So, this was a totally unexpected and heated discussion here at Buzzquarters today.  

It was precipitated by something that happened last night, when we went out to Sidetracks to hang out.  Our friend Sebastian got hit on by a pretty cool Australian guy named Simon — handsome, smart, very successful, with a great job not only in the financial industry, but with close ties to the Australian Consulate.  Normally, this is completely the type of guy up Sebastian’s alley: they could talk about Australia, the economy, travel, etc.  They could have adventures all around town, because Australians, in general, have proved to be some of our favorite people…so fun, no pretenses, and by and large they tell it like they see it.  Truth be told, Sebastian’s not the biggest fan of accents, but the Australian one is much easier to understand than the British or Irish ones, so Simon was hitting everything out of the park until he started talking about how much he hated Sarah Palin.  

This is where we imagine one of those black and white clips reels they used to play in Muppet Babies cartoons, where trains would derail and airplanes crash and people would run at high speeds, to Benny Hill music, from burning buildings or other disasters.  

Oh, we knew looking at Sebastian’s face that was it for Simon, in terms of wanting to date him.  If you talk smack about Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, there’s not relationship potential between you and any of us here, sorry.  We can still be friends — but friends who understand that whenever you talk smack, you will get smacked down. There will never be a moment in time when we do not stand up for these two women.  A group of Hell’s Angels could be doing the smack talking, and we’d stand up to them.  More likely than not, we’d get the tar beat out of us for it, but so be it.  We will not stand for sexism and misogyny from anyone.  Not ever.  Not on our watch. 

Simon didn’t toss out the usual gay male grenades at Palin:  calling her a C***, a B****, a W****, or a G****** (just threw that last one in to see if you are good at guessing what letters asterisks stand for). Typically, this is what gay men do to a women they don’t like, even if they have no idea why they don’t like her.  ”Oh, she’s such a C****.  I just hate her.  That f***ing G******.”  ”Oh, Brenden, you tell ‘em!”.  ”Oh, Paris, don’t worry, I totally will.”  ”That is SO GaGa.” “I know, right?”. 

These low-information fops can go on for hours in this vein.  Welcome to Boystown!

So, the lot of us here had a talk tonight and realized that living in Boystown, and being a gay man in a liberal stronghold, means two things are incompatible:

(1) Our support for Sarah Palin and love of the Palin family at large

(2) Our dating of other gay men in a liberal bastian

Is Sarah Palin worth not dating?  If supporting her means not going out with anyone for the next two years, are we willing to do that?

Honest to goodness, none of us had to pause for even a split second to think about that.  

Yes, of course she’s worth it.  

Liberals have so alienated us from the Democrats, have so pushed us away from the party we used to call home, have so disgusted us with their sexist and misogynist behavior, and have attacked us so often over the last two years for not bowing down to Dr. Utopia that we honestly don’t care what these lunatics do next.  Bring it. BRING IT ON. 

We need to just start wearing the Palin 2o12 moose logo shirts now.  What are we waiting for.  We’ll mix it up a little and get some Clinton 2012 gear too….just in case.  Green shirts for Palin…pink ones for Hillary. Because getting away from the usual red and blue for political colors gets more attention.  Trust us.  After campaigning in something like 27 states, combined, we learned that lesson.  

Wearing the Palin 2012 gear would actually make things easier for us, too, in a weird way.  It would keep people who are Utopians from ever talking to us in the first place.  If they hate Palin so much and worship at Dr. Utopia’s altar with such zeal, then it’s probably best if they don’t even introduce themselves to us.  This way, we never have to like someone for 20 minutes, only to have to walk away from him when we find out he’s a Palin hater. 

We do hope the Palins at some point realize having a group of gay Chicago dudes on their campaign is a pretty good idea…because we’re willing to put everything on the line for her 2012 race…and this time, we’d like actual jobs doing that. 

If you like what we do in our spare time to promote her, just imagine what we could do if we had actual resources and this is what we did all day, nonstop.  

Could get interesting…and you know we’d work our hearts out.

Dates be damned!