GOP consultant Arthur Finkelstein, who is openly gay and married his long-time partner in Massachusetts, was denounced as "sad" and "self-loathing" by Bill Clinton, whose remarks followed reports that Finkelstein is helping raise funds to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Finkelstein, who helped elect pro-gay Republicans like New
York's Gov. George Pataki but has also sold his services to
anti-gay Republicans, is not beyond reproach. But I think the Log
Cabin crew score points regarding Clinton's own hypocrisy. As
the New York Sun
reports:
"What is sad here is that President Clinton, the same president who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, implemented the military's discriminatory 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, and encouraged John Kerry to support anti-gay state constitutional amendments, thinks he has any credibility passing judgment on the like of Arthur Finkelstein or any other gay and lesbian American," a national spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans, Christopher Barron, said.
The flip side of the Clinton mindset is that Democrats can get away with doing nothing (or worse) on gay issues, because gays who don't support them unequivocally are (in unison now, "self loathing").
Update: Brian Holmes of the Cornell Daily Sun
adds
his two cents on Clinton's "self-loathing" comment.
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