Rush Limbaugh helped me decide to vote for Pete Buttigieg

Look, it hasn’t been easy to find a political candidate for the 2020 Presidential election.  It hasn’t.  Ever since my original choice, Kirsten Gillibrand, dropped out of the running, I’ve been looking at my options – do I go with Sanders, or Warren, or Buttigieg or Biden or that one billionaire or that other billionaire –

And then I heard about something.  Someone made a comment and it finally allowed me to make a hard decision easier.

I’m voting for Pete Buttigieg for President.

And it’s because of Rush Limbaugh.

Yep.  Race-baiting, xenophobic, bigoted, blowhard Rush Limbaugh, who provides three hours of toxic poison over radio airwaves.  Trust me, he’s one of the reasons why WGY has fallen into the cesspool over the past 20 years.  Well, him and Mike Gallagher and Mark Williams and Andrew Wilkow and Sean Hannity and Tom Leykis and Art Bell and a few others over the years …

But I digress.

Yesterday, on his radio show, Limbaugh commented on the Presidential race — and instead of discussing the issues and the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates, as a normal political pundit might, he went straight into gay-bashing and homo-taunting with Buttigieg.

First, by calling him “Booty-Judge.”  Yeah, that wasn’t funny in fourth grade and it isn’t funny now.

Then he kept repeating, over and over and over, about how people would be offended by seeing Buttigieg kiss his husband.

And while I’m holding my nose about doing this …

Here’s a Twitter link.

All throughout the broadcast, Limbaugh referred to Buttigieg as “the gay guy who kisses his husband on the debate stage,” as compared to “Mr. Man, Donald Trump.”

And it got worse.  The homophobic vitriol from Limbaugh’s mouth was just so horrendous and vulgar, it made me want to puke.

Then again, Limbaugh’s broadcasts are three hours of puke, so there’s that.

Then again, with Biden’s poll numbers dropping, perhaps Trump is fearful that Buttigieg might actually BEAT him in the general election – I mean, a decorated soldier versus a draft dodger, a faithful husband versus a serial adulterer, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford (on a Rhodes Scholarship) versus someone who put Kansas City in the wrong state.

But here’s what really pisses me off.  Rush Limbaugh is using the old, worn out trope of portraying anyone in the LGBTQ community as some sort of deviant to society, someone who should be feared and shunned and ridiculed and shamed.

Don’t worry, Rush.  Pete Buttigieg has no desire to sleep with you.  Besides, Pete’s only on his first marriage, you’re like what, on your fourth right now?

It’s comments like Limbaugh made yesterday – the close-minded hatred of anyone who is gay or bi or trans – that makes me furious.

It’s the same shit that happened 100 years ago when Al Smith ran for President, people said that no one should support him because he’s a Catholic and he would have to answer to the Pope, therefore voting for Al Smith is like voting for the Papacy to run our country.  Ugh.

Oh, and Rushie … calling Donald Trump “Mr. Man” is kinda funny.  Do you know that Mr. Man is a website that rates and ranks photos of male nudity?  Yeah, Wikipedia says so, here’s the link.

And now I must tell you two stories.

The first happened a few days ago, when I was checking the schedule of events for my upcoming reunion at Hamilton College.  I received an e-mail from one of the organizers, who alerted me that one of the parties I signed up for – Spectrum – had moved from Friday night to Saturday night.

I wasn’t sure what Spectrum was – as far as I was concerned, Spectrum was the rebranded Time Warner Cable – so I contacted the organizer.  They told me that the Spectrum party was for the LGBTQ community, and if I had been added to the group by mistake, they would remove me from the list.  I told them no, don’t do that, I’m sure I will have a good time at the party.  It’s just a party.  It’s not like I’m pledging a fraternity.

Other story.

About ten years ago, I was dating a girl, and we were discussing many things.   The topic of baseball came up, and she blurted out to me, “Do you know that Derek Jeter is gay?”

Before I could say anything else, she told me that not only was Jeter gay, but she described in lurid detail what she thought Jeter did with other men.

Yeah, that was the last time I talked with her.

So the matter is … the Chuck the Writer blog is proud to endorse Pete Buttigieg for President.  I hope he gets the Democratic nomination, and I hope he tears Trump into eeny weeny pieces on the debate stage.

Because we are in the 21st century.  A man should be judged on his actions and deeds.  we need to get away from homophobia and the stereotypes that are part of it.

Let’s talk about what Mayor Pete has done as an elected official.

And as for Rush Limbaugh …

Here’s all the nice things I can say about Rush Limbaugh.

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Okay, I’m done.