Sugar Lips bailed on Michigan homobigot Butler

Even after cozying up to Dear Leader, did the brother really think the fundies would turn out for him? Liddy knew better; read on.

Despite Troy, MI clergyman Keith Butler raising a million more smackeroos for his campaign, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard cruised to victory, winning the Republican nomination for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday.

Bouchard handily defeated Keith Butler 60%-40%. Now how could that have happened? When Butler decided to run, he sounded like the right guy for his party:

"I'm strongly pro-life, and she's strongly pro-abortion, and life is the biggest issue of all. I strongly believe that marriage should only be between one man and one woman."

"Regardless of how you slice it, you cannot get around the fact that a woman is the one who carries the egg and the man is the one who carries the sperm. The natural union of the egg and the sperm is how you and I came into being."

"Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes -- and for securing the maintenance and education of children."

-- Keith Butler, pastor and candidate "urged by God" to run for the U.S. Senate from Michigan

What went wrong? He certainly sounds like a card carrying member of the AmTaliban to me... let's take a look...(Det Free Press):

Butler and Bouchard agree on most issues, such as abortion, affirmative action and the war in Iraq, but there has been an undercurrent of animosity in the race.

Butler expected to be the favorite for the nomination throughout much last year, after Bouchard dropped out of the race early in 2005, citing health problems.

But Bouchard got back into the race last Halloween after being lobbied by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., the chairwoman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.


Dole told the New York Times last month that she urged Bouchard to run, despite the party's efforts to appeal to black voters by recruiting black candidates, because she thought Butler was a weak candidate. She did not specify why.

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying.

Maybe Sugar Lips knew about this.

Steve also took note.