[Rennes Templar]

Are the Republican overtures to gays part of "compassionate conservatism"? Like sending money to aids victims in Africa?
Is it a way to garner gay votes? If it keeps on, eventually the Dems will become irrelevant, and it'll be the GOP and the Libertarians.

[Sonny M]

If it keeps on, eventually the Dems will become irrelevant, and it'll be the GOP and the Libertarians.

Not likely, it'll be a democrat party and a green party. The republican party, does have a social wing that is quite different from the democrats, its pro-life, its pro-religion, if people can't see a difference between the 2 parties, they will choose the original, and differentiate with the extreme.

The republican party can't abandon a large solid part of its base, for a smaller part of somone elses and hope to win.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

If it keeps on, eventually the Dems will become irrelevant, and it'll be the GOP and the Libertarians.

I'd call that major progress.