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    <title>Republican Gays are Closeted Dems! Oh, That Explains It.</title>
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    <published>2006-10-17T07:59:15-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-09-12T16:36:08-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Laura Esquivel</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Anti-Gay" />
    <category term="Cliff Kincaid" />
    <category term="Mark Foley" />
    <category term="Politics" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200512100001" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200512100001">Cliff   Kincaid</a> of right-wing financed Accuracy in Media is   determined to push his Mark Foley-scandal &ldquo;explanations&rdquo; as far as they will go &ndash; as long as it is   nowhere near the truth.</p>
<p>When the <a href="http://sites.pfaw.org/mtfolder/mt-search.cgi?search=Foley&amp;IncludeBlogs=3&amp;Template=nfr" title="http://sites.pfaw.org/mtfolder/mt-search.cgi?search=Foley&amp;IncludeBlogs=3&amp;Template=nfr">scandal</a> first broke, Kincaid said Republicans had <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/a_secret_networ.html" title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/a_secret_networ.html">only   themselves to blame</a> for being   so darn gullible for allowing gays into the GOP in the first   place:</p>
<p><em><br />
<blockquote>House leaders   permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while   they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional   marriage.</blockquote></em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>But since then, Kincaid has advanced   beyond that sort of rudimentary blame-game in favor of a much more elaborate   conspiracy theory:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/" title="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/">gay Republicans are really   undercover Democratic operatives!</a>!&nbsp; Who knew? <em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>The complex   nature of the &quot;dirty trick&quot; against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal   is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails   that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic   operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought   so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize   that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was   political dynamite that could backfire.</em></p>
<p><em>&hellip;</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>If you are   getting the idea that gay Republicans may be closeted Democrats, then you are   beginning to understand how the Mark Foley scandal could have been a Democratic   Party dirty trick.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>So if the gay Republicans are not   really Republicans, what are they? One veteran observer of this network told AIM   that the Foley scandal should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are   in reality &quot;liberal activists&quot; who want to use the party to advance the same   homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In Kincaid&rsquo;s view, the GOP has been   infiltrated by &ldquo;liberal activists&rdquo; posing as gay Republicans in an intricate and   convoluted plan to advance the Democratic Party&rsquo;s agenda which, thanks to the   Foley scandal, Kincaid alone has now managed to uncover.&nbsp;   &nbsp;</p>
<p>Should the November elections go the way   more pollsters and pundits are predicting &ndash; resulting in previously unexpected   losses for Republicans &ndash; no doubt Kincaid and his <em>compadres</em> will find it easier to continue   blaming gays instead of dealing with the truth about the Grand Old Party.   &nbsp;</p>
<p>They are losing voters the honest way. Voters are tired of 1) being manipulated with talk of   &ldquo;values&rdquo; 2) Bush&rsquo;s popularity is way down 3) public and even congressional   support for the war in Iraq continues to slip and 4) influence buying scandals   in Washington are all a lot more powerful than the &ldquo;secret gay network&rdquo; that   exists only in the fertile imagination of a right-wing in denial.</p>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200512100001" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200512100001">Cliff   Kincaid</a> of right-wing financed Accuracy in Media is   determined to push his Mark Foley-scandal &ldquo;explanations&rdquo; as far as they will go &ndash; as long as it is   nowhere near the truth.</p>
<p>When the <a href="http://sites.pfaw.org/mtfolder/mt-search.cgi?search=Foley&amp;IncludeBlogs=3&amp;Template=nfr" title="http://sites.pfaw.org/mtfolder/mt-search.cgi?search=Foley&amp;IncludeBlogs=3&amp;Template=nfr">scandal</a> first broke, Kincaid said Republicans had <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/a_secret_networ.html" title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/a_secret_networ.html">only   themselves to blame</a> for being   so darn gullible for allowing gays into the GOP in the first   place:</p>
<p><em><br />
<blockquote>House leaders   permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while   they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional   marriage.</blockquote></em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>But since then, Kincaid has advanced   beyond that sort of rudimentary blame-game in favor of a much more elaborate   conspiracy theory:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/" title="http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/">gay Republicans are really   undercover Democratic operatives!</a>!&nbsp; Who knew? <em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>The complex   nature of the &quot;dirty trick&quot; against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal   is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails   that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic   operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought   so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize   that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was   political dynamite that could backfire.</em></p>
<p><em>&hellip;</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>If you are   getting the idea that gay Republicans may be closeted Democrats, then you are   beginning to understand how the Mark Foley scandal could have been a Democratic   Party dirty trick.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>So if the gay Republicans are not   really Republicans, what are they? One veteran observer of this network told AIM   that the Foley scandal should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are   in reality &quot;liberal activists&quot; who want to use the party to advance the same   homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In Kincaid&rsquo;s view, the GOP has been   infiltrated by &ldquo;liberal activists&rdquo; posing as gay Republicans in an intricate and   convoluted plan to advance the Democratic Party&rsquo;s agenda which, thanks to the   Foley scandal, Kincaid alone has now managed to uncover.&nbsp;   &nbsp;</p>
<p>Should the November elections go the way   more pollsters and pundits are predicting &ndash; resulting in previously unexpected   losses for Republicans &ndash; no doubt Kincaid and his <em>compadres</em> will find it easier to continue   blaming gays instead of dealing with the truth about the Grand Old Party.   &nbsp;</p>
<p>They are losing voters the honest way. Voters are tired of 1) being manipulated with talk of   &ldquo;values&rdquo; 2) Bush&rsquo;s popularity is way down 3) public and even congressional   support for the war in Iraq continues to slip and 4) influence buying scandals   in Washington are all a lot more powerful than the &ldquo;secret gay network&rdquo; that   exists only in the fertile imagination of a right-wing in denial.</p>
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