The Texas governor flips.

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The Texas governor flips, flop and then flips again onward a possible meeting with gay Republicans

Now that George W Bush has all unless locked up the GOP presidential nomination, where does that leave Log Cabin Republicans, the party's gay rights organization? Apparently the Texas governor himself doesn't calm know.

Last fall Bush told NBC's appropriate the Press that he would "probably not" appropriate with Log Cabin because it would create a "huge political nightmare." Since then, religious-right assign places tos have repeatedly pointed to the statement as individual reason to back Bush from one side of to the other his primary opponent, Sen. John McCain, who met with Log Cabin last year.

Then onward March 5, Bush told the San Francisco Chronicle that he would fitting with the group after all. "I welcome their support," he said. "I've got Log Cabin Republicans supporting me all across America." however two days later he changed his order again, saying he would befitting with Log Cabin members still not with group leaders, who ran ads critical of him in California, Massachusetts, and recently made known York.

Log Cabin has since canceled the ad campaign, however group spokesman Kevin Ivers questions Bush's distinction between assign places to members and leaders. "The Log Cabin Republicans are the Log Cabin Republicans," he said. "It's all the same."



Bush scored points with gay voter in California when he refused to take a position in succession Proposition 22, the anti-gay-marriage ballot measure that passed by means of a large margin March 7 because it was a "state" issue. McCain, forward the other hand, supported the proposition.

Now that McCain has been vanquished, Bush may be stirred the need to pull his campaign back to the center "Bush has a responsibility to reach on the outside to McCain voters and unify the party," Ivers said. "It is in his interest to advance fences. He has to win above the vast majority of Log Cabin Republicans, and he has a portion of work to do before that happens. We are waiting for him to reach on the outside to us. Otherwise, gay Republicans will stay household in November."

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