It's the Porn Star/Escort part that's revealing, not Sanchez's homosexuality.

[Bicoastal]

So far, the best comeback conservatives have on the Matt Sanchez expose is the following: "So what if he's gay? I thought liberals are supposed to be tolerant and accepting of gays! You're all just hypocrites!" If anyone would like to debate the issue with out using the Republicans' own talking points, here's my perspective on the whole matter.

As usual, they've got it all wrong. Although it is certainly ironic that Ann "Faggot isn't an offensive word" Coulter got his picture taken with this guy, I could care less that he's slept with men. In fact, I could care less that that his past career reads like the very antithesis of the "A Return to Values" platform that Republicans are always espousing. Those might be be talking points within the conservative movement itself, but as a liberal, it doesn't really disturb me. What's disturbing is that this guy has been on one talk show after another, claiming that left-wing protesters abused and spit on him because he was a marine, and thus fanning the flames of the argument that liberals hate the troops. With no photographs, no first-hand media reports, and very few other sources to verify this occurrence, Sanchez has been lauded by Hannity and O'Reilly as a star witness on anti-military sentiment within the American left; he was at the CPAC to pick up an award for that very reason.

Now compare this with Sanchez's occupation a decade earlier: he had sex with strangers for money, on and off camera. Even if you argued that there was nothing morally wrong with such behaviour (and to be fair, he wasn't hurting anybody THEN), one has to admit that on at least one not-so-distant epoch in his life, Sanchez was willing to do pretty much anything for a buck. I've read a few interviews with porn stars, and they basically read like this: "I wanted nice things, and after scraping around for awhile, I stopped caring how I got them." Flash forward a few years, Sanchez AKA Rod Majors is doing the talk show circuit, claiming that liberals hate everyone in a uniform to right-wing pundits who've pretty much taken him at his word. Porn star/escorts have every right to try and succeed in other areas of the entertainment industry (and some, like Ron Jeremy and Traci Lords, have succeeded to some degree), but I draw the line at them using themselves (or letting themselves being used) as props within a political setting. After all, just because the muscle-bound hunk LOOKS good in a uniform doesn't mean we can trust everything that comes out of his mouth--and when the public becomes aware of a different name, a hidden past, and an alarming lack of scruples when it comes to making money and gaining exposure, there's no reason why they SHOULD believe his stories about rabid soldier-hating hippies within the liberal rank-and-file. Whatever the truth is, it doesn't say much for Sanchez--or for the conservatives who were eager to transform this former pornstar into a conservative superstar.

The bottom line: If Sanchez was so good at "faking it" in a previous life, who's to say he hasn't been doing the same thing all over again?

[knowbody0]

1. Prolly, he and bill have a thing!

[BOSSHOG]

2. I spent a quarter of a century in uniform

and I've never felt hated by liberals. (Nor have I acted in Porn or prostituted myself (for sex).) hannity called sanchez a good American and what should be considered by every veteran said to him "Semper Fi" the Marine Motto for Always Faithful. The cowardly punkass lil prick who has never done anything for his country now has a prostitute and a porn star as role models for his kids. I must say Sanchez is probably a better role model for hannity's kids then hannity is.

[melody]

3. It's the *hypocrisy* part

I wouldn't care what the hell he did for a living or what his sexual preference was (I mean, what person
with an IQ over room temperature does?) -- I care that he's standing up with and speaking out for a pack
of defiantly homophobic, fascist bastards who are against all the freedoms he enjoys, fought for by liberals.

In other words, he's a hypocrite.

[benddem]

4. what about

"don't ask, don't tell?" Or is he one of those who've been recovered.

[sarcasmo]

5. I just don't get being a Gay republican.

[Colobo]

6. I just don't care about this guy.

[Ninja Jordan]

7. The fact that he loves brown eye isn't the issue.

You're right. It's the porn-star/prositute angle that's the real gist of it.