First of all, it's pretty clear we shouldn't let any Massachusetts politicians near the children. After that, best they stay in their own neighborhoods ~ and that's not here.
The 49 sane states should quarantine MA so this AIDS-promoting virus doesn’t affect the rest of the body politic.
Afterward, he tried to get the same court to stop it, then sued the Senate in the same court to force them to vote. Ineffective and symbolic, but at least it looks like he tried.
The funny thing is how Democrats will go to any extreme to stifle democracy.
I was in Houston a few weeks ago and the discussion of Romney came up. The locals thought that there were 2 M’s he had to overcome. The Mormon factor he could overcome but the bigger obstacle was “Massachusetts”. That is Romney’s biggest problem and he has to distance himself from this communist state. If he loses the nomination I am convinced it will because of the MA tag. MA makes even California look moderate, it is essentially a 1 party tyranny with no hope for a Republican ever winning state wide office ever again.
Not unlike the situation in Congress on the Immigration fiasco: Americans don’t want it, but Congress will pass the legislation in spite of U.S. Citizens’ wishes....people don’t matter anymore; the politicians live for contributions from corporate interests, and get re-elected anyway.
When Mitt was Governer, he took *some* steps towards helping the process along, but not enough, IMO.
I heard Gov Patrick on WBZ this morning. He said that this issue “distracted us from real issues like job creation, affordable housing and health care.” Ugh. Then he said that the issue has been losing steam and that the voters don’t care about it as much now as they used to. I hope he’s really happy with himself — bought and sold by the pink hand like the cheap political whore that he is.
“Same-sex marriage will be the law of the land.”
No it won’t.
“Prager wasn’t sure he’d heard me right. Are you telling me, he asked in disbelief, that fewer than one in four Massachusetts legislators thinks marriage should be defined as the union of a man and a woman? Yes, I told him; the vote to kill the amendment was 151 to 45. ‘’Incredible,’’ said Prager.”
One in four *legislators* not registered voters.
FFS, Nancy Pelosi was calling MA stage legislators asking them to kill this proposed amendment.
Clearly, it's hurting the Romney campaign for the nomination. But I don't think it will hurt him in a general election.
While the vast majority of liberals in the US would never vote for Romney anyway, they're not important in the end game. Conservatives would swallow hard and vote for Romney (except those who are hardcore deadset against him) so the election comes down, like it always does, to the mushy middle.
Folks in that mushy middle who are uncomfortable with gay marriage, and might tend to hold Mitt responsible for it (believe me, he's already written speeches needed to calm most of them down) will probably take a it-can't-happen-here attitude. That will be a direct result of the spate of state Constitutional amendments that have defined marriage as one man, one woman.
As Jacoby points out, only a Federal amendment can keep this from happening. With a Democrat controlled Congress, that will never happen. With any more than a quarter of the states being "blue" states that would never ratify such an amendment, the chances of even a Republican Congress making such an amendment law is also pretty much nonexistant.