Brian Schweitzer: southerners like Eric Cantor set off my gaydar

[Linus Van Pelt]

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-gonzo-option-20140618

[Joe Republic]

With his behavior and public comments lately, Brian Schweitzer might actually end up being a presidential front runner in 2016 after all.  For the Republicans.

[Meursault]

Goddamn I love Schweitzer. He manages to be a liberal without being a censorious, reality-denying nematode.

Cantor is absolutely a twink.  Basically any country club Republican under 55 or so is going to be a closeted homosexual.

[Flake]

Goddamn I love Schweitzer. He manages to be a liberal without being a censorious, reality-denying nematode.

Cantor is absolutely a twink.  Basically any country club Republican under 55 or so is going to be a closeted homosexual.

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[Non Swing Voter]

What's a Brian Schweitzer?

[Lief 🗽]

This guy is much more electable than Clinton though. Because he wears a bolo tie.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

He's certainly "of the people."

[bedstuy]

As a gay man, I'm offended by the comparison of homosexual men to Eric Cantor.

[DrScholl]

I can see where Schweitzer might get that idea.

[RogueBeaver]

On Feinstein: "She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees," Schweitzer says of Feinstein, "and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying I mean, maybe that's the wrong metaphor—but she was all in!"

[Linus Van Pelt]

As a matter of amateur sociolinguistics, I actually do think Schweitzer is correct that many southern men talk in a way that comes across as stereotypically gay to those of us used to the more reserved mannerisms of regions like the upper Midwest (or Canada, in my case).

[Meursault]

Leave it to Democrats to think that Conveying A Message means sticking to platitudinous, feel-good, inoffensive vagaries. This is the Party that gave us Bill Clinton and his "I feel your pain" thirty seconds of shame, after all.

[Eraserhead]

Einzige's post literally made me laugh out loud - in a good way.

Edit: His first post in the thread that is.

[badgate]

Showed this to a friend, and he came back with this debate question for 2016:

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[DINGO Joe]

I believe Schweitzer called Cantor a "dandy", without actually using the term.  How does one's gaydar spot a "brokeback" mountain man?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Definitely inappropriate.

[Antonio the Sixth]

"gaydar"...

[LeBron]

All the more reason to evict Schweitzer from the party he doesn't deserve to be in. We don't need this tool in our party to make us look bad on women and LGBT issues come 2016.

It's just beyond offensive, and I don't even live in the South! Cantor has a wife and three kids and he isn't nor has he ever been or "seem" gay. Heck, his district is barely even in the South. To imply that Southern, straight men though all have feminist characteristics, which according to Schweitzer automatically sets suspicion that they're gay, is just despicable.

As for his uncalled for attacks on Feinstein, he's just mad that Feinstein wants to take his guns and "privacy" away. I doubt Schweitzer will apologize for his statements, and if that's the case, this is all fair game right here for #Ready4Hillary to attack him on.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

As a matter of amateur sociolinguistics, I actually do think Schweitzer is correct that many southern men talk in a way that comes across as stereotypically gay to those of us used to the more reserved mannerisms of regions like the upper Midwest (or Canada, in my case).

Agreed, although he still shouldn't have said it. 

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

All the more reason to evict Schweitzer from the party he doesn't deserve to be in. We don't need this tool in our party to make us look bad on women and LGBT issues come 2016.

It's just beyond offensive, and I don't even live in the South! Cantor has a wife and three kids and he isn't nor has he ever been or "seem" gay. Heck, his district is barely even in the South. To imply that Southern, straight men though all have feminist characteristics, which according to Schweitzer automatically sets suspicion that they're gay, is just despicable.

As for his uncalled for attacks on Feinstein, he's just mad that Feinstein wants to take his guns and "privacy" away. I doubt Schweitzer will apologize for his statements, and if that's the case, this is all fair game right here for #Ready4Hillary to attack him on.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize membership in the Democratic party had to be "earned."  Is there a committee that determines who has done so and who hasn't?  In any event, it's a good thing the Clintons never did anything that might be offensive to minorities like using race-baiting to try to beat Obama in 2008

[eric82oslo]

Showed this to a friend, and he came back with this debate question for 2016:

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Brilliant.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

All the more reason to evict Schweitzer from the party he doesn't deserve to be in. We don't need this tool in our party to make us look bad on women and LGBT issues come 2016.

It's just beyond offensive, and I don't even live in the South! Cantor has a wife and three kids and he isn't nor has he ever been or "seem" gay. Heck, his district is barely even in the South. To imply that Southern, straight men though all have feminist characteristics, which according to Schweitzer automatically sets suspicion that they're gay, is just despicable.

As for his uncalled for attacks on Feinstein, he's just mad that Feinstein wants to take his guns and "privacy" away. I doubt Schweitzer will apologize for his statements, and if that's the case, this is all fair game right here for #Ready4Hillary to attack him on.

For once you're spot on about Schweitzer.

[TDAS04]

I like Schweitzer and his candor that has made him popular, but if he's even considering seeking political office again in the future, this particular statement was not a smart one to make.  Who knows, maybe he doesn't plan on running again, and he's more free than ever to speak his mind.

[Badger]

Such errant statements do not reflect the gravitas necessary to be a national candidate, to put it nicely.

[Simfan34]

With his behavior and public comments lately, Brian Schweitzer might actually end up being a presidential front runner in 2016 after all.  For the Republicans.

I'd repeat this and be something like 20% serious. I mean, what the f[inks] is going on with this guy?