Now he's a Libertarian, which was no big stretch since they and the tea baggers share economic policies.

I left the Republican party because it no longer represents my principles and values.

The organization I founded, GOProud, was the de facto "Gays for Mitt Romney" in the 2012 election.

He's just gone from the party of assholes who say no, to the party of assholes who have no chance.

who woke up to the realization to what her party has become..she had a great interview on MSBNC last evening

the republican party has been racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-worker for as long as I can remember

The only possible excuse this person has is being in a coma for 30 years and even then it would be a poor excuse.

Better late than never, I suppose.

But WTF could have POSSIBLY taken you so long? Is it that you just don't watch the news?

step into the unknown.

It is our job to accept them and help them see they made the right decision. Forget his past and judge him on his works and words going further.

Years ago we turned a police informant by treating her better than she was treated by the police.

So he's not much of an ally.

are very closely allied.

If it means one less ex-Republican driving the Democratic Party rightward.

Yes. This is how the divide could possibly, one day be healed, or at least shrunken. We have to be the better alternative - we have to be the solution. I feel that this might be the only way to avoid the ideological war I have feared for years. A whole lot of republicans really aren't as crazy or as nasty as the public face of their party. Their silence is what keeps the idiots and bigots in charge. I am glad any time I see someone stand up to them and speak out.

Granted, libertarian isn't much better than Tea Party republican, but it seems to me that this is someone capable of thought and change. Give it time - republicans can become democrats and conservatives can become liberals. We've seen it happen plenty of times here at DU.

is that he has rejected only a few of the Republican party principles (homophobia and religious bigotry; possibly explicit racism). And a good thing too! But he does not appear to have rejected the fundamental economic attitudes of the Republicans, which are just another form of bigotry against the poor, sick, elderly, very young, and others who cannot simply 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps'. He hasn't become a Democrat or even an independent; he has become a Libertarian.

I would entirely agree about not judging converts by their past; but this person is not much of a convert, really.

world view of the Libertarian. Let's hope he grows up.

vocal now. Glad this clown has seen the light, but how much hope can their be for someone who thought Mitt Romney would make an effective leader?

it discouraged quality candidates.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cloth_coat_Republican

is bigoted and backward.

But that time is long gone.

Willie Horton?

other forms of bigotry espoused by the Rs. How does he feel about the treatment of members of minority groups, of women, of the poor, of immigrants... The list goes on.

Of course 'limited government conservativism' is in itself generally a form of bigotry against poor people and those who depend on public services (e.g. Romney's '47% are takers'). But I'm glad that even some Republicans are beginning to reject some of the homophobia and religious bigotry.

Including this person. All of a sudden they have an epiphany ??? Get back with me in a month with 38 days and six holidays in it. When the party was spouting all that hate rhetoric, where was this person. I didn't hear them speaking out??? In fact I have yet to hear anyone in the Republican party saying anything about this hate induced rhetoric. When they don't speak out against it, I must assume they are for it. When their party really hurt them, then its a problem. This party has been brutal for years with its bigotry. And as far as I am concerned this person can go fuck themselves.

The party was fine when it was all about fucking the poor, but when they started picking on me, that wouldn't do.

eyes:

assholes will be waiting for him.

minorities and the poor?

Did you see the thread on the idiot wanting to turn Detroit into a reservation for native americans?

Herd them all in there...

What the hell are these clowns drinking?

His new party is like the old one, a party of racists, theocrats and RWNJs. There is no room in their world view for many of us.

They are now importing people from other Countries to take the place of all the people they are running out of the city. Enough black people haven't left for the Republicans. They have taken them by car and bus and dropped them in rural areas. they have evicted them from their homes. They showed us a plan Dan Gilbert had of his vision for Detroit. There were no Black people in his artist rendition of the drawing. So many folks think they know what's happening here. But Detroit is Bankrupt and under full assault.

I feel like 'this can not be happening' but a lot of what is being done in MI is beyond my ability to comprehend.

TRMS covered some of the Belle Harbor and disenfranchisement - but IDK what happened.

One DUer said he was going to move to the island to live in the new city that the rich were going to create there.

I have no words for this.

and have the links ready I will let you know. I will pm you when its ready. Governor Snyder is a real piece of work. He wants to be re-elected. He is trying to do things to placate Detroit. But we have a little something planned for our beloved Governor. Its called showing up to the polls.

Wow. That's a bold statement. I guess he still can't vote for Democrats. Nothing to see here. Clueless as ever.

Net change:

Republican -1
Democrat 0
Libertarian +1

And this self-impressed jerk didnt notice the bigotry before mittens? And only anti-gay hate bothers him?
He never noticed all the other hate? He didnt notice the repuke standard operating procedure- -demonize everyone but their own?

a Republican that wasn't a bigot.

But, will bet a nickel that what spun him around was something personal and directly affecting his life rather than the persons the Repukes have been spitting on for decades. When things begin to affect , "me, me, me" a person suddenly gets religion. Regardless, welcome.

a paycheck wake up and quit voting for Republicans. It's no different than gay people voting Republican.

...your former party hasn't actually changed, it's pretty much been on the course to this since you were 10 years old. They're just feeling their oats enough to think the crazy shit they've believed for years is so self-evident and universal that they're "just telling it like it is" and "not bowing to political correctness".

In short, they've come to believe their own advertising so much they forget how much is just marketing for "big government, as long as they are in charge of it".

The party you grew up supporting never had the goals you were taught it did. Think on that for a while. If your perception of those around you was so wrong, what about your perception of your opposition, liberals? You think maybe we may just have picked up on this sooner that you did?

And if you think going Libertarian is any better, think again. You'll just be another useful idiot for the same bunch you're breaking with, using "small government" rhetoric to simply eliminate the parts of big government that they don't like and cutting you loose when it comes to keeping the parts they do like.

Thank you. They have been a party of racists and bigots since Nixon started the Southern Strategy.

The essence of the party has never changed. It is always about the richest aristocrats and plutocrats. However, there is this inconvenient thing in the Constitution that says they get only one vote -- just the same as any other white man. (Blacks get 3/5s and women get zero. Yeah, that's about right.)

So in order to legally hold the power, they have to get morons to vote against their own interests. And the easiest way to do that is with wedges: racism, gay-bashing, and abortion work great.

So there is nothing new here. The plutocrats are not any more repulsed by people of color than any of the other commoners. But they need all the racists, gay-bashers, and misogynists on their team in order to have enough votes. As you say, they are just a bit more transparent about it these days. But it is the same old stuff that it has been for 60 years.

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GOProud is very hard right politically, basically the go-to organization of some hundred or so disaffected CONservatives who think that the Log Cabin Republicans are bleeding heart lib'ruls. Yeah, crazy stuff. My opinion only.

your party has, for a very long time, supported bigotrys of all kinds.

So he left the party of overt bigotry and exploitation for the party of covert bigotry and exploitation. Changing the label doesn't change the essence of the thing.

s/he is, but the rest of the bigotry is fine. Fuck 'em.

Republicans today like big government? Where have you been the last 14 years?

Republicans held hostage to bigots? Where have you been the last 100 years?

This jerk was fine with policies that have been destroying lower income Americans for years and now we're supposed to applaud his epiphany once he got tired of the bigotry directed at him?

They love Romney-style economic policies.

"After leaving Log Cabin Republicans, he along with fellow former LCR employee, Christopher R. Barron started GOProud, intended to be the conservative answer to Log Cabin Republicans leftward drift. They have co-sponsored CPAC two years in a row" -
Ann Coulter was the headliner for them.

"LaSalvia considers himself a social conservative. He is pro-life, opposes gun control, and opposes anti-discrimination laws"

What do you say about someone like this?

If he ever decides to vote Democratic, I'd take the vote, but I'd never, ever welcome someone this thickheaded as a political ally, not if I wanted to accomplish anything.

He does need a new "activist" job, after all.

platform ever supported lgbt rights? that last quoted paragraph is hilarious. rmoney AFRAID pf the bigots in the party? exactly how blind IS/WAs the author of this little piece of silliness?

I will thank him, though, for providing some much-needed laughs today.

but all bigots are Republican.