re: #3 Charles

This kind of evasion drives me nuts. (I know, it’s a short drive.)

“Are you in favor of gay marriage?”

“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.”

“Yes, but would you favor making gay marriage legal?”

“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.”

“But how do you personally feel about making gay marriage legal?”

“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.”

Arrrgghh.

Let’s face it, homosexuals are a significant chunk of the electorate. Kinsey said 5%, but even if it was say… 2%, that would have been enough to throw the last election if they had all voted as a single bloc.

What Romney’s doing is trying to blow the anti-gay dog whistle as loud as he can, while trying to not let that 2% know what he’s doing.

It’s the same thing with all the other minority groups the Republicans have demonized and ostracized, from atheists/agnostics to Hispanics and African-Americans. The white, straight, anglo-saxon Protestant voting group is doomed to no longer have a plurality, let alone a majority, in the relatively near future, and there is simply no way to reverse that.

All they have left is that dog whistle, and all they can do is blow it harder and harder, trying to increase the turnout of their dwindling base through leveraging more and more fear and anger, in a last-ditch attempt to out-number everyone else at the polls.

It’s just not going to work forever, and when they eventually concede and start trying to pretend they never held the positions they do now, it’s up to folks like LGF to remind the world what they used to stand for.