Posted on 08/06/2012 6:59:15 AM PDT by scottjewell
When Democrats announced that their 2012 platform would include a historic first — gay marriage written in as a plank — the reaction from mainstream Republicans was near silence.
There were no statements blasted out from Mitt Romney’s campaign. The same was true for the Republican National Committee. Romney has yet to address the the fact.
The pushback came largely from social conservatives and evangelicals, who pledged to make same-sex unions an issue going forward and insisted the stand will hurt Democrats.
But the comparative quiet from party leaders would have been unimaginable even four years ago, when public opinion hadn’t yet shifted so rapidly on a signature social issue. And it marks a dramatic change among some of the top Republican donors and opinion-makers, who are supporting same-sex marriage in state-based gay legislative and legal fights, even as the official GOP platform will remain centered on traditional marriage.
“Most Republican Party leaders seem to have lost the stomach for this fight,” said Dan Schnur of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California.
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when the enemy is destroying themselves, stay out of their way.
Why should they comment? a response would be used by the MSM as a distraction. The lack of response left the MSM to repeatedly state over and over and over that the DNC was endorsing fetish based marriage. Specifically homosexual based marriage.
You can make the DNC look more freaky and abnormal.
Yeah, guess Mitzi is following the old adage of “when in doubt do nothing”.
Unfortunately we live in a feminized homsexualized nation now. God and religion are like a societies immune system. Once the social immune system starts to break down, perverted diseases attack.
Yes, an astute observation.
THe Romans discovered that homosexuality and strong nations don’t mix. We are on the way to discovering it also.
The reason “conservatives” can’t resist this is that the destruction of real marriage between 1969-1973, and the resulting explosion of sexual immorality, including in the churches, makes opposing tax benefits and estate planning advantages for gays (which are all that’s left of “traditional” marriage) seem unfair.
If pre-1969 marriage were to be restored (permanent, infidelity criminally punished, no second marriages with a spouse living, no child support for “single moms”) no homosexual would go anywhere near it.
Romney will come out for gay marriage. Maybe after the election, but soon.
I sure hope not, but I fear it.
That is part of why Republicans will not win the presidency in November. They will not support issues supported by demonstrated majorities of the people because those positions are unpopular with the Left. Republicans would rather have the favor of or at least less opprobrium from the people who constitute the Elite the Republicans would like to join, or at least receive approval from.
HE ORDERED the clerks to impose it.
Mr. RomneyCARE supports all liberal issues.
Global warming hoax, TARP, and DEATH PANELS.
Mr. RomneyCARE IS the EMBLEM of the GOPe.
The Negro vote will continue to go almost excluively to Democrats even as blacks decry the homosexualization of the Democrat Party. Possibly it will cause fewer to show up at the polls.
Ignoring may be a good idea. After all, isn’t this more or less what the leftist media does to Conservatives? Ignoring makes what is ignored appear to be fringe and freaky and not worth addressing. Laugh them off as they have tried to laugh off the REAL majority and make us seem like a small group.Let them have their “cute” “little” temper tantrum and move on to the serious issues.
Agreed. The government should abdicate all interest in marriage. Marriage should be a purely religious endeavor. There should be no ‘legal’ distinction between married and unmarried. No difference. Everyone treated the same. Problems solved. It’s none of the government’s business - Period.
Exactly:
The rats are trying to equate homosexual marriage = civil rights, in an effort to rally dispirited young voters to a noble cause. They hope to get them out of their parents basements long enough to further the cause.
This is a looser for the republicans. Not one vote in the base to be energized by this.
And we must quit using the gay word and start calling it what it is.
The Democrats have realized that the gay agenda can be thrown out like little balls of poop for Republicans to step on, and if Republicans spend enough time cleaning it off of their shoes, the Obamatrama will get a pass.
Agrred. 100% a State issue, Why I don’t support a Federal DOMA. You can’t have it both ways.
Boy ain’t that the truth!! All we will hear about concerning Romney from now til Nov is “tax returns.” Romney lot the messaging war early. But, he’s inept so not surprised.
“You mean then that the movement against it is beginnig to gather momentum, correct?”
Like you, I HOPE that’s the meaning, but I’m not sure. If the GOP really does intend to treat this issue as a third rail, they deserve to lose.
Sad but true.
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