Is there a funnier, but also deeply saddening, group of people than self-defeating gay Republicans? No, there is not. We are reminded of this today by The Closet’s latest loss, Ken Mehlman, former George W. Bush campaign manager, RNC chairman, and self-hating opportunistic piece of trash.

Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California’s ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

How brave of Ken Mehlman, that he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage now that he is no longer a public figure. Considering only 6 years ago he was in a very powerful position to maybe stop the door from completely shutting and letting Republicans/Karl Rove turn gay marriage into a “wedge issue” between them and Democrats by getting anti-gay initiatives and referendums on the general election ballots in 2004 and 2006. That way a bunch of vile, angry, homophobic, old, white people would come out to stop The Gays from taking over their country, and also check all the boxes next to the Republican sleezes on the ballot. (more…)