Posted on 02/10/2008 7:00:39 AM PST by varina davis
Gay marriage amendment may impact presidential race Sunday, February 10, 2008
The issue on whether to ban same-sex marriages is expected draw more conservatives to the polls.STATE (Bay News 9) -- An amendment on the ballot in November could impact the presidential election.
The amendment would ban same-sex marriages. It defines marriage as a legal union of only one man and one woman.
Like Amendment 1 on property tax reform did earlier this month, Amendment 2 is expected to draw a high number of voters to the polls.
"It will become a big issue as it relates to turnout," said Bay News 9's Democratic Political Analyst Bob Buckhorn. "And turnout as we all know decides who it is who wins the general election."
The issue is expected draw more conservatives to the polls. And that could mean a big boost for the Republican presidential nominee.
More than likely that nominee will be Sen. John McCain, who has not been a favorite among the conservative base.
"They might not like Senator McCain," Buckhorn said. "But they will come out to vote for that amendment and for the most part end up voting for him as well."
Bay News 9's Republican Political Analyst former Governor Bob Martinez said it's not unusual to see hot-button amendments appearing during an election year. In fact- it's pure strategy.
"I think you're going to find the turnout is going to pretty strong in Florida," Martinez said.
Nearly 650,000 Floridians signed the petition that added the marriage amendment to the November ballot.
Sixty percent of voters have to approve the measure for it to pass.
>the only reason to vote for me here in Florida is to support the amendment
Ah Joe, I’ve got your back on that one.
note my tagline, although I suspect that your stance will not be terribly popular with the cheerlearers on the Florida board ;^)
I have never worried about being popular. I just read and make up my mind and if others don’t like it, tuff.
Wish more folks did the same instead of trying to go along with the crowd.
That might be the only way to get Rupublicans to turn out but it still won’t get them to color in the oval for McLame.
True, but state amendments won't get it done. This is an Article IV attack on all the States via the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith & Credit Clause. It will require amending the U.S. Constitution to cure.
Karl Rove and George W. Bush knew that when they got state parties to put all those DOMA-related amendments on the ballot in 2004, which makes their use of them an exercise in cynicism, esp. since Bush himself has been behind-the-scenes committed to a gay-friendly policy in the top reaches of the Republican Party, including the appointment of gay men to e.g. the RNC and subcabinet jobs. This gay-friendly stance is documented online. The gay-straight "alliance"-type group at the top of the GOP is Republican Unity Coalition or RUC, their website was
http://www.republicanunity.com/news.htm
Which is now 404 compliant.
They forgot to take down the page cached last month by Microsoft's search engine, visible here, replete with prominent Republican names:
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=72790376977809&mkt=en-US⟨=en-US&w=bc9c32ae&FORM=CVRE2
Charles Francis, listed as a contact for RUC, is an old personal friend of George W. Bush and the spiritus animans behind the RUC. Their basic position is, hey, we're all good tax-paying Republicans, so what if we're gay? Why should we have to put up with those mouth-breathing tent-shouter types in our big tent? We want to make homosexuality and morality non-issues in the GOP. Our party is all about economics, anyway.
The Wikipedia article is here, and there is also an article on about.com:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Unity_Coalition
It does no such thing - you have to have the existence of something in order to ban it. Homosexual "marriage" is a fantasy, and doesn't exist in reality, much less in Florida. The media never missed a chance to show us its true bias - unwittingly.
It does no such thing - you have to have the existence of something in order to ban it. Homosexual "marriage" is a fantasy, and doesn't exist in reality, much less in Florida. The media never missed a chance to show us its true bias - unwittingly.
Wrong. Floridians worked hard to get this on the balot two years ago - in a presidential off-year. This is just a deferred result from years of hard work.
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