Posted on 02/05/2004 2:56:58 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - Republicans say yesterday's Bay State boost for gay marriage hurts Democratic front-runner John Kerry and reinforces their argument that he's a classic Massachusetts limousine liberal.But Democrats counter that Kerry has limited the political backblast by skillfully straddling the volatile issue - and even some White House political advisers believe President Bush could come off as a gay-basher if he tries to exploit the explosive court decision.
Like Bush, Kerry opposes gay marriage, even though the senator opposed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Bill Clinton.
"I voted against gay bashing on the floor of the United States Senate," Kerry explained in a CNN interview after winning five of Tuesday's seven Democratic contests.
White House strategists, however, say yesterday's ruling makes it harder for Kerry to have it both ways politically.
"He'll be explaining how he voted one way but actually believes another way, and he'll look pretty craven," a senior GOP strategist said, adding that Kerry will now be forced to say whether he supports an amendment to his state's Constitution undoing the ruling.
Even if Kerry wiggles off the hook, Bush strategists are counting on the court's support for same-sex marriage - which polls say is opposed by two-thirds of Americans - to energize millions of Republicans who did not vote in 2000.
In his Jan. 20 State of the Union speech and again last night, Bush warned he may pursue a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
"Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman," he declared. "We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage."
Bush political aides say the President is walking a political tightrope. Espousing traditional values is an electoral winner, Bush believes. But a constitutional amendment or legislative remedies could backfire.
"There's a live-and-let-live attitude out there," a Bush political source noted. "Strengthening marriage is great for us. But when you start talking about what you're going to do about it, your opponents will make it look like you're punishing gays, which isn't great."
Originally published on February 5, 2004
DEMS: Ruling Campaign Issue vs GOP
"He'll be explaining how he voted one way but actually believes another way, and he'll look pretty craven,"
Let's see, Kerry voted against DOMA but he's really for it. He voted for the war but he's really against it. He voted for the Patriot act but he's against that too. And he voted for No Child Left Behind but he really doesn't like that one either.
And that's just off the top of my head. There's also all those intelligence cuts and regulations he wanted. Of course the intelligence failures are George Bush's fault. And then there's the military spending he voted against but he thinks that because he was in Vietnam (did you know that?) he's more qualified than W to be commander in chief. Ignore the fact that as CiC George Bush won 2 wars in less than 2 years.
And the Dems are voting for Kerry because they think he can beat Bush? I realize the election will be tight like last time but, come on, if Bush can't beat Kerry he doesn't deserve the presidency.
This is a question that needs to be asked in every debate with homosexual activitists. There used to be a Detroit area radio talk show host who would ask the question of homosexual activists everytime he got the opportunity, "Do you repudiate the position and activities of NAMBLA and groups like NAMBLA?" or words to that effect. He never ever got a strong position from the homosexual activist that was asked the question. What he got was the pap about how homosexuals are contributing members of the community, they're teachers, your kids (not mine), loving partners, just regular people and blah, blah, blah.
Kerry is a master at straddling the issues, one day his stance will leave his cajones (or lack of) wide open to attack.
Now if you had left off the "murder" in option B and it read " A child is raped by a homosexual" then the order would be B,C,A
According to the "Gay Report" discussed here previously 73% of male homosexuals admit to molesting children
For every gay who dies from "gay bashing", many thousands die from the very behavior John Kerry wants to sanction. That should make us think about who the real "gay bashers" are.
Points that can't be made often enough. It is far better to bash them here and have them seek the cure than to have them roast in hell after an early death
Not to mention that gays seem more likely to bash than be bashed. For every Matthew Shepherd, how many kids are raped and murdered by gay sickos?
Remember Jesse Dirkhising who was brutally raped, tortured and murdered by a monogamous 'gay' couple. [Never, never, never let them forget. Whenever they mention shepherd remind them of Jesse Dirkhising who was truly innocent.]
Also remember Mary Stachowicz who was bludgeneoned to death by a sodomite renter because she cared enough to tell him that what he was doing was wrong
There are far more victims of 'homosexuals' then there are 'homosexuals' who are victims
The election will only de tight if we let the rats get away with massive vote fraud again. The 2000 election was a huge landslide victory for Bush, So huge in fact that the dems miscalculated how many fraudulent votes they needed to win and ended up losing. Why else would they fight so hard using crooked judges to try to steal the election? because they failed to steal it by stuffing the ballot box.
To expand upon your comment: Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, the South African born head of the Massachusetts Supreme court who has spearheaded this campaign is married to Anthony Lewis of the New York Time's. Who's pulling who's string in the lit conjugal is anyone's guess but I do believe that they still hadn't bothered to get a legal occupancy permit for their "little" beach house down on Martha's Vineyard as of last summer.
Skillfully straddling=talking out of both sides of his mouth!
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