THEY DON’T WANT TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE OR IMMIGRATION AN ISSUE IN THE 2010 ELECTIONS
Yes, you read correctly…Republicans are afraid that these hot button issues will bring a distraction to their strategy to make the economy and unemployment their banner issue.
Now, isn’t that ironic? In elections past, they would go out of their way to interject some kind of hate-filled, totally absurd anti-gay proposition or amendment in order to energize their base and have a large turnout of conservative voters. Now it is a different story: they actually don’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
But even if they run on this concept of the economy, unemployment, government too big, too much debt…they still have to live up to their part in creating those very things, their 
inability to govern for eight years and the incompetence of an administration that brought our country to the brink of total collapse…are they, as they are doing going to blame President Obama and the Democrats for the ills they created? You bet…they are counting on the short attention span of voters; they are banking on mass amnesia to do it. Will it work? Only time will tell.
But if the American voter is swayed or confused into buying this crap and they go ahead and give the Republicans their vote then they deserve to have a return to the good old days of incompetence, division, tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the majority and worse: the country going into debt to give those rich folks all these give-aways.
My advice is simply this America: Think twice about what the Republicans are saying and don’t take their demagoguery and lies as truth, stop and think who really brought misery on our country and who has been trying to pull us out since. President Obama and the Democrats have met nothing but obstructionand “NO” in everything they have tried to do.
And yet, you would think that if you create a mess like the Bush 
and the Republicans left us, they would, they should, they ought to be not just apologetic but make some attempt at fixing the economy and working for the good of America; yet they have not and will not cooperate…this leads me to believe they are not very patriotic; if they rather see our President fail and continue the misery they gave us in order to win a fucking election.
Republicans said that dwelling on the issue could become a distraction in the effort to win back the House or Senate from Democrats this fall. At a meeting of the Republican National Committee in Kansas City, Mo., several party leaders and strategists said it would be a mistake for the midterm election campaign to suddenly become focused on gay marriage, immigration or other hot-button issues. The only path to winning control of Congress, they said, rested on making an economic argument. “This election needs to revolve around five issues: taxes, spending, the economy, jobs and debt,” said Ron Nehring, chairman of the California Republican Party. “That doesn’t mean that other issues aren’t important — they are important — but the first issue on the minds of people is the economy.”
Likewise, Murray Clark, chairman of the Indiana Republican Party, said Republicans were acting at their own peril if they suddenly starting focusing on the ruling. A protracted discussion about social issues, he said, could play into Democratic hands. “Can we declare a truce on some of the other issues unrelated to the economy?” Mr. Clark said in an interview in Kansas City, Mo.
Also quoted in the above-linked article is NOM's Brian Brown, who vows to make Prop 8 an election issue whether the GOP likes it or not. "I definitely think it’s going to have an effect on the 2010 elections. You’re going to see ads, you’re going to see folks standing up on this issue, and the people that support Walker’s decision are going to pay a price."
Labels: 2010 elections, Brian Brown, GOP, LGBT rights, marriage equality, NOM, Proposition
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