Putting any animosity aside for the moment and touching on a topic that is at least somewhat more relevant to the purpose of this thread...
What is your take as to what position the GOP should take with regard to same-sex marriage and gay rights in general? Not being a self-loather, I am obviously in support of such things, but it’s a rather difficult issue for the GOP. The numbers support the GOP keeping strong on some social conservative issues (like abortion), but they certainly do not support the party opposing gay rights (at least in the long ). How the party should handle the gay issue when supporting may lose a lot of the conservative vote and lead to fracture, but opposing may doom the party in the longterm is beyond me.
They should handle it exactly like Barack Obama did - he stood in opposition of so-called gay marriage, but supported some kind of civil unions. That will probably be unpalatable to many here, but to do otherwise is to be on the wrong side of the political trend.
Where most people in the country are against gay marriage, as the ballot issues have shown the last four years. As equal number of people are for domestic partnerships of some kind.
Beyond that, the GOP should become agnostic on "gay rights". In fact, they should become agnostic on these identity politics specialty group "rights". As soon as they're forced to address Hispanic rights, or black rights or Asian rights or gay rights, they've lost.
The GOP, like in 1964, needs to get back to the days of talking about the primacy of individual rights. They've for too long allowed the Dems to control the civil rights issue by segmenting the population into groups which they can then pit against the party of the old, white, male Christians. It's a winning strategy for the Dems and a losing one for the GOP.