If, and I say IF, Roberts is gay

[maine_raptor]

Is there anyway he could be convinced to come out after he is sworn in?

It would destroy BLP's* base.

And I'd love to watch the Right Wing Homophobic heads explode. :popcorn: Hell, I'd even go PPV for that! :evilgrin:

*Bush League President (Copyright, pat pending, Halliburton, Inc.)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. His wife might not like that too much. n/t

[karlrschneider]

5. I have no idea about Roberts, but there are millions of wives of gay men.

I personally know about a dozen (they all have kids too.)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Oh, sure

I know a couple in the same position. But I'm saying his wife might not like it too much if he comes out... in public.... as Chief Justice of the U.S.

Kind of blows the whole privacy thing for a couple, I'd guess.

[ToolTex]

16. My wife didn't like it one bit.

But my kids didn't mind.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

21. Well, I have a lot of gay men friends

but I'd freak if my husband turned out to be gay, if for no other reason than I'd feel damned stupid not to have figured it out!

I wouldn't have a problem being married to a gay man in a platonic way if I were single... there is more to marriage than sex.

I am always fascinated with how the wives of transgendered men handle the transformation, as it appears some stay in the relationship

Sometimes gender confuses me.

[Maven]

2. Yes.

Someone needs to go...um...undercover. Maybe a well qualified 3L who's looking to clerk soon...

[mongo]

3. What makes you suspect that he is gay?

Did I miss something?

[maine_raptor]

6. See this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4803569

[mongo]

11. mmmmmm, juicy!

Still, WTF? I arrange flowers for the store as a hobby, and I'm only a little gay...

[ToolTex]

38. Mongo, the only way I know to tell if someone is gay

is to look down, and if he is sucking your c**k then it's pretty certain he's gay. However, if you're looking up, then he may well be completely str8. :D

[ToolTex]

13. "What makes you suspect he is gay?" My Gaydar!

n/t

[rateyes]

4. To be honest, I hope he doesn't come out, IF he's gay

until after * makes his nomination for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat. If he comes out before the the RW Repigs in this country will NEVER allow another "unknown, perhaps moderate" nominee to take a seat. But, IF he is, I hope he comes out of the closet.

On edit: The thought of seeing RW heads explode is a good one.

:popcorn:

[mongo]

7. The most that I can hope for is that he comes out

as a moderate....

[Daphne08]

8. Even IF he is, I'd say that's a personal matter.

[POAS]

10. All those questions about his favorite movie when

the Dem's should have been going through Guckert's private phone book.

[Lancer]

43. Roberts's favorite movies

At least he didn't say Ben-Hur or Spartacus. And if the committtee had gotten into favorite directors, and the first name that popped out of his mouth was John Waters…

The horror! The horror! But we'd have our answer.

[crispini]

12. Why bother? Let him alone.

IF he is, hopefully that will make him a bit more of an empathetic judge. And I don't think it'd do one whit to Bush's popularity -- after all, they didn't know when they appointed him, did they?

[maine_raptor]

15. You realize, of course

that the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court is THE head of one of the three co-equal branches of Federal Government, on a par with President and Speaker of the House?

I agree that if he is, that it will make him a bit more of an empathetic judge.

As to "they didn't know"....well what can I say....didn't they vett him? And if they didn't know, isn't that a bit like not knowing Mike Brown had more experience with horses than disasters?

Goes back to incompetence, not of Roberts, but to Bush and his cronies. And that the Base WILL not like to see exposed.

[crispini]

26. Well, it would be fun.

I'm just not gonna bet on it happening. :P

[indepat]

35. Every action, every spoken word exposes

[Zen Democrat]

19. As empathetic as J. Edgar Hoover?

Or as empathetic as all the undercover gay Republican officeholders who make careers out of sponsoring legislation to deny rights to gays and lesbians?

Why is it everytime an undercover gay Republican is outed it turns out to be someone actively practicing homophobia?

[crispini]

23. Yeah, I realize there's two ways that could go.

The self-hating closet case thing = not good.

[leeroysphitz]

14. Why does it seem like I'm seeing the start of...

a Rove style "whisper campaign" here at D.U.? I'm ALL for playing hardball politics and taking the fight to repukes but why are we resorting to it here? Why aren't those who "represent" us standing up and opposing this nomination head on?

Just wondering.

P.S. and if this is a deliberate whisper campaign why here? D.U. is not the best place start it. Most of us would welcome a gay S.C. justice (unless he were of the Hoover variety). I think someone may be giving the freepers a little too much credit when it comes to spreading dis-info... (half of them can't even SPELL homophobic...)

[crispini]

17. Nah, it's all OVER the net, DU is actually pretty late on this one.

Now, if you're going to blame anyone, blame the New York Times, from what I've gathered they were the ones to run the "three guys and a pie" picture originally.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. Roberts and a pie?

Linkage.

:blush:

[maine_raptor]

25. See post #6

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Roger that.

:rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

30. Thank you. I did not know that.

You have exposed me for a fool...

[crispini]

32. Nah, just somone

who hasn't read the entire "three guys and a pie" thread. :P

Backstory:
http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2005/08/more_grist_for_.html

[ToolTex]

33. Not pie. Looks like Quiche to me.

n/t :grouphug:

[crispini]

34. "Three guys and a quiche!"

EVEN BETTER! :rofl:

[maine_raptor]

18. No dis-info, notice the post heading...IF

In fact, I hope that if he is gay it will make him a better, more compassionate jurist.

What this is about is the REACTION by the RW if he did come out, nothing more.

[daninthemoon]

22. Could be. It does make him alot more acceptable to most dems.

[goclark]

28. It would not surprise me one bit if he is gay

Since I have several friends that are gay, that would be fine with me for him to be on the Court.

If so, I hope he will have more compassion fro others.

Isn't Souter gay or did I just read that someplace crazy?

[ToolTex]

31. Could be Rove inspired. But a closet case would frighten me.

Experience has taught me that gay bashers are always trying to kill-the-queer-within. The craziest closeted fags I've ever known were always Catholic. In my earlier slutty life, I'd always hide the knives if I learned the nights trick was catholic.

So a closeted, (but disturbed), judge could do a lot of harm. He would probably be OK though, unless he was trying to prove his hetero-ness with his decisions.

[kenny blankenship]

36. You're seeing it because gaybashing by the "left" is tolerated by DU

and it's tolerated because, well you'd just have to ask them about it.
Watch this vanish.

[maine_raptor]

37. Excuse me, but

just where is the "gaybashing" in this post?

[Balbus]

44. Hit the nail on the head! eom

[Karenina]

24. Gimme a break.

Mehlman is gay. And who's that Repig poobah who married his partner in the Northeast? This "Roy Cohn Gay" subset must be distinguished as an abberation in the gay community. These guys are fucking looney. They conflate power and being "above" the rules while relentless pursuing anyone engaging in their same behaviours. This subset was also manifest in the Third Reich. We need a DSM on it.

[madrchsod]

29. he has been groomed from the day he was born

to become someone that the puppetmasters can use and they could care less if he screwed ducks as long as he did their bidding.
thru the years i`ve meant a few people like him and they fucking frightened me because they have no humanity. they have no understanding of what it is like to be human because that was bred out of them the day they were born..they are taught that those below them will drain them of their purity.

[Totally Committed]

39. Didn't Michael Huffington come out during or after an election?

Does anyone (except Arianna) remember? Can I ask how his coming out AFTER as opposed to BEFORE would cause the Homophobic heads of which you speak to explode -- more? better? Are you thinking THEY would deep-six him isf they found out he was gay BEFORE the vote?

You think they would derail part of their own agenda to control the SCOTUS for the next 50 years over his sexual preference? Hmmmm...

I have to think about that. Personally, I think they want to firmly control every arm of the government so badly, they would spin or hide it if they found out.

TC

[maine_raptor]

40. Good questions

I prefer to think that they don't know.

On another post someone ask for bets on confirmation votes. Most gave 60-70 or more for. I said 51-49 because of the wild fire this is out on the net now.

Would they sink him? Good question, while they do want control, the conflict would be do they want it so bad?

Hard to tell, I guess we have to see how it plays out.

But if he does "come out" after the vote, all I'm saying is that we will have a spectacle of GOP'ers once again eating their young

And that is always fun to watch.

[LeftyMom]

41. After

It was definitely after he lost the election.

[meisje]

42. Step away from the Kool Aid!!!