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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP presidential candidate refuses to back Romney
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/13/news/la-pn-requiem-for-a-candidate-i-might-have-been-the-gay-herman-cain-20120612Requiem for a candidate: 'I could have been the gay Herman Cain!'
June 13, 2012|By Mark Z. Barabak
Fred Karger failed.
There were 20 Republican presidential debates and not one featured the California political-strategist-turned-openly-gay-White-House-hopeful, although he came close or at least should have to qualifying for a session last summer, if only Fox News hadnt changed the rules. snip
Karger, who has crusaded against the Mormon Church for its efforts to outlaw same-sex marriage, will not back Mitt Romney because the likely GOP nominee shares that opposition. Karger is not sure, however, that he will vote for President Obama, though he was lavish in praising his support for allowing gays and lesbians to marry.
I think back what to it was like for me as a teenager in the 1960s, Karger said, and the effect it would have had for the president of the United States to voice that kind of support for gay rights.
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You'd think this is would be big news. Haven't heard this mentioned once on cable TV.
Don
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GOP presidential candidate refuses to back Romney (Original Post)
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Jun 2012
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NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)1. I don't get it
One crackpot college professor says he doesn't like Obama and it was like that thread was pinned to to the top of the page for days on end here.
A Republican Presidential candidate says he won't vote for Romney and we get
Something is funny around here. And I don't mean the kind of funny that makes me laugh either.
Don
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NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)3. This thread isn't going away
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)4. Back up there