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Eschaton —
Pretty much the same as last week's version.
Because The GOP Needs A Smaller Base
Oliver Willis —
RNC chairman candidate and failed gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell thinks that homosexuality can be cured.
former rnc chair ken melmann
skippy the bush kangaroo —
compulsive
RNC Chair Candidate Blackwell: "Homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed."
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
So is bigotry.
Blackwell: I Could Restrain Homosexual Urges -- If I Had Any, Which I Don't
TPM Election Central —
... Gay-rights activist and talk-radio host Michelangelo Signorile has posted an amusing piece of audio of Ken Blackwell during the Republican National Convention, telling Signorile that homosexuality is a compulsion that can be "restrained," and he's quite confident he would be able to suppress it within himself -- though of course he's never had any sort of problem like that. ...
What they're saying
The Sideshow —
... how Barbara Boxer sees it. The thing about torture, you see, even though it's always gone on, is that we used to recognize it as something so bad you never admitted if you did it. You knew that no decent human being would approve. And you knew that it would be bad for us if we went around bragging about torturing people. I share Atrios' revulsion for the way the debate has changed, as Henley and Yglesias note. (Also via Eschaton, Mike Signorale recalls his little talk with Blackwell, possible future head of the RNC, and ...
TEH GAY: You can’t stop it, you can only hope to contain it
Balloon Juice —
Red State pick for RNC chair, Ken Blackwell:
If in fact you would feel better for me to say to you that, one, I believe homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed, and that makes you feel better, then that is what I’m saying in the clearest of terms.
Presumably, there will at some point be a web poll in which I can vote for Ken Blackwell as RNC chair. When that day comes, I and the rest of the Red State Strike Force will be ready to rain down on Katon ...
Craziest Republican of the Day: Ken Blackwell
The Reaction —
... to out-Reagan, out-gun, out-Facebook, and out-Twitter each other, all while yukking it up over "Barack the Magic Negro" racism, but the craziest today is Ken Blackwell, he of dubious election administering in Ohio, for spewing the usual right-wing anti-gay rhetoric in his own special way back in September: I believe homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed, he told Michelangelo Signorile at the Repubican National Convention in St. Paul. ...
1/13: Oh, Guantanamo
Blogometer —
... hearings and a bad roll call vote, the Democrat attack machine clearly served its purpose. A wounded Holder who has to disprove the attacks against his antigun views will be less able to harm the 2nd amendment. A Holder confirmed overwhelmingly because we should expect an antigun nominee will be aggressive in promoting the Brady Agenda." BLACKWELL: So Much For A More Inclusive GOP Liberal bloggers are criticizing RNC Chair candidate (and ex-OH Sec/State) Ken Blackwell for describing homosexuality as "a compulsion" that can be "restrained": ...
