Guess what? You may be contributing to the campaign of John McCain--and you probably didn't even know it.  It seems that Manhunt.net founder Jonathan Crutchley has donated the maximum amount of money ($2300) to John McCain's campaign and it's been accepted. Oh sure, it's a "personal" donation but your support of Manhunt has made it all possible. Don't you feel proud?

  Before any of you Log Cabin Republicans get on our case, we fully support your right to your opinion and your constitutional civil right of free speech. We're simply exercising our right here in this blog and vigorously disagreeing with Crutchley, a so-called "liberal Republican"  (although he hates that term ..too bad). The multimillionaire admitted to the donation this week and explained his reasoning.

  “I believe McCain will be a better commander-in-chief than Obama, who also opposes gay marriage...if we have an experienced, seasoned person defending the country in this dangerous age, we will be able to argue about the gay agenda later. Yes, I am a Massachusetts Republican, which is about the same as being an Alabama Democrat. But don't call me a ‘liberal.’ That's an insult.” 

  At least one commenter on the blog thread where Crutchley made his remarks took the Manhunt founder to task for his stance and in the spirit of that, we'd like to add OUR comments and debate Crutchley's "opinion"

 First, neither McCain or Obama has any experience as a "Commander-in-chief" so for Crutchley to make the argument that McCain would be "better"  is  wishful thinking, not any sort of logical prognostication. In fact McCain's so-called "experience" has taught him nothing about dealing with the foreign countries or the military. McCain has such an itchy trigger finger when it comes to war that his saber-rattling over the past few months is downright frightening.

 Second, Obama weeks to repeal DOMA (the "Defense of Marriage Act") and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and is not actively "opposing" gay marriage. In his opinion, he doesn't believe in it---but it doesn't mean he's going out of his way to oppose it. One should ask whether McCain supports the proposition which would overturn same-sex marriage in California. Obama opposes THAT.

 And McCain's stance on other gay issues is equally as troubling. He uses that old argument "let the states decide" --unless of course he disagrees with the state. Like now.  If those evangelicals he's cozying up to ask McCain to vigorously oppose our rights, he'll do it in a heartbeat. He already supports the "one-man, one-woman" marriage definition.  Look how quickly he's supporting offshore drilling no matter if California opposes it. Funny thing is, which one-man, one-woman marriage does he support? His first or his second?

 And while we're on the subject of gay issues, McCain is still on some of the old ones---gay adoption for one. Look, McCain we've already moved forward from that one!

 Third, I think we're all a little tired of our FULL civil rights being referred to as a "gay agenda" Crutchley has made lots of money with a website that seems to reflect this so-called agenda. And let's be honest. Manhunt is referred to as a "social networking site" but we all know it's more of a "hook-up" site. The name says it all. 

  As for John McCain's views and his voting record, OnTheIssues.org has called "mixed" at best.  He's opposed to adding sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes, he's for "don’t-ask-don’t-tell", and he hasn't quite updated his current feelings about the idea of a gay president--in '99 he said he was "comfortable" with the idea. Well thanks! Except we're NOT comfortable with an ill-tempered, war-mongering individual who has supported George W. Bush almost every step of the way.

 As for Mr Crutchley, again we fully support his right to his views and he can do with his money whatever he wishes. But he has to know that there will be those like us who have the right to question him on it. If we could we'd ask him face to face whether it's really an issue of McCain being a better commander-in-chief or it has to do with holding onto as much of his gay-supported wealth as possible.  How does Crutchley feel about women's rights?  Or does that even cross his mind? Because it sure has crossed McCain's! Is Crutchley at all concerned that judges appointed by McCain would take away a woman's reproductive rights?  And does Crutchley think about what these same judges would do with gay rights once they're through with women?  Or maybe Crutchley is like Clarence Thomas who got where he was because of liberal affirmative action legislation and now opposes in the spirit of "I got what I want, you're on your own".

  Finally, we don't want to make it seem as though our opinions are simply anti- Bush and anti-McCain. That's a waste of our time. Rather we are ENTHUSIASTIC supporters of Barack Obama. We want a return to a common sense approach to the world we live in. Our country needs a change so badly from this downward spiral and the change in tone. We care more than about ourselves as individuals. We care about the country and the world. Yes, it's an overused term but we have hope again that this can happen. Tell us Mr Crutchley do you get that from (as Paris Hilton referred to McCain) as wrinkly old white guy?