Posted on 06/28/2015 2:42:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I thought Scott Walker was a pretty cool guy when I saw him pull up on a Harley at Joni Ernst’s Roast & Ride a few weeks ago in Boone, Iowa. But he just did something that wasn’t so cool in reacting to the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage — that is if you care about the Republicans winning the 2016 general election. Walker called for a Constitutional amendment to let states define marriage.
Now I’m sure the Wisconsin governor has strong feelings about traditional marriage and, although I’m on the other side on this one, I completely respect his views, as I do everybody’s religious beliefs… well, just about everybody’s. I don’t respect the beliefs of those who were prowling the beaches of Tunisia yesterday…. The problem is Walker’s beliefs on this issue — and the Constitutionality of the Supreme Court decision — are now running counter to a solid, and clearly growing, number of Americans by a considerable amount (63% in a recent poll say gays have a Constitutional right to marry, up from 49% in 2010).
Calling for such a Constitutional amendment, long shot though it certainly is, might help him gin up support in the Republican primary, even possibly win it for him in a crowded field, but it would be a disaster in the general. It would be like handing the enemy an ax and telling him (or most likely her) to go for it. You’re a bigot, you’re a sexist, you’re a homophobe, just like we always knew all Republicans were, blablabla. Sure it’s lie, but what else is new?
Not only that, it would damage the playing field for all the Republican candidates because Walker has now opened the door as never before on the gay marriage issue in the debates. Forget Iran and its nukes, forget the ISIS beheadings, forget border security, forget the moribund economy and stratospheric deficit, forget a catastrophic educational system… if the Democrats and their media buddies have anything to say about it, it will be Gay Marriage All The Time. It’s their favorite issue because it’s the only one they can really win on with the public. Now they’re going to make all the Republican candidates say whether they’re in favor of a Constitutional amendment that will never happen. It’s this year’s condom question — but much more potent and not so easy to dismiss with the wave of a hand.
The truth is the Supreme Court did the Republicans a favor by taking gay marriage off the table. (Before you go crazy, I’m talking purely strategy here, not the legal fine points.) Walker has put it back on. I hope he did it for moral or “Constitutional” reasons, rather than competitive ones, because I wouldn’t like to think he is grandstanding here. This election is too important. Take another look at that “beaches of Tunisia” link if, for some reason, you’re wondering why. Or maybe this article on the most self-destructive agreement in the history of our country that is about to be signed. You don’t have to know the rules of bridge to know that nuclear war trumps gay marriage any time. In fact, it trumps just about everything. Let’s keep our eye on the ball.
He’s right. And we do have 3/5’s that would be necessary (30 states).
But if he thinks the back-stabbing RINO bastards in either house would ever let it get to the federal level, he really doesn’t understand that the fight is between us (conservatives and the states) against them (nearly all politicians at the federal level).
Mark Levin is proposing the only viable way of taking this country back: a convention of the states to draft Amendments that restore states’ rights, the principles our Founding Fathers put in place, and to restrict the power of the federal government.
Read “The Liberty Amendments” for details.
For the results you seek simply do a search on “California’s Proposition 8.
The people can vote and decide and the courts can over-turn the vote, ruling it null and void.
Welcome to the USSA.
Romney lurks and laughs.
The issues of the last week and the growing list of candidates only make it more likely that Mitt will enter the race late and win.
Then in 2016 lose.
Never count Romney’s ego and sense of destiny out.
Everything is going just right for him in the primary.
Oh, deliver us from Romney. That he was ever our nominee was the signal to the world that we were ripe for the picking. Nothing so decadent that we wouldn’t make legal.
So, now it comes.
God be with us.
Scott Walker flip flopped yet again:
(1) Same Sex Marriage
(2) Ethanol
(3) Amnesty
(4) Common Core
(5) Abortion
(6) Auto Bailouts
From Milwaukee Sentinel - October 6, 2014
Asked if the U.S. Constitution should be amended to ban same-sex marriage, Walker downplayed the notion, saying, “I think it’s resolved.”
“For us, it’s over in Wisconsin,” Walker said of the fight over gay marriage. “Others will have to talk about the federal level.”
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/278252541.html
That won’t matter one bit. For one thing, blacks and Hispanics are moving left on this issues just like whites. For another, even if they don’t like it, history has proven that it won’t dampen their support for democrats. They are solidly leftist constituencies. That’s not going to change.
Did Roe v. Wade take abortion ‘off the table?’
compelling graph
That’s a very long road, but it’s a good start.
Combined with Ted Cruz’s idea to make SCOTUS accountable to the people through the ballot box as judges are around the country, this disastrous week for American jurisprudence may someday be just a bad memory. I hope I live to see it.
You use the Left’s interpretation of the facts to discredit the one fighting and winning against the Left.
Who’s side are you on?
Don’t try to confuse folks here with facts. :)
Roger Simon on Scott Walker on Constitutional marriage.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Yesterday on Facebook a Catholic friend of mine was gushing over the SCOTUS decision and even included a nice little graphic picture of a Bible. It is so dismaying to me how many Christians are completely ignorant of the teachings of their own religion.
This morning I went through my list of FB “friends” and cut it down by more than half. If it wasn’t for my family members out there, I would delete my account completely. I will likely end up doing that at some point in the near future.
Taking something off the table, as they call it, just means leaving it right in the middle of the table for democrat fascists to talk about with Republicans saying, "we're not here to talk about the centerpiece on the table . . . " when in fact that's exactly what the democrats are beating them to death with.
And make no mistake, every single failed, expensive, corrupt, program the democrat fascists have put in place in the past 70 years has been sold as a social issue first with everything else a secondary consideration and Republicans left looking like dolts for talking about it indirectly or changing the subject.
JMHo
I see the Rats losing 15% of the Hispanic vote and 20% of the black vote. More if they go for equal rights laws or press for religious acceptance. For Clinton her old white lady parts will not be enough to get these voters back.
Or we could just become moral cowards and vote for moral cowards like the author suggests.
bttt
I’d like to see what the results of gay marriage would be in the voting booth. Let each state vote and then people can decide what society they want to live in.
Well, you saw the results of that vote in CA. The People stood up for - even in Lala land - traditional marriage (Prop 8). Then, the radical judicials overthrew the will of the People. Disgusting.
That’s why we need Congress to install laws protecting states rights, from SCOTUS’s rewriting of laws and the will of We the People. If Congress won’t act, then a COS is our next step.
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