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With at least four other Republicans on the fence, the measure is expected to have enough votes to pass if the Republicans decide to allow the bill to the floor for an up-or-down vote.

“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, f—- it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing,” McDonald said.

The GOP will privately conference the issue tomorrow morning. Multiple insiders say they expect the measure will be brought to the floor. McDonald himself said he expects a vote could come Friday.

McDonald two years ago voted against a gay marriage bill. “Things changed,” he said.

He said he altered his viewpoint in large part because he has two grandkids with disabilities.

“You realize that people and circumstances aren’t always what you think they’re going to be… develop a little more sensitivity… As a father, as a grandfather you try to do the right thing, you care about people.”

And here I was getting all hopeful with his badass party-line-defiant talk. Figures when he implies that being gay is a disability and something to be pitied.