BREAKING: Politically Irrelevant Gay Hating California Singer Endorses Ernie Fletcher for Kentucky Governor
Shawn Dixon November 4th, 2007
Proving that they are as politically inept as they are desperate, the Fletcher/Rudolph circus trotted out singer Pat Boone this weekend to stump on their behalf. Well, by telephone at least.
Trying to turn around their failing campaign at the last minute, the Fletcher/Rudolph team chose to spend the last days of the campaign ignoring the important issues that Kentuckians want to hear about like creating jobs, access to healthcare and improving education. Instead, they decided to crisscross the state talking about how proud they are to hate gay people.
To drive their message home, they had Boone, a Los Angeles resident, record an automated call which was made to 10,000 Kentuckians.
In case you weren’t one of the lucky recipients of the Californian’s call, Pat Boone wants you to know that evil Steve Beshear wants to treat gay and lesbian Kentuckians like real people. Listen to Pat Boone’s call here.
There are so many things wrong with this story, it’s hard to know where to begin.
First, it’s almost comical at this point that the Republicans haven’t figured out that gay bashing will no longer win them elections. And, as polls show that young people are increasingly supportive of equal rights for gays and lesbians, the issue will become more irrelevant, and eventually costly, for Republicans with each passing election cycle.
Second, Pat Boone is not from Kentucky. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida and lives in Los Angeles. Thanks, Ernie, but we don’t need your California friends calling us to talk about Kentucky values.
Lastly, Pat Boone is a complete whacko. If you don’t believe me, let Pat Boone tell you for himself by reading this “fairy tale” he wrote just two months ago. It’s sure to become an instant classic! In the story Boone attacks teachers as being part of the liberal machine designed to destroy America. Also, in Boone’s magical tale, a woman teacher turns Snow White into a lesbian and apparently gets her pregnant. (?)
Um, I’m not sure if Pat Boone has any kids, but if he does it’s a result of sheer-dumb-luck because apparently he doesn’t know how babies are made if he thinks that a lesbian teacher can get her female student pregnant.
Man, is it Tuesday yet? Two more days of these clowns running the mess in Frankfort is two too many.
Hat Tip: Pol Watchers
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The biggest idiot in all this is Robbie Rudolph. You and I were both there at Fancy Farm when he gave his Fancy Dan speech, which went over with the crowd — even with the Republicans — about as well as interracial marriage in a fundamentalist Baptist church. It was so bad that even Bill Bartlemann of the Paducah Sun admitted in the comments of this blog that he found it inane and painful to listen to, and Bartlemann is as politically tone deaf as he is old. Rudolph’s “San Francisco treats” comment this weekend only goes to show not only how unoriginal Kentucky Republicans can be but how bewildered they are by the changing political environment.
After the Republicans get trounced on Tuesday, we get to read months worth of GOP tripe commentary on how Kentucky’s still a conservative state, even though it hates Republicans.
Pat Boone was one of the kooks who claimed “AIDS is God’s punishment on Gays.”
Haven’t people had enough of these inept politicians who were elected simply because of their religious beliefs?
They ’believe’ Iraq has WMD, so we get into an unnecessary war!
They ‘believe’ Iran has nuclear weapons, so now we are going to start another war!
They ‘believe’ all sorts of nonsense, and our country suffers for it!
Enough of this faith and values crap!!! Try some FACTS for a change.
This was breaking news three days ago. And PolWatchers didn’t break the story.
Thank you, Watcher. I will infer from your message that you are a Pat Boone fan and I struck a nerve.
Generally, most who have read this story have understood it was written for irony and satire. Sorry it was lost on you.
P.S. I didn’t say Pol Watchers broke the story. That’s just where I first read it.
You mean this Pat Boone: In 1997, Boone released In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, a collection of heavy metal covers revamped to fit his style. To promote the album, he appeared at the American Music Awards in black leather, shocking audiences and losing his respectability among his largest constituency, conservative Christians.
Yes, RedHotBlueBoy, THIS Pat Boone. Wow. The leather.
Pat Boone has 4 kids. One of them is Debby Boone who sang the godawful ‘You Light Up My Life.’ and admitted that she thought about Jesus while singing it.
It’s sad knowing that the Pat Boone whose music millions of baby boomers grew up on in America will, in the end, simply be remembered as just another infamous hate mongering bigot.