Comments on: Mass Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Is Pro-Gay

By: Pender

Pender — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:05:32 +0000

Maybe so, Ohio Joe, but I’m not sure why it matters. I’m told by his supporters that Obama “secretly” believes in marriage equality, but his secret beliefs don’t help when his non-secret actions undermine us at every moment of truth, and I’m not even sure it’s morally better for a politician to act in a way that he knows is wrong than to act in a way that he mistakenly thinks is right.

By: Ohio Joe

Ohio Joe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:54:08 +0000

Deep down, Romney is probably still really more liberal than his 2008 presidential campaign would lead us to believe, and probably more conservative than his tenure as Mass. governor would lead us to believe. That’s the ugliness on national politics… They all have to appeal to “the base” to get nominated.

By: Gary Cozette

Gary Cozette — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:11:12 +0000

Right. And so was Mitt Romney.

By: JJQR

JJQR — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:32:04 +0000

It probably is the future of the Republican party. Don’t forget how all polls show the younger white (and Hispanic) U.S. populations are overwhelmingly for all same-sex rights.

By: Burr

Burr — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:14:10 +0000

Huh?

I took that to mean he’s proud of the fact that he didn’t have to go to another state to get married. Or something like that..

Now that the suits already been filed I doubt there’s much to be done about it.

By: RDM

RDM — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:39:59 +0000

I’d like to know if he supports Mass suing the feds over DOMA. That “lives in Massachusetts” qualifier was a red flag for me.

By: Burr

Burr — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:10:56 +0000

Finally voters might have a choice instead of being held hostage by one party due to the sheer idiocy of the other.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:09:02 +0000

I’d love to see this on the national level as well…

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:34:30 +0000

Charlie Baker is part of Governor Bill Weld’s band of Northeast Republicans — fiscally conservative and socially progressive. This was very popular in Massachusetts in the 1990s.

There aren’t many of these around any more.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:10:24 +0000

Back in ’93 or ’94. He was surprisingly more leftist than Kennedy back then.