She's no Palin,but.....
Posted on 12/10/2013 8:18:00 PM PST by massmike
Social conservative activists are threatening to walk away from Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker after his running mate, former state representative Karyn E. Polito, reversed her position this week, endorsing gay marriage.
The Baker campaign, looking to placate social conservatives, said late Thursday that Polito considers same sex unions to be accepted law. But the campaign would not make Polito available to be interviewed about her position.
According to a GOP insider, in choosing Polito, Baker strategists insisted that she soften her opposition to gay marriage if she were to join the ticket. The compromise — which would blunt some of the criticisms that she was flip-flopping — was for Polito to state that gay marriage is settled law and that she would not do anything to undo it.
The issue quickly came to a head after Baker and Polito appeared at a Shrewsbury diner to announce their ticket on Tuesday. A Globe reporter then inquired of a Baker campaign aide about Polito's position on gay marriage. The aide, who did not want to be quoted, replied that Polito favored the current gay marriage law.
In an e-mail exchange, the Globe asked whether it would be fair to say she favored gay marriage, and the aide replied that it would. That exchange was reflected in a Globe article Wednesday.
That clear-cut declaration eliminated the carefully designed nuance and set off a firestorm within social conservative circles, where Polito has been very popular.
Baker has struggled to appease social conservatives before. During his 2010 campaign, he faced controversy after choosing Senate minority leader Richard Tisei – a gay, Republican who supports abortion rights – as his running mate.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
I notice that ‘settled law’, aka, ‘law of the land’, applies to everything except the Constitution.
Social issues do matter and the homosexual agenda is incredibly corrosive to our culture, I say conservatives should pull their support.
Which one is which?
How come not having gay marriage, which was the case for over 200 years, was never the settled law of the land?
It’s Massachusetts, what’s a Republican running for state office for anyway?
Maybe if the Libertarians would put down their bongs and run a candidate too...
She is going to “soften” her position?
How no one stands by principles any more? You want to have a finger-in-the-wind on your ticket?
Why in the world would a social conservative be stupid enough to support her?
Looks like I'll be sitting-out another state election or writing in another candidate.
She's no Palin,but.....
Who cares. He’ll lose anyway. Pathetic.
Conservatism is not from a socioeconomic position. So enough of the Blue Blood v Blue collar on it, please.
The constitution was not written with class warfare in mind. In fact it was written by educated people with theirs and the Peoples’ interests in mind.
Not a class envy deal at all, and there’s no room for such.
This State needs a real tea party
WHAT IS WITH REPUBLICANS IN MASS? ARE ALL PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE (or at least 99%) DUMB?
No, I don’t think they are dumb, they are just more enlightened and educated than the rest of us, doncha know?/s
Yea, especially in BAAAAHSTON, I guess..
Massachusetts needs social conservatism so badly that it doesn’t know how to, successfully, achieve it. Many decades of “leftist only politics, everywhere in Massachusetts” has made the Massachusetts GOP nutty and “Democratic Party Light”, instead of, always, being a conservative party on all of the issues. Ditto, all other long-term “politically blue” areas of the U.S. and U.S. territories. Most of the rest of the world continues to be “stuck on leftist politics”, too. Hence, my tagline.
MORE bad news from the Bay State:
Massachusetts voters fail again!
Democrat Clark wins Mass. congressional race
According to Clark’s campaign literature that we’ve seen:
Says she’ll fight against the Republican “war on women.”
Is solidly pro-abortion. Funded by Emily’s List. Will fight for continued public funding for Planned Parenthood.
Will strongly support “LGBT rights.” Was endorsed by MassEquality.
Pro-gun control. Says she “will work to end the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress.”
In past elections, she’s also been endorsed by the ultra-left Democratic Socialists of America.
http://massresistance.com/docs/gen2/13d/addivinola-vs-clark-election/index.html
Baker is a leftist. Why vote for a phony Republican Socialist when you can elect an authentic Stalinist Democrat ?
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