Convoluted? What could be more linear? Use your own numbers, and see what huge shifts in voting can be expected:
1. % of lesbian population that can be converted to Republican: _____ (i.e. 0%)
2. % of male population that is gay:______
3. % of gay males who are receptive to becoming Republican:____
4. Multiply #2 above by #3 and divide by 2, and you'll arrive at the monumental percentage total Racicot is supposedly chasing.
There is undoubtedly a population that is sympathetic to gays, and feels more comfortable with the GOP if the GOP is more comfortable with homosexuals. This population includes just about all the media, and it is for the media that these overtures are likely being made.
If Racicot is saying that Republicans welcome gay voters, and will pursue policies that leave them alone, no one on the Right will object. But the homosexual organizations will likely press for gay marriage at the least, and there the Republicans would be fools to go.
Yup.
Liberals have gotten very good at stating a reasonable public goal while in fact pursuing a much more sinister private goal. One useful way for Republicans to expose liberals' duplicity is to offer to help the liberals achieve their reasonable public goal in a way which doesn't happen to support the sinister private goal. Done right, this will get the liberals to start quibbling over issues which wouldn't matter to them if their motives were as pure as they claim.
Reminds me of an old civil war code-related story. A spy wanted to send a coded message to his commander, so he ordered sent "Father is dead". The telegraph operator, fearing it might be code, sent instead "Father is deceased". The telegraph operator's suspicions were confirmed when he received the reply, "Is father dead or deceased?"