I hear Republican political rallies are a foot-stomping good time! The theme song of the GOP is "It’s Raining Men!"

Seriously, though, it is old news that those who hate gays are all gay themselves. Didn’t anyone tell President Bush’s followers that?
Ron Paul IS an old school Republican. He could go a long way towards ridding the GOP of the stink of Bush.
Pono7, I think the issue of gay-bashing has retreated somewhat in the last year or so. It rallies the base of the Republican Party but doesn’t reach across political lines and someone like Romney who will have to reach across divides–he’s a Yankee, a Mormon and from a state the hard right loves to bash, so if hiring gays opens him up a little bit to more potential voters he’ll do it.