Barney Frank on Gay Republicans

Rep. Barney Frank (MA) comes out swinging against gay republicans and the outright hypocrisy in the Republican party.

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[sutircomed]

gay Republican = Stockholm syndrome

[Dethreid]

republicans =/= gaybashers...

ask the candidate what he/she thinks about gays, then you will know what they think.

[MACKATTACK1970]

Stephen Moore and the wall street journal are a joke. Thanks for outing this fool for his stupidity.

[sooowatsup100]

@Madfoot713 you're just making excuses for racism, but you're a conservatives so expect that out of you. oh, and you're a hypocrit to with no honor and no integrity since you engage in behavior that your fellow conservatives condem you to hell for. byrd and gore, sr., like goldwater, were typical southern racists . . . you know, like you are. if you voted against the civil rights act then you're a racist, period. deal with it.

[Madfoot713]

@Madfoot713 By the way, when people say that Republicans were the party who passed Civil Rights, keep in mind that's the post-FDR, anti-New Deal GOP. Fiscal conservatism isn't racist.

[Madfoot713]

@sooowatsup100 No he wasn't. He was against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but not the acts of 1957 and 1960 or the 24th Amendment. Keep in mind this was controversial for Republicans at the time, and he didn't filibuster against it either, like senior democrats of the day did like Robert Byrd and Al Gore Sr.

I'll leave you to figure out why Goldwater didn't like the Act of 1964. It's just a little bit of research if you're willing to learn.

[sooowatsup100]

@Madfoot713 barry goldwater was against voting freedom for black people. barry goldwater was against civil rights for black people. therefore, barry goldwater was an anti-black racist. when you say he wasn't a racist it just makes black people want to vote for liberals and democrats even more than they already do. you don't think he was a racist because you are against civil rights and voting rights for black people and so you too are an anti-black racist.

[Madfoot713]

@sooowatsup100 He didn't hate black people, and no, he didn't regret his conservatism (perhaps you have quotes for either of these...). He would have hated the modern-day Republican Party, but for the reason that they're not true conservatives at all. It's the same reason he always hated the Religious Right. Forcing your values on all of society from on high aren't conservative values, and they never have been. He was a constitutional conservative.

[sooowatsup100]

@Madfoot713 ha, so you're just going to ignore his hatred of black people? indeed, goldwater did become more LIBERAL as he got older and he openly REGRETTED his overtly conservative past. the republican party of arizona changed the name of their state headquarters because of his 90s liberalization before he died. hmmm, you might call his late liberalism a sort of repentence; maybe he was thinking about his salvation. maybe you ought to think about yours too?

[Madfoot713]

@sooowatsup100 Barry Goldwater spoke out against DADT as early as the '90s, and not because he believed in a flat-out ban either.