would you vote for an openly gay candidate?

[??????????]

Clay who pushes in your face to the point of making someone ill.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.

[Inmate Trump]

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.
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[dazzleman]

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.

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It's tough to do that on the bathroom floor, worshipping the great porcelain god.

[J. J.]

I would depend.  You know, I might be personally uncomfortable around him, but I'm not asking him to be my prom date.   I don't I wouldn't vote for him because he is gay.

[Max Power]

Clay who pushes in your face to the point of making someone ill.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.

Why on his back specifically?

[??????????]

Clay who pushes in your face to the point of making someone ill.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.

Why on his back specifically?

Read what happened to Attila the Hun.

[TommyC1776]

yes i would

[??????????]

Clay who pushes in your face to the point of making someone ill.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

Guys are so hot.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

I'm bi.

Go get drunk and then sleep on your back please.

Why on his back specifically?

Read what happened to Attila the Hun.

Didn't he die by bursting a blood vessle while sleeping with one of his concubines?

No, he got drunk, threw up and choked to death.

[phk]

Yeah, I don't care.

[patrick1]

No, he got drunk, threw up and choked to death.

So did the Led Zep's John Bonham and Bon Scott from AC/DC.  I have been over-served on many an occasion but have never come close to that.

To the gay candidate-It would depend on the oppostion.  I am a cynical bastard and usually vote against the other guy more than my candidate.  The gay factor is not a non-starter for me but I can't see my world-views synching with theirs. 

[dazzleman]

No, he got drunk, threw up and choked to death.

So did the Led Zep's John Bonham and Bon Scott from AC/DC.  I have been over-served on many an occasion but have never come close to that.

To the gay candidate-It would depend on the oppostion.  I am a cynical bastard and usually vote against the other guy more than my candidate.  The gay factor is not a non-starter for me but I can't see my world-views synching with theirs. 

Patrick, I like your term "overserved."  That's a great way of putting the fact that you're hammered, blind, stinking drunk.  

In any case, I generally agree with what you said, but I would add that I also look at who's supporting a candidate.  If lots of people I don't like and don't agree with are supporting a candidate, then I vote otherwise.  For example, it would give me pause if a candidate boasts about having the strong support of groups like NOW and NARAL, the NAACP and the ACLU.  I would almost definitely vote against such a candidate because I think every politician, in order to remain in office, is beholden most to the people who give him/her the strongest support, regardless of what they really want to do in office. 

I would never vote for the "standard" gay candidate who parades around in purple and pink and talks about rainbows, AIDS and gay marriage incessantly.  It would have to be somebody who has moved beyond "gay politics" and is simply a politician who happens to be gay, but whose homosexuality is not the main driving point behind his/her view of the world.  Incidentally, I have the same requirement for voting for any of these "oppressed minority" groups like blacks, women, etc.  They have to be emancipated from the intellectual straitjacket that identity group politics imposes on them, or they will never get my vote.

[Rin-chan]

No.  I know, I know, I'm an intolerant prude...

Atleast you're not the only intolerant prude.

99.98% No.

00.01% Only if I really really agreed with them... and they didn't remind me of my ex-boyfriend... wait, now that I think of it that way... nevermind... 100% NO...

Rin-chan

[Rin-chan]

I would never vote for the "standard" gay candidate who parades around in purple and pink and talks about rainbows, AIDS and gay marriage incessantly.  It would have to be somebody who has moved beyond "gay politics" and is simply a politician who happens to be gay, but whose homosexuality is not the main driving point behind his/her view of the world.  Incidentally, I have the same requirement for voting for any of these "oppressed minority" groups like blacks, women, etc.  They have to be emancipated from the intellectual straitjacket that identity group politics imposes on them, or they will never get my vote.

^^^ If and only if that happened... then I'd think about it...

Rin-chan

[opebo]

I would never vote for the "standard" gay candidate who parades around in purple and pink

There is no such candidate, except in your fevered imagination, dazzleman.  Every candidate for every office in the US has a standard haircut and wears the standard uniform of suit and tie.

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And yet you don't seem to mind the intellectual straitjacket that imposes the standard right-wing economics and 'family values' of the typical white, straight, ruling class candidate, Republican or Democrat.  You are the king of double standards, dazzle, claiming others are closed minded or 'intellectually straightjacketed', while being the poster boy for that condition on the Right.

[Aguagon]

I'm with the majority here: it's a non-factor. Unless, that is, the gay candidate made gay rights a key point of his campaign.

Then I'd vote for him for sure.

[Democratic Hawk]

Yes, providing I agreed with them on the issues and if I thought he or she were capable of doing the job. Sexual preference shouldn't even come into the equation (children and animals, aside of course)

Dave

[MissCatholic]

No i wouldnt. its notngood for society to have homosexual people representing you. the country isnt ready for it yet.

[Speed of Sound]

No i wouldnt. its notngood for society to have homosexual people representing you. the country isnt ready for it yet.

[Citizen James]

No i wouldnt. its notngood for society to have homosexual people representing you. the country isnt ready for it yet.

It doesn't seem to have hurt the fourth congressional district in Massachusetts.  An openly gay candidate might not fly in some of the more socially conservative parts of the nation, but  most sane and semi-sane folks in congress don't tend to make a big deal about it.

[minionofmidas]

I would never vote for the "standard" gay candidate who parades around in purple and pink

There is no such candidate, except in your fevered imagination, dazzleman.  Every candidate for every office in the US has a standard haircut and wears the standard uniform of suit and tie.

Certainly such a candidate would not be anywhere near the "standard gay candidate".

[bergie72]

Even tho I am gay, the gay candidiate -- or rather the candidate who is gay -- would not automatically get my vote, any more than any other minority would get my vote.

They would have to be the candidate closest to my own personal and political values to get my vote. 

If it's between Queery McFagboy and Pat Robertson... well in that scenario, I'd write in myself  :-)

[Joe Republic]

If it's between Queery McFagboy and Pat Robertson... well in that scenario, I'd write in myself  :-)

Queery McFagboy for President '08

[Hitchabrut]

Gay Generic Republican vs. Centrist - Centrist
GGR vs. Pinko - GGR easily