She knows that she has the conservative vote locked up and is trying to make inroads with the moderates because she does extremely poorly with them but needs them to have a chance.
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner.
It's easy to zot from FR those who are mildly tolerant of, or even indifferent to, homosexuality.
But you can't zot them off the voting rolls.
Sarah easily could lose conservatives by appearing on issues like gay as not conservative. If she stakes out enough positions that are not conservative, people with think “Sarah Palin isn’t actually Conservative, even though I really want her to be a Conservative.”
Palins retweet was disappointing to me.
And this thread which was supposed to be about Palin’s retweet is about DADT and not about Palin.
If Palin herself were here on FR (anonymously), and she posted what Tammy Bruce posted, basically, that people who don’t like gays are actually gay, Palin herself would be in some sort of trouble.
It seems to be odd what’s happening here.
Palin likes gays.
We don’t like gays.
But we like Palin.
This is a clear opening for pissant. I like Palin. But if she keeps on retweeting gay talking points, I’ll like her a lot less.
And another thing about this particular thread, people don’t seem to believe at all that what Palin did was agree with a philosophy that is worse than DADT.
Palin agrees that people who don’t like gays are gay?
A person who agrees with that statement will not be on the conservative side on the gay issue.
Anybody anti gay here? Newsflash - Palin just called you gay. That should be worrisome. She will lose votes because of this, and lose money because of this.