Were some senior Bush officials just outed?

DC's premiere gay newspaper, the Washington Blade, did a big front-page story on Friday about how there are reportedly gays at the "top level of the operation" of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. (The paper did not name any names.) The Blade did, however, devote a good deal of space to Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman, who according to the paper is single, 37 years old, has few hobbies outside of politics, and would not directly answer a question as to whether he or any others in the president’s campaign organization were openly gay. The Blade also printed a large picture of Mehlman (left) on its front page.

Was the Blade trying to get readers wondering if Mehlman was possibly gay? I have no idea, but the article definitely got me and a few friends wondering.