George & Laura, We Hardly Knew You?
Seems the interwebs are gaga today over revelations (small ‘r!’) that former president George W. Bush, the man who ran his 2004 reelection campaign largely on an anti-gay marriage platform, might have been OK with the concept of same sex marriage.
In what probably is an inappropriate “tell-all” book from a former Bush speechwriter, Matt Latimer (who spent less than two years in that position,) claims Bush, while reviewing a speech, stated,
“I’m not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can’t get married.”
Timothy Egan, in his New York Times blog, Outposts, adds,
“Nor was he going to tell us how he really felt. What we are left with, as with most public figures, is the brilliant disguise, and a feeling: if only.”
Bush may have passed on lecturing against gay marriage to a group of graduating college students, but he won 2004 by getting his base riled up against gay marriage, and coming to the polls.
The Huffington Post also shares this tidbit from Latimer’s book:
“Laura Bush, says Latimer, “was secretly a Democrat for all intents and purposes, though it really wasn’t much of a secret.”
Revelations, indeed.