Yep! You know, Vice President Cheney finds it very difficult, I think, to resist gay orthrodoxy on marriage, civil unions and the like. This is understandable given that his daughter feels she has a personal stake in the issue. Were Dick Cheney to disagree with her, would she consider him to be a bigot? I don't know, but I doubt it's anything a father would feel comfortable about risking.
President Bush's nephew, George P. Bush, also feels he has a personal stake in an issue--- namely this issue of Mexican illegal immigration. I wonder how much President Bush mught have been influenced by George P. or George P.'s mother? It would be easy to agree with Mary Cheney or George P.'s mother (or perhaps Jeb) on either issue, respectively, so as to avoid any chance of being thought of as a bigot... especially if this was done before George W. Bush or Dick Cheney were elected to offices where policies on these issues mattered. Then, by the time they did reach such offices, their opinions on said issues might have hardened.
Just my bit two cent psycho analysis! Shelby Steele thinks this sort of dynamic governs a lot of minority/ racial issues (like Affirmative Action)--- the majority grants inncoence/moral authority in the form of victimhood to the minority, while the minority provides innocence to the majority by allowing the majority member to not think of himself or be thought of as a bigot.
They really believe is this, as did Reagan with his "Shining City America".
These are all long term goals, and we have all lauded them in the past for this vision.
Why is it that now it is some ulterior motive.
I'll tell you why......because someone really wants to destroy these visionary ideas by labeling them in the negative.
It is really surprising to me that so many have bought into it and are now visibly and actively participating with some very strange bedfellows to undermine what the Republican Party has stood for. A vision that has been our motto for a generation.