Posted on 03/24/2013 8:27:51 AM PDT by markomalley
Republican strategist Karl Rove told George Stephanopoulos on ABCs This Week that he thinks Republican presidential candidates in 2016 could be supporters of marriage equality. Rove my the comments during a discussion on the Supreme Courts hearing on a challenge to Californias Proposition 8 schedule for later this week.
Karl Rove, can you imagine the next presidential campaign a Republican candidate saying flat out I am for gay marriage, asked Stephanopoulos.
I could, said Rove, before turning the discussion back to the Supreme Courts hearing on the issue.
Rove said that he thinks some Supreme Court Justices have expressed sentiments in the past that wide reaching decisions on social issues, like Rove vs. Wade, went too far and that its possible the court could avoid a repeat of that. Theres a possibility, he thinks, that court wants to avoid setting a national standard on the issue of gay marriage like it did on abortion and instead leave it up to the states to decided how to proceed.
What we may see is a decision here that in essence has, not a 5-4 decision, but a 6-3, 7-2, that says leave it up to the states, in fact we could see an 8-1, said Rove.
Watch clip below via ABC
Is this before he has his"good friend" Rangle on?
Was Barbara Streisand playing in the background or show tunes?
It has nothing to do with what they think they'll gain, it's what they're convinced they won't lose - conservative votes.
A GOPe tautology: Conservatives are to the GOPe what blacks are to the DemocRATs: consistently reliable votes.
Ha, yeah. Haven’t been to the St. Augustine itself, but I’ve been up and down that, as well as the northwest, southeast and southwest coast areas. And yes, central and northern FL do seem like another country from this DC-to-Boston corridor up here.
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The R elitist/professional class politicians are just as much enemies of the Constitution, morality, reason, and sound governance as the Dems. More so, because they're supposed to be the ones on the correct side. Plus, they obviously like to constantly lose, as it is obvious even to my cats, when I explain things simply, that the R party will continue to lose if they kick real conservative principles out. Thus alienating their main block of voters.
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I can see the RATs backing traditional marriage.
Have you ever seen a political Party more determined to destroy itself?
I think by being silent on the matter he already has. I don’t listen to his radio show or watch his tv show anymore because he changed his mind about amnesty and I believe he will do the same for gay marriage.
I can see it too: I mean, the “choice” of the establishment was a man who let gay marriage be implimented in Massachusetts to obey a gay judge’s decision, so this is the obvious next step.
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