Posts Tagged ‘Aaron Schock
QUESTION: What else is he hiding? Obama White House bans photographers from taking picture of him shirtless…and meek and timid press obey!
Has he gotten worse than this? Is that why he won't allow his picture to be taken? This shot is from 2008. Recently, it looks like Obama has had extreme weight loss. And not from working out. Is he hiding something health-related, perhaps a chronic condition the White House doesn't want talked about?
Straight guys almost never care if anyone takes pictures of them shirtless. They are heterosexual. They are secure in their bodies. They just don't care. See Ted Kennedy above. But, hopefully not just after you've eaten.
In a shocking display of timidity towards the White House, the national media has bowed to a White House dictate that they no longer photograph Obama shirtless.
The New York Times actually admits it’s complying with a White House fiat that Obama not be photographed without his shirt on, unless the water is covering his neck.
Can you imagine if George W. Bush had issued such an order?
The Hubble Space Telescope would have been enlisted by the enterprising media to snag paparazzi-grade prohibited shots of him, shirtless, eight days a week.
This started last year in Florida, when Obama went into the Gulf water and told reporters, point blank, “I’m not going to let you guys take a picture of me with my shirt off”. Secret Service then restrained the press, parking them at a distance even their telephoto lenses couldn’t reach Obama’s naked skin.
Can you imagine if George W. Bush had used any combination of words that sounded even vaguely similar to “I’m not going to let you guys [fill in this blank]”?
Here in Boystown, if a guy won’t take off his shirt for whatever reason, or demands people don’t take pictures of him with said shirt off (like at Pride, or during the Market Days street festival), it’s because Mary is ashamed of himself, his body, and has not been hitting the gym like he should be…if he wants to keep up with all the worked-out, buff, Brendens in our looks-obsessed little microcosm.
It’s incredibly rare to encounter a real-life, heterosexual man over the age of 30 who gives a damn whether someone takes a picture of him shirtless or not. Straight guys usually are secure enough in themselves to just let it all hang out. Ever see pictures of Ted Kennedy at the beach?
They’re marvelous for hanging on your fridge and inhibiting your appetite…and good examples of a man secure with himself, his sexuality, and his blubber, while on vacation.
There’s an endless list of things that are strange about our current president…but his obsession with control over his image and all information about him, particularly about his past, is the absolute most bizarre…considering how it’s nothing like any president before him, or any straight man I’ve ever known of.
Hmmmm…wonder what the reason for THAT could be.
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PS: Like I would leave you with only those gross images above in a post that’s so totally an invitation for shirtless political photos…like these:
JFK Jr. -- who in some alternate dimension had lived, and would be Vice President or President today, most likely.
Senator Scott Brown, in his Cosmo days
Congressman Aaron Schock, randomly shirtless with a bunch of other half-naked guys. All of whom are totally "straight". Just like Obama!
Lindsey Graham about to be outed…whom did he cross on the Left to end his usefulness to them?
If you include a shoutout to Bette Davis in your official Senate picture, you aren't fooling anyone.
Apparently, Lindsey Graham is about to be outed…because he did not give the Left votes they wanted in this lame duck session.
That seems stupid, frankly, because Graham squeals “How high?” whenever the Left tells him to do anything.
Whenever I write about closeted gay Republicans, I know a lot of you write in thread comments that “people shouldn’t care about their sexual identity”. This is, on the surface, true. If we lived in a world of “should”, then this would be the case…where in addition to this these closeted gay Republicans “should” stick to conservative principles, vote the way their constituents want them to, and never allow the Left to blackmail them. But, that’s not the magical world we live in.
Instead, we have men like Lindsey Graham, who are closeted gays, who have been blackmailed by the Left for years…so that whenever the Left needs a turncoat Republican to stick the GOP and conservatives in the back, and the Maine Sisters and Lisa Murkowski are busy somewhere, Graham can be counted on to do whatever the Left wants…lest the Left release the pictures it has of him, doing whatever it is he’s doing, which I’m sure isn’t flower-arranging.
The Left might be cutting Graham loose now that Mark Kirk is heading to the Senate from Illinois, and he’s another gay Republican the Left has all the goods on and will out in spectacular fashion the next time they need to give the GOP a black eye about something. Apparently, there’s a video — not just pictures — of Kirk at some party, which was an all-boy affair. In the last days of the Senate race here in Illinois this year, there was buzz in GOP circles that somehow David Axelrod had got ahold of “the video”. That was the first many of us had ever heard of a “video”…but the fact that Kirk’s campaign was worried about it getting out must mean a video of him and guys up to various hijinks could possibly exist. Maybe Democrats have it. Maybe they will start blackmailing Kirk as Graham’s replacement. Maybe there’s no video but Kirk’s just led a very interesting, closeted life and he realizes he set himself for all sorts of guessing games in the years ahead, as to whether or not videos exist.
Republicans prove they are the Party of Stupid in many ways, but how they handle their closeted gay Senators and Congressmen is the most foolish.
They should, honestly, have all these guys just come out of the closet one day…all together…in a big prime time special or something. Just get it all over with. Do it on a day that no one is really paying attention to politics, like on Super Bowl Sunday or something. And then the Democrats won’t be able to blackmail anyone.
What’s hilarious is that in Illinois Aaron Schock, another closeted gay Republican, is being groomed to be the GOP’s 2014 Senate nominee against Dick Durbin…which would mean, if Schock wins, that Illinois would have two closeted gay Republicans representing it. If Schock would just come out, he’d probably win that 2014 race by a wider margin…because he’s great looking, a nice and smart man, and it would be mighty hard to make an argument against his election in many circles here in Chicago. If the GOP can pull just an extra point or two in Chicago and do well in its suburbs, it wins in Illinois. Schock could do that as a young, gay, conservative…and could do wonders to changing the perception of both conservatives AND gays in Democrat and Republican ranks, respectively.
But, GOP consultants must be telling him to stay in the closet or risk losing conservative support…just as Kirk, Graham, Charlie Crist, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and all sorts of other gay Republicans have been told through the years that they had to allow Democrats to blackmail them and go along with this stupid game if they wanted to keep their positions.
GOP consultants are stupid.
Democrats lose so much power and leverage if all of these guys would just come out, come out, wherever they are.
Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman comes out — he needs to bring Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk with him
Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk are two Republican men in elected office who are gay.
Very much gay, though not quite fabulous.
They’re a sort of Kevin Spacey level of gay, with Schock getting a light sprinkling of Neil Patrick Harris cuteness.
We’ve personally seen Aaron Schock hanging out in a gay bar here in Boystown called MiniBar, over the extended Pride weekend last year, being very cozy and chummy with several hotties the Chicago Young Republicans set him up with around the time of their big membership event that year. It was most definitely Schock, as he was still wearing the white polo and khakis he wore to an event a few hours before, thinking no one in Boystown would know who he was.
We know of several young Republicans here in Chicago who fooled around with Schock, during other visits he made to the city. It’s as easy to find these guys as it is to find young professionals working in the Loop who got their first jobs after messing around with Rahm Emanuel for a while. We wouldn’t even call this sort of thing an open secret, because there’s nothing “secret” about it. Closeted gay Democrats do it. Gay Republicans do it. Gay movie stars, actors, writers, producers, and, yes, presidents, do it.
Everyone in the GOP here in Illinois knows about Schock, just as they know about Mark Kirk being gay as well. Though, in Kirk’s case, anyone possessing a functioning pair of eyes can tell he is gay, just by looking at him. He has the most clear and extreme case of gay face we’ve seen since Liberace.
Kirk’s ex-wife was recently interviewed by Gay Chicago Magazine for something and went on record saying that Kirk told her, point blank, that he’s lying about his stance on DADT during his campaign because he wants to win election, and that his plan is to support the repeal of DADT after he’s in office. “I’m tricking them,” he apparently giggled, “cause I’m such a good trickster. I fool everybody!”.
The wife, when pressed about whether Kirk was gay or not himself, took a very Byzantine, and lawyerly, path around answering that question directly. She said something to the fact of, “Well, look at him, look at his face, the way he talks and acts, the fact he wasn’t married until his late 40s, that he has no children, so those are the kinds of things that people associate with a gay man”. Then she just stared blankly at the reporter and waited for the interview to be finished. She may have pretended to fall asleep, or die, so no one would ask her any more questions.
It was hilarious reading, because if Kirk was straight, his ex-wife would have answered the question by saying: “My ex-husband, Mark Kirk, is straight. He is not a gay man. He is a heterosexual”.
She could have then inserted affirmations of his He-Man, Woman-Loving, Cowboy-Meets-Caveman-By-Way-Of-NBA-Star Sexual Prowess, if she so chose, as the case may have been.
Instead, the gentle, lulling sound of crickets was evidently more appropriate.
Ex-Mrs. Kirk didn’t want to lie, so she didn’t say Kirk is straight (when he is not), and instead did what all of us do whenever anyone asks if we think they are fat:
“Well, I think you’re full of life, and your personality fills a room, and you have such pretty eyes, and the reason people might say you are fat is because your clothes are too tight and maybe you would be considered obese if you took one of those tests on the computer, with your weight and your height, so those are the kinds of things that people associate with someone they would call fat”.
If you weren’t fat, and you asked us directly, we’d say you weren’t fat, DIRECTLY. If you were fat, and we didn’t want to tell you that, we’d tapdance around the fat question and say a bunch of noncommittal nonsense you could take as you liked it.
Republicans just don’t understand how dangerous it is for them to keep putting closeted gay men into elected offices, when anyone who is paying the least bit of attention knows they are gay.
Schock and Kirk are known to be gay by both Democrats and Republicans. Democrats love gay Republicans because they can so easily be blackmailed. If you notice, the State Media never touches Kirk, so long as Kirk toes the line and does what the Left wants. During this campaign, however, Kirk started speaking out against DADT repeal and so a gay filmmaker came forward with his tales of Kirk going to gay cocktail parties in Washington, pinching young waiters on the butt, and generally ogling attractive males in the room like Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion chasing his bunnies. We’ve seen Kirk behave like this here in Chicago, at the cocktail parties the Romney Republican, cucumbers-and-mayonnaise crowd love so damn much. Literally, like in a bad movie, if a hot waiter or bartender walks by in his tuxedo shirt and tight black pants, Kirk’s tongue rolls out of his mouth, his eyes bug out, he loses his train of thought, and he watches the young man walk across the room. “Hate to see you go, but sure love to watch you walk away” is what he seems to be thinking.
It is as clear as day for anyone who wants to see this.
The problem here in Illinois is that the GOP establishment is very “it’s his turn”. The reason Mark Kirk is the GOP nominee for Senate is because:
(1) The GOP seems to believe that his being gay is not a big deal, because Democrats won’t out him unless he goes against a gay issue, so they’ll just have Kirk vote “present” on anything gay to not draw their ire. Kirk, they feel, can be controlled because he wants to keep pretending he is straight, so maybe the RNC blackmails guys like this as much as the DNC does. But, the man smells like lavender hand soap. He has the handshake of a dead fish. We’d be surprised if his ringtone WASN’T something from the Justin Beiber oeuvre. Republicans just don’t seem to understand that this is all a potential problem waiting to explode, because Kirk’s not just quietly gay, in a way that’s never going to lead to scandal. Mark Kirk is Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and Eric Massa gay. If you see him in action, the way he looks at guys, you see a yearning that’s inside of him, a volcanic need for his true self to burst out…and if indeed he does make it to the Senate, and gets to feel all that power, we can very easily see him doing something incredibly stupid at an all-male pool party, in a restroom, or at a bathhouse in DC or Chicago. Something Democrats will immediately know about, record, document, and save for their blackmail file…to be used in the leadup to 2012 just as the Foley and Craig scandals were used to help Democrats in 2006. For whatever reason, the GOP does not prevent these sorts of himbo eruptions from happening…even though they are telegraphed YEARS ahead.
(2) The GOP in Illinois, and possibly nationally, is riddled with gay staffers who are very high up. Here in Chicago, if you are gay and want to get into politics, you join the GOP, not the Democrats, because there are many more opportunities for advancement in the Republican ranks than the Democrat ones. Take the Log Cabin Republican organization here in Chicago (please). It’s chronically known as a disorganized, rudderless, collection of putzes. A smart gay man, with actual skills and talent, can join something like this, prove his competence, and within a year or two become president of the organization…because there is no one of any talent there to compete with or oppose him. Established in this regard, the guy can then climb the ranks in the GOP organization itself, gaining paid positions. Alternatively, if he wants to stay open-secret-in-the-glass-closet, he can rise through the GOP ranks by being a plaything of men like Kirk or Schock, or more revolting types, earning chits and favors and winning promotions he doesn’t really deserve based on his actual resume (but are dependent heavily on his prowess in other areas of his life…as performed in the dark, with as little clothing as possible). Because so many of these gay staffers comprise the GOP, and they are successfully pulling off their closet balancing acts, they don’t see a problem with guys like Schock and Kirk doing this too, though they are more public, and are actually lying to voters with their charades. More so than this, since these gay staffers were probably helped in their advancement by Kirk and Schock, they are then Kirk and Schock loyalists, and will do whatever they can to help those who got them to where they are.
It’s a pretty vicious cycle, this business, because you have Democrats actively helping men like Schock and Kirk advance in the Republican ranks because Democrats know they have a kill-switch built into them that Democrats can pull whenever they need to take them out or damage Republicans generally. At the same time, closeted gay Republicans at high levels in the GOP make sure Schock and Kirk keep advancing, and are pushed for things like this 2010 Senate run in Kirk’s case, because these staffers owe these men a lot for their promotions and internal connections.
A third thing that’s happening here is the GOP at large being afraid of muscling Schock or Kirk out because they don’t want to be seen as anti-gay, and are afraid of being called bigoted by the Left. So, gays, and blacks too, come to think of it, know that if they are in the GOP, no one will touch them because they do not want to set-off a culture war scandal involving sexuality or race. Republicans have been trained by the Left to run in terror from the words “bigot” and “racist”, so it’s no surprise they can’t seem to think clearly when it comes to the “it’s his turn” pushing of closeted gay men like Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk.
A few weeks ago, we actually had a brief meeting with Alexi Giannoulias, after being introduced to him by someone here in Boystown who had asked us to come out for an event. That was the first time we’d actually met Giannoulias, though we’re pretty sure he knew who we were, and knew we weren’t a fan of his. “So you think I’m a putz, huh? Well, I am a putz. Can’t help it. I’m funny-looking, too, and I can’t help who my family are”. He was actually a very nice guy, which surprised us.
We told him there was just no way we could ever support a man who was so connected to the mob and to so much corruption and garbage. He didn’t try to deny any of that, and he didn’t try to make any excuses for himself. All he really said was, “At least I am honest about who I am, and when I say I’m going to vote one way on something, I promise that I will actually do that. I’m a lot of things, but not a liar”.
He’s totally a putz. His family is mobbed up. He’d be an absolute embarrassment as a United States Senator.
But, to be honest, we didn’t DISLIKE the guy after meeting him. He’s greasy, sweaty, and gross, and we swear we can smell corruption OOZING out of the man (which is much like meeting Mayor Daley, actually), but we have to tell you that when you stand in front of him, you realize he is indeed who you think he is, who he projects himself to be. He’s got more dirty laundry than he could ever deal with, but it’s all out in the open. He is not hiding anything. Not even the fact that he’s a putz.
We hear from Republicans all the time that we should stop talking about Mark Kirk being gay because “no one wants Senator Giannoulias”. We’re told all the time that we need to just let Mark Kirk win, and that we need to stop talking about how crooked Mark Kirk’s people are in Illinois, and how Lee Roupas and the rest of Mark Kirk’s team in Cook County are involved in all sorts of nastiness. “It’s his turn” and “he can win this” if we all just shut up and look the other way and pretend Mark Kirk is something he is not, just so Democrats lose this seat in Illinois.
Personally, sometimes we think that if Giannoulias wins, he’ll be indicted for something in a year or two, or otherwise be forced to resign, so Governor Bill Brady will be able to appoint whomever he wants to the Senate (we’d hope for Cedra Crenshaw). Republicans would lose this one seat breifly, but we don’t see how a putz like Giannoulias, with so much dirt in his laundry, could last a full term in the Senate, or be re-elected in the future.
Sending Mark Kirk to Washington is sending a Larry Craig-grade scandal waiting to happen into the GOP’s future. Republicans in Illinois can pretend that’s not true all they want, and they can continue to attack us for speaking the truth about this, but we’ve seen how this man checks out guys’ butts, and it’s like something out of Tex Avery cartoon. That is not going to end well.
And there is going to be a massive buyers’ remorse amongst Republicans when Kirk becomes a Senator and starts voting the way Democrats tell him to vote — like FOR DADT repeal when he promises right now to vote against it — because Kirk would not Democrats to expose him for who he really is and end his time in the Senate.
ACTUALLY, come to think of it, this is a likely scenario a year or two from now as well, with Governor Bill Brady having to appoint Mark Kirk’s successor…after the Left decimates Kirk for going against them on something. We can see this happening easily in the leadup to 2012, with Kirk having to step down because the Democrats aimed the expose-o-ray at him and he was forced to jump squealing out of his closet.
So, really, our gut is that no matter if the putz or the closet-case wins, whichever of these fools Illinois is stuck with in the end will be only a temporary Senator until either an indictment or a sex scandal removes them, respectively.
We saw all of this coming a long time ago, as longtime readers will attest. Because we tried to warn Republicans about what was coming down the pipe, Mark Kirk’s people had Fran Eaton at Illinois Review publish one of our real names as punishment for talking about Kirk being gay (and actually claiming that we “started rumors” about Kirk being gay, when we heard Kirk was gay before we ever knew who he was…and those parties he was ogling boys at in Washington happened years before we ever stepped into politics, with this site, or our own private lives).
Instead of dealing with problems like Kirk (or the problem that Aaron Schock will become once Republicans run him as an “it’s his turn” candidate in 2014 against Dick Durbin), the GOP just attacks the truthtellers and anyone who dares to expose the establishment’s nonsense and self-inflicted upcoming disasters.
It’s a weird, backwards, group-thinking, boys’ club, this GOP here in Illinois…and nationally, it seems.
With Ken Mehlman coming out today, we just had to re-emphasize all of this because Mehlman, like Kirk and Schock, was one of the high-ranking Republicans we were always told is gay…but which the Republican Party always went to great lengths to deny. A former Republican governor here in Illinois is also gay. There are wealthy Republican male donors who are known cross-dressers. There’s a rabidly anti-gay, super-wealthy Republican who loves tossing around the word “faggot” at those cocktail parties who likes sleeping with young black men. We wonder if he shouts the word “n*****” when he’s with them, just to be consistent. It’s so very, very ridiculous.
And it’s a damn shame that conservatives don’t wise-up and clean up this establishment.
We are gay men here in Boystown TELLING YOU that closeted gay men in the Republican Party are a threat to this nation, because they are not only so ripe for blackmail, but they are so obsessed with keeping their secrets and doing favors for anyone helping to protect them that no effort at all is ever put into working for the needs of voters and fighting the latest craziness from the Left.
If only Republicans would start running men and women who openly stand in front of voters as the people they really are — with no secrets, no blackmail payments, no lies — then just imagine how much these conservatives could accomplish…with all that extra time they’d have not having to devote so much of their resources to closet protection.
Now, in comments, we’re sure there will be more of the usual “if someone’s gay, it’s nobody’s business” nonsense we always get when we write about Schock and Kirk. Please spare us that meme, because if you read anything in this essay, we want you to read this line, in bold: It matters that Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock are gay because being closeted gay males makes them blackmail candidates for the Left, and that means these men are in office with guns to their heads, doing what the Left wants, and not what voters sent them to do. These should not be men the GOP pushes for high office, because electing them to the Senate is no better than sending a putz of a Democrat there. They will vote the same, but at least having a Democrat in the seat means the GOP won’t have another Lindsey Graham on its hand, to embarrass the party whenever Democrats pull his own gay blackmail strings.
We don’t know how else to say this. The reason we keep talking about it is because these guys are Trojan Horses in GOP ranks and they are a clear and present problem for ALL AMERICANS that should be dealt with by dragging them out of their closets and forcing them to be honest about who they are SO THE LEFT CANNOT BLACKMAIL THEM INTO DOING HARMFUL THINGS TO THE COUNTRY.
Anatomy of a Scandal: Why conservatives nationwide should care about what Lee Roupas has done to the Cook County GOP
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For the last week and a half, we’ve been reporting on a sex scandal and coverup rocking the Cook County GOP and the Chicago Young Republicans politically-flavored social networking club. This matter affects conservatives on a national level because it’s a case study in why Republicans continue to lose elections to Democrats, despite conservative policies remaining better for the vast majority of Americans. The reason conservatives lose is because there is something seriously wrong with the Republican Party from the bottom up. At the city, county, and state levels, the GOP is corrupt, and riddled with what we call “Romney Guys”: young, unscrupulous, protect-their-own-at-all-costs, opportunists and schemers who allow their own personal ambition and inability to accept responsibility for their actions to doom the conservative cause. Instead of acting in the best interests of conservatism, these Romney Guys are only in this for themselves, and make terrible decisions to advance their own careers as quickly as possible regardless of the damage that does to the party and the principles it advocates.
Lee Roupas, Chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, has created a distracting and damaging mess in Chicago by abusing his position to not only protect a fellow Romney Guy, but also to cater to a wealthy GOP donor who meddled in the daily operating affairs of the party at the county and city levels, much to the party’s detriment. Conservatives who wonder why the GOP so often stumbles need to pay close attention to the amount of influence large donors have on staffing decisions, particularly when those donors are interfering in hiring because they want to advance favored pets regardless of the impact they’d have on the organization.
What is happening in Chicago happens in the GOP in every city, and it’s time conservatives nationwide put a stop to it.
The Cook County GOP’s recent problems originate in June of 2009 with a complaint filed against a Board Member of the Chicago Young Republicans who tried to force himself sexually upon a young female member of the club. The complaint, copied to the national Young Republicans organization and Lee Roupas at the Cook County GOP, described the man (nicknamed “The Prophet” by members of the club, because of his chronic narcissism, profligate spending, and treatment of club members (both female and male) sexually) plying a young woman with alcohol, refusing to let her leave his apartment, taking her phone away so she could not call for help, pushing her onto a couch and sitting on her so she could not get up to leave, and not taking no for an answer. The young woman left Chicago shortly after this incident, but wanted to make sure the Chicago Young Republicans and the GOP in Chicago knew what “The Prophet” was doing to women, abusing the position of authority he had because of his prominence in the GOP-sanctioned club.
The woman was aware of similar incidents like this involving “The Prophet” and decided to make sure the GOP in Chicago knew what was going on, since GOP politicians regularly appeared at Chicago Young Republican functions onstage with “The Prophet”, fueling his ability to maintain the aura of privilege and power he needed to glamor women. Absent the credibility politicians like Aaron Schock, Bill Brady, Mark Kirk, Matt Murphy, Dan Proft, Andy McKenna, and others gave “The Prophet”, this skinny, blond, bespeckled man would lack the ability to put women in situations where he was able to victimize them. Dazzled by seeing “The Prophet” standing up on the stage, receiving warm kudos from someone like Congressman Schock, women fell for “The Prophet’s” regular lines that they needed to come back to his apartment, his VIP suite upstairs, his private office, or some other location where only they could hear all the political secrets he had to tell them, alone, because he thought they were so very special.
Essentially, the GOP in Illinois regularly gives a sexual predator the set, props, and audience he needs to do the very bad things he does to people.
The June 2009 complainant was a longtime female CYR member who saw a dangerous situation developing with “The Prophet” that the GOP in Illinois was partly responsible for, since they very much helped to create this monster and supplied him with the political mojo that kept his abuse of women going. She filed a complaint with the national Young Republicans organization and Lee Roupas at the Cook County GOP on July 1st, 2009 advising them to investigate the behavior of “The Prophet” so that women would not be seriously hurt by him. In her warning, she clearly stated her concern that what “The Prophet” did to her in his apartment on June 17th, 2009 seemed indicative of a dangerous pattern this man was engaged in — one that could lead to him keeping a woman against her will and forcing himself upon her sexually after he’d gotten her alone using his political razzle dazzle as a lure.
Since the GOP was providing this predator with his mojo, the GOP needed to stop enabling this behavior.
In July of 2009, the national Young Republican organization met in Indianapolis for its annual convention, where the complaint against “The Prophet” was circulated amongst Young Republican leadership. At the convention, several former YR members (aged out of the group after 40, but maintaining mentorship roles with the club) were given the complaint and advised of the serious situation unfolding in Chicago, where “The Prophet” was essentially swimming the YR waters like a shark, hunting for seals in this ample rookery. The YR leadership was put on notice that a predator was diligently at work in its Chicago chapter, on its board, basking in great glory provided by the Illinois GOP. This was a recipe for disaster, many agreed, and “The Prophet” received a stern talking to at the convention that put him on notice that he was jeopardizing the good name of the group by abusing his authority position to prey upon women in the club.
The former YR members who obtained the complaint against “The Prophet” at the Indianapolis convention disseminated it to a wider group of GOP confidants and advisors, with this wider circle largely befuddled on how to proceed. The Chicago Young Republicans is a politically-flavored social networking club in Chicago for young conservatives. It’s not technically a sanctioned part of the Illinois GOP and is not controlled by the Republican Party; it is, however, supported by both organizations in that the GOP supplies an endless stream of political candidates and representatives for CYR parties and events, without which the CYRs could not exist. The draw of being a dues-paying member of the club is gaining access to Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and national figures like RNC Chair Michael Steele. CYR members are attracted to the high-profile events, and the chance to further their careers by hobnobbing with such impressive luminaries, thereby winning bragging rights Monday morning when they show up at their offices with photos of themselves standing next to all of these elites.
Since “The Prophet” worked as a volunteer Board Member of an organization the Illinois GOP did not control (but funds generously, in addition to supplying the photo op star power), the excuse Republicans like Lee Roupas offer for “The Prophets’s” behavior is that “there wasn’t anything (they) could do about him”. They claim they couldn’t fire “The Prophet”, because they had never hired him, and that the Illinois GOP bore no legal responsibility for anything he did to CYR members.
But the question many in Chicago are asking this week is did the Illinois GOP bear any MORAL responsibility, since they lent their brand and star power to “The Prophet”, and it was widely known this predator depended on both to successfully lure and abuse his victims.
The Republican Party has a problem with perceptions and reality.
Too many GOP officials are bad lawyers, who went to bush league law schools, and emerged from three years of lackluster study with a myopic view of the law and the ramifications of an organization’s actions. Lee Roupas is maintaining, to this day, that the Cook County GOP cannot be held legally responsible for anything “The Prophet” did to women, and that should absolve both Roupas and the GOP from any culpability in all matters related to “The Prophet”. But, to the public at large, the line between the Illinois GOP and the Chicago Young Republicans was blurred so many times that many attendees of CYR events believed the two organizations were in fact connected, if not one and the same. Roupas shared a stage and a microphone with “The Prophet” at so many events that many members believed Roupas, in fact, worked for “The Prophet”. The Illinois GOP, however, kept listening to bad legal advice and took false comfort in the fact that, on paper, technically, according to their interpretation of the law, they had no authority to stop “The Prophet” — while in reality, the way the general public saw it, this was in fact the duty the GOP charged itself with every time the GOP built “The Prophet” up higher by pumping him, and his ego, full of star power.
In July or early August of 2009, a prominent Chicago attorney was given a copy of the complaint against “The Prophet” that circulated at the Indianapolis YR convention. Realizing how much this could damage the GOP, because of all the star power the GOP lent “The Prophet”, this attorney telephoned Lee Roupas to make sure he knew what was going on and how “The Prophet” was victimizing women in the CYR organization. On the telephone call, Roupas received in great detail all the information that was contained in the complaint. This is important to note, because in July of 2010, Roupas denied knowing about the charges leveled against “The Prophet” until June of 2010. There exists a signed affidavit from this attorney swearing that he provided Roupas with this information a full year before Roupas is owning up to (this, in fact, directly contradicts an email Lee Roupas sent to the 80 Cook County GOP committeemen on July 16th, 2010 where he swears to them that he did not “receive” the complaint until June 11th, 2010…where Roupas, acting on bad legal advice, is playing semantics with the word “received”, and not counting the telephone call he “received” in July or August of 2009 because Roupas realized he had never been given the complaint via registered mail and he believed he could legally deny being provided with a copy until a well-documented letter “received” by many members of the GOP included it).
This is where the crux of the problem rests for the GOP, and why this matter may have originated with a delusional, self-aggrandizing, womanizing “Prophet” but ends up being about the coverup and lies concocted by Cook County GOP Chair Lee Roupas.
For almost a year, the GOP in Illinois knew “The Prophet” was a problem, and that he abused his position of authority to have his way with women (and, we note, more than a few men as well). While the GOP claimed it had no ability to rein this behavior in with the CYRs, it should take responsibility for hiring “The Prophet” to a high-paying position with the Cook County GOP in December of 2009…five months AFTER the GOP was put on notice this man was a problem when the July 2009 complaint was filed.
Sometime in the summer or fall of 2009, “The Prophet” caught the eye of a multi-millionaire cougar in Chicago named Beth Christie, newly retired from the CEO suite of Avent Baby Products. Christie, seemingly bored, with more money than she knew what to do with, and an appreciation for the company of young men, became “The Prophet’s” protectress and bankroller. Running up a $50,000 tab for parties and a marketing blitz he could not pay for, “The Prophet” went to this cougar and asked her to bail him out, which she did happily by giving a lump sum to the CYRs and another large donation to the Cook County GOP, provided they loan the CYRs most of that money to pay off “The Prophet’s” debt.
In December of 2009, “The Prophet” was fired from a staff position on a political campaign when the complaint against him became an unwanted albatross as primaries drew near. Beth Christie stepped forward and made the cash-strapped Illinois GOP a deal it did not refuse: she’d write a check for $100,000 and become one of only 6 large donors to the GOP in this state, but only if “The Prophet” was given a high-paying job with the Cook County GOP under Lee Roupas.
Desperate for the money, the Illinois GOP took the deal, and “The Prophet” was hired to work as Roupas’ second in command in Cook County. Not having a college degree, and having no good references from any position he worked in, this was the only way “The Prophet” could find gainful employment.
This deal between Beth Christie and the GOP happened despite the fact Lee Roupas received the complaint against “The Prophet”, as affidavits attest, back in July of 2009. Without investigating the complaint, speaking to the victim involved, or inquiring whether other women (and men) in the CYR organization had been victimized by “The Prophet”, Roupas awarded this man a high-paying, high-profile position with the Cook County GOP organization — because Beth Christie pressured the GOP to do this, lest she develop crippling hand cramps that would prevent her from writing any more big checks.
Because of the cougar’s protection, “The Prophet” was seated on the dais next to her at every prominent event that followed, where “The Prophet” was able to suck up even greater star power, whirling on the arm of a woman who’d seemingly buy him anything he dreamed of. Roupas was there, seated on her other side, doing whatever it took for him to keep Beth Christie happy, so that she’d never put that checkbook away.
All of this came to a head on June 11th, 2010 when Chicago GOP Chairwoman Eloise Gerson obtained a copy of the complaint filed against “The Prophet” back in July of 2009. That complaint never stopped circulating (check your mailbox, your copy might arrive today), and was never investigated by the GOP, especially after Beth Christie took such a sudden and bizarre interest in the development and promotion of “The Prophet”. When Gerson read about what “The Prophet” did to the young female CYR member, she immediately contacted other women in the group and asked them about their experiences with “The Prophet”. What she discovered horrified her: this was not an isolated instance, but was rather par for the course with the man involved. Gerson was told this behavior was common for “The Prophet”, at every event the CYRs held, including many in which the GOP went out of its way to praise him, build him up, shine a spotlight on him, and give him the star power he needed to glamor the women (and men) he wanted.
Gerson called for an investigation into this complaint against “The Prophet”, as well as an inquiry into why he was hired by the Cook County GOP with this sort of reputation preceding him. “The Prophet”, it must be noted, is a college drop-out with very limited work experience. The position Lee Roupas hired him into is one that typically requires at bare minimum a Bachelor’s degree (which “The Prophet” does not possess). That requirement, and his moral failings, was deliberately ignored because Beth Christie wanted this man to have that job. Defying Christie meant losing access to her checkbook, which is something Roupas was not allowed to do.
Because Lee Roupas was so afraid of alienating multimillionaire cougar Beth Christie, he instead attacked Eloise Gerson, declaring open war on her for calling for an investigation into that complaint and the Cook County GOP’s hiring practices.
Roupas set in motion a bizarre scheme to vote Gerson out of her position and remove her as Chairwoman. When that failed, Roupas brought an ally from GOP national into Chicago and created a new position for him in the Cook County hierarchy that would usurp all of Gerson’s authority in hopes of shutting her up.
Roupas doubled-down on this coverup because, as he’s claiming to the angry committeemen he’s dealing with now that this scandal has hit the media, Beth Christie cannot be defied and he is not allowed to address the complaint or the reason he hired someone without a degree or appropriate work experience to such a high position in the Cook County GOP.
The reason voters, who may naturally be conservative, don’t trust the Republicans with their votes is because of men like Lee Roupas and the conduct of GOP county organizations like that here in Chicago.
The standard operating procedure for the GOP when faced with any problem seems to be:
(1) Lie
(2) Ignore the problem
(3) Lie
(4) Deny there’s a problem
(5) Lie
(6) Coverup the problem
(7) Lie
(8) Attack the truthtellers who exposed the problem
(9) Lie
(10) Stonewall and wait it out, hoping people lose interest in this
Yesterday, we were told the Illinois GOP’s plan for moving forward on this is to placate Eloise Gerson until the November elections, after which they will remove her. Beth Christie has forbidden the Illinois GOP from firing her favorite Cook County employee, and Lee Roupas is a golden boy highly favored by the current Illinois GOP chair. The plan is to get everyone in the GOP to pretend none of this happened, and then after the election they’ll “take care of Eloise” so that she can’t make any more noise about this in the future. With Eloise destroyed, the Illinois GOP hopes other truthtellers will be too afraid to come forward, for fear of the same thing happening to them.
The end result is that Cook County will still be led by Lee Roupas, who has lost all credibility in his position and has proved himself to be a hack at best, and largely nothing more than a tool of a very wealthy woman who essentially uses the GOP as her own personal doll house. “The Prophet” will keep his job, too, because Beth Christie insists upon this, regardless of what damage of all this does to Republicans’ chances of winning statewide elections in Illinois. As long as Christie keeps writing those massive checks, she can have any doll she wants, and she can play with him any way she pleases.
It’s a damn shame no one has introduced Beth Christie to Craigslist, because there’s a whole section for women just like her, where she can meet men twenty years younger that won’t cost her over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to keep gainfully employed. This is even more absurd when you consider the fact that so few large donors contribute to the GOP in Illinois (only 6 people giving $25,000 or more) that Christie overpaid for the clout she’s enjoying, dramatically so. For the amount of money she’s thrown into creating her doll house, Christie could have bought her way into the Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan GOP organizations as well — and could have had play time in a four state radius whenever, and wherever, whim struck her.
There are some pretty cute young dudes in Wisconsin, let us assure you. Milwaukee’s chock full of them.
Conservatives nationwide need to critically examine their own city, county, and state GOP organizations and look for the undue influence of wealthy donors like Beth Christie on the hiring, strategic, operational, and other decisions made by their local Republican Party.
What’s happening here in Chicago is important because it highlights the fact that a single multimillionaire cougar was able to jeopardize Republican chances in the fall by demanding her favorite doll receive a high-level position in the organization, in the face of her threats to put away her checkbook if she did not get her way. How many bad decisions are made by the GOP each and every day because men like Lee Roupas insist they have no choice but to do whatever crazy or stupid thing they are doing, lest they upset a Beth Christie somewhere? It’s never the initial crime (in this case, the predatory actions of “The Prophet”) that dooms Republicans, but their fumbled, bumbled lies and coverups (which always fall) that doom them.
Small dollar GOP donations — giving $5, $25, or maybe $100 — pooled together dwarf the amounts given by Beth Christie and others, but because they are thousands of small contributions made at random by unaffiliated donors, they will never carry the weight of one check written with an agenda in Chicago. One cougar’s ga-rowwwwl drowns out thousands of regular people.
The GOP’s system is clearly broken, and the way it handles problems like “The Prophet” is the clearest explanation we have ever seen for why Republicans lose so many winnable elections.
This is a center-right country of largely conservatives Americans. But, the GOP is comprised, organizationally, mainly of young, ambitious, cutthroat, “Romney Guys” who don’t see the big picture of what’s best for conservatism, only what will help them advance to the next level and make more money so they can buy more blue blazers, Brooks Brothers ties, and khaki pants. Lee Roupas clearly had a choice: to either stand up to Beth Christie and refuse to hire her “Prophet”, because the baggage he carried with his behavior was potentially damaging to the GOP…or to cave into her demands because he wanted to keep advancing his career and he knew that upsetting a large, cougarized donor was not the way for him to get ahead.
Everyone who ordered Roupas to give Beth Christie everything she wanted should be fired along with him.
The Republican Party in Illinois needs to clean house, de-cougarize, and spray for Roupas.
Small dollar donor conservatives need to band together and demand the RNC investigate this Cook County mess, and determine why, exactly, one wealthy woman was allowed to cause so much chaos by protecting one bad apple with her vast fortune.
What’s been happening here in Cook County is a chance for conservatives coast to coast to grasp what’s wrong with the Republican Party at the city, county, and state levels…so that we can use the next two years to weed out the Lee Roupases and mitigate the influence of the Beth Christies so that the likes of “The Prophet” don’t keep Republicans from beating Obama and taking back Washington in 2012.
Too much is at stake to allow the GOP to keep making the same mistakes, every day, in the same spectacular fashion, while expecting different results.
Please help spread word on what’s happening here in Chicago, and please use any contacts you have with the RNC to make sure truthtellers like Eloise Gerson are assisted in every way possible in exposing messes like this…not punished for daring to speak the truth.
FORCE THE GOP TO LEARN FROM ITS MISTAKES — AND THEN STOP MAKING THEM.
QUESTION: What is gay-face and is it real?
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We always like it when those of you out there chime in and let us know that a term we use is alien to you. We’re more than happy to clarify it, because here in Boystown we take for granted that you know what we’re talking about most of the time, even though a lot of our friends are go-go boys, drag queens, motorcycle-riding lesbians, circus people, failed sitcom stars, washed up musicians, and the like.
So, when we say someone like Lindsey Graham, Mark Kirk, Aaron Schock, or others have “gay-face”, we assume you know what we mean.
Here’s the Urban Dictionary’s (the very first place we always go when we don’t know a slang term someone is using) definition of “gay-face”:
We think gay-face (or gayface, depending on how you spell it), is nature’s way of warning observant women so that they don’t become Katie Holmes or Kelly Preston. We don’t think there’s a lesbian equivalent of this, but then again, we don’t know of many lesbians who try to trick straight men into marrying them, or who go around town with straight men pretending these are their boyfriends. In our experience, only gay men use beards, and we’re not talking the kind that qualify you for discounts at Touche or other leather bars.
Gay-face, we believe, is a guy’s soul betraying him through his eyes, mainly. He’s working so hard to fool the world, and in many cases is trying to keep his voice low in register, his hands from flipping about when he talks, all the while stifling the FABULOUSSSSSSS! that’s just bursting inside him, desperate to come out.
Gay-face is that pained look in a guy’s eyes that tells you he’d rather be talking about the Golden Girls or Buffy instead of pretending to enjoy whatever baseball game is on the television.
Gay-face is the betraying “something” just behind the eyes that says this guy would rather be having a St. Germaine on the rocks at Sidetrack in a tank top instead of attending whatever the heck function he’s stuck at over in the Cubby Bear, wearing a jacket and button-up shirt, pretending he’s a straight, confirmed-bachelor, Republican from Peoria.
Gay-face is so obvious to all of us, and to other gay guys in Boystown, that it’s second-nature to spot it. And, no, it’s not limited to just Republicans hiding in the closet like Graham, Kirk, and Schock. Rahm Emanuel has serious gay-face. So does the current “president”, Dr. Utopia. There’s a host of young male celebrities starting their careers in Gay-Face, following in the footsteps of older stars like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Robin Williams, and Tab Hunter, Troy Donahue, Rock Hudson, James Dean, and others before that.
We can look at old sepia-toned photos from the Victorian era and detect Gay-Face. A lot of oil paintings from the days before photography have clear Gay-Face in them too. Perhaps Gay-Face is even present in tomb carvings and cave scribblings, for someone discerning enough to spot it.
As long as there have been gay dudes trying to pretend to be something they are not, and trying to trick people (especially women) into believing they are gung-ho, He-Men, heterosexuals there has probably been Gay-Face to even the odds and spare these women from heartache.
Some women, of course, choose to ignore the Gay-Face and marry these guys anyway (usually because they get some sort of a big pay day out of it, like becoming the First Lady of Florida…or the United States). Some, unbelievably, can’t even spot it, which tells us someone in the universe must hate them, because they end up as Ariana Huffington.
Can you spot Gay-Face, now that we’ve explained it?
Do you have any other good examples of this phenom?
Whoo-hoo! Ricky Martin comes out, as "a fortunate homosexual man"
Congratulations to Ricky Martin for coming out today, and announcing he is “a fortunate homosexual man”.
Every club in Boystown is blaring La Vida Loca tonight, folks. Martin will now enjoy a career resurgence, especially if he starts shaking it up at Pride festivals and Market Days-type fests across the country this summer. He will be as embraced by the community, and as loved, as Neil Patrick Harris is. Good on him.
We’ve always really liked the guy — and it’s wonderful he’s stepped forward and admitted who he is.
Some of you out there don’t know how important this is, or how destructive the closet can be. The more famous people that come forward, especially men, and admit who they are the easier it is for young gays to be themselves, and to find acceptance in their families.
With entertainers, we believe coming out is 100% their call and we don’t agree with outing actors, singers, and others who make their living off their image, and do everything they can to craft an image to sell tickets, get the best ratings, and otherwise profit in the image-heavy, agent-managed, world of Hollywood.
Guys who are obvious closet cases, who have become jokes in the gay community, are people we, too, joke about. Tom Cruise and John Travolta, anyone? They are the Rock Hudson and Liberace of our time — so we’re not breaking any news there.
However, there are a few actors wh0 we know to be gay that we’ll never talk about, because they’re just becoming stars and we want these guys to succeed…so it’s their call when they want to come out. They’re really nice guys, too, one of which someone here has a brief connection with, so one day we hope they too come out — long before they become jokes like Tom and John.
With politicians, however, we firmly believe things are different — and Eric Massa proved that. Politicians who maintain a sham marriage, even with kids, and lead a double gay life on the side should be exposed for lying to their constituents. As Nancy Pelosi proved with Massa, everyone in the DNC and RNC knows who these guys are, know what they are up to, and know exactly what pressure to put on them to get them to do what the Party wants them to do.
Massa didn’t play Pelosi’s game, so she and Rahm Emanuel made sure all of his gay scandals came out, and he was forced to resign from Congress at a time when Pelosi needed to make an example of someone — so others out there with secrets could see that if they did not play along, they too would be destroyed.
Why give Nancy Pelosi that power? Why give Speaker Boehner that power when he takes Pelosi’s place next year?
Elected officials lie to their voters when they present a reality to them that is not true. If voters supported someone like Eric Massa because they believed he was a good family man, then we wonder how they would have voted if they had known about his gay frat house escapades.
Or, better question, if he had been out and open, would those frat house antics have taken place at all? Abuse of power like that happens when someone hiding a secret believes he’s getting away with whatever he wants — and people like Nancy Pelosi give them the impression they are untouchable.
It’s just a recipe for disaster, all those secrets.
It’s why we continue to push for Congressman Aaron Schock to just come out of the closet already too. We’ve personally seen him in gay bars here in Boystown. He seems like such a nice, smart, promising young man. We want him to come out and be himself before he ever ends up like an Eric Massa — getting up to who knows what in secret, while villains like Pelosi and others keep building files on him, which will be used to black mail and otherwise pressure him when the time arises.
Schock could be a Senator some day. Who knows, he could even be Vice President. And we think he can do that as an openly gay man in Illinois. The Left will not be able to hold any power over him, and will never be able to intimidate and bully him if he just comes out and tells the public who he really is.
We’d love all the gay Republicans in government to just come out — starting with Charlie Crist in Florida and running the gamut through Illinois’ Congressional delegation. Come out, be yourselves, take away the blackmailing abilities of Nancy Pelosi and others.
Ricky Martin did a great thing today. We wish more entertainers would do the same thing, but we respect their choices not to.
Politicians are different though, as there’s much more at stake with a closeted Congressman or Senator than there is with some singer from the 90s.
Eric Massa proved just how much leverage the wrong people have over the votes cast by closeted politicians — and we always wonder just how much arm-twisting has been successfully done by the likes of Pelosi, when the threat of doing what was done to Massa switched votes and made these men fall into line, when their constituents didn’t want them to and their districts suffered, all because these guys were scared of being outed.
Coming out switches the balance of power and only benefits all involved — while robbing the likes of Pelosi of one gruesome cudgel.
We will not stop working to elect Scott Brown, no matter who tells us we have to. Nobody comes between us and Senator Hottie McAwesome. NOBODY.
Great Merciful Zeus, that is one fine-looking man. He also happens to be the ONLY hope any of us have of saving this nation from the insane Healthcare Rationing bill the 60 Democrat fools in the Senate insist on foisting upon us against our will. There is only one angle left open to us from which we can stop the destruction of our economy and the ruination of our healthcare system: that angle is the former centerfold, Scott Brown, HOTTIE McAWESOME.
Last night, we had a conversation with a good friend of ours heavily involved in machine politics here in Illinois, who told us we need to stop helping Scott Brown.
If we ever wanted to work in this town again, that is.
We’ve gotten that threat so many times, now, we long ago stopped listening.
“This time you need to listen, though, because you need to be aware of who you are making mad this time,” our friend said. “The Obama people hate you, so Liberal bridges are burned forever with you. Going after Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock has the Republicans upset with you, so you’re on bad terms there. And now, taking on Martha Coakley is pissing Clinton people off, because Martha was a big Hillary supporter and Emily’s list is behind her, so you are alienating the last people who still like you. If you want to work in politics, you are running out of options, especially here in Chicago”.
For starters, the Obama people can go Obama themselves. Those Utopians, while chanting “Hope and Change!” in 2008, threw rocks through our windows, threatened to kill us, called us RAAACISTS every day, and harassed us by phone, email, and in person for the better part of two years — all because we didn’t support a man we knew well here in Chicago, someone we believed was unqualified, ill-prepared, and too dangerous of a socialist to have in the White House. So, forgive us if we never in our lives want to work for any Liberal candidates EVER. Those people are crazy. They are thugs, bullies, and allies of ACORN and the SEIU, both of which we believe to be criminal organizations. If not domestic terrorists. So, no thanks to ever being on a Liberal’s campaign. No matter how much we need the money, we just won’t go there.
As for Republicans, for some reason we’ve become a favorite target in regards to Kirk and Schock, but we haven’t told you anything that even young children in Chicago already know. We do not want to see Democrat Alexi Giannoulias become the next US Senator from Illinois. This is the same position we were in in 2008, in not wanting Dr. Utopia to win the Dems’ nomination, before not wanting him to win the General Election and become president. Giannoulias is going to win the Dem primary in a cake walk…so we’ve skipped ahead to try to do everything we can to keep him from winning the General Election. Mark Kirk, the likely Republican nominess, will not beat Giannoulias because Democrats are going to out Kirk in the race, exposing him as a liar. At every single Republican event we’ve ever gone to, people talk openly about Mark Kirk being gay, with more than a few of them telling us we need to look into who Kirk shares a condo with in Washington, because they insist there’s something going on there. We’ve never taken the time to do that, because we have no interest whatsoever in figuring out which Republicans are gay and which ones aren’t. A few cocktails at young Republican gatherings usually works wonders to that end — as there isn’t anything that comes off faster than Brooks Brothers blazers and Dockers when an open bar is rocking.
We keep trying to warn Republicans that Kirk should not be their nominee, for the simple fact that we want to see the Republican win that Senate seat. Kirk will not win, for two reasons: (1) his vote for Cap & Tax and (2) he will be outed and exposed as a liar.
It’s not the fact that he’s gay that will sink him. It is 2010, and we do not believe Republicans, even the most conservative, would vote against someone because he is gay. We do, however, think people will vote, in droves, against A LIAR. Kirk claims to be one thing but is another. If he does that with one part of his life, what else is he doing it with. The man cannot be trusted, and Democrats are planning to make sure voters know that. We know for a fact this will be one of the paths of attack Giannoulias will use against Kirk.
Just because we go to Republican dinners and cocktail hours these days doesn’t mean we ever stopped going to Democrat ones.
Some of you howl that we “need to stop outing people!”. As far as we’re concerned, Kirk’s not “in”. We moved to Chicago about five years ago. One of the first things we heard in the gay community here was that Mark Kirk is gay. We have heard that repeatedly and consistently since, from both Democrats and Republicans. If we talked about the sky being blue, it would be less common knowledge than this about Kirk.
What’s really interesting is that the LGBTQ community is mad at us too, regarding Kirk and Schock, because we “are messing up the plan”, apparently. LGBTQ activists have been blackmailing Kirk for years in Washington, getting him to vote the way they wanted on various bills, so that no one would “out” him in The Advocate, Genre, Instinct and the other major gay magazines. That’s the big threat the LGBTQ community uses: do what we want, and we keep your secret, but step out of line and run for an office we don’t want you to win, and you are toast, Mary. Kirk’s about to find out that the LGBTQ community was fine with him being a Congressman, but that Democrats do not want the Republicans to win the Illinois Senate seat, so all the old deals are off.
We are telling Republicans this is going to happen so next month they can, while they still have a chance, field a candidate for the Senate who will not implode according to the long-standing plan Democrats had in place to take out Kirk when the time came.
The GOP’s mascot is technically an elephant, but it really should be an ostritch.
Just because you want to pretend something isn’t going to happen doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. If Republicans really want to run Kirk so badly, because they delusionally believe he can overcome the Cap & Tax business, then have him come out now before Giannoulias can use his lying about this against him. If not, the scion of the mob’s banking family will be the next illustrious Senator from Illinois, in a seat the GOP could have picked up if it had run someone without the fatal flaws of Kirk.
It’s the same thing with Schock. He’s being groomed to run against Dick Durbin in 2014. He is a nice, nice guy who the MSM is building up so that they can tear him down in 2014. He’s handsome and vain, which is a dangerous combination in politics. When the MSM runs photos of him shirtless, frolicking with big-busted bikini-clad babes poolside, Liberals are restaging the old Hollywood Photoplay shoots for Rock Hudson, Troy Donohue, and Tab Hunter. Get Schock to play the Liberace game, create a false facade, and lie to voters claiming he is straight — when any time he’s in Chicago he turns up in Boystown. Just because he goes to bars like MiniBar, which does NOT allow the local photographers working the bar scene in to take snaps of patrons (unlike other bars like Sidetracks, Roscoes, Cocktail, SPIN, Lucky Horseshoe, etc. that allow the Boystown equivalent of papparazzi to work the crowds taking shots for publication in the three or four local Chicago gay magazines and papers), does not mean he’s keeping a low profile…and it does not mean photos do not exist of him having a gay old time here in Boystown.
Democrats think and plan in the long term. They love building a file on a Republican and using that file, and the pressure of outing, to force that Republican to vote the way they want him to. Voters should know that someone they are sending to Congress to represent them will instead first be representing those who are blackmailing him.
We maintain that if Schock comes out of the closet now, he’ll defeat Dick Durbin in 2014 and become a United States Senator. We promise we would work for his campaign. He’d be a great-looking, smart, well-dressed, young Republican gay man giving a whole new face to gays in politics. The Left would not know how to defeat him. The editors of Advocate and the other gay rags would be apoplectic, because there’d be no way to tear him down. We think he’d ultimately become Vice President. Who knows how far he’d go…if he would just come out.
If we see you in bars out in Boystown, with our own eyes, we think it’s fair to talk about seeing you out in bars in Boystown. Why should we pretend we didn’t see you there, still wearing the exact same white polo and khackis you wore to the Republican event you just spoke at in Wrigleyville about an hour and a half before? What good does playing make-believe do anyone, including yourself?
We want to see Giannoulias lose in 2010 and Durbin lose in 2014. If Republicans insist on running candidates we know for a fact Democrats have plans in place to bring down, we will try our level best, at highest volume, to warn Republicans against making mistakes that will cost them those seats. Go ahead and hate on us all you want for that, but you have no idea how terrible it will be to have the mob banking Giannoulias family in control of a United States Senate seat. The damage that will be done is unfathomable.
So, that’s how we’ve managed to tick off Liberals and Republicans lately, but not supporting Martha Coakley’s been the most costly thing we’ve done lately.
As we told you many times, it was a GRUELING decision for us to make because we are so grateful to the courage Coakley showed in standing with Hillary Clinton in 2008 when the Kennedys, John Kerry, Deval Patrick, and Democrats in Massachusetts all pressured her to back Dr. Utopia. Coakley held her ground, and remained a Clinton delegate to the end. We can only imagine the Hell the Utopians put her through. If we, as lowly volunteers, were harassed by Dr. Utopia’s supporters night and day for not backing him, we shudder to think of what they did to a public figure like Coakley.
And, yes, we always like to support a woman running for the Senate. There needs to be more women in the Senate. Some of you don’t like when we say that, but it’s the damn truth. Women are 51% of the population, but have 17% representation in the Senate. We want to see that equalized by electing excellent, capable, independent, strong, and courageous women to the Senate — women who will use their intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to serve their consituents, and the nation at large, well.
In the case of Martha Coakley, we supported her Senate run until it was clear Democrats intended to ram the Healthcare Rationing bill through Congress, at breakneck speed, in secret, largely in the dead of night, in the runup to Christmas.
Coakley said she’d be a solid YES vote on anything Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Dr. Utopia wanted to pass. She came out and said, in no uncertain terms, that she would not think for herself or do what was best for Massachusetts and the nation. Instead, she would just do whatever the DNC told her to do. She would, thus, represent the Liberal-controlled Democrat party and not the people of Massachusetts, and Americans at large.
Martha Coakley, thus, lost our support.
The nation needs Democrats to be taken down to 59 votes so Harry Reid cannot circumvent debate and ram dangerous legislation through the Senate without anyone reading it.
It is as simple as that.
We would, in fact, campaign against Hillary Clinton herself if she did anything as dangerous and stupid as vote YES on a bill this enormous and world-changing as Healthcare Rationing. We love the woman. We would go to Hell and back for her. We’d gladly take bullets for her and work our hearts out for just about anything she wanted…as long as it didn’t harm the country we love.
We are Americans first. Clinton loyalists second. Democrats last.
Coakley’s decision to blind-vote Democrat put our support for her at odds with what’s best for this country. It’s as simple as that. In the future, we see ourselves helping Coakley, when she intends to be an independent voice doing what’s right for her constituents. At that point in time, we will work our hearts out for her. In the meantime, we are ALL ABOUT Scott Brown, HOTTIE McAWESOME.
And, that puts us in the position where moderate Democrats and feminists are mad at us now. “What do you mean you’re not supporting a woman for the Senate? And she’s a Hillary supporter, you are traitors for not backing her!”.
Nobody ever said it was easy to stand up for what you believe in.
These are strange times politically. Former enemies are now allies, and former allies morph into opponents here and there.
Our goal is to always do what we think is best for this country, not best for any party, not what’s best for any of the people we’ve always supported, and not even what’s best for ourselves personally or professionally.
We love America too much to watch it slide backwards, or veer off on a destructive track towards socialism and economic ruin.
It doesn’t matter to us who we make mad by taking the stances we do, because we’d be madder at ourselves if we didn’t do all we can to stop the destruction this White House and the current Liberal-Socialist incarnation of the DNC has in store for the nation.
What Chicago Democrats are planning to do to out Republicans Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock
This Wednesday, we went to a big Christmas party here in Chicago — one of the ones we weren’t invited to last year — purposefully — because we worked for the McCain campaign and were thus branded “traitors” here in Boystown. So, we were punished, and cut off from the really good parties, where all the really interesting people go for the holidays. This year, because so many people realize what a mess the current administration is, suddenly people don’t mind so much that we were DeMcCrats for McCain and remain Democrats for Palin (though that last one does make smoke come out of most of their ears).
Here are a few things we’re going to tell you in the hopes that some of you can get it to the right people and stop disasters from happening in the future. We are giving you clear and present warnings of what Democrats are going to do to bring down two Republicans in the future — one next year, and the other when he himself tries to run for the Senate. Both of these disasters can be avoided if these two men just came out of the closet.
We are, of course, talking about Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock.
Kirk’s case is more pressing because Alexi Giannoulias, the scion of the Broadway Bank mob banking family, is poised to win the Democrats’ nomination. The plan is to out Kirk during the general election to suppress conservative vote, and thus ensure Giannoulias carries the state. One of the key factors being considered is that, while Giannoulias is not black, and the black community will be upset a black candidate is not replacing Burris, black voters will turn out to keep a gay man from being elected to the Senate. They will turn out to vote AGAINST Kirk, not FOR Giannoulias. Homophobia will help drive their vote, the same way it did in California to pass Prop-8. There is nobody on Earth the black community loves to stick it to more than a white gay man. They will vote gleefuly, and thanks to ACORN, often.
We were told at the party on Wednesday that we need to figure out who Mark Kirk shares a home with in Washington. Apparently, that man may also be another member of Illinois’ congressional delegation. We were told that during the general election the Giannoulias campaign will release, through surrogates, lurid details of exactly what goes on at the home Kirk shares with this other man in Washington. It was implied this other man is in fact another gay Illinois Congressman. Apparently, it’s all between consenting adult males, so there are no Mark Foley scandals heading Kirk’s way, but he’s going to be painted as an untrustworthy liar…he’ll be ridiculed and mocked for his dishonesty, and his marital failings…and Republican voters that need to turn out to defeat Giannoulias will sit their butts home, the way they enjoy doing when they think they are “teaching the GOP a lesson”. It is exactly what happened with Jack Ryan all over again.
Someone in the GOP, take Kirk down now before you select him as your nominee. Find a man who can actually WIN…someone who conservatives will come out and support, but someone who black and Chicago elitist voters don’t feel any personal mission to “stick it to”. Blacks and elites won’t be motivated to come out in full force for Giannoulias, because they will not like the fact a black is not replacing Burris in “Obama’s seat”.
The only way these people find motivation to vote is to “stick it to Kirk”. That phrase kept being used over and over again on Wednesday.
We have no idea who Kirk’s “roommate” is in Washington, DC. It sure would be interesting to chime in if you know — because in a few months, this is all people will be talking about. Democrats at the party said the Senate seat is in the bag, because Kirk will go down in flames.
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The other interesting bit from the party was about Aaron Schock. It is an open secret he is gay…and we finally got confirmation that Democrats do, indeed, have photos of Schock out in Chicago with other men. We’ve been hearing for months this was true, and we’ve seen Schock with our own eyes out in Boystown, having very indiscrete times with Aberzombie sorts of guys. Apparently, he has a boyfriend back in Peoria everyone knows about too. Dems we know here in Chicago had asked us to try to get pics of Schock in MiniBar or other spots in Boystown, but we never got pictures of him. Well, we found out on Wednesday that others do have the pictures. But, they will be held for years until Schock tries to run for Senate himself.
By then, very foolish advisors in the GOP will have set him up with a fake wife, and maybe even a kid for a prop. But those pictures of Schock in bars will always be out there…and then when he runs for Senate…BOOM…another Jack Ryan, another Mark Kirk. It is widely expected Schock will run for Senate in 2014, to challenge Dick Durbin.
We believe if Schock comes out now…or even waits until just after the 2010 election, he can run in 2014 as an out and proud gay man and win that Senate seat. We promise you, if he does this, we will personally campaign for him. By all accounts, he is a decent and smart guy, and is certainly hard-working.
But he is putting Republicans at great risk by posing for photos with big-busted beards poolside, trying to deflect the truth about his homosexuality. Schock needs to come clean and not lie to voters. He crossed a line with those poolside photos: before then, he hadn’t denied he is gay or done any Rock Hudson, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Liberace subterfuge. But, now Schock is lying to voters with his denials…while these photos are definitely in Dem hands just waiting to be used.
With so much time between now and 2014, who knows what else Schock will do to make the lies even more blatant…which will only succeed in making voters angry at more Republicans being outed…not the way to build trust in the conservative brand.
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Now, whenever we talk about Kirk, Schock, Charlie Crist, Rahm Emanuel, and other politicians being gay, some of you out there say “that’s none of anyone’s business”. Well, it is indeed everyone’s business because these men are all deceiving the people they are asking to vote for them. They say they are one thing, but then they do another. These are all open secrets in Chicago that people feel perfectly comfortable talking about over Pilsners waiting in line for chicken satay at the buffet line of a Christmas party. There is no whispering. There’s no super-secret-don’t-talk-about-this-ever pledges. The only reason you, yourself, don’t hear these things is because you do not live in Boystown and don’t spend your free time chatting up these Dem operatives here in Chicago.
This is, indeed, how we spend our free time…and the things we are told we pass on to you.
For verification, these are the same things our straight friends also hear in Republican circles, at the events they too, go to. The last two weeks have been a flurry of holiday events. At all of them, the topic of Kirk, Schock, and others being gay always comes up. And no one is surprised — though with Schock, many women are disappointed, for a minute, and then after thinking about it they always, without fail say, “Yah, I always kind of thought that, but now it makes sense”.
The GOP at large should come out in support of Kirk and Schock, in particular, and get ahead of what the Democrats have planned. Just imagine THAT. The Republican party standing by two men who decide to be honest with voters…instead of waiting for the National Enquirer to break some salacious story about them.
Kirk is a flawed candidate without being outed as an excuse for many not to vote for him — there is no way to underestimate the hatred this man caused in many Republicans when he voted for Cap & Tax. THEY ARE SEETHING MAD AT HIM, and that is not going away. The GOP needs to get behind Patrick Hughes and Kirk needs to bow out and get his life together, if the Republicans want to do anything to stop Alexi Giannoulias, THE MOB BANK’S CANDIDATE, from becoming our next Senator.
As for Schock, he needs to just come out before the pictures of him in Boystown are dropped at some point in the future. He’s safe for now, as there does not seem to be any intent to oust him from Congress in 2010…but the file’s being built on him for his expected 2014 Senate run, and Boystown in Chicago and DuPont Circle in DC are much too attractive to a young gay man not to bet that will be a VERY thick file used against him if he continues to deny who he is and set up those Rock Hudson photo shoots poolside for the next four years.
Both of these men need to get Howard Bragman on their speed dials…he’s the man who just helped Meredith Baxter come out, and who’s helping a major rock star come out in 2010.
Bragman can help avert more GOP self-inflicted disasters, if only Republicans were smart enough to stop lying to their own voters.
Could Congressman Aaron Schock become the new Neil Patrick Harris?
Neil Patrick Harris (top)
Chad Allen, on CBS' Dr. Quinn Doctor Lady (which starred the Jane Seymour who had nothing to do with Henry VIII)
Congressman Aaron Schock, fooling no one.
Our most orangest governor, Charlie Crist, in the most convincing heterosexual wedding since...
David Guest's wedding to Liza Minnelli, with Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor as witnesses.
Just about everyone loves Neil Patrick Harris.
And for good reason: he’s fricking adorable. And he hangs out with unicorns.
One of the few child stars to make something more of himself as an adult; talented, self-effacing, singer with a great sense of humor and comic delivery; handsome as the day is long; magic geek who unabashedly promotes his hobby with glee; exceptional young gay man in a committed relationship who puts a great face on all LGBT issues.
Since coming out of the closet, NPH is more popular now than ever.
He plays it straight only on TV now, in the hit show “How I Married Your Mother”, hosts the Emmys and Tonys (and hopefully soon the Oscars too, because Hera knows we’ve seen enough of the overexposed Ellen Degeneres to last us a while…time for a “new America’s favorite gay” to take over, Ellen).
Congressman Aaron Schock needs to come out of the closet and become the Neil Patrick Harris of Washington.
He’s young and handsome and friends of ours who’ve spent time with him say he’s very sharp and has a lot of great ideas. He is, however, a terribly boring public speaker who does not know how to work a crowd and does not inspire a lot of enthusiasm. The thing he really tades off of is his youth, in being the youngest member of Congress. That gets him a lot of play in the MSM, who like nice-looking young people in important positions.
But, Schock’s handlers insist on pulling the old Rock Hudson with Schock…having him photographed shirtless and buff with busty women around him…to imply that he’s a big straight macho He-Man.
We’ve long heard about Schock being gay, from people in politics here in Chicago and those who follow the goings on in Peoria well. But, we never chimed in on Schock until his staff started taking those “Girls Gone Wild” shots of him at the pool with all the bathing beauties.
It’s dishonest and disingenuous of them to pull this…and unfair to use shirless Schock to send the message they want, which is polar opposite from the truth. Frankly, it’s not really appropriate for Schock to appear so frequently with his shirt off, trading off sex appeal…and it’s definitely not acceptable to then claim his sexuality is off-limits. Not when those “busty babe” photos are clearly meant to send the message that he’s “straight”.
The trouble with all of this is that it’s known Schock goes to gay bars in Washington and hits Boystown whenever he’s in Chicago. If he’s scoping out frat boys at MiniBar on a Saturday night after some event here, one day he’s bound to get caught on a camera phone by someone who recognizes him. So far, he’s been lucky because few in the gay community know who the Hell he is…fewer still care. The fact that he’s a Republican makes it all the more easy for him to skate under the radar, as many people who might recognize him think, “Nah, that can’t be him…what would a Republican be doing in here?”.
For whatever reason, Democrats have let both Schock and Florida Governor Charlie Crist maintain their “busty babe” beards. Crist recently had a wedding to a joke-and-novelty heiress which was the height in irony, as his new wife’s family company actually sells fake BEARDS. The nation’s only orange governor, famous for his many drag appearances at the Green Iguana bar in Tampa, Florida, is fooling no one. But, yet, the MSM continues to push Crist as a presidential choice in 2012 for the Republicans (the same way it pushes Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, three other men who don’t have a chance in Hell of beating Dr. Utopia).
Maybe the MSM is waiting for Crist to make it to that level before outing him.
Maybe the MSM doesn’t know what to do because the LGBTQ community is solid-Democrat, and outing non-creepy Republicans is bad for business in the long run. Currently, gay Republicans fall into the grotesque abusing pages and tapping on bathroom stalls mold, which makes the gay community here in Chicago look upon Log Cabins with disgust.
But, just imagine the good someone young and attractive like Aaron Schock could do if he stood up and declared who he really is…if he finally came out…and did it before he was outed.
Neil Patrick Harris did just that…and look where he is now, more popular and loved than ever. A contemporary of Harris’, child star Chad Allen, was outed by The Globe in a series of speedo-clad pics snapped of him at a boys-only pool party…and his career never really recovered. He’s now exiled to made-for-Logo movies on cable. But, in fairness, Allen (while one of our childhood crushes) was never as talented or disciplined as Harris.
Schock can do so much more for himself, in the Harris mold, if he comes out before the MSM has a chance to snap shots of him up to who knows what a la Chad Allen. The “busty babe” pool party photos seem like they were taken to distract from other pool parties Schock might have been at…where the propensity for rainbow-colored speedos could have been much higher.
Why not take this coming Sunday, National Coming Out Day, to stand up on October 11th and be the new face of the LGBTQ community in the Republican party? Why not show 20-and-30-something gays that they don’t have to just blind vote Democrat? That being gay and Republican does not make them creeps Tom Foley, Trent Lott or Larry Craig?
Why not do this before anyone ever publishes photos of Schock making out with guys somewhere, like a dark corner of Chicago’s MiniBar when he thinks no one with a cell phone recognized him?
National Coming Out day is as good a day to come clean as any.
And just ask NPH how liberating and career-enhancing it can be.
Why doesn't Congressman Aaron Schock just come out of the closet already?
Photo ops like this didn't work for Rock Hudson or Tom Cruise either.
Here’s one of those weird things that happens that we like to pass on to you from our perch here in Boystown, because we think you’d find it as interesting as we do.
Last night, we literally bumped into two ongoing conversations about Congressman Aaron Schock, from Peoria, taking place in two different parts of Boystown…which is strange because none of the people talking about him are political types, and all of them were under 20 and not the least bit Republican. The fact that they knew who Aaron Schock is amazed us.
The first group was a trio of nineteen year olds waiting in line for pizza at Pie Hole last night, where we ordered a sausage and marshmallow After School Special and were enjoying it counterside. The three of them, two girls and a boy, were up from Peoria for the night trying to figure out what bars they could sneak into underaged (fat chance, kids…all bars in Boystown card and you have to be 21 to get in…wink, wink). And, honest to goodness, they started talking about Aaron Schock going to MiniBar every time he is in Chicago. The boy in the group sighed, and made a teenaged “I’m disgusted” sort of noise and said, “I’m so sick of hearing about that big Mo. He’s like totally slept with a bunch of my friends and totally has a boyfriend who he never takes anywhere and won’t let anyone know about. I hate him.”
The girls both agreed Schock isn’t fooling anyone, and reiterated that “everyone in Peoria knows he’s gay”.
Now, we never believe anyone who says “I have a lot of friends who” did this or that…who are those friends? Why should anyone believe them, or you? If you have friends who are so well-connected and hobnob so frequently with the rich and famous, then why do you dress the way you do?
And why are you in Chicago at midnight on a school night when the lot of you live in Peoria?
But, we were amazed the three of them knew about Schock going to MiniBar. We’ve seen him there ourselves and have friends who’ve done more than seen him (now we’re doing it, too), if you know what we mean. In June, he literally went straight from a speaking event in Wrigleyville and was at MiniBar not an hour later, wearing the same white polo shirt and khackis he had on at the earlier event (though, we noticed, he did take his Member of Congress pin off when at the bar).
MiniBar is the most pretentious of the Halsted bars in Boystown. They just did a big remodel and setup a VIP, Studio-54, area that has actual velvet ropes and big beefy bouncers to keep the rabble away from “the beautiful people”, who get their own bar and bartender up there, with velvet couches and all sorts of other Gossip Girl touches. There’s also a new, secluded downstairs area too, where presumably closeted-guys can hide and get up to all sorts of shenannigans (a club called Jackhammer in Andersonville also has a downstairs room, but you really don’t want to go there…or maybe you do, if you’re Rahm Emanuel).
After pizza at Pie Hole, our friend Panda wanted to go to the Lucky Horseshoe because that’s what Panda always wants to do whenever he’s had too much to drink. As we’re walking south down Halsted, passed Cocktail, Sidetracks, the random bad Chinese restaurant whose name we don’t know, we come upon MiniBar and Panda “just had to go in” because he hadn’t seen the remodel yet. We can’t stand MiniBar and only end up there on nights out with Panda…like that night in June…and other nights when we’ve seen interesting people there (like a certain gardener from Desperate Housewives).
While Panda looked around, we spotted someone we know casually, who was there having a drink, and asked him how busy MiniBar’s been since the remodel. It was totally dead in there that night, so we wondered if spending all that money on VIP lounges was worth it. Dale told us it’s only busy on weekends, and that most people were more excited about Scarlet opening up again (a bar that burned down in February and the whole Boystown community has been rooting for in its comeback). Dale said, “Oh, but this place will still be popular with the people who like coming here. Like the ones who think they’re famous. Like that ass that’s a Senator or in Congress or something. That dick’s in here all the time.”
He didn’t know his name, but he was totally talking about Aaron Schock. Who the kids in Peoria also said was a jackass. We can’t say we’ve ever seen him act that way ourselves, because we’ve only seen him in person a few times and he was very well-behaved, if a wholly uninspiring and bland public speaker. The fuss the media makes about him is because he’s young and good looking, and ended up in Congress because he didn’t want to take showers with other guys in gym class, so he fought his school board so he didn’t have to take gym, got on the school board, and then ran for Congress, and won, after that. It’s a great story, even if group showers are nothing to be afraid of (and are great for the environment, if you think about it, with all that water-sharing and everything). Unless somebody’s got something he’d rather hide under a towel, that is.
It’s still weird and surprising that, without any prompting from us at all, we swear, two different conversations about Aaron Schock going to MiniBar happened within an hour of each other right here in Boystown, involving people who don’t follow politics and one who didn’t even know his name, but knew what he gets up to.
So, why not just come out already and be the young, good-looking, Republican gay dude in Congress?
We would ADORE having someone other than Barney Frank representing gay men in Congress. Tammy Baldwin is the only openly lesbian member of Congress, so we could use a young woman to come out on the Republican side too, then we’d have a complete set. A gay Dem Congressman, a gay Republican Congressman, a lesbian Dem Congresswoman, and a lesbian Republican Congresswoman.
Surely Frank and Baldwin aren’t the only ones.
Surely not “everyone in Peoria” knows about Schock, but enough of them do that we keep hearing about it, even when we aren’t looking to hear anything in particular and are just waiting to enjoy the wonder that is a sausage and marshmallow After School Special (and, no, we aren’t the only ones to ever order this…it’s one of Pie Hole’s signature pies).
What’s worse…coming out, or having to endure the humiliation of being posed repeatedly with busty, bikini-clad, leathery women to keep proving “how straight you really are”?
Aaron Schock should just come out already…and it’s a great time to do it, now that MiniBar’s got a center stage VIP lounge all ready for him to hold court…shirtless, many hope.
UPDATE: There’s actually a fundraiser with Aaron Schock with Republican candidates this weekend at Wrigley Field for one of the last Cubs games. Apparently, there’s a glut of tickets left to this, as Republicans we know in Chicago keep asking everyone they know to buy tickets…in what seems like an unusually hard press to fill seats. One of them told us, ‘There’s only like 15 people going to see Schock”. Ouch.
Our point in telling him to come out is this: he’s been trading off being “the youngest member of Congress” when that’s really all he has going for him. He is not brilliant. He is not a good speaker. He is not exceptional in any way except his looks and his youth. If he’s pretending to be straight, he’s also deceiving the people who vote for him.
He has a chance to be a real role model, and a true star in Congress…as a young, good looking, gay Republican. Just imagine a young gay star like that in the GOP and all it could do for both the party and LGBTQ issues. It would turn a great many things upside down…and give a better picture of gays in Congress than Barney Frank.
THAT’S why we want him to come out…for the betterment of his own career and also all the good his coming out would do, since he’s already such a media darling.
If he hits MiniBar this weekend after the Cubs game, we’ll totally tell him this ourselves if we run into him, too.
