Gay Marriage? You have got to be kidding me!
We either have or have not reached the point of the lowest results in the scheme of diminishing Returns in the scheme of bringing up the whole spectre of … Homosexual Marriage.
The thing is, as Congress gets ready to debate the subject for two days, flag burning right in the distance… Nobody believes him.
Nobody believes that President George W. Bush cares one whiff about Gay Marriage. NOBODY! Somewhere you bop from this being the huge concern of the 2004 election. Somewhere after the Terri Schiavo fiasco showed the mutability of our current domestic political scene, you quietly bury all topics religious tinged and move on to a full frontal Social Security Reform front. As you jump around from state to state with theoretically endangered Democrats facing 2006 elections, you find that by talking up a storm on your desires to reform social security, you’re actually buttressing your Democratic candidate’s electoral chances.
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and WITH AN APPROVAL RATING UNDER 30 PERCENT!!!!
And so, as John Zogby puts it in terms of “right track — wrong track” poll results, “I have never seen a number like that since I’ve been polling.”
Your base wants you to tackle illegal immigration. You are corporately at odds with your base. Maybe you have a few gestures at ready, but you will not and can not appease your base with this issue.
The one thing about gay marriage is that it loses its luster with each brandishing. I know how this issue is going to wrap itself up. Any number of elections across the nation will be lost to the “progressive” side due to this little wedge issue — candidates who, incidentally, will not take a stand for or against the topic –, and yet… in the end… Adam and Steve will be wed into holy matrimony and will take a nice little rendezvous into Alabama for their honeymoon. And George W Bush won’t care.
But not many elections are going to be lost in 2006 with this issue at the ready. It reeks too much of desparation. The only problem with it is it still just might well be a wise political move on Karl Rove’s part. Throw up this dart, it’ll stick somewhat, and hopefully long enough and just well enough to tide the Republicans over to the next election cycle.