Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian

Why the candidate I support is … brokered convention

CynthiaYockey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:41:33 +0000

I’m still wrapping up my personal projects so I can return to blogging, so I’d been planning this post but hadn’t written it. However, Monday evening Erick Erickson announced on his radio show that the candidate he is endorsing as the Republican nominee for president is the Sweet Meteor of Death, or a brokered convention, [...]

Florida primary headlines and famous women breaking taboos

CynthiaYockey — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:47:01 +0000

“Mary Tyler Moore’s taboo-breaking shows seen in a new light“: Between “The Dick Van Dyke Show’s” Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, Moore helped create two of televisions most influential and indelible roles — there’s a statue depicting the famous Mary hat toss in downtown Minneapolis. How many other television characters have their own statue? [...]

Headlines from the Republican campaign trail — did Gingrich get one of his talking points from Cracked.com?

CynthiaYockey — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:02:55 +0000

“The 6 Stupidest Things We Use to Judge People We Don’t Know” – John Cheese, a columnist at Cracked.com, notes that Newt Gingrich adopted a new talking point shortly after it appeared in one of his columns: Last November, I wrote a piece on the Occupy Wall Street generation, and the first point was about how [...]

How to improve Paula Deen’s ‘The Lady’s Brunch Burger’

CynthiaYockey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:48:20 +0000

One of the first things I knew I had to do in June 2010 when I started the diet and exercise program that has trimmed over 65 pounds from my figure was to stop watching Paula Deen’s cooking shows. But I have to love and admire her. She brings people together and makes them feel [...]

Reboot coming, seeking financial angels

CynthiaYockey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:17:54 +0000

I am about to reboot this blog. I have finally worked out how to make the unique contribution to the conservative cause that I’ve been passionate about from the moment I decided to found this blog in January 2009. I’ve also finally figured out how to make money while I’m doing it. And I’ve just [...]

The civility wars and gay conservatives

CynthiaYockey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:53:09 +0000

Yesterday Lisa De Pasquale, GOProud’s interim chair, published a piece worth reading in The Daily Caller calling out the gay Left for its vicious treatment of gay conservatives and their supporters while simultaneously deploring bullying: Dan Savage, the “It Gets Better” project’s co-founder, has been just as vicious toward gay conservatives as schoolyard bullies have [...]

Happy New Year

CynthiaYockey — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:17:32 +0000

I wish for all my dear gentle readers a happy new year and progress, prosperity, perfect health, enlightenment, wisdom, love, friends, divine protection, divine guidance, good luck and every blessing always. The tax levy in October has presented me with a number of challenges that I’m still sorting out. That’s what I’ve been focusing on [...]

UPDATEDx2: ‘The Case for “Outing” Gay Congressmen and Staffers’ at PJ Media

CynthiaYockey — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:05:57 +0000

My essay making the case for outing members of Congress and their staffers who are gay and engage in anti-gay activism posted this morning at PJ Media. I’m finding that straight people are having a hard time understanding that there’s no such thing as privacy when it comes to anyone’s sexual orientation. Since there is [...]

Lisa De Pasquale is the new interim chair of GOProud, replacing Chris Barron

CynthiaYockey — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:38:53 +0000

GOProud announced yesterday that co-founder Christopher Barron is stepping down as chairman of the board. Lisa De Pasquale, former executive director of CPAC from June 2006 to April 2011 has been elected interim chairman of the board. Chris will continue as GOProud’s chief strategist and serve on the board as chairman emeritus. Joe.My.God., a progressive [...]

Robert Laurie’s open letter to social conservatives

CynthiaYockey — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:05:27 +0000

I have been repenting this week that I have started writing this blog again before my bliss, compassion and sense of humor have entirely returned or surpassed what they were in my jolly fat days before I started my diet in June 2010. I’ve lost over 65 pounds now and I’m getting close to my [...]