Let's be clear: We have lost this [ Iraq ] war.—Gay writer Andrew Sullivan ( pictured ) .
"Absolutely. Why not? People are competent because—not with anything to do with their sexual orientation. I had people who are homosexual who worked for me in the governor's office." — Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee when asked on CNN Dec. 17, "Could a gay be in your administration?"
"Poor Mitt Romney just can't flip without flopping. In a cynical ploy to win over social conservatives, Romney has beat a well-documented retreat from a whole host of moderate positions, including a number of gay rights issues. ... How ironic that a man who wears his faith—albeit in generic Christian form—on his sleeve turns out to be the biggest moral relativist in the race—from either political party." — Syndicated gay-press columnist Chris Crain on his blog, citizenchris.typepad.com, Dec. 27.
" [ W ] e can't have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube staring in a mirror and poofing his hair. Really, we just can't." — Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan on John Edwards, Dec. 28.
"It's just as well I'm gay. If I was straight, I'd be a hopeless mad movie star who fucks everything that moves. That's what I'd be like—married to every single girl that I'd worked with, on wife number 10 by now, always being sued for divorce because I'd been caught with two chicks somewhere. ... Or I'd be like a rapper—three girls at the same time, coke, orgies, yachts. I would be a monster, actually. I'd have to be competitive on a lad level with all those other male movie stars. I'd probably be an alcoholic, too. Mind you, I'd have made a lot more money20 times more money, probably." — Actor Rupert Everett to London's Telegraph, Dec. 9.
"Let's be clear: we have lost this war. We have lost because the initial, central goals of the invasion have all failed: we have not secured WMDs from terrorists because those WMDs did not exist. We have not stymied Islamist terror—at best we have finally stymied some of the terror we helped create. We have not constructed a democratic model for the Middle East—we have instead destroyed a totalitarian government and a phony country, only to create a permanently unstable, fractious, chaotic failed state, where the mere avoidance of genocide is a cause for celebration. We have, moreover, helped solder a new truth in the Arab mind: that democracy means chaos, anarchy, mass-murder, national disintegration and sectarian warfare. And we have also empowered the Iranian regime and made a wider Sunni-Shiite regional war more likely than it was in 2003. Apart from that, Mr. Bush, how did you enjoy your presidency?" — Gay writer Andrew Sullivan on his blog, Dec. 17.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley