Florida Tea Party Leader: Log Cabin Republicans a "Thug Organization"

Danita Kilcullen

One thing that I cynically always find entertaining is how the far right always attributes others with their own traits and tactics.  A case in point: a Florida Tea Party leader (pictured above) who claims that the Log Cabin Republicans are a "thug organization."  Obviously, this woman must have been looking in the mirror as she uttered the statement.  The statement is ludicrous for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the Log Cabin Republicans might best be described as a bunch of delusional masochists who continue to support a political party that hates them.  Second, it's the Tea Party that uses thug tactics to assert its agenda against rational Republicans who - unlike the Tea Party - are not wholly untethered from reality and who are not motivated by hate, religious extremism and racism.  The Sun-Sentinel looks at the batshitery that is typical of the Tea Party.  Here are excerpts:

An email from Danita Kilcullen, co-founder of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, has caused a new round of agita in the Broward Republican Party.

Kilcullen’s email, written earlier this month, was apparently a response to an email below, from Andy Eddy of the Broward Log Cabin Republicans, a largely gay group.

She said the Log Cabin Republicans are “a thug organization” which has “all but taken over” the Broward Republican Party.

Kilcullen also makes clear she does not like the proposed federal law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Here's [a portion of Kilcullen's] e-mail:

“We must fight with all we have... We must put  pressure on the House like has never been seen before.  I'll be damned if I will ever be forced to hire someone with orange hair, body/neck/face covered with tattoos, multiple piercings, or a man in a dress... or for that matter, a demonstrative effeminate male or purposeful butch-looking female.  The Log Cabins are the same lobbyist organization that has all but taken over BREC; and besides that, we have someone on the Board of BREC who is using her position to openly put pressure on some BREC members to stand for same-sex marriage.

Can't you feel the Christian love towards others?  If the Log Cabin Republicans really want to change the GOP rather than engage self-flagellation, they need to work to have the GOP defeated across the board so that the party will have to either change and come into the modern world or die.