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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.
Caterpillar Employees Defy Obama: Tell Shock To Vote NO! On Spending Bill
The workers at Caterpillar (who make constructon and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and butterfles) were told by Obama to convince Rep. Aaron Schock to vote for the Trillion Dollar Jockstrap of Spending (that no one in Congress has actually read).
Instead, Caterpillar workers lit up Shock’s phones telling him what sensible people on both sides of the aisle have been saying about this lunacy all along: this is a TRILLION DOLLAR waste of money that will not stimulate the economy, and instead will quite possibly make matters worse, as the market and public worry about the staggering debt Obama is driving us into.
Want to see how bad it’s going to get?
Take a gander at this:
Do you see how far Obama is driving us into the ground with this Trillion Dollar Jockstrap?
Caterpillar employees get it. Moderate Democrats like us get it. Conservatives get it.
Why doesn’t Obama and his band of merry thieves get it?
