“Most gays will vote Democrat, but more Gays will vote Republican”

Not all Gays believe that they can not support and integrate today's GOP. There are Gay GOP Clubs everywhere in metropolitan America, and they are often attended by many high-profile, even religious, conservative Republican candidates and Party officials.

The GOP is definitely changing regarding Gays. In California, the victorious lead lawyer, Ted Olsen (Google him), in charge of overturning Proposition 8, which denies same-sex marriage, is a conservative Republican. He represented George Bush in Bush v. Gore before theSupreme Court in a 2000 decision that decided that election. A few months ago this “right-winger” won a monumental victory for Gays and for “marriage equality”! Not surprising then, that many Gays will quietly vote Republican this November.

Frankly, Gay Republicans have it right: The gay press and political class are not very honest with the GLBT community and want us to remain forever paranoid of exaggerated GOP homophobia. Yet roughly half or more of Republicans now support “civil unions”, and support GLBT non-discrimination in the work place. Today’s GOP routinely welcomes Gays into their Big Tent in every urban center in this country.

And, yes, many Gays want repeal of much of Obamacare, resent being in a position where half of their federal taxes go simply to marginally pay the interest on the $1,300,000,000 national debt, and don’t believe the new Democratic Party line that Obama saved us from a Depression. Most gays only want more employers and reasonably secure jobs to return to American life, not more people on food stamps and facing home foreclosures in record numbers.

Obama has hopelessly mismanaged the bad situation of “Big Government a la George W. Bush,” only to worsen it with even more “Goliath Size Government”. He borrowed $800 billion from the Chinese, $700 billion from the Japanese, and $400 billion from the Saudis; and yet unemployment has doubled since the Democrats have run the Congress.

Now Obama admits, to the New York Times, that he blew it and is guilty of “perverse pride” in his economic and health care policy decisions (his words). The only thing Obama has done right is to keep the Bush time-table to pull back in Iraq and to bring at least half of the combat troops home.

Bottom line: While most Gays will continue, reflexively, to vote Democratic in this election, we will learn that an increasing, elucitated block of Gays will vote Republican; even if some, in the Gay press and in the Gay political establishment, will disparage it and will not acknowledge it.

Matthew Tsien is a graduate of the National Journalism Center and the former Maryland State Chair of the Log Cabin Republicans.

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