The blogger currently known as "Mayor Sam" has some advice for Los Angeles GOP (and, yes—he's talking to both of you):

We've recounted several times that the Republican party under control of Linda Boyd here in LA has got to make some radical changes if we ever want to elect any GOP candidates in LA.

Its bad enough that Linda and her husband Doug treat the party as their personal little social club and do stupid shit like endorse James Kenneth Hahn for Mayor, while never supporting actual Republicans like Walter Moore or going a step further and trying to recruit someone who could win like Keith Richman to run.

One of the problems the Republicans have is their constant rebuffing of gay Republicans. Now Mayor Sam is not gay, but to me a Republican is a Republican. The GOP in LA could make HUGE strides in local races if they could begin to include gays in the mix. Many gays are high income indiviuals with views that reflect a world with limited government and a strong defense. But for now many gays toss that aside because stormtrooper Republicans have hang-ups about buggery. Hey, no one is having sex in the voting booth, so get a grip. Even though they want lower taxes and less government, most gays still vote Democratic.

I honestly think that purging the homophobes from the party would open things up quite a bit. (And, no: homophobe doesn't mean someone who thinks that civil unions for gays is a reasonable compromise, or someone who feels gay marriage can wait a few more years until everyone's used to the idea.)

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1 Purge the Party? DA! No, really? You can't be thinking that. There would go half the party.

Posted by: Desert Cat at June 10, 2005 10:32 PM (xdX36)

2 All right, all right: bad choice of words. Hasty, etc. Ill-thought out. Hyperbolic. (And I'll bet you were being ironic anyway, but others wouldn't be, so I'll just answer the surface meaning here, since it's bound to be on people's minds.) I do think a position is possible that respects Christian tradition and the fundamental right of the individual to be left alone and make his/her own domestic arrangements. And therefore I think that a lot of people—the hard-core "faggot haters"—could take a hike and I wouldn't cry at all. Not at all. And I honestly believe those haters are a much tinier slice of the GOP than any of my Democrat friends believe.

Posted by: Attila Girl at June 11, 2005 12:45 AM (8e5bN)

3 GOP never would have gone near a "ban gay marriage" amendment if studies hadn't shown that would be the goose that laid the golden eggs in the politics of fly-over country. Homophobia and theocracy aren't front and center in the minds of Republican leadership, but that is indeed the electoral powerhouse of how they get to go into Washington with Majority Leaders rather than Minority Whips. If they turned away from the tent-meeting bible-thumping types, they might as well just adopt the Libertarian Party platform and edit a few of the platform planks on foreign policy. They'd pick me up as a loyal member.

Posted by: Ciggy at June 11, 2005 07:58 AM (F0SRJ)

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