You know, I couldn't have picked a worse time to cut back on the blogging (not like I have much of a choice right now). Let's see, coulda done a million posts on Larry Craig and his “wide stance”, there's the next round of capitulation from the Dems on the war  (we're watching, Mr. Welch), Grampa Fred Thompson adds “yet another Republican hack who will never be president” to his resume, Obama's “Audacity of Hype” rolls on, etc. There's so much going on, and so little time to report it.

So I thought I'd take the time and just throw this juicy little nugget from Pensito Review out there. Now, those of you reading this are, by now, not shocked by the almost daily hypocrisies that entail being a modern Republican. Were you really surprised about Larry Craig? Well, apparently four more self-proclaimed “social conservatives” are quite possibly the next to come out of the GOP's closet of hypocrisy:

In the wake of closeted Sen. Larry Craig's self-outing in an airport men's room this summer, Mike Rogers, the Washington-based publisher of blogActive who outed Craig, is threatening to reveal the secret sexual identities of two leading GOP senators, while two allegedly gay Republican congressmen are making headlines and drawing unwelcome attention to themselves, the timing of which could not be worse.

The senators are Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, from Kentucky. More about them below but first let's look at two allegedly closeted members of the House, representatives Patrick McHenry and David Drier, who have been in the news lately.

Yep. Mitch McConnell. How's that going to play in the bluegrass state? But apparently, it's not just the hypocrisy angle that could very well get Mitch in deep doo-doo. Word is out that McConnell got booted out of the Army in 1967 after only 10 days, for fondling another private's privates, according to Mike Rogers, the blogger doing the outing. 

Now, the issue isn't and shouldn't be whether or not these men are gay (and there is no way in hell McConnell or Graham could be elected in the Bible Belt if they were out). As we've discussed before, it's the hypocrisy of being leaders of the anti-gay faction in Washington. And it's a price they'll need to pay. 

As an added bonus, this could really be the undoing of the GOP, when the country club Republicans and anti-taxers that made up much of their ranks got in bed with the intellectually and reality-challenged Christian Right, back in '79. And as the Review points out, if the Christianists jump ship, there ain't “enough country clubbers and anti-taxers out there to win a national election”. And the GOPwill find itself where it was, post-Watergate. Screwed. Now if we could just do something to fix those Dems….