Romney and Ryan: How Low Can They Go?: It's not just LGBT issues that should have you voting against the Republican ticket, it's their chronic inability to tell the truth

Opinion: It's a reflexive statement that has effectively passed into cliché, but when gay Republicans say that gay people aren't ''single-issue'' voters they have a point, well illustrated by the fact that a quarter of LGBT voters sided with John McCain in 2008. Some in our community prioritize or think about issues in a way that makes them more comfortable with the GOP than with Democrats. Fair enough in a free country. But the unstated point of the cliché is that LGBT people who vote Democratic are monolithically single-issue — or, worse in the minds of many conservatives, far-left liberals simply ticking off items on a menu provided by Move On and Daily Kos. Unsurprising and pretty much the language both ends of the political spectrum use to define their opponents. That's not a prelude to a false-equivalence column where I find ways to go on about how the right and left wings are equally craven. We can leave that for CNN and The Washington Post. It's just the frame I have for my own already declared support for President Obama, which, despite how much I write about gay things — it is my job, after all — isn't completely contingent on the president's LGBT record. ... (more)

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