Any analyses?? Does this help or hurt. I LOVE Ted, but might this not be like Sanders saying “I hate people that work forty hours a week and want all their money”. Is it too honest?
I think it has to be said!
‘Is it too honest?’
He’s a statesman, not a politician. That means he has core beliefs and integrity. Therefore there’s no such thing as being “too honest”
Remember, Dole, McCain and Romney were the types that worried about being “too honest”
I think it helps. The polling data suggesting gay marriage has majority support is at odds with all of the states, including liberal states, that have attempted to enact gay marriage bans, only to have them overturned judicially. Some see that discrepancy as evidence of the “social desirability bias” at work, i.e., people lie or waffle with a pollster but vote how they really think because they have privacy, anonymity. Which, if true, would mean the numbers for traditional marriage might be significantly better than they seem.
So perhaps Ted’s honesty will be met with a secret and massive sigh of relief that we actually have somebody in the race who isn’t going to cave to the gayhadis. Remember his game plan. He wants to awaken the sleeping evangelical giant, the folks who have dropped out of the political process because they never get represented. He’s auditioning for them, for us. We do have the sheer numbers, if we could get them all together and motivated on election day. He’s not triangulating. He’s making a double or nothing bet ... on us.
Peace,
SR