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"Scandal:" One of Mitt Romney's Spokesmen is Gay

BostonMA For Romney Wrote: Apr 24, 2012 12:43 PM
Exactly. We are in general election mode now. This isn't a "landmine", at all. It will cost Romney some votes, but not enough to make a difference.
Dave619 Wrote: Apr 24, 2012 12:47 PM
Exactly and that number has risen in every election since 2000. Gays aren't as easy to keep on the democrat plantation as some of the other victim groups
Guy Benson Wrote: Apr 24, 2012 12:45 PM
Wonder if it could gain him some votes? 30% of gay voters backed the GOP in 2010...

Outrage!  Or something!  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has "stepped on a landmine" by having the temerity to appoint -- I hope you're sitting down -- an openly gay national security spokesman, according to one leader of a social conservative group.  Once you've pried yourself from the floor, feel free to persuse some choice excerpts from this person's incensed column:
 

Gov. Mitt Romney stepped on a landmine by appointing Richard Grenell, an out, loud and proud homosexual, to be his spokesman on national security and foreign policy issues. Grenell has for years been an...

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