You know how in college some girls will get drunk and kiss their friends for fun, well I'm so into dudes I once even drunkenly slurred "I've never been bi enough to be drunk". But keeping full-on marriage from LGBT lovebirds makes no sense to me. Also I wasn't raised with religion.
1. Will the GOP pursue the path of insanity (defined as doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result) until the money runs out.
2. Give up the pretense of moderation, and become something like George Wallace's AIP.
3. Give up the pretense of extremism, and become something like an elite gentlemen's club of rich dudes like Romney.
4. Fungigate into 3, 4 or more parties (tea party, gentlemen's club, aip, ron paulians), each with a much narrower agenda and memberbase who will edge into the now centrist Democrat Party at each and every edge.
I'd just like to go on the record as saying that as a gay Asian American who voted for Obama, I have yet to receive my special gifts which Romney claims were offered to my demographic. I will most definitely *not* be voting for Obama in 2016 as a result.
I believe Romney & Ryan would argue your "gift" will be arriving on December 9th.
What I can't understand is how Obama received ONLY 75% of the LGBT vote - are there really that many closeted, self-loathing members of the Log Cabin Republicans?
Besides the numbers, there's also motivation. More non-straight, non-white, non-grey haired bigots voted, and they voted for Obama. They were motivated because they saw Romney for what he was: a privileged white religious nut who wouldn't think twice about sending America back to the 18th C., except w/ more income disparity.
For the GOP to change, they will need a new generation of moderates to get voter dollars, and win primaries. And beat out the Fundies, who have more money. That's a tall challenge! The William Welds have been driven out!
[The straight parents, children, neighbors, and friends of many LGBT people straights who might have voted for Romney wound up voting for Obama instead.]
I'm not so sure; perhaps Mr Savage is just so grateful he's overreaching. Even if we bumped up a few notches on the priority scale, I don't see us as being what tipped potential Romney voters. Of course, if some of our allies were to choose to portray themselves as potential Romney voters, I doubt it could hurt, but I don't think very many true allies gave Mr R serious consideration.
Something for nothing: I worked with this one straight guy years ago (and he's still a good friend of mine, unsurprisingly) at this place where he was in the minority, male-wise and straight-wise, and we all had a lot of time on our hands (the pay was commensurate with that, unfortunately). Anyway, I don't remember what the conversation was, but at one point he said, "Look. God knows I don't know what it's like to be a lesbian - and I've got one trapped INSIDE this body." And, he didn't mean he was trans - he meant, however sloppily, that he didn't see himself as different from any of his gay coworkers, which to some people would be offensive. To me, it was like, OK, you can be my friend now.
1. Will the GOP pursue the path of insanity (defined as doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result) until the money runs out.
2. Give up the pretense of moderation, and become something like George Wallace's AIP.
3. Give up the pretense of extremism, and become something like an elite gentlemen's club of rich dudes like Romney.
4. Fungigate into 3, 4 or more parties (tea party, gentlemen's club, aip, ron paulians), each with a much narrower agenda and memberbase who will edge into the now centrist Democrat Party at each and every edge.
I believe Romney & Ryan would argue your "gift" will be arriving on December 9th.
What I can't understand is how Obama received ONLY 75% of the LGBT vote - are there really that many closeted, self-loathing members of the Log Cabin Republicans?
Like Romney, when he was running for Governor of Mass.
They'll find some bobo with no experience (hence, no record), and he'll lie moderately between his teeth.
I'm not so sure; perhaps Mr Savage is just so grateful he's overreaching. Even if we bumped up a few notches on the priority scale, I don't see us as being what tipped potential Romney voters. Of course, if some of our allies were to choose to portray themselves as potential Romney voters, I doubt it could hurt, but I don't think very many true allies gave Mr R serious consideration.