Conservative Babylon

Claims to fame: 22-year-old (as of 2009) Republican candidate for Palm Springs, California, City Council; health-shakes counter boy; carpetbagger; self-described conservative Christian; vile anti-gay closet case; in our opinion: confused, immature little boy and/or deceit-ridden opportunist

Moral apex: In 2005, in the wake of fellow Conservative Babylonian — and fellow gay-bashing closet case — Jim West’s gay sex scandal, wrote this letter to the editor of the Spokesman Review:

I am proudly an anti-homosexual Republican. I have never supported that type of lifestyle or the people who choose it. I was shocked by the allegations against our mayor. I acknowledge that he has admitted to leading a personal life that is very much against my values and those of the majority of our party, but his personal life is just that, personal.

When I was presented with the opportunity to help elect Jim West to the state Senate and the mayor’s office, I jumped on it. There are very few times in our lives when we are given the opportunity to be represented by such distinguished and honorable people.

Jim West is a genius in many ways and for the first time in my life I am willing to put my personal beliefs aside for the sake of the mayor’s constituents. I believe that he is the best representative that the people of Spokane have ever had the privilege of being represented by. He is a model legislator and citizen and he deserves our support and respect.

I hope that everyone who has been represented by him joins me in expressing my support for this great leader.

Drew Sweatte
Spokane

Punch line: Eighteen at the time he wrote the letter, Sweatte was a self-loathing closet homosexual himself. He came out the following year, in December, 2006.

Twinkie defense: He was afraid of being the victim of “violent acts,” using — without being able to spell the word “Aryan” in his public statement — as an excuse growing up “less than an hour away from the world headquarters of the Arian Nations” for his extreme cowardice and vile expression of homophobia.

Oh, the irony: On his Facebook page, lists this quote of Thomas Jefferson’s as among his favorites:

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Questionable “principles” aside, we think the first half of the quote is even more telling than the latter.

More irony: Sweatt says he’s opposed to Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that stripped the right to marry from same-sex couples in California — and yet he gladly accepts the endorsement of ex-eBay CEO and California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who is staunchly pro-Proposition 8.

In addition: Although he now claims (again on his Facebook page) to be “non-partisan,” we don’t believe him for a New York minute; as of November, 2008, he was still calling himself a staunch Republican:

Drew Sweatte has always been a republican. It’s not surprising. His grandfather started the all-conservative AM talk radio station KVI 570 in Seattle, which broadcasts Sean Hannity’s talk-radio show and is the former home of Rush Limbaugh, among other conservative heavyweights. …

“I kind of have a love/hate relationship with [the Log Cabin Republicans],” Sweatte said. “You have two factions in that organization. You have those that are gay first, and you have those that are republicans first. I’m a republican first. …”

— Gay, republican and proud (on both counts)
The Eastern Republic
November 3, 2008

Now, who’s “non-partisan” again?

We think: Drewie needs to figure out who he really is, and what he really wants to be, when he grows up.

We say: If Drewie will so readily lie about who he is and what he is — and use the most hateful, homophobic language to do it — why should anyone trust him to be honest about anything else?

Re his carpetbaggery: At least until announcing his city council run, Young Master Drew hadn’t decided whether he was going to continue living in California or not: ‘I really, really would love to run for the Washington state House of Representatives and then maybe serve in Congress and run for governor and then go from there,’ he said.” (The Eastern Republic)

We ask: Even if Palm Springs voters could overlook his deliberate duplicity, extreme youth, and laughable lack of experience, why would they risk electing a boy who, after a few months, might decide playing City Councilmember is boring, and throw it all away to go backpacking across Europe to, you know, like, find himself?

Memorable observations by the bushel in the comments to MyDesert.com.

Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Sweatte:

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

— Titus 1:10-11

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