New Poll Shows GOP Voters Are OK With Homophobic Candidates
Carl Paladino, a Republican candidate for governor of New York in 2010. The bloviator bigot said in not so many words that homosexuality was not how God created, that children would be more successful if they were straight and that being gay was a “dysfunction.” He was also caught sending racist emails.Paladino failed to mention that like my former boss, he had a child out of wedlock.
He had the baby with his longtime mistress and told his wife 10 years after the fact. I won’t tell you what after that came out.
Bottom line, if you are pushing family values as he did, it’s best to heed your own advice.How far away are we now from those days when the standards of a candidate mattered?
Apparently, for the Republican Party, standards are a thing of the past, a relic, an antique, a very distant memory.I was watching Morning Joe this morning during my workout and saw host Joe Scarborough nearly blow a gasket, rightfully so, about a new poll conducted by Politico and Morning Consult that showed a majority of Republican voters could not care less about a variety of issues.The poll asked if certain allegations — such as that a candidate had committed domestic violence, sexual misconduct, or felonies, was anti-Semitic, or had made homophobic or racist remarks — would be a “major problem,” “minor problem,” or “not a problem” in the minds of respondents.The largest proportion of “not a problem” responses was the 14 percent who said “homophobic remarks” would not keep them from voting for a candidate, followed by “racist remarks” at 9 percent.Among Republicans, only 25 percent said it’s a major problem if a candidate makes homophobic statements.
