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Mehlman’s gay revelation outs GOP elite’s charade – ALAN KEYES
Reflecting on Ken Mehlman’s revelation that he has been and is a practicing homosexual, I found myself thinking of Penelope, the wife of Homer’s Ulysses. After the Greek victory over the Trojans, he took the long way home, so long in fact that his family pretty much gave him up for dead. Penelope found herself besieged by suitors eager to try their hands at usurping Ulysses domain while before his son came of age to challenge them.
Still loyal in hope and affection to her husband, Penelope devised the famous strategy by which she put off the day when she would be force to choose among the importunate parasites who had taken up residence in the royal compound. She undertook to weave a shroud for the funeral of her aged father-in-law Laertes, vowing to make her decision only after it was completed.
Work on the shroud gave her the excuse to hold herself aloof from her unwanted guests during the day. At night she would secretly undo most of the day’s progress. In this way she contrived to prolong their wait until her husband returned or their son Telemachus matured enough to stand against those who meant to rob him of his patrimony.
Throughout the era of the Bush family’s ascendancy in the GOP the Party’s leadership has treated moral conservatives as Penelope treated her suitors. Of course, in this case the secretly unwanted guests were invited in to keep the Party going, padding its base with the critical margin of votes without which there could be no Republican victories.
The GOP platform is like Penelope’s robe. In each election cycle it is woven into a tapestry that portrays the Party’s heroic commitment to fiscal responsibility, limited government, free enterprise, constitutional principle and the moral values of family, faith and personal responsibility. Once election day passes, the Party leadership sets to work to make sure no real progress is made toward any of the goals and purposes touted by the platform.
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