Aaron Maloy's Blog

Cynthia Stead's RAMPAGE

In a matter of just seconds our Republican State Committeewoman, who was elected to the office because nobody else wanted to run, EXPLODED!!!!!!!!  I got a call from a friend warning me that Cynthia Stead, under the aegis of the Cape Cod Times, is furious about my comments in another blogger's post.

Then I saw a myriad of emails revealing  Cynthia Stead's tantrum, which stemmed from me outing her as Peter Porcupine. Why did I out Cynthia Stead? Because I don't feel comfortable having columnist from the Cape Cod Times attack me, and other people, using fake names. It's one thing for Cape Cod Times columnists to criticize people in commentaries. Taking it a step further by trashing people on the internet is a whole other ballpark. So when I exposed her cyber-harassment she went ballistic, emailing people with threats and accusations.

Phhhhhhhlease! Under the alias of Peter Porkupine Republican Committeewoman Cynthia Stead has slandered a plethora of people, with some of her most vicious statements targeted at Republicans like myself.  The difference is that I have the nerve to do it without hiding behind some John Doe-like disquise.  Peter Porcupine? What is she,  secretly transgender or something living her life as a guy online?  It appears so.

Speaking of transgender, Cynthia often describes herself as a moderate Republican and in doing so raves about how we need to promote abortion and gay marriage within the Republican party in order to please liberals enough to vote for Republicans. This is where Cynthia is wrong and where she has debased and weakened the Republican party here on Cape Cod.  Most Republicans on Cape Cod are pro-life and pro-traditional marriage. The Republican activists  refuse to cooperate with Stead because they know that she will sell out to the liberals should it be politically advantageous.

What really bothers me  about Stead is that she expresses support for gay marriage yet has no problem using someones sexuality against them for political gain.  She used  Sarah Peake's gayhoodness against her, and she used the fact that I am gay against me. It's one thing to believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman to promote male-female roles in child and adolescent development. It's another thing to demonize gay people like myself to voters for political gain.  And that's what Stead and her liberal Republican allies did, sometimes under the Peter Porcupine mask.  And that's why I have issues with liberals who are trying to exercise their authority over the conservative plebiscite in the Republican party.

The conservative Republican base on Cape Cod wants nothing to do with the Republican party because they don't feel as though their issues are adequately represented. That is why we didn't have as many people out there working on campaigns or donating as much money as the Democrats.  The local Republicans unfortunately had to see and hear Committeewoman Cynthia Stead arguing that in order to win Republicans had to turn liberal. "Yuck," they thought and wanted nothing to do with that agenda.

So I agreed with them and even said that I would rather join the green party then be bossed by liberal Republicans with slimy ulterior motives.  Apparently this was music to the ears of people like Cynthia Stead and others.  Since then she has thown bomb after bomb in my face and has trash-talked me and my conservative Republican allies to anyone willing to listen. It is horribly unacceptable for a Republican committeeperson to say things like "We have to ally ourselves with liberals, the kind of people that Justine Kirkwood (my former campaign manager and Orleans Republican Town Committee chair) would run over with her Cadillac, because we need their votes to win."

NO WE DON"T! If we are going to energize Republicans and develop a strong organization we have to give them what they want: a good conservative message that will get them off their couches, writing checks and knocking on doors. The wimpy "let's assimilate with liberals so they will vote for us" doctrine has proven to be destructive and has injected apathy and fatigue into the souls of Republicans here on most of Cape Cod (excluding Jeff Perry's district). Proof of this exist in Sandwich where super-conservative Jeff Perry has inspired hundreds, probably over a thousand conservative Republicans into revival, and has cruised to victory in each and every election.

There is no way that I am going to let liberal Republicans like Cynthia Stead or her friends in the media scare me because I have the nerve to be conservative and defend myself against their covert attacks. I am very well aware of how the Cape Cod Times operates, Cynthia is just another example.