Maureen Dowd has a wonderful and sometimes hilarious conversation with Barney Frank about the possibility of election a gay president in our lifetime. She notes that we're already watching J. Edgar Hoover having sex with his lover on screen. Joe McCarthy's team spirit has yet to become part of his legacy.
But Republicans are made extremely uncomfortable by all this.
Frank said that although most Republicans now acknowledge that sexual orientation is not a choice, they still can’t handle their pols’ coming out. “There are Republicans here who are gay,” he said of Congress, “but as long as they don’t acknowledge it, it’s O.K. Republicans only tolerate you being gay as long as you don’t seem proud of it. You’ve got to be apologetic.”
Bill Maher gets right down to cases.
“Can you imagine how much a gay president would have to overcompensate to please the macho ninnies who control our national debate?” Bill Maher told me. “Women like Hillary have to do it, Obama had to do it because he’s black and liberal, but a gay president? He’d have to nuke something the first week.”
Things changed since Abe Lincoln slept with his military guards openly. We gradually lost our independence and good sense. We really need to "out" the macho ninnies and take the national debate back from them.
