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Andrew Sullivan:

Outside the extremist, activist base, regular GOP voters turn out to be relatively tolerant when it comes to sexual minorities and private sex lives. They’re not well represented by their party leaders, as far as policy is concerned. This is good news for Fred Thompson. The man has had a colorful and wide-ranging sex life, as I’m sure we will soon find out.

Translated: COUGH COUGH GAY COUGH COUGH FRED THOMPSON IS GAY GAY GAY COUGH COUGH

But that’s not all.

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Still recovering from last night’s Radio/TV dinner? Nothin’ can lift the morning haze faster than a cup of strong coffee and a fantastically gross rumor — like imagining Mitch McConnell making sweaty, passionate love to lithe young soldiers. MORE »

Barely a day after they outed him, CNN now reports that RNC head Ken Mehlman, exhausted, will out himself… as head of the RNC. (You see what we did there?) MORE »

Last night, we brought you the thrilling news that Bill Maher “outed” RNC chair Ken Mehlman. On Larry King Live, of all places. CNN apparently caught what Larry missed (”you don’t go to the same bathhouses I do”), but only in time to severely edit the West Coast feed. MORE »

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Ted Haggard, previously mentioned here, just fucking resigned from the National Association of Evangelicals due to the rumors of his employing a gay escort named Mike Jones (and doing meth). Jones claims to have saved voicemails from the pastor, who still denies it all, but this is still weird fucking news. MORE »

Illustration from Robert Lanham’s The Sinner’s Guide to the Evangelical Right, which is an awesome book. MORE »

Confronting GOP bigwig (but total unknown outside of DC) Ken Mehlman about his rumored homosexuality is soooo 2003. So for kicks, Blog activist Mike Rogers is seeking a partnership with James fucking Dobson in order to help make “the left” look just as craven and duplicitous as Ken and his compatriots paint them. MORE »

Charlie Crist, whose lead in the Florida gubernatorial race is shrinking a bit, does not have sex with men. That’s what he claims to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times. The men who he has sex with, though, get drunk at parties and tell everyone: MORE »

We’ve heard now, from a number of equally credible (read: not particularly credible) sources, variations on the following three rumors about Representative Jerry Weller (R-IL). Because the last time we checked this nation was still a democracy, we are letting you, the people, vote on your favorite.

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