Day: May 10, 2012

Gay Republicans Defy Logic to Condemn Obama’s Gay Marriage Conversion

Buck Banks

From the You Can’t Please All the Gay Republicans Any of the Time Department comes this:

“That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said Log Cabin Republicans president R. Clarke Cooper in a statement. “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch.”

“This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.”

Hold on there R., that amendment passed in N.C. by more than a 60 percent margin. Do you really believe that if President Obama had endorsed gay marriage a day sooner and a dollar more it would have changed the minds of any of those benighted Tarheels? Really?

But wait, there’s more:

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‘Dictator’ Endorses Romney

Buck Banks

I give my full support to Mitchell Romney. He has the makings of a great dictator. He is incredibly wealthy, but pays no taxes. And it’s not much of a leap to go from firing people to firing squads, and from putting pets on the top of a car to putting political dissidents on top of them.

— Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as “The Dictator,” endorsing Mitt Romney at a mock press conference. The movie is out on May 16.

Romney Has a Lock on the White Evangelical Vote

Buck Banks

68% to 19%

Mitt Romney’s nearly 50-point lead over President Obama among white evangelical Protestant voters, according to a new PRRI/RNS Religion News survey. Key finding: “The survey also finds that even among the nearly half (49%) of evangelical voters who say that Romney’s religious beliefs are different than their own, Romney still holds a 3-to-1 lead over Obama (67% vs. 22%). Among all voters, however, Obama leads Romney, (47% vs. 38%).”

Obama Is Micro-Targeting and Constituent-Corralling

Buck Banks

In the zero-sum world of what’s likely to be an airtight campaign, any day Obama can redirect the national conversation away from the economy is a good day in Chicago and a bad day in Boston. Romney can’t get back the last three days and will probably lose most of Thursday in the analytical aftermath of Obama’s embrace of gay marriage. … It may sound cynical, but this math is real. The focus on gay marriage allowed Obama to speak to a key voting bloc, one that also punches well above its weight in terms of campaign dollars. Obama’s recipe for reelection is melding motivated constituencies. This isn’t 2008 and waves of enthusiasm. This is micro-targeting and constituent corralling. In the gay community and among those sympathetic to its agenda, Obama has earned their energy, votes, and dollars.

— Major Garrett, writing in the National Journal.