Corporate pirates or butt pirates?

A new book called "The Architect," all about Karl Rove's life, has a stunning little tidbit that I couldn't leave alone. It seems that Bush's Brain's Dad was batting for the other team. Read about the new book here.

In other words, the Creator of the Architect liked Erections.

Though not strictly speaking, unfortunately. The gentleman in question, Louis Rove, was Karl's stepfather, not his biological one. Still, Rove never really knew his real pop, just his gay one. At least until he was a senior in high school, at which point Louisss up and left for L.A. with no real explanation. Poof, gone, like a fairy in the springtime.

What this does, however, is beg the question how many more of these hawks have GLBT connections. There's already the case of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Mr. Halliburton himself. How much further can this be pushed? Especially by an administration so hellbent on GLBT discrimination?

A footnote to this is the widely suspected homosexuality of RNC chairman Ken Mehlman. In an article for Huffington Post, James Moore (who also wrote the above-mentioned book about Rove's life), points out that Mehlman has repeatedly caused confusion as to whether he's straight or not.

Mainstream reporters have never asked Mehlman if he is gay but Eric Resnick, a journalist for a gay publication in Cleveland, chased Mehlman down at a GOP fund-raising dinner in Akron. Resnick told Mehlman that he had been outed on blogs and talk radio and he wondered how he justified being gay and pushing an anti-gay agenda. Mehlman was non-responsive. Resnick persisted and finally asked Mehlman if he was gay.

"You have asked a question no one should have to answer," Mehlman responded.

The delicately chosen words annoyed Resnick and John Aravosis of Americablog. According to Aravosis, Mehlman, who is in his early 40s and unmarried, gave a "non-answer, answer."

"He's at the top of his profession in a conservative political party," Aravosis told me last year. "If he's not gay, why wouldn't he react the same way every straight guy does when someone asks them if they are gay? They sort of energetically tell you hell no they're not gay. Mehlman says nothing. Seems like he would want everyone in his party to know he's not gay. Maybe he's a closeted heterosexual."

Mehlman subjected himself to such speculation after deploying a voter profiling mechanism for the 2004 election. The RNC used background data on voters such as what type of car they drive, how much they earn, marital status, the color of their skin, the neighborhood where they live, and other factors to arrive at various political conclusions about individuals and determine if they were likely GOP voters. His political critics have decided it is now fair to talk about what type of profile best fits Mehlman.

Strange secrets, and stranger bedfellows.

Ha! Bedfellows!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

*Chuckle.*