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Bush's 'Huge Nightmare'
is Log Cabin Republicans

By Jack Nichols

George W. Bush, leading presidential candidate for the Republication nomination, said in a Sunday morning discussion with Tim Russert on Meet the Press , that he probably would not meet with members of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national gay and lesbian political support group.

Following references made to Republican candidate Sen. John McCain's recent meeting with the same Log Cabin group, Bush speculated that his own meeting with Republican gays would probably just create a``huge political nightmare.''

" I am someone who is a uniter, not a divider," he pleaded with his own special brand of namby-pamby conviction, " I don't believe in group thought, pitting one group of people against another."

Bob Kunst, veteran Florida gay and AIDS activist and currently Director of an "Impeach the GOP!" campaign, responded furiously to the Republican presidential front runner, saying:

"You treat Gay American taxpayers with the same bigoted clap-trap your father did. Yes, Bush Sr. practiced AIDS Genocide, as did Ronald Reagan. Both respected the whole wacko Religious Reich thing to get the 'sinners' while continuing to ignore multiple viruses and mutations that have cost 500,000 American lives and 100 million infections worldwide and out of control.

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"Yet today, you are still preaching 'abstinence' over condoms and have said nothing about the viruses, while again 'preaching' yours and Falwell's brand of sick morality, which is to ignore 'reality' no matter how alarming the body count."

Cliff Roffman, writing in Salon, says that since George W. Bush took office as Texas governor, 9,921 Texans have died of AIDS and 19,532 have tested positive.

"In those 60 months," writes Roffman, "Bush has never said the word AIDS publicly in either a health, social or policy statement, according to leading AIDS organization leaders on a city, county and state level, reporters covering the governor's office, and gay community leaders."