Oops! Here we go again…
Rising Republican star and well-known border hawk Sheriff Paul Babeu, who’s now running for Congress in Arizona, was hit Friday night with bombshell accusations from a Mexican immigrant who said he dated the sheriff for years and was threatened with deportation if he ever told anyone about their romance.
The Phoenix New Times newspaper broke the story on its website in a piece written by veteran journalist Monica Alonzo. The accusations came complete with text messages said to be between the two men as well as compromising photos purportedly of Babeu that are reminiscent of recent sex scandals that ended the careers of Congressmen Anthony Weiner and Chris Lee.
When Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu first emerged on the national stage, it was as the clean-cut, youthful, more mediagenic edition of race-baiting mean daddy Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. If Sheriff Joe is the KKK, Paul represents CCC — the softer side of fascism.
Babeu was being groomed for GOP stardom, and has been a frequent guest on FoxNews hyping the Fast and the Furious case to the heavens, and is a Mitt Romney backer.
Here’s Sheriff Paul on a romantic desert stroll with another of the stern daddies whose approval he so desperately seeks:
Now, I’m not going to sit here and say, Told ya so! Told ya so!, but from the moment I first laid eyes on him, I got a definite Victor Fehrenbach vibe.
The part that sticks in the craw is Babeu’s non-denial denial.
In an interview late Friday with the Arizona Republic, Babeu declined to discuss whether he had a romantic relationship with Jose. But he acknowledged knowing him and denied the accusations that he ever threatened him.
“That never happened,” Babeu said, according to the newspaper. The rest, he said, he was going to keep to himself. “My personal life is exactly that.”
Yep, that’s right, Paul. Your personal life is private. You are entitled to a sphere of privacy around your relationships outside of work because of your privilege as a white male native-born American Republican.
It’s only immigrants, and women, and people of color who are not entitled to the same respect of privacy, self-determination, and autonomy in the authoritarian structures the GOP is trying so hard to defend against the onslaught of modernity.
Oh, and the Gheys.
Paul, there is a a giant bus wrapped with flag images and the smiling face of Mitt Romney headed for you at 100 mph. Enjoy your view of its undercarriage as you are thrown under it!
And if you’re looking for a place where you and your special guy can be together, I hear Brazil is lovely.
Seriously, these dudes need to stop
How many more of these arch-conservatives need to be caught with having “teh secret gay” on them before the thudfucks who vote for them call bullshit, here’s another case in Houston about their local race-baiting rightie talker, Michael Berry
Babeu is a scary disgusting mutant piece of slime mold sucking goatfigger. This revelation doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Karma bites, Baby Babeu!
Just as an OT aside, if your really want to know the truth in AZ, Phoenix New Times reports it. They actually have real journalists who do research and wont be silenced even by that “world’s toughest sheriff.” GO NEW TIMES!
“And if you’re looking for a place where you and your special guy can be together, I hear Brazil is lovely.”
Ouch. I see what you did there.
Maybe he needs to do a quick run up to Marcus Bachmann’s clinic and be cured of Teh Gay. Then he can just pull the IOKIYAR cover over the scandal. :roll:
Personally, I could care less if he’s gay. I do, however think he’s a complete asshole anyways, so I’m enjoying the schadenfreude. When the Republicans turn on him (and they will), I’ll be more than happy to point to good rocks for them to throw.
Damn, you posted it before I did. Eddie Long has some kind of clinic going as well. These people need to start taking advantage of available resources. Someone needs to write an article and tell them what he would do “If I Were A Closeted Republican.”
All Sheriff Paul has to do is wrap himself in the Torah and all will be forgiven. Oh, wait…
I’m so glad his former partner decided to stand up to the intimidation and shove this wretched jackass out of the closet.
Gads, what a horrible bully.
It occurs to me that Sheriff Babeau took a page from his hero Mitt Romney’s book here: “I can’t be extorting gay sex from illegals! I’m running for Congress, for Pete’s sake!”
I’m surprised that he was supporting Mitt. From this report, I’d have thought he liked Santorum. ;-)
Usually, I caution against too much glee at the outing of the closeted.
The outing of someone who allegedly was using the threat of deportation as a way of staying closeted, however, is hilarious, and justly mocked.
Why don’t those guys take Marcus Bachman’s classes?
I know; it’s almost like they realize it’s a complete load of BS.
It sure does make you wonder about a lot of this “chest-thumpin’” from certain peeps. I’m sure these types are all over the place (freakin’ McCain ad?!), but damn!
It is cruel of me to laugh, but I am way, way past caring.
For the next few hours, I will cherish the hi-larious thought that right now — at this very moment — there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of nativist, white-supremacist, homophobic, Teadouche dude-bros somewhere out in the lonely deserts of Arizona all wringing their hands at once and shifting uncomfortably as they replay in their minds the time they spent with him under the fresh pall of this revelation. They are now helplessly stricken with the consuming anxiety that Sheriff Dissonance here might have secretly found them incredibly sexy. Homophobes always think they are so irresistibly hot that the only thing standing between them and a forced march through the Folsom Street Fair is… guys like this.
That is hysterical to me on so many levels.
I just enjoyed your post very much,I read it more tan once ,I cried laughing!
It remains a mystery to me, why we here in the land of enchantment can remain such a liberal and decent place to live, sandwiched in between two of the wingnuttiest states in the land. And this is just one more instance that proves that gay people are just like the rest of us. Some have their heads screwed on straight, and others become Joe Araipo mini mees. Go figure.
Hey Angry Black Lady – FUCK YOU you stupid miserable, horrible sinister person. Go to hell where you belong you ugly, pathetic, miserable, low life SCUM!!!!!!!!!!
Nice discourse, Joe. First of all, your reading comprehension is off. ABL did not write this post. Second of all, this is the best you can do? Next time, bring your “A” game.
To bring his A game, Joe would have to know the alphabet first. But perhaps his attendants should limit his time in the computer room and make him go back to scribbling his “thoughts” in crayon.
You rock, Kerry. I wanna have your spite babies!
Calm down and eat your pudding, dear.
There there, it will be all over soon.
You can always look forward to 2016…………or not
Dude,control yourself,what’s wrong with you TeaBagger?
Are you feel threaten by words?
Are you jealous that Babe-Ouch dismissed you for Jose?
Go under a rock and take your sheets with you,pathetic loser!
Norbrook, FUCK you – you deserve a punch to the face.
Last one who tried that … well … I’m told that doctors are hopeful he’ll be able to walk again. Someday.
All this vitriol and yet Joe hasn’t told us the most important thing of all — is he single?
I bet this prizewinner hasn’t been snatched up yet.
You mom didnt bring you your bag of Cheetos to your basement lair, is that why you’re so pissed?
Tke some xanax and calm down, man
That was some delicious shade, Allan. Bravo.
*tsk tsk tsk* and the fact that he tried to deport him. I love when this ish comes to light! They need to be exposed. Making people’s lives a living hell, yet doing the same ish in their own personal lives. I shall follow this one closely.
HEY JOEY CREREN WE ALL KNOW WHAT PART OF THIS WORLD THAT YOU & your kind come from the “LO WER PART”. Ha ha ha. THAT fake jazz sheriff babeu. Got caught with his pants down & it wouldn’t have been so bad if it was a woman but a MEXICAN MAN peeu! Good for him !
Hey now!
Nothing says lovin’ like threatening your date with deportation.
“I wuv you too, snookums; pack your bags.”
Why am I not surprised? This is worse tahn Strom Thurmond’s Black daughter, at least old Strom didn’t, as far as we know, threaten to lynch his former maid for revealing his biracial love child.
I’ll never quite understand why gay Republicans try and pretend they aren’t who they are. I understand that being a conservative doesn’t automatically mean being a hetero. But for some reason, to belong to the conservative “club” requires the false premise.
Once again, what people practice and what they preach (mostly political conservatives) are two different things!
These are people who have been brainwashed to believe that LGBT people are second class citizens not deserving of equality. They hate ANYONE who has the guts to be who they are. That’s why the words “gay” and “Republican” are for the most part an oxymoron. There ARE gay Republicans who don’t believe that nonsense but they are a decided minority in the party-in fact, I’m sure most of them are now Democrats. As for this guy, it’s hard to feel sorry for him. Threaten your boyfriend with deportation if he talks? What an asshole. His boyfriend deserves better than his closet case ass.