Condi was a no-go for McCain veep because of lesbian rumors

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Condi was a no-go for McCain veep because of lesbian rumors

by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Sep 26, 2008 at 09:00:00 AM EDT

Condi sure as hell would have been a more credible pick than the train wreck from Wasilla, even with Dr. Rice's role in the Iraq debacle and Bush's ~~torture~~ enhanced interrogation techniques policy. http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Republican_source_Lesbian_rumors_ruined_Condoleezza_Rices__0924.html">(PageOneQ):

McCain's inner circle argued "furiously" for Rice to be his running mate instead of one-time top contenders Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty. However, according to the RNC source, persistent rumors about Rice's sexual orientation took her out of the running. "In Washington circles," the source said, "it's just assumed Rice is gay and nobody really cares. But in the glare of the media spotlight, those rumors were bound to get magnified a thousandfold and the mainstream media would have had an excuse to reveal the facts that would have caused conniption fits among the Republican base."

Rice, as Provost of Stanford University long before she was on the Bush cabinet, jointly owned a California house and held a line of credit with documentary filmmaker Randy Bean, with whom Rice has said she bonded over a "mutual love of football."

"Whether or not her relationship with Bean means Condi is light in the loafers is not the point," the source added. "It's hard to prove one way or another. The fact is that by the time the media finished dissecting it, not a Christian conservative in the country would have gone to the polls in November and that's ultimately what nixed the Rice candidacy."

Note the anonymous source makes a reference to "light in the loafers" -- huh? How does that refer to a lesbian? Shouldn't it be more like "heavy in the Manolo Blahniks?"

http://signorile2003.blogspot.com/2008/09/did-condi-gay-rumors-doom-her-chances.html">Mike Signorile:

Many of you will remember back to September of last year when Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler http://signorile2003.blogspot.com/2007/09/condis-best-friends-yesterday-on-show-i.html">broke the news on my show that Condi Rice owned a home with another woman.

He'd written a biography of Rice, and I surely wasn't his first interview (though I was in that first dozen or so, probably, since it was the week the book was published). And yet, I was the first one to ask about some curious facts he'd unearthed and which were prominent in his introduction and then later in the book, regarding Rice's ownership of a home with a woman described as her closest female friend, Randy Bean, a Democrat and filmmaker who worked at Stanford. The two had actually owned the home with Rice's other best friend, a gay man who worked in the Clinton administration, Coit D. Blacker, a Stanford professor, who eventually sold his share to the two women. Even if Rice and the also-unmarried Bean weren't in a relationship, the fact that her second closest friend is a gay man (and also a Democrat) was quite fascinating.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7189