The one clihe I have been using over and over this election year is "you just can't buy this kind of luck". And now, with today's news today's news I just have to say it again. You just can't buy this kind of luck. The homophobic Republican Alabama State Attorney General, Troy King who was recently caught by his own wife with meat in his mouth, may not resign after all. According to Left in Alabama:
Danny is reporting that his sources (the impeccable #1-in-a-jug Steve Windom and King consultant Chris Brown) say Troy King will hang in there as Alabama's Attorney General. And get this denial from Alabama GOP Communications Director Philip Bryan -- "I haven’t heard any plans that he is going to resign." Strong stuff. Did you even bother to inquire, Mr. Bryan?
We can only hope that Troy Boy sticks it out in his current office, that he goes to the Republican convention to endorse John McCain and even that he becomes the Republican nominee for governor in 2010. I can't imagine anything more perfect.
But here's some unsolicited advice for Troy from this DFH blogger: You can't stonewall your way through this thing. Your office is telling people who call that they won't confirm or deny any rumors. If it's a false, scurrilous rumor, why not just say "There are false, scurrilous rumors circulating and we will not dignify them with further response?" A flat denial would at least convince a few people and provide a fig leaf so others could credibly drop the story.
Instead of dying down, the talk is still picking up steam -- I know that from the Sitemeter at this blog which is in uncharted territory right now on a Friday night, of all things. Journalists around the country are interested in our Attorney General. I'm getting calls from media folks as far away as Washington, DC, for heaven's sake, and that isn't an everyday thing for this peaceful Alabama blogger.
Yeah well anytime we find a hypoctite in their ranks it's worth reading. It's also telling that McCain, who was supposed to be the Log Cabin Republicans' best friend hides from any public affiliation with anyone who doesn't make the Religious Reich happy. This of course makes me wonder how Jim Kolbe feels. Perhaps, given that Larry Craig was arrested in Minneapolis, it's fitting that they Gay Olde Party holds it's convention there. Just imagine the overtime the city will be paying out to patrol all the public men's rooms that week.