Mike Michaud's Gayness and the ME Governor's Race

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Michaud acts like he IS representing Alabama.

Excessive hyperbole.

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Yeah, that's kind of ridiculous, but I'm not sure it's worth obsessing over.

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Needs a more legitimate source before I'll take it seriously. Far more legitimate.

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I guess Cutler could be considered more of a Democrat if you don't consider things like education, Medicaid, or policing--all of which are things that state governments do quite a lot of on a regular basis--important. (On some of these kinds of issues Cutler is admittedly almost or about as much of a Democrat as Michaud, but hardly more of one.)

Michaud's voting record in recent years incidentally has been entirely pro-gay.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's 100% personal.

Okay.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'd just like to point out once again that Michaud's actual voting record has been entirely pro-gay for about the past five years, and was never unusually anti-gay. Not that this entirely excuses matters--it's difficult to see why exactly his position on ENDA, for instance, would have changed between 2007 and 2009, other than opportunism or possibly personal reasons (or both)--but it does mean that he is probably not a sociopath or in the business of persecuting anyone and certainly doesn't act as if he represents Alabama.