First we had Kid Rock thinking of/deciding to run for senate in Michigan, and now there is chatter about Caitlyn Jenner running for senate in California. I think it'll be a big step for the LGBT community to have a politician be openly LGBT, but even in California, I think we are a few election cycles away.
First off, let's talk about the elephant (get the pun?) in the room. Jenner is a republican, and 99.9% of the LGBT community is democratic. I don't blame the LGBT community for being anti-republican. The gay marriage issue brought many to the democratic side and the democrats played it like a fiddle, sort of like how the republicans use pro-lifers to their political advantage. So Jenner being a republican (which I've said before, is incredibly brave of her) might be an issue for the LGBT community.
It's also an issue for republicans. Establishment party republicans who are against Jenner running in this case are not terribly bright. In case they haven't noticed, California isn't exactly friendly to the republican party. If the democrats ran the remains of Osama Bin Laden for senate against Jesus Christ of the GOP, your new senator from California would not be our Lord and Savior. Jenner might have her problems (and she does, nothing to do with her being transgender) but if she can win a brutal primary she might have a shot of just losing the general, instead of losing in a landslide.
In terms of how people choose to live, I agree that we should all be free to live how we choose. However, when we have people like Kid Rock thinking about running for political office, it is scary to think of the reasons why people would elect him. I remember a political cartoon that showed both Hillary and Donald with a caption that read something like: Out of 350 million people, this is the best we could come up with? What does that say about where we are as a nation?
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