One looking to get votes from anyone and everyone he or she can to win an election.

A desperate hypocrite who doesn't care if he's being manipulated......

Wallace Shawn in a classic episode of "Murphy Brown"...

But Paladino looks like Dennis Hopper circa "Blue Velvet"...

give a speech that you have never seen before and that was written by the people you are speaking to. What kind of politician does that?

One that will turn around and claim to represent "you" and will continue to rail against special interests. lol. The irony.

Paladino is a disgustingly putrescent weasel. He speaks his mind, unaware that the majority of of Voters are repulsed by his attitudes. No problem. We've all said unpopular things. But THEN, he turns around and blames his Staffers for writing this bigoted BS. Hey... I've read scripts before. If I ran across anything as hateful as this right wingnut, I have enough of a brain NOT to just blurt it out. Blaming others for ones own faults is despicable.

"I am Carl Paladino. I am what I am - a simple man who works hard, trusts others, and loves his family and fears for the future of our State.

I am ALSO a man who:

- cheats on his wife,

- threatens to take people out,

- thinks the best way to govern is with a baseball bat,

- believes that a constant state of anger is the best state to be in,

- bashes gay people then pretends to not be a bigot.

I am Carl Paladino. I am a man who will LOSE the race for the governship of the State of New York because quite frankly, I am a stupid AZZ who is COMPLETELY unfit to hold public office......"

Listen up this state is in deep trouble. It is seriously indebt, has way too many employees, too much welfare, and we are taxed way too much. It is impossible to go anywhere by car and not see at least 3 separate State Police speed traps. A rookie State Trooper makes $75,000 a year with overtime, and since NYS has figured out they can levy an additonal tax on its citizens the state has no problem paying overtime either. Someone needs to take a baseball bat to the dysfunctional State government we have, fire state employees, and downsize the government. You want to support Cuomo, the creator of affirmative action mortgages under Clinton? I remember the last time we had a Cuomo for Governor in this state-it was a disaster. No thank you.

Hey listen, you can't have it both ways. I WANT a politician to speak THEIR mind...theirs and nobody elses. That way I can judge their beliefs and see if I want to vote for them. He said how he felt about gays and it was refreshing to see a politician saying something that wasn't politically correct for a change. Unfortunately (for him) I disagree with his views and wont vote for him...but at least he was speaking HIS mind.

If he sort of apologized, maybe the people of New York will sort of vote for him.

I wondered if the media had taken some stupid comments and run with them. You know, I hold people to their actions, and I hold them accountable. If they offend, or wrong me, then I hold them accountable for that offense or wrong, as well. However, when they apologize, I forgive them. Very clearly, Jesus said, "Forgive, and you will be forgiven." I think we should forgive the man, and tell the media to start dealing in truth, and quite manipulating the news to try and sway public opinion.

Every single one of them that works for Fox News -- that is, most of the Republican ticket.

I take it "skyking" above would include me and my fellow FDNY firefighters on his list of government employees to be fired--That's OK--I've heard it before--people like me are "living off the taxpayers", overpaid and compensated etc,etc. But fortunatly for "skyking" and others like him, we do not look at the public and their well being with the same narrow views. Otherwise, they would be in deep do-do the next time THEY need emergency services--"Just sayin"==OUT==

this is a sham apology because he went on three different morning shows expousing the same b.s. So we know what he is and the culture war of the conservative tea party continues. I hope America is waking up to these angry, ugly and hateful people.

Stop saying republican party they went through a hostile takeover and now are the TEA PARTY.

They where in such bad shape with leadership that they where taken over by sadistic grass roots Extremists.

Follow the Republican Party through history this isn't the republican party. It is something else.

Heartlight: What kind of politician does that? Speaks from notes written by others, to groups he is pandering to for votes? Obama.

sadistic grass roots extremists.how about fed up with out of control government,fed up with every subversive group,that tries to destroy our way of life.fed up will lies on both sides of the asle.fed up with the name calling and hate from the left.fed up with dysfuncianal people telling me that it's my fault when the truth says otherwise.fed up with the state telling me how to live.when you insult repubs you don't hurt the tea party.you just show your ignorance.

The guy apoligized. Accept it and pay attention to what he offers.

Truth is coming on government spending at all levels. That truth will mean some folks will lose jobs or taxes will be raised. When the only answer is to tax the rich the rich go away.

Time to pay the "FIDDLER" is near.

Ah, so this is how it works. Your guy can call anybody anything he wants, send as many racist jokes around as he he wants, father illegit children, cheat on his wife and just be an all around thug and it's all okay because he says he's sorry.

That's the GOP formula. Say something bigoted to fire up the social conservatives, then half-ass apologize for it to get the fiscal conservatives off the hook.

TomTom: You said that perfectly. Run for President.

I get the anger but don't understand the deception and lies. No reason, Be reasonable.

Shoot I am a white male of working age! You want to know what discrimination is ask a white male of working age!

I am in no way prejudice just have the chips stacked against me before I even try!

Equality should be Equality. Not tilting of scales. Republicans and Democrats have made today what it is. Tug of War!

I don't like the Democrats but despise the Republicans. I am American!

As if the apology really matters at this point. He's a homophobe and he's only doing this in order to try and get some votes. Sorry, but you are a born loser that needs to be removed from the planet earth altogether.

I agree and disagree with both parties. Who represents people like me?

Pick your gang, or pull the wool from your eyes.

I'm a lesbian from way back when! Which makes my wife gay too, since she married one.

Heartlight3, you asked "What kind of politician does that?"

Answer: A TEA Party Politician does that.

Question: Paladino, O'Donnell, Angle, Miller, etc... does anyone see the similarities in these TEA Party nutjobs?

While his statements , and his "apology" were unpolished, I can see past idealogy to understand what he was saying. Lets face it. Gay pride parades are unnessesarily provocative, and not something I would take my kids to. Not because of the gay agenda, but because the tacky way they go about promoting it. Instead of wearing rainbow colors and dressing tastefully, you have adults wearing speedos and a smile, going into churches and other actions that do not further their cause. I wouldnt take my kids to mardigras or carnival in Brazil either. And kids dont need to be taught about sex at 8-12 years old, of any kind, and definately not by schools who have an agenda which might not be MY agenda. Hands off my kids. Any sane person would have to admit that the "safe schools czar" should be in jail , not in charge of safe schools.If you dont think so, do some research on him. Anyone that endorses NAMBLA has NO business being any where near kids.The problem with gay and lesbian groups is, they have not done enough to seperate themselves from the likes of NAMBLA and other groups, fairly or unfairly. The bottom line is, if youre going to allow the provocative behavior of some of your crowd define your position, youre not going to get very far with your agenda. Just like the Tea parties, if 1 person out of 10000 has a sign that is racist , the whole crowd is painted as racist by the MSM.

"Hey listen, you can't have it both ways. I WANT a politician to speak THEIR mind...theirs and nobody elses..."

Phil, that's just the problem! Paladino wasn't speaking his own mind, he was reading "cold" from a prepared statement on a piece of paper that had been handed to him to read in front of cameras by the Orthodox Jewish organization that he had come to see. These weren't his words, they were theirs. Hence the "apology."

And one person supports the perversion that is NAMBLA and all gays and lesbians are in support of it? A parade, which is a celebration, defines all gays and lesbians as half naked in speedos? So, all heteros must be what you see on Spring Break in Cancun? I guess the provocative behavior of some must define your position, right?

Another fallacy is this notion that this so-called "gay agenda" is trying to teach (read recruit) children in the schools. Get past the gutter - being gay isn't just about the sex. That's all you folks focus on. Teaching our youth to understand that everyone is equally worthwhile and that no one has the right to torment, discriminate against or treat another person with any less respect or dignity than another is what is being promoted. It has nothing to do with sex.

Thankfully someone brought up the truth of "gay pride" events and this misconception that homosexuals like to bring up about their conservative natural lifestyle they choose to live.

Is part of being a responsible conservative homosexual getting a complimentary bag of rainbow condoms and spermicidal lube during New Orleans LGBT Pride Weekend? Trying to tend bar during that weekend was like being dropped into the orgy scene in Conan the Barbarian...

So filled with guilt and so wanting to be accepted.

Its so pathetic its almost sad.

People at spring break arent representing any specific agenda. People at a gay pride rally are, so your equasion doesnt apply. Its like if Im working for a company, whatever I do at work is a reflection on the company, and if i showed up in a speedo and danced on a desk would that reflect well on the company? If I go to the beach after work and dance in a speedo I reflect on noone but myself. Im all for teaching tolerance to my children, what Im saying is, on the sensitive subject of sex, or personal values of any kind, its not the schools job , or right to do that. So, sorry but your arguments dont wash

For Lockes sake!

Homosexuals arent born that way... A person isnt born with a sexual preference. Sexual preference is based on two things. First is environment, you learn from what is around you. Second is that persons desire to procreate.

All of the animal studies that homosexuals cite are actually studies examining the sexual behavior of animals in a closed environment. The female rabbits absorb what children they are impregnated with and the males will have sex with male or female regardless. Its a genetic feature triggered by overpopulation that we evolved to combat that problem. Nothing more and nothing less.

Thankfully rabbits arent smart enough to form a coalition and march for rights.

I don't know if a homosexual is born gay or not. I believe it is possible due the fact of our imperfection. I do believe maybe it is possible. But it is never the less contrary to nature. A repulsive act. Especially 2 men doing each other in the butt, butt to mouth, etc. Look at a gay porno featuring men& ANYONE with any sense would tell you how disgusting & repulsive it is!!! ANd for those who would watch said porno.....You try to convince a reasonable Person that it is ok for 2 Gay men to adopt a BOY!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!! Being Gay is a choice. There are consequences, just like in adultery, children born out of wedlock, etc. It is just not gay, it is any sin. I dont hate anyone. It is a true statement. GOTTA RUN!!!!

Anthony,

you compare gay people to rabbits? Fat people can loose weight, gay people can adopt children, stupid people will always be stupid.

Doesn't matter what school you go to or who teaches you how to learn you are wired this way born into stupidness. God bless ya.

You right I am prejudice against stupid people and think we should gas them all no matter their skin color, sexual preference, color of their underwear, religious beliefs, size of their bottom side, how ugly they are, what party they belong to, or how many times they spank their monkey.

No I am in no way serious and please except my apology for the above mentioned stupidity.

No I don't think anyone is stupid, WE ALL HAVE PURPOSE!

His apologies are meaningless! He let the cat out of the bag with his original statements and apologizing now is simply a tactic to garner more support. Well screw you, Paladino!

Pornography is legal yet prostitution is not! Someones getting RICH!

Look I find it equally offensive when a man is talking about ramming his Beotch in the snatch or the back door. I have a mother a sister and a daughter, you might as well be talking about them. I don't talk that way for attention. It usually comes from the insecure searching for your acceptance.

I walk away and go about my business.

Yes I am a homophobe (please,please don't hit on me) but I do love lesbians, how can't I? They love the same thing I do!!!

I am not gay so I don't watch gay male porn. Nor do I like cooking shows so I don't watch those either. Go about your business.

I get equally freaked out when a fat ugly girl hits on me.

Are atheist allowed to be married?

The same kind of politician that pass's laws and bills without actually reading them! Typical bull$hit. It should surprise no one.

This guy also talks about taking medicaid money away.

Death panel?

rangerjohn: I agree with you. Children today do not have the same innocence we had when we were their age. Just the ads on television alone (e.g. Viagra, other products for 'erection' problems; breast enhancement products; sexually provocative "fashions", menstruation products, etc.) are examples of how very young children are constantly bombarded with sexually explicit material all the time and wherever they go. My neighbor's little 4-year-old boy asked her what a "rection" is after listening to a Viagra ad. That these sort of ads are not censured is disturbing. This really has become a sick society.

They certainly don't need to be exposed to XXX-rated Gay Pride Parades that are all the more sexually explicit, oblivious or downright insensitive to children. Show us instead those gay and lesbian couples who have adopted children that others do not want. Show us the professionalism, talent, and knowledge that many gays and lesbians exert while teaching our children in public schools without ever flaunting their sexuality onto our youth. Gays and lesbians need to be portrayed more positively. They won't be as long as others are out marching in parades, not adequately or properly dressed, not behaving the way mature adults should be behaving, and by pathetically making themselves look more like sexually-deprived adolescents going on 50 years old.

Can you say goodnight and goodbye baby?

See what Andrew Cuomo said. You won't believe your ears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related

So what if he misspelled Obama's name.

Obama DID NOT KNOW that the head of the Canadian government is A PRIME MINISTER, NOT A PRESIDENT.

Like I said, who cares?

See what Andrew Cuomo said. You won't believe your ears.

One sees with one's eyes, not ears.

And yet others seem to miss the obvious lie - he stated that his views are consistent with those of the Catholic Church, to which he belongs, but forgets (conveniently) that the Catholic Church also frowns upon adultery (he admitted having a child out of wedlock and hiding it from his wife for 10 years). This is a stark indictment of his credibility, isn't it? A glaring lack of consistency in his position, period.

Everybody has their past mistakes, most politicians have plenty, maybe even you.

No Aggie, if the Dems do it, it is accepted and then libs sympathize because their limp lib leader has a sex addiction. Remember Mr Bill and Monica?

Lucy DO YOU remember Newt? The do as I say not as I do, the affair he was having while slaming Clinton. Or the wife who was in the hospital with cancer he served with divorce papers so he could be with his mistress - do you remember that? Or Henry Hyde, Bill Livingston, Robert Barr, etc. ect. etc? Of course not theirs was Ok because their ideology is and always has been do as I say not as I do.

You remember the Party of "Family Values".

...they're destined to live in an apartment with two cats?

If it looks like a dog and sounds like a dog, it's clearly a gay duck.

Is someone who weighs the same as a gay duck a gay witch then?

Boo for double posting.

ED - if they both float, yes.

In which case we can build bridges to tomorrow out of them.

"You can put lipstick on a pig........"

burn the witch! burn the witch!

yeah, maybe his part time gig is smuggling baloney in Harlem w/ his big, black Cadillac. Wat a f-ing homophobe, wats worse is he really did not apologize. In the military, we lost a lot of good competent soldiers coz of this crap. Do wat you want on ur time, its not my bizness. IF the people of NY have any brains, and conscience, they will NOT vote for Paladinko. Yes, im ashamed he's Italian also. Hope he chokes on his spareribs in gravy at Sunday dinner.

Oh @!$%# Mac, you're quoting from a spooky book! Watch me fret but not actually give a @!$%#.

Diane,

When in doubt you can always vote for this party...

http://rentistoodamnhigh.org/

He didn't read the script without reviewing it. What I want to know is why the press would publish words the guy didn't say as if he said them so that people, like here, come to believe it was something he wrote or uttered.

The press should be falling all over themselves to try to make up for this, but of course they don't like his views on things, so they won't.

That Rent Is Too Damn High is fantastic! Don't agree with him on everything, but hey... With whom do you agree with everything?

If you want to see him say it, go to Rachael Maddow.

the lesser of 2 evils is Brown. You should legalize, regulate and tax marijuana. I bet ur state is in the black [and the clouds] in no time.

That would be Nancy Pelosi. She cant even blink

Sam I guess you don't work, and you just wait for the hand out of these Democrats, can't you see people losing their jobs left and right since this president decided to spread our tax money to those bums and keep spending on stimulus that doesn't works, the economy it's getting worse, and he keep blaming the Bush administration, he Obama the one who keep barrowing money from china so he could hired more governments and more people works in the white house to do nothing, even a stupid security, Jones public organizer which don't know anything about white house they're been hired to work at the white house, our president don't want business in America, hi's scared company who do the hiring, who's creating job for the Country, and now they're just holding out and waiting for the president to decide how much tax money they're going to still from these company. Also these Tea Party you calling, they're not stilling our tax money, they're those people who's paying Obama and his administration salary, we don't want health care from Obama, we don't want to be told what to eat, or which Doctor to see when we need one, we don't want those Company to pay penalty because they don't want Obama's health care.

Hey "sonia" hun? Can't YOU remember that people STARTED losing their jobs 12 months BEFORE Bush left office? Can't YOU see that he cut taxes for the rich and instead of ttheir using the money to CREATE jobs (as Boehner and the GOP brain dead candidates claim happens) it instead REDUCED jobs?

And by the way "sonia" the vast majority of econonic experts state that if not for the stimulus, America would be a GREAT DEPRESSINO FAR WORSE than that of the 20's a 30's. Also by the way "sonia" George Bush SUPPORTED TARP and did John McCain, who "suspended" his campaign to rush back and vote FOR the stimulus.

Get a CLUE girl....

Hey Doobie (the name says it all...) you know not of what you speak.

SuzyQ and the same old crud.

Sonia,

Please take some time and learn the English language before your next post.

Thanks

Sonia....that truely is the worst excuse for English that I've seen in a long time. The Tea Party counts on people with your skills and intellect. You could be Palins speech writer if you could just dumb it down a little more.

Doobie....People started losing jobs 12 months before Bush left office ............ That is also 12 months after democrats took control of congress.

Tell me, did tax revenue increase or decrease with the Bush tax cuts?

doobie don't you see just like they sold us down the river to get clinton elected. they purposely trash our economy to get obama elected.barney frank and his lies about fannie mae and freddie mac are more responsible for this mess than bush was.granted bush was a moron,but the blame lies on the dems.

Yes, Kevin, Sonia is murdering the English language, but "truly" doesn't have an "e."

I CANNOT BELIEVE how you LIBS are picking on Sonia!! I thought you were all about helping. Now you make fun of someone who is trying to make it in AMERICA and may be just learning the English language for all you! How typically hypocritical of you lame azz libs. Or, if Sonia may need help in grammar, you choose to mock her instead. How typical. All because she has her own views.

You just proved what all you lousy libs are about.

None of you are worth hitting the spell check option. Figure out the words yourselves!

Good for you SONIA! GOD BLESS!

Umm,.... yeah right, Obama hasnt stopped campaigning , 2 years later LOL. Hell, he's still campaigning for a HC bill that passed 6 months ago

Why is it so important that Sonia be literate in English. When Obama was putting her on the Supreme Court it was supposed to be a good thing she was Mexican, now she's supposed to speak/write English? Make up your minds, guys. Sonia's comments on here are as reasonable and intelligible as any of her judicial rulings, most of which I have read. Most of you probably haven't. Not that it matters now, he snuck her past the American people and now she's 1/9th of the U.S. government for as long as she lives. Good job Barry.

Why do you think that Sonia is mexican and likely a new resident of this country? Talk about stereotyping all because of her name and poor grammer! For the record, I agree with Constitutional Rights... read what is written there!

Bush had even poorer grammar and he was a white supposedly educated. I have to understand considering his choice of states to live in, I have met very few Texans who speak proper English, Y'all.

David, I agree with you in part. If I were gay I would be ashamed to be seen anywhere near a Gay Pride parade. However, Carl Paladino was speaking to a group of Hassidic Jews, from the look of his audience and the speech smacks of opportunism. However, I suspect that it doeds reflect hsi true views, and his apology does not.

Oh, I think we know exactly where he lies. Where, when, how, why and to whom he lies.

JoAnne in PA

Oh, I think we know exactly where he lies. Where, when, how, why and to whom he lies.

Why then do you libs condemn him for this.. This is exactly what you support and scream equal rights about. Actually if he were a Dem you would find his activities very supportive. You support gay rights, but you question where this man lies? What a joke. But I'm sure you supported Bill Clinton's oral sex with Monica.

You double standard hypocrites!

Wow, so you think homosexuality is akin to a disease?

From your name....I'd say the drink.

Another poster who just cannot accept the fact that this is not a choice.

What I find fascinating is the number of people who say they aren't gay but then think they know so much better than a gay person themselves as to why they are oriented that way. What an amazing level of ignorance laced with arrogance.

This trait is most prevalent in the holier-than-thou communities of the fervently religious, who are taught that they know the 'true god', whoever that happens to be with that particular person or group. Then you go the extra step of enacting your odd form of invective or prejudice into secular law by ballot measures to make gay people's lives that much harder.

And you wonder why a large majority of the gay community is angry and frustrated with religious groups who attack them? It's called self-defense.

WHATEVER BASHING IS HAPPENING IS BEING DONE TO THE GAY COMMUNITY. Not the other way around.

It would serve you and your god well to leave others alone and attempt something more virtuous....like minding your own damn business!

Try staying out of the secular life and laws of others whom it is not of your concern. America would be a much better place if this would happen.

Does it really matter whether attraction to the same sex is genetic or learned or a choice or whatever? Sexuality is someone's private choice - it's only when they flaunt sexuality in public, heterosexuality or homosexuality, that it becomes a community issue. If I like to have sex with plants (or am genetically predisposed toward it), that's fine if I do it in private, but not fine if I stand on a float and grind my loins into a plant. It's the overt sexuality that is offensive, not that two guys live together, are committed to each other, and want to be able to make medical decisions for each other. Obviously there are some complications with adoption and with what the English word "marriage" means, but my own religious convictions about how a person acts in private really don't affect homosexuals any more than I don't think the government should force people to honor their parents.

In the realm of protected public discourse (which I hope everyone recognizes is different than for example someone saying "fire" in a theatre) Peope can say what they want. However, you will have to live with the consequences - and you have to realize that there is a community interest in protesting against situations that start to border on the political analogy of the "fire" example.

I happen to be Japanese, so I will use an example against myself. Big difference between saying "I hate the Japanese" and you are just some random person, and saying "Japanese are criminals and I think they should be put in jail as a protective measure - please elect me" when you are a politician.

Also, please stop the scientific miseducation - Experiments don't have to end up with same result to constitute proof. In many cases, theories come up with probability curves, which are then confirmed by the results of many experiments that build up evidence consistent with that curve. Its still scientific, just not always reductionist (i.e. everything is explainable with mechanistic certitude). Reductionism is not the only scientific approach to study the world, certainly not since the age of quantum mechanics.

If being gay is not a choice, maybe it is a new gender?

SO TRUE

Not me! He'll say whatever it takes to steal a vote. He needs to go away and bury himself in a concrete building foundation somewhere.

And you wonder why a large majority of the gay community is angry and frustrated with religious groups who attack them? It's called self-defense.

WHATEVER BASHING IS HAPPENING IS BEING DONE TO THE GAY COMMUNITY. Not the other way around.

It would serve you and your god well to leave others alone and attempt something more virtuous....like minding your own damn business!

Try staying out of the secular life and laws of others whom it is not of your concern. America would be a much better place if this would happen.

So when we are forced to seegay pride parading down the street with half of the participants practically naked and screaming obscenities that's minding YOUR own business??

So only those who believe a God created this world and we ARE responsible for our own actions and WILL face this God you so religiously deny someday to give an account have to mind our own business. Is that right?

While we have gayness shoved in our faces.

"Religious" people will mind our own business when "extremist" gays act civilized.

to agnsttheflow: i live in mpls. i don't know how many years they have had a gay pride parade. all that time i have never been forced to watch that parade. truth is, i've never been to one. as for having gayness shoved in your face, just look at all of these so-called religious groups. catholics and protestants in northern ireland have been killing each other for years because of the way the other worship god,same with the jews and muslims in the middle east, and the hindus and muslims in india. then there are some so-called religious people who want to deny you communion because you disagree with them on a certain issue. You're last statement about extremist gays acting civilized is laughable. the truth is more people have been killed in the name of god by these so-called religious people than by any supposedly uncivilized gays.

Jesus Mac, give it a break- You've got a hell of an echo there!!LOL

mac - sure hope you keep kosher and eat no pork, shellfish, etc. as that is in the bible too.

love the way people only quote those parts of the bible that seem to support their agendas.

Remember - love one another as I have loved you & judge not, lest ye be judged

So tell me about your lifestyle choice of being heterosexual, assuming you are? You are ignorant to reality. Being gay is no more a lifestyle choice than being straight is a lifestyle choice. You are what you are.

you are what you are, until you become something else. ---- i believe we are a combination of genetics and personal choice. ---- one thing for certain, it is up to each of us whether we act on our impulses, or not.

Gimme a drink (Seems you had a few already)

I am willing to bet you have never been to a 'gay parade'

Next time you walk down the street with your girlfriend, make damn sure you do not touch her, look lovelnly in her eyes or even (horros) kiss her when she gets off the plane. Don't shove that stuff in MY face.

I think being homosexual is a choice for some, just as being heterosexual can be. Everyone is unique, so I wouldn't want to generalize anyone by saying it is absolutely a choice or absolutely genetic; but I think it is most appropriate to refer to it as a "preference." Not sure why people get so offended at calling sexual preference a choice. I mean, I find green apples more attractive and delicious than red - that's a preference/choice, but I can choose a red apple if I want to. Is that genetic? I suppose everything can be genetic at some level, but that is rather mundane.

Apology? No.

Excuse? Yes.

That was no "apology" That was another calculated political statement to win over moderates just like the anti-gay statement was calculated to win over the religious right-wing/

The GOP plays the same game with race. Drop the N bomb to get the old racist white vote then apologize to pick up the young suburban white vote.

call Hilary a bitch to pick up the misogynist male vote then apologize to pick up the woman vote.

Only a sucker falls for this crap.

He doesn't owe anybody an apology for what he said! And he was stupid for backing down. Patronizing all these extremists is really sickening. All these extremists (not just gays) come out of the closets and now they are trying to shove all the God Believing People into the closets and throw God out of our lives as well. Jesus won't allow it to happen though.

God burned Sodom and Gomorrah once, He can do it again whenever He wants to.

RAM: Did you ever stop and think about how many people you have offended?

Lucy1, did you think of all the people YOU offended?

really if a apology were in order...........no apology is in order. If you are gay.........why expect rights or an apology for such repulsive & deviant behavior......it is so asinine........it is insane to expect it..........yet it is an insane world we sadly live in:(

well... that depends upon your perspective, doesn't it. ---- what is casual fun for one person might be semi-pornographic to someone else, which is why they have the Miller Rule for determining what is porn, and what isn't.

ronpal (first, that's a very clever screen name...:) ), you're absolutely right. It's relative. Subjective. Open to interpretation. Exactly my point. Frankly, I don't see any relevance between an annual event that is known in advance (and why it's an event), and Paladino's anger. He knows Gay Pride parades exist, he knows when they are held, and if it offends him, he should just not take his children there. End of story. I don't object to other parades, whether for show or holiday - I'm simply not interested, so I don't go. I don't start hurling insults at the participants of the parades, nor do I denigrate the holiday or event that they celebrate. If Paladino doesn't like the show he's seeing - he can watch something else...

behaving in a risque manner during an authorized parade is one thing ---- just try behaving in that same manner, for instance, if you were walking past a small-town grade school. ---- i think you will discover the authorities will not appreciate the freedoms you believe you have. ----- btw, RONPAL is my actual name --- i have no affiliation with Ron Paul, the politician.

and just for clarification, i am against overtly sexual displays in a public forum, regardless of the person's proclivities.

Spoken like a true hypocrite who wants only to voice a opion but not here one which is about what most gay do since they like most libera;s have little to no spine almost like a politican not much difference!

I have only seen pictures and videos, but the people involved are often wearing little clothing and simulating sex acts (the two together amplify the impact). I truthfully don't understand them. I don't understand defining myself by my sexual attractions. But even given that, maybe the floats could have two homosexual men sitting, drinking tea, laughing at each others stories, and touching hands periodically (it's a first date, after all). The question is what is acceptable in public. You haven't made any arguments, just stated your opinion that you don't find such overt displays of public sexuality (in front of children) disgusting. I don't even like it as an adult, but certainly kids shouldn't be dragged to see this stuff - they have enough going on in their lives without the stresses brought by premature sexuality. This is obviously a cultural mores issue, and the majority of Americans are still in this camp (I would imagine even a majority of New Yorkers). But the bottom line is that finding overt public sexuality "disgusting" does not mean that someone hates folks with homosexual desires who act upon them in private as I do my heterosexual desires.

I don't condone any lewd activity in public gay or straight but I'm little tired of the "children" excuse. Are your children in charge of their travel itinerary or are you? If your child has been "exposed" to a gay pride parade then who drove the mini-van that got them there?

I'm a small-town person from the mid-west. One year I went to NYC to visit a friend. We went to Greenwich Village because I'd always heard about it and wanted to see the place. It happened that it was Halloween but we didn't know that meant anything. We were just about ready to head for home when we found out that there was to be a "gay" parade in about an hour. We waited and I'm so glad we did. It was a lot of fun. There were no floats but people were dressed up in all sorts of costumes and were just having a great time. It was fun, it was funny, it was good-natured. Nothing gross, lewd, or indecent about it. I'm not gay and I wasn't raised around gay people (that I knew about, anyway) but I don't understand the problem of letting gay people marry, live their lives, and be full members of society. Isn't that what we all want and think is our right? Why shouldn't gay/lesbian people be able to expect to have the same things?

you mean like Bill Clinton, who denied again and again that he had anything to do with Monica ??----- and he was under oath at the time !!!

now you now that whole mess was a distraction from the real investigation.whitewater still has not been explained,but now it's too late he kept you all busy worrying about his infidelity long enough to get pres. pardon from bush.now he can't be touched.and you've all forgotten about the people who where ripped off by bill and hillary.and really zermatt is it what they said or what someone told you they said.i see alot of that moslty from sorces that cannot be trusted.

the muse, it's really easy to be butch when you're anonymous and behind a keyboard, isn't it?

Shut up. muse. You know damn well your boy is just playing The Game. Insult then "apologize" for it a vague wiggle room kinda way. It's just like dropping the N bomb. It nails down the redneck white vote then you fake apologize so you can win back the moderate white vote.

yeah ---- like no democrat politicians ever said anything they later had to apologize for.

ronpal - Tony made no inference to any political party. Why did you?

because i am an equal opportunity politician basher --- i don't like either the republican party or the democrats. --- i assumed he was reflecting on republicans since this article is concerning a republican candidate.