The civility wars and gay conservatives

Yesterday Lisa De Pasquale, GOProud’s interim chair, published a piece worth reading in The Daily Caller calling out the gay Left for its vicious treatment of gay conservatives and their supporters while simultaneously deploring bullying: Dan Savage, the “It Gets Better” project’s co-founder, has been just as vicious toward gay conservatives as schoolyard bullies have …

Lisa De Pasquale is the new interim chair of GOProud, replacing Chris Barron

GOProud announced yesterday that co-founder Christopher Barron is stepping down as chairman of the board. Lisa De Pasquale, former executive director of CPAC from June 2006 to April 2011 has been elected interim chairman of the board. Chris will continue as GOProud’s chief strategist and serve on the board as chairman emeritus. Joe.My.God., a progressive …

UPDATED: Sec. Hillary Clinton bravely speaks out for gay equality

Today Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to a UN gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, made an eloquent speech supporting gay equality in observance of International Human Rights Day — click the link to read the whole thing. It’s worth it. Here is a sample (bolding mine): At three o’clock in the morning on December …

Mary Matalin and Ken Mehlman speaking at GOProud’s fundraiser

My favorite points from Republican strategist Ken Mehlman, who recently came out as gay: Mary Matalin has made conservativism cool again. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan restored the Republican party to being a party of ideas, rather than something you were born as. There’s a short glimpse of me at the beginning of the video …

What if James Carville isn’t distorting what conservatives believe as a rhetorical trick, but …

… because he actually believes that’s what we believe? Last night I had the pure joy and honor to meet Mary Matalin and chat with her at the fundraiser she held in her home for GOProud. Whenever I’ve seen her on television she’s always been under enemy fire, so while I knew about her brilliance, …

Cleta Mitchell tells Samantha Bee how to use a 527 to go negative

The Daily Show – So You Want to Bee a…? – 527 Organization Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I came across this video when I was Googling to learn more about her and it won’t play from Comedy Central’s site so I’m embedding it here to see …