🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4vf8im$ak0@marlin.ssnet.com>, jstarks@ssnet.com (Jim Starks) wrote:

> Steve Gilliard (gilliard@interport.net) wrote:
> : So, who do you vote for, a Liberterian, Ross Perot.

> : Jack Kemp won't say shit because Republicans never disagree with each
> : other.
> 
Wayne Friday, our brilliant and amusing political commentator in the SF
Bay Area Reporter (August 22) has written a comprehensive column on
whether on not Kemp is in the closet or was once out of it. It's fun. 

<He says that "Middle aged gay republicans who worked with Kemp in
Sacramento in the 1960s during Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial run still
recall seeing and being with Mr. Kemp at "gay affairs" attended by
Reagan's legions of closeted gays -- parties that went on until ... Drew
Pearson blew the whistle on the GOP "party boys" in 1967 and actually
identified Kemp as the "athlete" involved in the sex ring of Reagan
admirers and staffers.

[snip]

<Will Shalfley, Robertson, Helms, and Dornan be bothered when this finally
gets out (and it surely will, in one form or another)? You bet! To be
sure, the GOP spin doctors will have the standard denial ready when Kemp,
Dole, or their handlers are finally faced with the rumor, but *I can
produce at least one or two gay men living in Los Angles who would be
willing to stand up to Mr. Kemp and happily remind him of his "gay old
times."*

Actually, in the sixties, straights and gays were more inclined to mingle
socially at some levels than they are today. But we should also remember
that Shlafley has a gay son (and God knows what she had done to his mental
environment) and that there has been plenty of speculation about Ronnie
Reagan. (Has everyone seen his entertaining dance act in his underwear?)
So Kemp may have been off limits for a republican, but not necessarity in
someone's bed. But you never know...