Poor Cindy McCain.
John McCain locked her in a cage, took away all access to technology, sewed her mouth shut and–when all else failed–tranquilized her with heavy-duty animal tranq, usually reserved for elephants. All to try to control her and quiet her because she just loves the gays so much.
Or so you would have thought from the LGBT community when Cindy McCain tweeted a retraction of her NoH8 video which seemed to indicate her support of repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
“I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband’s stance on DADT.”
That’s a huge 180 from the Senator’s wife in this ‘NoH8′ video released earlier in the week:
I was skeptical from the get go, before the Twitter flip-flop showed up. I honestly do not enjoy being right about something so sad. However, the reaction from other LGBT activists I know was stunning.
“Either you are right and it’s all strategic manipulation in an effort to gain votes. Or she really believes in different policies than her husband, but… she spoke out a little too loudly and Mccain and the GOP have scrambled to reel her in. She comes from a background where the wife obeys the husband, so her words today may be what she was told to say, not what she believes.”
“I think the more likely explanation is that she meant it and her brute of a husband yelled at her.”
These were just two justifications posted on my facebook page alone. I’ve read countless other responses where LGBT activists are apologizing for Cindy’s Jekyll and Hyde act. The general consensus: “John must have made her tweet that.”
I don’t profess to know what goes on in the McCain household when the media isn’t watching. But I do know one thing, neither can you.
Rather than call her on her two-faced retreat, LGBT activists, so desperate to hold onto any celebrity affirmation, especially one seemingly so politically novel, have been making every excuse for Cindy McCain’s deception in the book.
But why? Why do we have to apologize for her? We don’t owe that to her.
There are a lot of Republicans I respect, actually. Republicans like Judy Biggert, an US House member from Illinois who has stood firm in her pro-LGBT stances for years and does not shy away from breaking from her party on controversial votes. Judy Biggert spoke volumes when she voted to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
Cindy McCain can’t cast a vote in Congress on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ The only power she has to affect change on this discriminatory law is her voice, and she’s instead used it to muddy the waters and create confusion–and LGBT activists are far too eager to offer her political cover in the form of speculation and assumption.
We don’t owe Cindy McCain that. If anyone owes anyone anything, Cindy McCain owes us an explanation for her two-faced treachery.
As a community, we must drop the battered wife act. We can accept an ally who is only an ally in name and not in deed. We can’t make excuses for fair-weather friends who drop us at the drop of a hat.
The LGBT community has an abusive relationship with Cindy McCain, and its time that we said goodbye.
DADT isn’t dead–just sleeping!
So… what happened at Senator McCain’s office? 
BREAKING: More civil disobedience–sit in in McCain’s office
Ask & Tell by Chad D – DADT Music Video 
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Tell her to take off the duct tape: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Take-Off-the-Duct-Tape-Cindy/175517452459609?ref=mf
Cindy married John because she agrees with his politics, and she set up NOH8Campaign with her republiTHUG husband to make them look bad. She is for women in the military being raped and accused of being lesbians and getting discharged, just like her husband Senator John McCain is. She is for men being beat up by other men in the military, accused of being gay and then discharged, just like her husband is. He heard the testimony under oath in the Senate and then denied hearing it. They are two of the same heterosupremacist tyrannical theocRATS and I told her so at http://twitter.com/@CindyhM1 and I told her lying husband the same thing at http://twitter.com@SenJohnMcCain & I also told her on
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1108874838 and everyone else should too. And then NOH8Campaign should edit the video and cut her part out with a message about standing up to bullies like Cindy & John McCain.
When you are done go to http://site.umbrella-q.net/issues.html and demand that every senator vote to repeal DADT – tell them on Facebook Twitter email phone & fax.
Or maybe she’s bat shit crazy.
What’s wrong with her???
I’d agree the McCains’ relationship probably isn’t great. John famously had an outburst and called Cindy a cunt in front of three reporters, in response to a remark about his hair going thin; he’s had other out-of-proportion reactions elsewhere that could be explained (if not excused) by PTSD, for which he may not have received proper treatment for (if the lives of other wounded veterans are anything to go on).
But whether that has any bearing on her stance on DADT, I have no idea. Judging from her actions, Cindy McCain is no more obviously an LGBT ally than Katy Perry. I say give neither much credit until they have taken responsibility for their conflicting messages and made an unequivocal statement of support.