Bob Wingate's Blog

After the Elections

The elections last month were as good as we had any right to expect, I suppose, and let’s hope that the legislative change next month leads to a real change in this country’s misguided direction. Unlikely but, like miracles, it could happen. Things are so bad now on so many fronts that even if the Democratic majority does show some spine and make many much needed changes, it’s anyone’s guess how much worse things will get before they get better, whatever better may mean. In Iraq, which we invaded for Cheney’s Halliburton and friends in March of 2003 and have now been in longer than we were in World War II, untold thousands of Iraqis have been killed and are getting killed as I write. The Iraqis are certainly far worse off today than they were under Saddam Hussein (who as anyone with a brain knew from the beginning played no part in the 9/11 attack). Far fewer of that country’s citizens died under Saddam’s monstrous watch than have died under ours, and the country’s public utilities worked. The first step in any solution, for us at least, should be to get out at once, since we’re not going to stop the civil war we caused, and the billions we’re spending in Iraq might be used to help stop some of the misery at home— what happened to New Orleans and especially its poor is the shame of this nation—and even prevent some of the terrorism that almost certainly will be coming our way sooner or later.

Bondage, the Gay Republican Way

I can’t resist posting this e-mail, which I received a couple of weeks ago. It’s one reader’s reaction to my final posting on the Bound & Gagged website, in which I included an editorial I wrote way back in 1992, favorably comparing bright-eyed pornography with political sleaze.

I was moved by this reader’s puppy-dog devotion to a party that has never had anything but loathing for people like him.

His e-mail does raise some important questions, however, the primary one being: should real life get in the way of a gay Republican’s fun?

I thanked the writer for his thoughtful e-mail, told him I’d be putting it up on my website, and asked if he wanted me to include his e-mail address. Not having heard from him yet, I withhold it.

As a gay Republican, it sickens me to have to read crap like that even though it was over 12 years ago. 12 years of a Republican administration?

Well, you tell me what the hell that stupid moron Jimmy Carter ever did for the country except flush it down the toilet. We were humiliated around the world, inflation was out of control, taxes were up, interest rates were through the roof......and you had the fucking nerve to write that piece of crap?????????????

As a gay Republican, I should not have to be subjected to this crap from the kool aid drinking liberal gay left. Picking up a gay magazine should be for enjoyment and not your WHACKO political beliefs.

And about Canada and England.........these are two countries that are SOCIALIST and tax their people through the ROOF!!!! Oh and by the way, England's economy is crap and right now with the Islamic invasion, it's going down the tubes.

I just love how the extreme left wants to model the USA after a corrupt and falling apart western Europe.........your PATHETIC.......and Canada is a joke.....they are taxes at least fifty percent of their income.........WHO THE HELL IS GONNA PAY FOR YOUR FAIRYLAND WORLD OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? AND IF THEIR SYSTEMS ARE SO GREAT, WHY DO THEY COME TO THE USA TO GET MAJOY SURGERY DONE.......BECAUSE THEY ARE PUT ON LONG WAITING LISTS

I, as a gay Republican, will fight tooth and nail to make sure you America hating liberal bastards are never in the white house again!!!

There you have it. Any comments?