Republic Sen. Roy Ashburn, after a history of anti-gay voting including his, “No” vote against gay marriage has now come out of the closet admitting he is guy. It was only after reports sprung up relating to his recent arrest for DUI that the Senator was gay did he finally admit it.
This 55 year old father of four claims that his anti-gay votes were based on the desires of his constituents. Really? This, powerful, elected public leader is only a wind sock of public opinion? If his contingency wanted to take away the civil rights from other minorities apparently he could justify that too?
While certainly he may be subject to punishment for his DUI by the courts but, there are no sanctions for lying to the public which is arguably the greater social harm. Despicable and hypocritical are just a few adjectives that could be used to describe this behavior.
As Shakespeare wrote, “May outward appearances be least themselves.” Or how about the old, “Do as I say, not as I do” adage?
Once again we are left with another example of a conservative moral majority leader willing to say anything to obtain his own personal goals. Don’t our “leaders” at least owe us their honesty?
Perhaps Ashburn can team up with Senator Larry Craig of Idaho to form a hypocritical task force.
“Family Values” California state senator representing Kern County, Republican Roy Ashburn (guess how he votes on gay issues?), goes to a gay bar near the Capital, picks up a scantily clad buddy, gets drunk, drives and receives a DUI. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. They are good at “Follow the Leader”. They listen to their dullard leaders Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim that government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. I guess Ashburn is the first on the list “2010 Republican Summer of Love”. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Love”: state assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire (AKA Bridget Keeney). Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool.