McCain's chief of staff about to be outed.

[rm]

I'll write about the politics of outing later, as it's a good topic, but for now, this:

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/breaking-news-john-mccains-chief-of.html

It actually makes me terribly sad.

Comments

[sethg]

Will this actually have an effect? I remember four years ago, at one of the debates, Kerry referred to Cheney's lesbian daughter, and people criticized Kerry for violating the woman's "privacy". (She was doing gay-specific outreach for Coors, so she was about as un-closeted as you can get.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Two words: campaign manager.

Also it could give McCain an internal staffing headache if someone would bother to let the crazy fundie groups know about it.

[sethg]

The crazy fundie groups have Palin (about whom they will believe nothing negative, because she is Of Their Tribe). Given McCain's medical history, if I were a crazy fundie, I wouldn't care if McCain's campaign manager offered up sacrifices to Moloch, because I would be confident that with God's help, if Palin gets sworn in as Vice-President in 2009, she will be President before 2012.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

Isn't he McCain's Senate Chief of Staff, not campaign manager?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I'm working through a fog today. Yeah.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I noticed because that's what I thought at first.