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Blackwell: I Could Restrain Homosexual Urges -- If I Had Any, Which I Don't
You gotta love the candidates for RNC chair.
Gay-rights activist and talk-radio host Michelangelo Signorile has posted an amusing piece of audio of Ken Blackwell during the Republican National Convention, telling Signorile that homosexuality is a compulsion that can be "restrained," and he's quite confident he would be able to suppress it within himself -- though of course he's never had any sort of problem like that.
"I've never had to make the choice because I've never had the urge to be other than a heterosexual," Blackwell said, "but if in fact I had the urge to be something else I could have in fact suppressed that urge."
(Via The Hill)
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This is absolutely ridiculous. How in the world would he know! I can't wait for him to become RNC Chairman!
January 12, 2009 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is being stupid a requirement for Republican leadership, or do Republicans just keep making bad choices?
January 12, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
why can't it be both?
January 12, 2009 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
well...at the "debate" or "forum" or whatever they had for the RNC Chair a couple weeks ago, one of the questions was "how many guns do you own?"
and i thought...great question. cuz that's really relevant to how you plan to rebuild the party.
i guess my point is, these people are crazy. they can't get past the social issues...and until they do, they'll remain a joke.
January 12, 2009 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a genetic thing, you see.
January 12, 2009 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I pray that the Republican Pod People put this idiot at the helm.
January 12, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure a man and a moment have ever been better for each other.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
January 12, 2009 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
You should live in Ohio where this rocket scientist held public office.....oh, the horror, the horror.
January 12, 2009 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Simply put, Ken Blackwell is a kook.
In case you hadn't already figured that out...
January 12, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
okay, this is just too good. seriously. i haven't laughed this hard in weeks. great timing, as i am getting over the flu and haven't chuckled in a few days. This, though, is laugh-out-loud really funny stuff.
January 12, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could restrain myself from flying, if I had wings, which I don't!
You just gotta love the nonsense!
January 12, 2009 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if he restrained himself from masturbating.
January 12, 2009 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
He did until Larry Craig signaled from the next stall over.
January 12, 2009 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya'all stop now. These people have serious work to do. How do you expect the Republicans to pick a fearless leader that will put them in the White House 2012 with all that snickering in the background!
January 12, 2009 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boyd,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Ole, "I have a wide stance" Larry.
January 13, 2009 8:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ken Blackwell is about five yards short of common sense.
Which makes it entirely appropriate for him and Chip Saltsman to be the front-runners for Really No Chance Chairman.
January 12, 2009 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am going to be very glad when the Burris story is over. Seat him already and let's move on.
I am getting excited for the inauguration.
January 12, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
But can you restrain yourself? That is the question.
January 12, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
{insert "Master of My Domain" joke here}
January 13, 2009 9:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's seated!!
January 12, 2009 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meet Roland Burris, junior Senator from the state of Illinois.
No, really. It's true.
January 12, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
But really, it's not these views that the American people rejected, it's they way they were presented.
January 12, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. It's just a failure of messaging. Gotta find a new ad agency to polish up a new brand.
Oh, and a new logo. That's really important. A good new logo will fix everything that's ailing them.
January 12, 2009 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Let me speak from experience, of which I have none."
January 12, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, it seems clear to me that Mr. Blackwell has never seen Hugh Jackman, PEOPLE's new Sexiest Man Alive! Meow!! ;-)
January 12, 2009 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, history is on his side here. Spartan boys who would have been straight were able to moderate, if not entirely suppress, their impulse to be heterosexual, after all. All it took was a regimen of systematic physical abuse starting at about age 7, followed by instituionalized sexual assault by an older male beginning at age 12. Easy as pie.
January 12, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ken Blackwell...manly man.
January 12, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
As Atrios likes to say "TEH STUPID!!! IT BURNS!!"
Being gay myself, I'd like to also add I've never had to make the choice because I've never had the urge to be other than a homosexual.
January 12, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't Ken Blackwell sending a fierce throwdown to The Onion? How will they parody this? It's hard out here for a satirist...
January 12, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
With apologies to Three 6 Mafia, I gotta start working on my paean to Ken Blackwell: "It's Hard Out Here For A Simp."
January 12, 2009 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just like Tina Fey with Sarah Palin's Couric interview, just read the transcript verbatim.
January 12, 2009 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think "restrained" is the key word here.
January 12, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
It looks like the GOP will continue to keep comedy writers fully employed long after Bush leaves office.
January 12, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
On the same day as you have Mike Huckabee swearing "I am definitely not pro-sodomy - Scouts Honor"
About 4:19 into the vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwgwvwvmEo&e
(be forewarned it's Ann Coulter on the Mike Huckabee Show)
January 12, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can Blackwell restrain his heterosexual urges?
The Republicans are headed for the dustheap of history so long as they persist in being the party of the ignorant folks and bigots.
January 12, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you seen his wife, former Cincinnati schools superintendent Rosa Blackwell??
http://www.daylife.com/photo/06YLfZo1HT2Om
That would turn me gay as well. Just sayinh......
January 12, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had a friend in the Air Force who once described a woman's face as "... lookin' like a bucket full of crushed pussy".
January 12, 2009 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beard.
January 13, 2009 5:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just say no.
January 12, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you want us to believe that Blackwell? You can't even control your urge to be a damn fool!
January 12, 2009 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I lived in Cincinnati when Mr Blackwell was beginning his political career on the City Council. I don't remember him being batshit crazy in those years. I have always wondered what happened to him--unless he was just biding his time during those years, waiting to bring his inner wingnut out of the closet.
January 12, 2009 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
So lets find out about the evil impulses he has that he has restrained 100%. Like being a bigit!
January 12, 2009 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which shows more massive amounts of denial:
1. Blackwell resisting his clear homosexual urges
2. Blackwell being a black Republican
Frankly, I'm amazed the guy's head hasn't exploded.
January 12, 2009 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
More evidence that sexual orientation is genetic: Blackwell's father was a meatpacker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blackwell
January 12, 2009 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm...sounds like he's on the down-low.
January 12, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blackwell doesn't have any homosexual urges.
And also Larry Craig is not gay.
Neither is Bob Allen, Mark Foley, or any of those other legions of Republicans discovered to be into shame-filled, anonymous sexual encounters with other men.
January 12, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could Blackwell restrain himself from the urge to try to steal future elections if he becomes head of the RNC?
January 12, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
The jokes - they just write themselves.
January 12, 2009 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
DOH !!!!
January 12, 2009 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's my line.
January 13, 2009 5:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
he can suppress the urge to be a homosexual, but apparently he can't suppress the urge to be an asshole
January 12, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
So I guess that means he is not gay, nor has he ever been gay. Hmm. Sounds familiar. Potty humor.
But this guy ups the ante. He never will BE gay, nor will he even use Ben-Gay.
January 13, 2009 5:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
So how does he explain how he put it to the people of Ohio for so many years? Restraint Ken, restraint!
January 13, 2009 7:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great. More psychosexual infantalism from jackass republicans. I always enjoy they think they're in a position to be condescending while demonstrating their own contemptible ignorance about GLBT issues...love when somebody utterly lacks insight about how fucking stupid and inferior their perceptions are. Mr. Blackwell, tell me about the day you were recruited to become heterosexual...and/or when/why you CHOSE that.
January 13, 2009 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay so I guess you suppress the person you are and should be for something that you are not and can't ever become.
Sounds to me like Ken Blackwell should let his "Clay Akin" out more.
P.S. No offense Clay
January 13, 2009 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's an exercise for Ken Blackwell:
Suppress the urge to be black. You know, just BE LATINO, or maybe just BE CAUCASIAN. You can do it!!
Come on, suppress that blackness; it's a compulsion that can be restrained.
And while you're at it -- suppress that compulsion to be stupid, insensitive, grossly uninformed, mean-spirited and narcissistic. In other words, restrain that compulsion to be a Republican.
January 13, 2009 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Assuming he’s telling the truth, he should suppress his heterosexual feelings just to show that he can do it.
January 13, 2009 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
But lucky for us he can't restrain the urge to insert foot in mouth.
January 13, 2009 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink