Posted on 06/25/2014 3:34:45 PM PDT by koanhead
In politics, it's called The Pivot. When the news is bad, or if you don't want to answer the question, ignore it. Change the subject.
Wisconsin Republican leaders are leaving divots as they pivot from U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's decision voiding the state Constitution's ban of same-sex marriages. Many of the same Republicans who drafted the constitutional amendment, pushed it through two consecutive legislative sessions, and then in 2006 got voters to approve it, had no reaction to Crabb's ruling and no defense of their old position.
The May 15-18 statewide poll by Marquette University's Law School may offer one reason for the GOP's silence: They may be on the losing side of public opinion months before the Nov. 4 election. In the Marquette poll, 55% of those surveyed supported "allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally," and 37% did not. Those between the ages of 18 and 29 offered the most support, 74% to 20%. Even those over age 60 supported those marriages, 46% to 45%....
Former Senate Majority Leader Dale Schultz, of Richland Center, who is retiring after 32 years in the Legislature, explained his eight-year pivot on the issue. As Senate leader, he pushed the constitutional amendment through the Senate. "At the time, a majority of Wisconsinites supported it, including my own constituents," Schultz said in a statement. "At the time, it also represented my personal views."
But Schultz said his own views--and those of a majority of Wisconsin residents--have evolved since 2006. "I would like to think that we, as a society, possess a willingness and ability to evolve when presented with new facts and evidence...A clear majority now feel people are entitled to basic rights and privileges, regardless of orientation, because it most likely affects someone we know."...
(Excerpt) Read more at urbanmilwaukee.com ...
GOP base runs away from GOP
I would love to see the republican party die. Long live the Tea Party!
“possess a willingness and ability to evolve when presented with new facts and evidence”
What damn facts and evidence is this moron talking about?! There is none, just like when the APA changed its decisions on mental disorders.
What he means to say is
“I hope we all possess a willingness and ability to collapse and fold on previous positions when we might be accused of intolerance”
Either a third party or a second country. Enough is enough!
A third party may be the only solution.
Why don't we just disband all federal and state legislators and let the judges make the rules?
They are apparently going to do that anyway, and with no push back...
Perversion now celebrated.
That’s because they are either...
yellow-bellied cowards afraid to fight this,
or degenerate scumbags who agree with it.
And this was the Party that used to tout family values. The GOP is so unbelievably dead to now. I might tune in occasionally to hear what Palin or Cruz have to say about things. But that’s it. Nothing beyond that. I hope the Republican Party burns in hell.
The Reps call it “pivot.” The Dems called it “evolved.”
At the time of my comment not one from Wisconsin so far except me. The publication’s Urban Milwaukee and its writer Steven Waters both are way out of left field. Waters used comments from a “usual suspect” a RINO state senator who would have been “pri-married” out or even perhaps “recalled” if he didn’t bow out. But the casual reader not from the state wouldn’t know this. Which is why more often than not prompted my tagline.
Sadly, the GOP may not be wrong. Too many people are just letting it slide, because they do not want to be considered ‘homophobic’, so they’re not saying anything against homosexual ‘marriage’, and not bothering to go out to vote against it.
“GOP leaders”?
Name one. One that’s truely a leader and not just another lap dog!!!
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