NEWS: My Opponent Is a Gay Homosexual

POLITICS: My Opponent Is a Gay Homosexual

The already weird re-election campaign of incumbent Republican Senator from Kentucky Jim Bunning got weirder, as leading Republicans questioned the manhood and sexuality of Democratic challenger Daniel Mongiardo at a rally yesterday.

For Williams's part, he said that "limp-wristed" doesn't mean "gay", and, further, it's the Democrats who are saying being gay is bad, not him.

OK, sure, Dave. This strikes me as sounding like one of those asshats who calls things they don't like "gay" and then claims they're not being homophobic.

Meanwhile, the doddering junior senator continues to say bizarre things that give his opponents ammunition.

The Bunning campaign is a slow-motion trainwreck at this point. Expect the Democrats to pick up a seat here in the Bluegrass state.

That does sound more like they are just saying he is weak.

let's keep our fingers crossed!

democrat-lite, Brad Carson may just do the same in Oklahoma.

I certainly wouldn't want a handjob from a limp-wristed Democrat. Jim Bunning for town whore!

Yes, I'd buy that explanation as well. If I had been living under a rock. In a cave. On Mars. For twenty years.

Ok let me give a little example.

I was at my cousins house the other day and we called up my other cousin to get him to come out.

He said no.

The cousin I was with said "don't be such a pussy."

Was he questioning my cousins sexuality? Or was he just using an inappropriate slur to attack his supposed weakness?

That is, after all, how most people use these slurs.

One of these days, you will learn that context informs meaning. And that argument from anecdote is not actually an argument.

And here is the context: both speeches were in front of rabidly Republican crowds in little towns in backwoods Kentucky, and were made after speeches lambasting John Kerry and Daniel Mongiardo for not opposing gay marriage (never mind that both of them have said they think marriage should be between a man and a woman; they've just said constituional amendments to ban it are unneccesary.) With the amount of gay-baiting the Republicans are doing in this race, that's damn well what they meant. Williams and Tori might as well have said "That Mongiardo boy sure looks like a faggot to me." That's what the crowd heard, anyway, judging from the roar of approval it got.

Sorry, I know speculation stated as fact, such as your original post, is a much better argument.

i love this country so much.

Sorry couldn't get past the title "... Gay Homosexual." Sounds like an oxymoron. Someone is either referred to as Gay or as a Homosexual. To state that a particular Homosexual is Gay... isn't that calling him or her Straight?

Therefore to re-title "My Opponent is a Straight"

the rest, I couldn't care about Republican or Democrat positions... unless there's pictures

You can't say something is a better argument relative to your post because you didn't actually make an argument.

You ignored the rather obvious context of a news story to defend someone pandering to a crowd's homophobia. Then you offered a completely inapposite anecdote as backup. I was smarmy about it, but that doesn't make you any less wrong.

The title is a reference to the "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" episode of South Park.

Thanks for asking!

You should watch their TV ads; now there's a constant source of entertainment. I especially like how Bunning and his contemparies like to brag how they're opposed to gay marriage while avoiding the "offensive" word. Instead, they constantly crow how they "fight to protect marriage," as if rabid hordes of homosexuals will break into your home and court house to rip up your marriage certificate and convert your wife to lesbianism.

Shut up! That, like, totally happened to me last week.

And having supposed context to your speculation doesn't make stating speculation as fact any less wrong.

Meh.

Honestly I hate SG's "NEWS" because it is rarely news, it is just political commentary, on both sides.

I always feel a twinge of guilt for those poor people who get other states' political ads foisted on them, too. I'm so sorry.

Though the "Medicaid Millionaire" ad will go down in comedy history.

ok then, I guess I'm asking. What is the reference? re-stating the sentence above as "A Big Gay Boat Ride by Big Gay Al" is not an oxymoron, so there must be something in the episode in particular. Would you be so kind as to clue me in (or at least tell me what season its from so I know which dvd set to buy)? Please?

okay, anyone here who doesnt know that limp wristed is a gay reference, please remove yourself from the gene pool. i dont care how, suicide, castration, either one works for me.

really, if the republican party is going to continue crossing these lines, we are never going to have an election about the issues again.

That's hilarious.

Hey, you want to get back to arguing about how the word "limp-wristed" just means "weak," or do you want to keep whining about speculation this and speculation that? You're basically saying, "I insisted the world is flat, but you were mean about it!"

And by the way, it wasn't speculation. If you don't know that "limp-wristed" is a way of implying "gay" in a derogatory manner, you really should get out more. Or maybe you were just being disingenuous.

It's from Season 1.

Cartman tells Stan, "That dog is a gay homosexual!"

I know what it implies, I also know that when people make gay slurs they are not always implying that they believe the person actually is a homosexual. If you do not recognize this YOU need to get out in the world more.

It's sad but true, "fag", "pussy", etc are thrown around to mean all kinds of things, generally just a generic slur meaning weakness of some sort. You can claim whatever evidence you want, you are still speculating as to what the person meant.

I have to apologize though, I thought you were the original poster. So you didn't state it as fact. Though you do seem to be agreeing with that statement.

You can't even begin to compare this to the proven fact that the earth is round. I'm sorry, you just can't, and to try to is an incredibly FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT.

You can't be serious.

Come on. Anyone who uses the phrase "limp-wristed" to refer to a Democrat in front of a rabidly partisan crowd in an ass-backwards Kentucky town (like the one I grew up in; in fact, I think one of these speeches was in my hometown) is going for something in particular.

This is vicious gay-baiting. My guess is that Williams and Tori got sloppy and thought that they could slip this by the Lexington and Louisville media, similar to how Trent Lott thought his line about how great it would have been had Strom Thurmond won the Presidency in 1948 on a viciously pro-segregation platform wouldn't make the news cycle.