they now know somebody who is gay .
mehlman managed president bush 's re - election campaign in history , which gave us four more years of the crawford hick and
they are the kind of people who might even invite elton john to perform at former rnc chief ken mehlman : i ’ m gay posted at 6:37 pm on august 25 , 2010 by allahpundit he says he realized it “ fairly recently , ” in marc ambinder ’s words , which has tammy bruce chuckling on twitter .
he is , after all , the most powerful republican ever to identify himself as gay .
but my sense is that it ’ll be a lot less of a big deal to conservatives than it might be to liberals like ( just to choose one name at random ) frank rich , for whom the political is also the personal .
he ’s doing this now , it seems , because he wants to drum up publicity for the cause of gay community as bait in order to convince rubes , yahoos , bumpkins and other morons to set down the teevee clicker even if it means missing the last five minutes of the 700 club , in order to go out and vote republican , due to abject fear of gays .
 
lots of people thought so , but nobody knew for sure until mehlman began telling friends and family in recent months .
that 's important , because if you look at polls over the last 30 or 40 years , two 08.26.2010 - 9:39 am the announcement that former republican national committee chairman ken mehlman is gay is garnering a fair amount of attention in the political world .