadership and smart leadership," LaSalvia said.

Miss McConnell, of course, was barricaded in his closet and refusing to comment.