[zipper]

Spoken like a true Quixote. Reality is reality, there’s no cowardice in facing it. The cowardice is in lying to yourself to make what you’re doing right and useful. It IS a stupid gesture it WILL accomplish nothing, those are the simple and plain facts. The only question is are you smart enough to admit the reality you live in, or will you continue to take comfort in willful delusion.

Not all Republicans are as spineless as you, squeamishly cowering over the prospect of rocking the boat, pissing off their corporate sponsors, or the nebulous "independent voters". Republicans with your imagination get all their ideas from Democrats, then try to put the Republican brand on Democrat ideas -- like they're doing now with Obamacare, secretly relieved upon hearing the Supreme Court decision. That's how we ended up with dramatically more entitlements and socialism, because of cowards that campaign to the right and then govern to the left -- because, as you say, that's "the reality we live in". You probably have a picture of Karl Rove on your desk.

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Rand Paul: Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business Altogether

http://time.com/3939374/rand-paul-gay-marriage-supreme-court/

[discostu]

There’s nothing spineless about living in the real world.

And there Rand Paul shows that much like his father he has no clue as to why government does what it does. Government has been in the marriage business since the Code of Hammurabi, it ain’t getting out of it any time soon.