Romney’s Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
3:27 pm - 05/01/2012
Richard Grenell, the openly-gay conservative foreign policy spokesperson hired by Mitt Romney, has resigned from the campaign in response to right-wing pressure, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin reports. “[M]y ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign,” Grenell said in a statement, which came just days after groups like the American Family Foundation painted Grenell as a “homosexual activist” and condemned Romney for bringing him on board. From his statement:
GRENELL: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
Rubin reports that Grenell was also frustrated for “being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.”
The former spokesperson for U.N. ambassador John Bolton had also come under fire for tweeting all sorts of flippant comments about liberals, Democrats, women and, especially, U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration. Only a day after the announcement of his new post, Grenell joked on Twitter that President Obama had committed treason by passing missile secrets to the Russians. Shortly after his appointment, he scrubbed much of his online presence, deleting over 800 tweets and taking down his personal website.
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GRENELL: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
Rubin reports that Grenell was also frustrated for “being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.”
The former spokesperson for U.N. ambassador John Bolton had also come under fire for tweeting all sorts of flippant comments about liberals, Democrats, women and, especially, U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration. Only a day after the announcement of his new post, Grenell joked on Twitter that President Obama had committed treason by passing missile secrets to the Russians. Shortly after his appointment, he scrubbed much of his online presence, deleting over 800 tweets and taking down his personal website.
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Or, better yet, they saw them and didn't care. Goodie fucking gumdrops.
And those-- along with even more liberal independents-- are the people Romney needs to be playing to even more than the neo-cons.
Seriously, if I roll my eyes any harder all this fuckery they're gonna pop out of my head.
Although that last paragraph is more than a bit confusing.
They told him to "Get the fuck out. We don't want gay people around here." and he says "Thank you, I love you." And if Romney himself didn't say it (he basically says it all the time), it was bound to come from him sooner or later. I really don't understand people sometimes.
A close family friend's son is working in the Romney campaign, and he's soooo nice and his wife recently gave birth and I love their family to bits, but it makes it, frankly, a little hard to openly cheer for the downfalls the campaign goes through all the time-like, I want this guy to do well in his career, but all I can think is 'why couldn't you have remained a democrat? whhhhyyyyyy?'
Because it's shit like this that makes me so angry and yet I want his family to remain stable and safe but uggghhh
lol we have a welp!.... tag, that's awesome.
"Santorum’s Gay Former Aide Defends His Anti-Gay Record"
--Only the aide [Robert Traynham] defends Santorum vehemently. The situation in question is of Chris Matthews taking Traynham to task for defending Santorum in spite of his obvious anti-LGBTQ position(s).
I cant remember whether he provides why he became Santorum's "former" aide.
Read transcript or watch video @ Equality Matters.
Well, I am shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!
Is it really worth supporting conservative fiscal policies when the major power in your party doesn't consider you a valuable person?
These people are usually well to do, and the least likely to be affected by anti-discrimaton laws because they have the money and power to make people look the other way. They don't have to worry about seeing their SO in the hospital, they can afford the security to protect them from the horrible sacks of flesh who think it's their god given right to put their hands on people because they are a minority, they may even don't support gay marriage or adoptions because they don't 'believe' it in themselves! These people are very happy to push their fellow, less fortunate minority brethren off the cliff if they can protect their bubble of power and money. They happily to enforce their belief that they aren't like the rest of THEM (very much like the anti-choice women who get abortion and pull that my abortion is the only moral abortion bullshit) and do the shucking and jiving at a beck and call.
They are quite content being the 'X' friend to disapprove that the GOP aren't full of people with White privilege and -isms. All for a false sense of power and security. Some would say they are trying to change it on the inside, but it's mostly bullshit.
They do get geninuely surprised when shit like this happens to them. They seriously overvalue their worth.
People in situations like that don't resign for something that 'isn't an issue' unless there is a great deal of behind the scenes pressure to do do.
Why anyone LGBT would want to be a Republican in this day and age I don't know. I know they exist. I know they rationalize it and many are putting their own fiscal self-interest above idk, being treated than something other than a second-class citizen. I also know the Democrats and LGBT liberals are often full of fail. But still, makes no sense to me.