Since I'm technically at work right now, I really shouldn't be watching all 50 minutes of last night's Meet The Press debate between Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown. However, there sure are some interesting things going down politically lately, huh?
This Sen. Foley thing is all kinds of creepy, not to mention sad from a gay perspective. Why do all the gay politicians gotta be corrupt about their sexuality? Don't get me wrong, I appreciated all the Jim McGreevey hoopla for all of its salaciousness, despite the bottom line that his affair with one of his advisers was despicable from both a political standpoint (giving someone you're crushing on job preference for something as pivotal as homeland security is a huuuge conflict of interest) and, of course, marital. Although his wife seemed creepily loyal and undeterred throughout the scandal and fallout.
Still, mad props are due to McGreevey for turning his negatives into a huge positive by being the first opnely gay U.S. governor and in a much happier, committed relationship on the cover of The Advocate. It's just sad to see the path it took for him to get to that point.
Mark Foley could have had the same chance to make a big statement for gay politicians, too...if he wasn't such a creepy, perverted Republican hypocrite. I applaud the press for pointing out the largest irony of his page-seduction scandal: that the touchstones of his political career were all about cracking down on child predators.
However, while Foley's foibles certainly don't do much to help the gay-marriage-as-divisive-issue problem, they could potentially bring light to the fact that homosexuality transcends political parties. The supposedly righteous Republicans gotta be blushing big time that someone on their team just blew their cover over the weekend. Should be interesting to see how this scandal affects voting habits over the next month for the midterm election. Which, interestingly enough, falls on my birthday this year.
I am adamant in my belief that my birthday will not be happy unless Strickland is crowned governor (and wins for Brown and Brunner would be great, too.) Turning 23 in New York will be great and all, but unless my home staters get their shit together, all will not be well in the 92nd St. Y on that day.
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