Really I believe that there is one train of thought in the USA and you elect the guy you want to express that view.

Once the Hispanic Catholic vote eclipses the black vote …. you will see how the visible minorities embrace racism.

Alot of gay white people, both male and female have strong self-reliance streaks. Many gay and lesbian folks grew up seeing how Democrats would promise the sun, moon and stars yet would never deliver. Many gay and lesbian people are quite fiscally and even socially conservative. This is what draws them to the GOP, much in the same way I go the other direction, since I am a Socialist. To be fair, the GOP`s core consituency of small government conservatives and big business types are NOT the reactionaries, those are the Dixiecrats who left the Democratic Party, Christian Right and blue collar conservatives(ie Bill O`Reilly). Many of the Blue collar conservative types are the kind of people who work their entire lives, who believe in helping people who merit it(ie lower class kids in college) but who balk at the idea that being white means they`re privileged or that being black(or whatever other ethnic minority) means that you`re disadvantaged. Many of these poorer or middle class GOP voters often have gay kids, and they love their gay kids and want them to have the chance to go to school and have equal rights. They might not like watching a gay pride parade and they often have a low negro tolerance level(as most people do, even if they don`t admit it), yet they`re not the demons which Democrats like to portray.

In the North East and in California, there are Republican voters who are working class, listen to Lou Dobbs, can`t stand Mexican immigrants taking jobs and they can`t stand the blacks ruining their property values and neighborhoods. Yet these very same white blue collar Republican voters, especially those in California voted en masse against Prop 8, while essentially every ethnic minority except the Jews voted for it.

In Québec where I live, there were typical Parti Québécois voters who voted for Action Démocratique du Québec(center right party). Many of these voters were blue collar, unilingual francophones and poorer voters. They rejected the multi-culturalization of the Parti Québécois. Québécois de souche(typical average joes) have gotten sick of immigrants who move to Québec, refuse to learn French and respect the local values. And the experiment of allowing an open door policy on immigration from francophone Africa and Haiti has backfired, Montréal is dealing with gang-violence it`s never seen before, petty thefts, people are actually buying home alarm systems in a city where people used to leave their doors unlocked.

I am a political scientist and a linguist(in the truest sense of the word), and I feel that there always has to be a party like the GOP in the states, ADQ in Québec, Conservatives in English Canada, the «Liberals» in Australia or otherwise the void will be filled by political parties like the British National Party(UK) or Le Front National(France). The problem in the states, is that there is no left-wing party at all, The GOP is right-wing and the Democrats are center-right. This kind of lack of political choice could give rise to a «third» party, which combines right wing elements and left-wing elements(Imagine Lou Dobbs with teeth). White working class people in the US have never been too class conscious, but they have a valid and legitimate resentment of ethnic minorities(ie blacks) who not only get help when they`re poor, but also when their well off. Many of these white working class families see rich black kids get scholarships to go to Harvard and get extra points for being black, while their kids who are poor, smart and more deserving have to go to a community college cos that`s all their family can afford.

Another example, Louisiana. In Louisiana in 1991, David Duke won the 1st round of the elections with just around 30%, yet in Louisiana you have to get 50% plus one, to be governor, so he(a Klansman) and Edwin Edwards(a legitimate criminal, pedophile and tyrant) were pit against each other in an election in which bumper stickers said (Vote for the Crook not the Klan, it`s important). This was the era of Rodney King, for those of you who remember, and quite a few whites who wouldn`t mention it in public voted for David Duke. Most white people were embarassed by the election and all kinds of GOP dignitaries came out of the wood work to denounce David Duke, from George Bush(Sr) to David Treen(GOP gov who lost re-election). There were creoles and jews who voted for David Duke, because they were sick of black shenanigans and many were driven out the city of New Orleans due to crime, riots and crapy black runned infrastructure(Katrina ring a bell). Of course a multi-cultural, trans-partisan coalition got Edwards elected, yet David Duke won the white vote. David Duke’s vote transcended class, religious(catholic vs protestant), anglo-vs-franco-vs-latin lines, etc. Many of the people who voted for Duke didn’t agree with him on everything, and there were also white voters for Edwards who agreed with Duke on quite a bit. There needs to be a party, which serves as a safety valve, as a party of protest, especially when it comes to the excesses of HomophObama and minorities. As a gay American, a minority myself, gays aren’t asking for special rights, free ride scholarships, extra points on a college entrance exam or affirmative action so we don’t have to meet the same standards as our heterosexual counterparts. We’re asking for simple to the point equal rights and opportunity under the law. Other minorities(ie blacks) and feminists have ceased asking for equality, but are not looking to impose a rigid South African style Affirmative Action upon America, which will in the end, turn America into what South Africa has become. There are exceptions, there are those like Ward Connerly who opposes affirmative action based on principal and by that very same principle supports marriage equality. But per every Ward Connerly, we have people like Mr Withers who labels every white person racist because we don’t believe blacks are the creme de la creme of humanity. All we need do is look at Prop 8 in California, Amendment 2 in Florida, where African Americans voted EN MASSE for both of these acts of legislative terrorism.

So in closing my rambling, I hope the GOP moderates its stance on gays and lesbians. That the GOP listens to the Log Cabin Republicans, Meghan McCain, Arnold Schwarzennegger(except fiscal matters), Ward Connerly and the like. This multi-racial kumbaya coalition of homophobes proposed by the Chairman Steele would make HomophObama actually look like our ally, and this is a scary propisition. The GOP needs to avoid the mistakes of the Democratic Party, when it comes to embracing radical multi-racial politics. White working class voters abandoned the Democratic Party in the South, Midwest and the process is beginning in earnest in the North East.

I’ve noticed the GOPers in my workplace–there are a few of them, and they all operate in that strange whites-only hysteria. They go on (and on and on) about Obama submitting the US to the One World Government and the One World Currency, Obama taking away our guns, Obama destroying the economy–the more they rant, the more it becomes clear that they just can’t handle the idea of a nonwhite President. Some of these people are edging up a clinical definition of paranoia and persecution. Rarely do they say anything overtly antigay, but I know it’s there behind my back. The full scale of their wackiness comes out when they start the speech about Obama and socialism and “hard-working middle-class people” being robbed and how the economy’s going to collapse and they’re won’t be any government anymore–and understand this conversation is taking place in a government facility which serves the indigent. They’re all but salivating for an economic collapse which would cost them their jobs. Then they’re on to guns and stocking up for the impending civil war. I mention that no matter how many guns one man has, one man with an arsenal still can’t outfire ten men with one gun each, so it’s still down to might making right (with the tattered ideology left as the unspoken obvious). They don’t like that. This is what the GOP base has morphed into in some cases.