HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
THE PINK ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
looked through their emails in the
hotel room, it did not take long for
the conversation to turn to this irresistible subject. “Oh here’s a good
one,” said Barron. He read aloud
from a message on a gay liberal listserve bashing GOProud and offering qualified praise to Log Cabin.
JIMMY, TYPING ON his laptop
across the room, whipped around,
brushing back his burnished hairdo.
“That’s because the left loves their
conservatives neutered,” he said.
“And no one is more neutered
than Clarke Cooper,” said Barron.
Both men leaned back their heads
and laughed.
Despite their rocky history with
Log Cabin, Barron and LaSalvia
both claim that their disdain for
Cooper isn’t personal but philosophical. By the time they embarked on their respective quests
to lead Log Cabin, they had each
grown disappointed with the
group, they said. It’s not that they
Marriage is
important,
LaSalvia said,
but “before
you can get
married you
have to have
a date, and
everyone
knows you
can’t get a
date without
a job.”