The Gay Soccer Dad and Lesbian Costco Mom Vote

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Wednesday October 03, 2012 · 7:15 AM PDT

2012/10/03 · 07:15

The 2012 election may not be decided by gay soccer dads and lesbian Costco moms but their quality of life will be defined by those occupying the White House and Congress in 2013 and beyond.

While much of the conversation surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of late has concerned the issue of marriage equality, there is much more to be said about the way our government treats LGBT Americans.

Over the past few decades great progress has been made in the fight for LGBT legal equality but I’m guessing many straight Americans -- even those with close friends and family who happen to be gay -- would be surprised to learn just how much is left to be done.

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday September 26, 2012 · 7:15 AM PDT

2012/09/26 · 07:15

President Obama and Mitt Romney may be scheduled for their first of three debates next week, but there is really no debate when it comes to the progress we have made on jobs and how much further along on the path to recovery we might be if the GOP would just get out of the way.

Let us start with a primer on the facts for those just tuning in and our tea party brethren who fumble for their grasp on reality.

By the time Barack Obama was sworn into office in January of 2009, we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs each month with the number reaching nearly 1 million some months. For that, we can thank the reckless economic policies of George W. Bush and the most corrupt and unethical Republican Congressional majority in a century.

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday September 12, 2012 · 7:00 AM PDT

2012/09/12 · 07:00

"A bit of a sugar-high..."

That's how Mitt Romney's campaign responded to news this week that a spat of independent national polls have their candidate trailing President Obama by as many as 6 points following the Democratic National Convention.

If Democrats were hocking sweets last weekend in Charlotte, they appear to have sold far better than the sour lemons Republicans were offering in Tampa given the size of their respective post-convention poll bumps, or lack thereof for the Party of Medicare vouchers.

It isn't just the national polls that have team Romney puckered.

Karl Frisch

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Thursday August 30, 2012 · 8:00 AM PDT

2012/08/30 · 08:00

When I first took the plunge and began a career in politics against the advice of my conservative father, I worked for people like Tennessee’s Lamar! Alexander, former Congressman Jim Nussle, and John McCain during his 2000 campaign for President.

Yes, I was a Republican. But I was young and everyone experiments at that age -- I just happened to pick the GOP before making better, more adult choices.

For political junkies like me, our Democratic and Republican national conventions are, to quote Vice President Biden, “a big f@#king deal.”

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday August 22, 2012 · 8:30 AM PDT

2012/08/22 · 08:30

Republicans today are absolutely obsessed with micromanaging women's -- cover your eyes my right-wing friends -- vaginas.

Had I said that word aloud on the floor of the Michigan state legislature, I would likely have been banned from speaking any further by the Republican Majority just as it did to Rep. Lisa Brown in June when she dared to utter the ominous "v" word.

While the GOP may cringe at the word's use, it certainly has no trouble crafting public policy that would tie women's lady bits up with red tape.

Karl Frisch

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Monday August 13, 2012 · 4:00 AM PDT

2012/08/13 · 04:00

As Mitt Romney announced his Vice Presidential running mate over the weekend, the Beltway chattering class was quick to trumpet the supposed "youthful vigor" Paul Ryan's selection would inject in a campaign troubled by a summer of Olympic-size gaffes and sinking poll numbers.

In the hours following his announcement, Ryan was also heralded as a "gym rat" and "fitness nut" who was "almost a pro-skier."

The political spin could not have been more blatant. For a party brimming with octogenarians but lacking in youthful appeal, the Wisconsin native is fresh, young, and even hip -- heck, he listens to Nirvana on his iPod!

It is no surprise that the GOP would put Ryan's age on center stage. It is a political tactic born out of necessity.

Karl Frisch

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Tuesday July 10, 2012 · 8:18 AM PDT

2012/07/10 · 08:18

As many of you know, Mitt Romney will be addressing the NAACP convention on Wednesday. Seriously.

I was curious how his team would prepare for such a speech until I saw this behind the scenes video "obtained" by The Message.

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday December 14, 2011 · 4:15 AM PST

2011/12/14 · 04:15

This year, the Republican nominating contest has been the gift that keeps on giving. With Christmas and the Iowa Caucuses just around the corner, and since I was not raised by wolves, I know one should always say thank you after receiving a gift. In the spirit of the season, here is that thank you.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, one wild-eyed Iowa straw poll winner. From the "pray the gay away" clinic Michele Bachmann runs with her extremely masculine husband Marcus, to her gaffes-a-plenty campaign -- who can forget the time she confused John Wayne and serial killer John Wayne Gacy? -- it has been a delight watching the Bachmann campaign collapse.

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday November 30, 2011 · 4:15 AM PST

2011/11/30 · 04:15

We are just weeks away from the first votes being cast in the race for the Republican presidential nomination – which means it is only a matter of time before Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman enter the ranks of presidential also-rans.

Getting here hasn’t been easy for Willard Mitt Romney -- he’s hardly ever led the Republican pack in the polls. No, the former single-term governor of Massachusetts has had to wait for the preferred candidates of the GOP’ tea party base to either bow out before announcing or gaffe their way into oblivion.

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday November 09, 2011 · 4:30 AM PST

2011/11/09 · 04:30

Conventional wisdom pushers and the beltway chattering class have been scrambling to explain the crushing defeat Republicans suffered in last night's off-year election.

To hear them spin it, Republicans lost because they “overreached.” The GOP went too far they say.

Ridiculous.

Let me say this is as clearly and as simply as I can: Republicans did not overreach. What they did is who they are. It is what they stand for. It is what they campaign on.

To claim otherwise would be like saying fish live under water because they suffer from unquenchable thirst.

Karl Frisch

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Thursday November 03, 2011 · 6:00 AM PDT

2011/11/03 · 06:00

If you haven’t yet heard, the so-called “liberal media” is out to get Herman Cain.

To believe conservatives, members of a “liberal media” cabal began conspiring to take down the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza more than a decade ago when he was head lobbyist at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s knowing he’d seek the 2012 Republican nomination.

It was then that two women were planted deep inside Cain’s organization with the expressed purpose of accusing their boss of sexual harassment. Adding to the devious plot, these women were then told to accept large cash settlements in exchange for silence that was only to be broken years later when the women would come forward as anonymous sources to the “liberal media.”

Karl Frisch

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Wednesday October 26, 2011 · 7:03 PM PDT

2011/10/26 · 19:03

Every year at about this time, I break out my DVD of the 1936 anti-drug propaganda flick Reefer Madness. No it’s not exactly the scariest movie one might choose when getting into the Halloween spirit, but few things are funnier than watching a film made more than 70 years ago as it attempts to frighten the bejesus out of anyone who might be tempted to try marijuana.

I bet you didn't know, for example, that manslaughter, attempted rape, and suicide are among the likely outcomes should you break down and smoke a joint -- at least that’s what happens in this picture.

The knee jerk fear of pot the film attempts to plant with its audience isn’t that much different than the fear and trepidation Republicans attempt to sew among the American people when it comes to taxes.

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