Apparently the party of "traditional family values," of the Moral Majority, and every other finger waving moralistic nonsense, finds it quite easy to shelve those values when it comes to cold, hard cash:
President Bush Wants His Porn
Porn Star to Attend President's Dinner
By JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 8, 2005; 9:18 PM
WASHINGTON -- The annual President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraising event featuring President Bush, could get an extra dash of spice this year with porn actress and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey planning to attend.
But wait, it gets better...
Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is co-hosting the dinner, had no qualms about Carey and her boss, adult film executive Mark Kulkis, attending.
"Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC's job is to elect Republicans. We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans," Forti said.
Carey was one of 135 candidates on the ballot to replace California Gov. Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. Voters picked another actor _ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kulkis, a self-described "Schwarzenegger Republican" who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal, was invited to the dinner by the NRCC and paid $5,000 for his and Carey's plates.
Carey and Kulkis said they want to prove stereotypes of porn workers wrong.
"We're not going to show up with coke spoons around our neck," Kulkis said.
Now, I personally don't have any problem with porn - whether straight, gay or of the dwarf variety. But then my political party doesn't make witch-burning fundamentalist religiousity a central pillar of its party platform.
So what I want to know is when can I expect the Dobsons and Falwells of the world to come out and criticize President Bush and GOP Party leaders for actively soliciting the time, money and energy of a porn producer (GOP translation - smut peddler) and a porn actress (GOP translation - sex whore)? Doesn't their vocation make their donation dollars, you know, dirty?
Or will the good Doctor Dobson be too busy locked in a dark room with a stack of "Best of Mary Carey" DVDs and oversized tub of lube?