Gay Republicans laud Bush despite 2004 election history

Politics really does make strange bedfellows.

President Bush, who won reelection in 2004 largely by whipping up a furor among evangelical Christians over the specter of gay marriage (a Karl Rove strategy), today signed a bill expanding U.S. aid to combat global HIV/AIDS. 

The bill was named for the late Tom Lantos and the late Henry Hyde, two titans of Congress on opposite sides of most issues except this one. And it constitutes the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history -- up to $48 billion to combat global HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

As C2C mentioned last week in its item "Will Africa Be Bush's Legacy?" the legislation will actually matter to people in developing nations.

So maybe it's not surprising that the Log Cabin Republicans, those intrepid conservatives who tried to continue their allegiance to the GOP even as right-wingers blasted them for not being straight, applauded.

"President Bush has done tremendous work to combat this disease globally and that deserves to be an important part of his legacy," said David Reznik, Log Cabin's HIV/AIDS policy consultant. "This legislation will continue the dramatic improvements in the lives of millions of people living with this disease."

But it's hard not to think back on the 2004 GOP convention, when these the same Log Cabin Republicans blasted the Republicans' platform that urged a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages and opposed legal recognition of any sort for gay unions. With a platform like that, said the 2004 Log Cabins, the GOP was putting "lipstick on a pig" by inviting moderates such as New York's Rudy Giuliani and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger to address the convention in prime time.

Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon explained it this way in an e-mail.

"Our record clearly speaks for itself in criticizing this administration’s anti-gay record," he said. "However, the president signed a bill that will literally save millions of lives & included a provision that will end one of the most bigoted laws on our books (the travel and immigration ban against HIV positive foreigners).  For us not to recognize his efforts would be to say we care more about holding a grudge than recognizing solid public policy.  That doesn’t mean we won’t criticize this administration or any other Republican when they do the wrong thing on gay issues."

-- Johanna Neuman

Photo: Damon Winter / Los Angeles Times

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The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530

RE: Document Hold Notice for Emails of Karl Rove

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

We represent public interest clients on behalf of which we intend to assert an Ohio Corrupt Practices Act/RICO claim against Mr. Karl Rove and others based upon their activities beginning in 2000 to use corporate treasury money and other resources in violation of applicable laws to establish single faction, dominance in the United States, military dominance in the world and generally undermine the rule of law as it had developed over the course of the past century.

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communicating to protect such electronic records from destruction pending our opportunity to discover them in the course of the prospective litigation.

Sincerely yours,

Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.

Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.
Attorney at Law

cc: John Conyers, Jr., Chairman, U.S. House Cmte on the Judiciary
Robert Fitrakis, Esq.
Henry Eckhart, Esq.

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