Lesbian Democrat “Outs” Three Republicans
“There’s no ‘gay’ way to fix a pothole,” or at least that’s what one of our many back issues of the now-defunct George magazine told us over a decade ago – a key moment in the evolution of our fairly progressive views on the issue of homosexuality.
Yet while there may be no ‘gay’ way to fix a pothole, there may be a ‘gay’ way to be a RINO – or “Republican in Name Only.”
That’s because all three of the South Carolina “GOP” politicians who were apparently dragged out of the closet last weekend by former (and future?) Democratic Congressional candidate Linda Ketner aren’t really Republicans.
Are U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell gay, though?
Ketner certainly thinks so. In fact, here’s an excerpt from her explosive interview on the left-leaning website Firedoglake:
I asked (Ketner) if she thought being upfront about being gay, even campaigning with her partner of 9 years, Beth Huntley, impacted the race. “When you lose by such a tight margin, anything could have played a role.” In focus groups she found that people didn’t care about her personal sexual preference but respected her honesty. “We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably in anyplace in the United States; they’re just not out of the closet. We have an awful lot of people in the closet– Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who’s our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor…”
Wow.
In regards to Graham and McConnell, Ketner is simply lending voice to what innumerable sources have told FITS is established fact.
As for Bauer, FITS has received detailed confirmation of at least one heterosexual relationship involving the Lt. Governor in the past, although one of the hottest rumors on the campaign trail back in 2002 was that a Newberry County divorce action allegedly implicated Bauer in a homosexual tryst with a married man. Those allegations never went public, though, largely because no documents ever surfaced to corroborate the claims.
As far as we know, Bauer is as straight as the blades on a helicopter.
Graham, Bauer and McConnell are all single, which obviously doesn’t help.
What concerns us, though, is not their sexuality but their approach to government and their views on fiscal responsiblity.
As far as we’re concerned, there is no ‘gay’ way to protect the taxpayers – something all three of these alleged Nancies have proven incapable of doing during their terms in office.
Comments
By Liberty for me on June 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
OHHH What a shock…Lindsey???? No Way!!
He is a mans man.You dont see anybody any more masculine than him…LOL..
Really..we all know these RINOs are doing circle jerks to each other and to our wallets.
By Natasha on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
So, do we know their type? What do they like, want some evidence Sic…
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
It’s not that these guys are single, it’s that they are “curiously single.” Strom was a bachelor into his 40s, but he was chasing girls with the same gusto that Michael Phelps swims. McConnell and Graham have no interest in females, by all appearances. Bauer has been seen in the company of hot women, but let’s face it: he has been known to be a bit disingenuous from time to time. The same people who see Bauer with a girl and think he’s straight are the same people who see him passing out blankets to old people and and think he’s is compassionate rather than a shameless panderer.
Did Ketner mention any judges? Like Danny Pieper? He’s rumored to be a McConnell … ally.
By GTA on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Tumpy Campbell… gay or straight? do tell Ketner! You’re not the only one with gaydar in this state
By Keep Reading on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Before everyone spreads more rumor and innuendo as fact, read Ketner’s post in reply #19 in the same interview. She has no proof and no substance to her claim. As she put it, “Those are the rumors.”
It’s a sad day when a former (and possibly future) candidate for public office repeats rumors, which have been denied repeatedly, in a public forum with no facts to back them up.
Here’s Ketner’s full reply:
LindaGKetner May 30th, 2009 at 11:23 am
19
In response to hackworth1 @ 9
Thank you much!
People come out when they’re ready I suppose … I took a long time myself. And, it is particularly dangerous to employment in SC since it’s legal to fire you for being gay and it has happened many times. But, I simply had to come out. The lack of integrity in being closeted was driving me crazy.
By the way, in Howie’s intro, he quoted me as saying several members of state and U.S. government were gay … I don’t know that for sure having never been intimate with any of them. Those are the rumors.
By CNSYD on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
If Ketner didn’t have all that Food Lion money behind her we would never have heard of her.
By fitsnews on June 2nd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
“Keep Reading,”
Are you “hackworth1 @9.” And if so, what’s the weather like down at the Trekkie convention?
-FITS
By keith H. Seymour on June 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I have hear the rumors about Lodsey Graha, and McConnell is a new one for me though. I hav ehard the rumours about Andre’s Bauer, and I hav e known the Lt. Governor over 20n years. My Mother was his 8th grade math teahcer.
Since high school, Andre bauer has always considered himself the Lady’s man, and even his mother can tell you this. I eevn ran inot Andre’s Mother at the S.C. Repiblican Convention a few weeks back, and when Imenitoned to her that Andre considered himself the Lady’s Man in high school, her response was “he still doees.” Shedi d mention that he recnetly brok up with his latest romance, but they are friends, and she “allows him visitation rates to the puppy they bought together.
Why is it that a well-spoken cultured guy in his 40,s whois single, who works hard, and des not sleep around )likemany democrats), has to be gay and in the closet? Just because democrats live that way does not mean the rest of the world does?
Maybe this Lesbian who outed these people is not dealing with facts, but fantasy. Maybe she is wishing they are gay, so she cna have some amoral threesome with two of them.
Bottom Line is: you better have proof or back off!!
By Eric on June 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Keith, I normally don’t point out typos – but yours make your post unreadable. It makes me feel dyslexic.
By Steven on June 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
All three—GAY.
By Broom with a C on June 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
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By BIN News Editorial Staff on June 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Can anyone explain the point of sic(k) willie’s post or explain anything the m@r@ns that followed have said? What’s the point?
Frankly, who cares what the point is.
By Cooter Brown on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 am
Why eben old Cooter knew dat! Ain’t no secrets in SC, folks. Onlie cober-ups!
By HammerheadSC on June 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 am
Bin we say the same thing about your postings.
By Anon on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
The point is that Willie doesn’t even mention the bigger bomb launched by Ketner at his sweetheart, Katherine Jenerette in comment 22.
Does Willie think that Jenerette is such a nobody she doesn’t merit coverage?
By Ryan on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am
Those of us who live in Columbia hear the buzz about all three of them from time to time. The queens at the local gay watering hole call Sen. Graham “good ole’ Linda Graham” and at least one person I know says he ‘knows’ Bauer is ‘family’. Not sure how you prove it, but it is nice that Linda Kenter is calling them out for hypocrisy.
By Workin' Tommy C on June 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I thought it was common knowledge that Lindsey Gaham lives with his homosexual “partner” in Washington, D.C.
Butt then, this is yet another reason to be revolted at Gaham’s continuing to use and abuse his seat to rake in money for his personal ambitions.
It may actually be that he’s really not just homosexual but “omnisexual.” After all, he screws every one one of us every chance he gets, doesn’t he?
By Windy City Watch on June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
If the rumors about Graham are true he should either resign from the Air Force reserves (DADT) or acknowledge he is gay, claim he is not resigning and take a stand.
By bozo the clown on June 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Ketner is such a bull dike
By PalmettoRunoff on June 11th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Bauer has definitely been known to take young dames home from Five Points. He’s so skilled at the practice, it’s reputed that he has a “Clapper” device to shut off the bedside lights.
That said, he does have that Thomas Ravenel thing going on. And it’s long been said that T-Rav was “definitely into some of that gay stuff.”
By Lesbo Videos on June 17th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Thanks for all the help dude.
By patricia dowd on January 23rd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
After Andre’s mentally retarded remarks about people who recieve food stamps and public assistance he needs to be neutered and this issue laid to rest. Rumors are rumors and facts are facts. Things arent always what they seem and this seems to be the case with Mr Bauer. He says one thing publically but practices other things behind closed doors. I say if it looks like a dog (which he compares his very own constituants to dogs and animals) and smells like a dog and woofs like one to boot but the dog acts like a great big pussy…..then we have Andre! Yes, he compared people who get food stamps and other assistance to dogs and he used the term BREEDING when he referred to poor people having children. Since when in America is there selective “breeding”? Since when can only the rich and the educated have children? Since when should we punish school aged children who recieve free or reduced priced lunches just for being the off spring of people who werent born with a silver spoon stuck up the friggin rosey smelling asses? Rosey smelling asses like the one I suppose he himself was personally born with! What a hypocritical liar! I thought that I had heard it all but things just keep getting more and more interesting here in the state of South Carolina! Never a dull moment here for sure! I just hope that they crucify this pompous- in the closet-lover girl in the news just like they did to Sanford when he let his penis be his GPS for that infamous little trip to Argentina last summer. I will always have more respect for the truth and would willing vote for an openly gay candidate who could get the job done versus a candidate who is a liar and one who not only a liar but who has the gall to look down his nose at the very constituants who voted his lame ass into office! He said that there are more people voting for a living than working for a living! My God didnt he get the same American history course in school as I did? The Great Depression was one time that I can think of real quick like! The children who suffered in that awful period were the parents that I personally got for myself. My parents were children during those years and they know what it was like. Andre is the same age as myself and we all know that he didnt suffer one iota growing up as far as food was concerned that is. Maybe being in the closet so long has blinded him to whats really going on in the world today. Good thing he is gay. If he were’nt we may would have another mini Andre running around and that would make me wanna scream. He said poor people are like stray animals and that we should’nt feed them. You know why? Because they breed! This is a direct quote from the State News Paper dated Jan 23, 2010! Yes, so we have people by virtue of being poor dont have the right to even be spoken about with dignity! They breed! Just as if they were sex crazed ignorant animals! Breed! MY GOD! What have we elected! Shame on you Andre! Guess we wont ever have a scandal involving you as the “father” of some poor unwed girls baby will we! You would actually have to have sex with a woman then! Chances are slim that we will ever see that headline make the front page. As long as you lie Andre your worthless as a politician and as a human being in my eyes. Good thing I dont run a thing except my mouth cause I wouldnt make anyones sexual orientation an issue at all but being a LIAR and a hypocrite I would! Yes, there are other things about the politicians that serve me and my fellow South Carolinians that I care more about than their sexual secrets they keep hidden, and one of those things is telling the truth and caring about the people they represent. Letting him compare us all to dogs and animals is like letting that man slap us all in the face! Read what he said and if its as upsetting to you all as it was to me then lets do something about it and get this jack ass out of office and fast!