Comments on: The case for Romney

By: Mickey

Mickey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:33:07 +0000

Marriage is the cover to the real motivations: Protecting and Promoting the Catholic Church’s teachings on Homosexuality, riling the Republican base and Making Money!

The reason they will lose is because they actually believe they are being successful but lately the mask has been taken off.

By: tristram

tristram — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:37:50 +0000

If Romey wins, it is likely that the Republicans will also take control of the Senate – the new stars of which will be teaparty senators like Todd Akin. At that point, all bets are off and all Maggie’s nasty dreams come true.

Ezra Klein had a good post on this today – though he is less alarmist than I

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/11/05/first-assume-a-democratic-senate/

By: markanthony

markanthony — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:54:15 +0000

Timothy -

Thanks for the response. I would be interested in seeing that post.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:02:01 +0000

As indicated above, one of the bigger dangers of Romney is that he’ll quickly rescind several administrative rule changes. For example the State Department has established some domestic partnership benefits, the health department has mandated hospital visitation rights and Immigration has made deportations harder. That all happened without a law being passed and it can and will be rescinded just as easily.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:57:04 +0000

No. No one needs to be put in a big cave with a sealed entrance. We don’t advocate for such things or consider them anything but horrific.

By: Edwin in Colorado

Edwin in Colorado — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:26:20 +0000

If Romney gets elected he will set
this country back 50 years with all the things that he wants to do. We don’t need that as we have fought to hard to get where we are today.
As for Maggie Gallager and all the other homophpbic groups that are out there they all need to be put in a big cave and seal the entrance shut.
I don’t think they know where gay people come from. They are like a bunch of ostrichs with there heads in the sand. If they can’t see it it isn’t happening.
As for the women rights things that should be up to their doctors and them and the politicians all need to but out . they need to get out our lives and let us live in a country that is supposed to be FREE.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:24:58 +0000

I’m unsure how anyone believes the Republican Party, National or otherwise, is not running on social issues. What exactly is all the hub bub about contraeption coverage? What, exactly is the calling for a repeal to DADT? What exactly is the House Republican’s defense of DOMA? What exactly is the insinuation today of Ryan, that the President is anti-judeo christian? What exactly is the tax cuts for the wealthy and the cuts to social services? What is the issue of abortion?

What are those thing if not social issues? They might not be the forefront of the campaigns, but they ARE running on them, it was built into the Republican Party Platform. Does everyone forget that document is part of THIS Campaign as well?

I think Maggie is smoking crack.

By: gsingjane

gsingjane — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:06:15 +0000

Well, I for one would be more than happy to see Maggie Gallagher step back from day to day operations at NOM and to see ole’ Brian Brown take center stage. We know Brian here from back in the day in Connecticut… he struck me as a dope back then and not likely to have gotten smarter since. For a great example – our Supreme Court handed down the marriage equality decision in the fall of 2008, and if the CT Family Council or whatever they were calling themselves (led by Brian at the time) had been quicker off the dime, they could have taken advantage of a constitutional convention opportunity (a vote that can only be taken once every 10 years) that came up shortly thereafter. Brian and his pals were caught completely flat-footed and lost what was really their only chance to quickly overturn the decision, or at least to attempt to amend the CT constitution to outlaw it. Apparently they did NOT game out the possible scenarios nearly well enough and, well, the rest is history. Four years later we still have marriage and Brian got kicked upstairs!

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:58:41 +0000

markanthony,

Unfortunately, I didn’t make note of exactly the comments that caused me to begin to see Maggie differently. They were small moments – usually when she was tired and frustrated – which led me to believe that Maggie had shifted from “gays are wonderful people but marriage is linked to procreation” to “those damn gays don’t deserve marriage”.

It was when she lashed out on some subject that had nothing to do with marriage or family structure. One of those “gays are like this” comments.

Now I’ll have to go back and try to find them. They aren’t many and she’s quoted everywhere so it may take a while.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:38:36 +0000

Republicans generally run stealth campaigns. They claim they are interested in the economy, but as soon as they are elected, they pass laws calling for transvaginal ultrasounds and other anti-abortion and anti-gay measures. Should Romney be elected, be prepared for numerous executive orders rescinding Obama’s efforts to achieve equal rights in many areas.