David Dreier: “Wanna get away?”
Back around 2005, there was some turmoil within the Republican Party. Leadership was changing, and David Dreier, the telegenic and always immaculately-groomed Congressman from California was often mentioned in conversations regarding filling the new leadership posts. Alas, he was passed over…
Why?
Because it is an open secret that David Dreier is gay. And no homosexual can hold a leadership position in the homophobic Republican caucus.
Actually, I’m being unfair.
Washington Republicans aren’t homophobic, at least so far as I’ve been able to tell. Hell, they knew about Mark Foley for years.
No… The problem is that the Republican base (and its hard-core Christian-right constituency) will not tolerate a Republican Party that elevates a gay to leadership. And with Dreier widely known to be gay, they saw scandal on the horizon.
Honestly, I feel really badly for David Dreier. He must feel so all alone.
I worry about this post. I worry that picking on poor David Dreier like this may imperil my ability to speak with other Hill Republicans; I may have touched a third rail.
But… As Mike Rogers points out… What other group in society is expected to protect its enemies? David Dreier stood quietly as George Bush and Karl Rove ran their “Save Traditional Marriage” campaign. Dreier, before being passed over for leadership, was constantly on my television telling me how great George Bush and Dick Cheney were. The man, at the very minimum, aided and abetted haters. And I haven’t even begun to discuss his record on Prop. 8, DOMA, DADT or any of the other discriminatory legislation embraced and passed by (mostly) Republican hypocrits.
that;s what you get for being a hatemonguer in the closet.a’la michael savage
racso
22 Oct 09 at 12:23 am
I have no sympathy for politicians like Dreier who support policies which promote discrimination and violence against queers. I don’t care what their sexual orientations are.
libhomo
28 Oct 09 at 7:43 am
There are people (including gay Republicans) who will scream that someone like Mr. Dreier has the right to savor and emmerse himself in homosexual acts with his lover and then vote against glbt equal rights in Congress. They say he has the right to portray glbt people (such as Mary Cheney) as undeserving of marriage rights and also a predatory lesbianic danger to military unit cohesion. Yet how many of these positions would be anything other than laughable, if Dreier admitted to the electorate that he is a practicing homosexual? Every position he holds would suddenly disintegrate in the light of day. His idol George Bush was proud of his orientation and frequently paraded his female lover to the public. Why do all of Dreier’s het idols freely share their heterosexual identity 24/7, yet he cloaks his in a shadow of shame and embarrassment?
Gary
28 Oct 09 at 11:45 pm
I watched “Outrage” last night and thought it was wonderful. Hypocrisy is killing us gays and the hypocrisy of the gay politicians is, in most part, doing it. Thanks for contributing to the documentary.
Lee Hollimon
Lee Hollimon
31 Oct 09 at 3:44 pm
What an absolute piece of scum.
People like him should be sued class action by gays who have been denied their rights and who have been bashed in the street.
NO SCRUPLES. NO CREDIBILITY. NO RE-ELECTION!
OzPoof
8 Nov 09 at 2:10 pm
Don’t you mean A.E. “Dick” Howard, rather than “E. Howard Dick?”
Virginia
12 Nov 09 at 4:50 pm