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August 31, 2007

The GOP's Manly Family Values

C
an there be any doubt, on the eve of Senator Larry Craig's resignation after his alleged attempted same-sex tryst in an airport bathroom came to light, that the GOP is all about manliness. That is, traditional manly family values . . . where men are manly, cursing is to be applauded when used by these real men, and paying for heterosexual sex is something to applaud.

On June 22, 2004, Dick Cheney directed a most foul expletive at Democrat[ ] Senator Pat Leahy on the floor of the Senate . . . the "F-word" for those who forget. The GOP's response (and that would include the GOP's noise machine): putting Cheney front and center so he could tell the real men and women of our country that it "felt good" to say "F***-You" to an elected Democrat[ ] official. Almost as good as good, ol' fashion heterosexual sex, right?

Then there's the case of GOP Senator David Vitter who, we learned this past July, paid for sex via the DC Madame. Is there anything more anti-family then infidelity. (Or more humiliating to a US Senator that he was so lame he had to pay for it!!!)

Well, we've since learned that Vitter received an ovation from the GOP Senate caucus for paying for heterosexual sex. These are real men showing their appreciation for how a real man does it. [I wonder if Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins missed that meeting.]

So there it is. "Family values," we've finally learned, means manly men engaging in infidelity but only with the opposite sex, or using curse words but only when directed at member of the Democrat[ ] party, and -- most important -- the manliness to stand up and say that's what we in the GOP stand for.

Now, we've not exactly heard any of those manly GOPers come out of the closet yet and say this out loud. But I'll bet one of those manly men gets outed before November '08.

Posted by shertaugh at August 31, 2007 12:44 PM