Since Kathy Shaidle posted my threat last night to change my tagline from, “A Newly Conservative Lesbian, ” to “A Newly Conservative Lesbian with Really Big Breasts,” — I’ll explain soon, I promise — I couldn’t resist teasing you with the headline. My “Beau” is my darling Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, III, who is named …
Tag Archives: Fiscal conservatism
How to turn around blighted neighborhoods for free, the conservative way
As a minority, lesbians and gays have few, if any, friends and allies willing to expend political capital on our behalf — although other minorities accept all the golden eggs we produce for them with endless handfuls of gimme and mouths full of “much obliged.” We also have less family support than any other minority …
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Michael Steele's Rush Limbaugh gaffe and how to go forward to victory
Little Miss Attila kindly asked me what I thought of this post at her blog, and here is my answer: My concern with Steele’s put-down of Limbaugh is that it makes me question his personality, his judgment and his qualifications for the job of chairman of the Republican National Committee, which Rush correctly pointed out …
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Gay marriage as Penelope's web vs. Nixon to China
Here’s the thing about getting gay marriage legalized — it makes a LOT more sense for me to engage conservatives on the issue than liberal Democrats because I only have to educate conservatives about the “gay” part of the issue and joyfully, that work not only stays done, but actually begins to multiply itself virally …
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Yes, I can
Yesterday I attended the first of two meetings on Conservatism 2.0 at CPAC in Washington, D.C., and when one of the panelists specifically included lesbians and gays as people that conservatism should look to welcome, I made bold to speak. Oh, wait, now I remember, actually, then I felt a lot better about making bold …
Is this how werewolves feel?
I got pulled into the gravitational field of the blogosphere right after Sarah Palin’s luminous speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008. I am a lesbian and life-long Democrat, but Barack Obama’s last chance to get my support lay in his choice of vice president. When he didn’t choose Hillary Clinton, I considered myself …