http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/09/anti-gay-now-anti-gay-tomorrow-anti-gay-forever Comments On: Anti-Gay Now, Anti-Gay Tomorrow, Anti-Gay Forever! by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
They know perfectly well that once marriage is legal in a jurisdiction it becomes a complete non-issue.
Posted by RealityBites]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:14:34 -0800 The Stranger I hope the Republicans moderate, as I don't think they're going away, and as the Democrats must eventually fuck up badly enough (or just be seriously unlucky), if only because we're all too human, and at that point the country drops into the lap of whatever the Republicans are at that point...and if they're seriously nuts at that point, they might even be at the point of acting to prevent its ever leaving their control---the Iranian theocrats had to prevail over their fellow-revolutionary liberals and communists just once.
Posted by Gerald Fnord]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:42:31 -0800 The Stranger
Let the Republicans continue down their path to oblivion. I have no problem with that.
Posted by Patricia Kayden]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:48:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheLastComment]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:15:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MinnySota]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:03:14 -0800 The Stranger
Media handled her with kid gloves previously, but any serious running of her would explode into so many scandals (her fake pregnancy, her unmarried daughter's numerous real pregnancies, and her husband's prostitution ring are just the top of the moose shit) that she can't move one inch now.

Ever wondered why she quit half-term in 2009 ? She probably was pushed out, in exchange for discretion. Can't have a GOP former VP candidate's husband been thrown in jail for prostitution, it would have looked so bad... especially to Fundies.
Posted by sissoucat]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:01:49 -0800 The Stranger
And the problem with Republican fiscal policy is that it has nothing to do with reality and much, much more to do with increasing their campaign funding. There hasn't been a Republican budget surplus in 40 years. Not a single person in the GOP is even old enough to know what that means. Instead, they're all about massive military spending while cutting taxes, resulting in enormous deficits.

Which means there's *literally* no reason to vote R. They are completely out to lunch on every issue.
Posted by gromm]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:53:02 -0800 The Stranger
@24 Thanks for the historical context, but this is completely different. As others have pointed out, Team Rape has painted themselves into a huge corner. They can't budge from their entrenched positions. There isn't a big factional divide in their ranks. There maybe a group that is "fiscally conservative yet socially liberal," but those folks have already left, been driven out, or are sitting out. What we'll see over the next four years is chaos among the right. They can't give up who they are, and they must give up who they are.
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:46:46 -0800 The Stranger her people) to their promised lily-white missionary-position anti-everything FundieLand...

After all, she can see it from her porch... It's soooo close...


Posted by merry]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:59:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mattini]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:35:44 -0800 The Stranger When in a fight for one's life, as the Republican platform makes clear that LGBT citizens are, one doesn't compromise with folks embracing that hateful and hate-filled pile of butt-wipe paper.
Posted by OutInBumF]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:23:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pablo Picasso]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:16:52 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:15:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sanotehu]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:13:05 -0800 The Stranger
The only way the GOP can return to real relevance is to drop social issues from their platform altogether and concentrate almost exclusively on fiscal issues; they'll lose social conservatives, but they might gain enough fiscal conservatives who currently self-ID as Libertarian or Independent to make up the difference.

But the problem with the above scenario is that the GOP leadership is currently stacked with social conservatives who are at least politically savvy enough to recognize that splintering off into a third party won't gain them anything; and in point of fact they'll lose most of their power & insider prestige as a result. They'd rather be the top dogs in a political organization that still wields some modicum of influence on the national stage, rather than become the leaders of what would essentially become an also-ran regional party with little or no political influence at all.
Posted by COMTE]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:10:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by spliffster]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:08:05 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by puppydogtails]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:54:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Steve Dorner]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:47:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:45:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:45:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Schorschi]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:44:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SMBennett]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:42:29 -0800 The Stranger
The Democratic Party purged itself of his flavor of vile, and it cost them the presidency for a couple of terms. Eventually even he came around, and the Democratic Party did, you know, kinda OK after that.

The difference was that there was a sizable faction of non-bigots in the Democratic Party at the time. So maybe people who want to see further progress on this ought to encourage that fraction of the GOP (which isn't nobody, it's just intimidated by the religious zealots) by supporting non-loony Republicans instead of automatically attacking every Republican as a bigot and homophobe just for the label "Republican".

You could, for instance, treat the Log Cabin Republicans as insurgents in the enemy camp rather than traitors to yours.

Reasonable, tolerant people need to take back the name "Republican". You can help. Right now you aren't.
Posted by vanillaspice]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:36:29 -0800 The Stranger
...of the ticket, of course.
Posted by Clayton]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:35:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Lose-Lose]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:34:47 -0800 The Stranger