In the early 1980s, your blogger enjoyed a song by the hip hop group, Whodini, called "The Freaks Come Out at Night" (below), and indeed it seems to be the case with North Carolina's homosexual community.
Our friends over at Pam's House Blend, and the far-lefters at BlueNC, are campaigning for Chapel Hill liberal, and out-of-the-closet homo, Jim Neal, for US Senate. (These same folks often post her that they are praying for KCC, and how "homophobic" we are. We thankfully accept your prayers, but not nasty posts.)
Neal, a financial guru, is facing Greensboro leftist Kay Hagan. Last year, Hagan decided not to challenge for the Democrat nomination, saying she enjoyed her seat in the North Carolina legislature and wished to spend more time with her family.
However, after Neal jumped in and came out, all hell broke loose on Hillsborough Street at the NC Democrat Headquarters. This annoyed the extreme left at Blue NC and caused a a rift in the amongst NC Dems. Hagan joined the race after all, and the challenge was on.
The gays seemed are rightfully disappointed that their own party feels that the time had not come for an openly queer candidate in North Carolina. Maybe in Massachusetts, but not down south. Words were said. Ugly things happened. But, in the end, the gays will return to "their place" and accept their fate, for another election cycle at least. It's another case of the NC Democrats saying one thing and doing another. Sure, they are for "multiculturalism" and tolerance, as long as it doesn't include conservatives, or apparently, homosexuals.
Based on reports, the liberal Hagan, who has masquerades as a moderate, will have the honor of challenging Elizabeth Dole for the right to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate. Will the Neal supporters sit home, or will they come out to support Hagan?
No question there. Your blogger feels they will go to the polls, and hold their collective noses, as there is much at stake in 2008. They are angry at Republicans and will do whatever it takes to get us out of office. If only Republicans can do the same for Dole and McCain...
Dole though not universally loved by conservatives, spoke this weekend to the Civitas Institute's Conservative Leadership Conference. Unlike her February speech to the Wake County GOP's President's Day dinner, Dole sounded like an actual right-winger.
The February speech seemed to highlight every government regulation in which she was ever involved. She spoke of how she helped "improve safety" while head of the US Department of Transportation, but she neglected to mention how her forced additions cost car buyers extra money for the so-called "Liddy Light", the third rear light that became standard in 1986, and other such "improvements".
During that time, she also threatened to withhold federal highway monies to states that failed to raise the drinking age to 21. Though well over age 21 and not much of a drinker, your blogger supports lowering the age necessary to purchase alcoholic beverages, but we feel this is a states' rights issue, as it once was, not one that should be dictated at a federal level.
NC Republicans are generally glad to have Dole serving in the US Senate, as she is a nationally known -- household name, even though she has gone along with some of President Bush's less popular schemes in his second term.
Your blogger has long respected Mrs. Dole, and admires her, despite the fact that we don't always agree. But when push comes to shove, this blogger will support the North Carolina GOP ticket, all the way down to the conservative judges, as the GOP is always more conservative than either the Democrats or the Libertarians.
Dole should easily defeat Kay Hagan, as long as the national Democrat coattails are not too long. The gays will begin planning for the 2010 election cycle.
Will North Carolina be ready then? Maybe for another in-the-closet, NC Republican congressman, but not for someone like Jim Neal.
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