So the door was wide open, and Obama would have been a fool not to step right through it – because he knows the Republicans won’t, despite top party advisers suggesting it is about time to kick the irrational fear of homosexuals to the curb. In the end, this is going to be the sort of thing that spells the death of the Republican party.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. All it would take to steal Obama’s wind is for Republicans to embrace the same love of freedom they have for firearms, religion and speech and logically extend it to other civil rights. After all, the GOP has done it before.
Sadly the Republican party seems to lack that epic social transformative power it once had. All it touts now in the social arena is intolerance born of fanatical religious belief. When we should be putting forward another Nelson Rockefeller instead we have a slugfest between zealots like Rick Santorum and stuffy chief executives like Mitt Romney. We will lose this election not because the country loves Barack Obama, but because the Republican alternative is so (unnecessarily) socially backward that four more years of mounting debt and terrifying expansion of federal power seems like the wiser path to independents. Now I know how the Democrats must have felt in 2004.
So when Barack Obama goes out and says he is for gay marriage, it has farther reaching implications that you may think. These are the kinds of things that can win you elections.
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Theo – The man is going to lose. The Dems are already “overhyping” this “evolution” that has taken place, which really wasn’t an evolution because BO had prior epiphanies in the past which coincided with the political climate at the time. There are so many problems with this administration I won’t waste time getting into it, and there is a lot of green on the table until Nov. Lets see how next weekend goes, and the summer, and if Israel hits Iran before the election and how BO responds to that mess…..