President Obama, now that he can be sure he won't face effective opposition on the homosexual issue from the Republican Party (i.e., Gingrich or Santorum) has apparently decided to make his own base voters happy.
In other words, he's aggressively shoring up his left-wing militant base voters who will be the core of his re-election campaign.
Why do I have to admit the Democrats are doing things right and we aren't? This is a pattern of shoring up the base that the Republican Party should have been following, and painting the Democrats as out of touch with most Americans to the right of San Francisco (which is almost everyone). Now we have two candidates, one openly pro-homosexual and the other with a track record of compromising on homosexuality, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of American voters ***OPPOSE HOMOSEXUALITY!!!!!***
This should have been a winning issue for Republicans and we're losing for no good reason at all.
Obama was genuinely scared Romney would peel off wealthy gay votes for the Republicans, which is the stealth plan Romney and the RNC had in mind the whole time. So Obama had to shore up that part of his base by moving further left on gay issues. That’s how it works, nominate Republicans who lean left which forces the Democrats to go even further left which gradually shifts the whole country left until we have no more country left.
Obama’s essentially undermining the whole rationale for the Romney candidacy in the mind of the RNC. Any left-of-centers Romney was going to peel off will be pulled back as Obama moves further left on every issue to distinguish himself from the Massachusetts Moderate. However, Obama’s problem is that this might actually galvanize the conservative base for Romney, something Romney could never achieve on his own. The net result is the same though, every single vote is now for a platform that is further left than it was 4 years ago.