Resolved: the Republican presidential candidates who vow resistance to marriage equality...

[Orsino]

Last edited Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:12 PM - Edit history (1)

...are identifying themselves as other than serious campaigners who who will not even be running-mates. The nominee will be one of the chuckleheads who has the sense not to run on nullification.

Am I wrong?

[hifiguy]

1. Hard to say.

The real hard-shell mossbacks WILL run on nullification. Whether they survive the primaries is unkown, but I wouldn't bet against it. The intelligent thing to do would be to say "The SCOTUS has spoken, and it is what it is."

I don't see promising to "unmarry" a massive group of people as having much appeal in the general, regardless of the 'puke primaries.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. They're displaying their "straight" jackets.

[Maedhros]

3. The rubber is about to hit the road for the Republicans.

For so many years, the GOP has callously used the Religious Right in their ongoing quest to return us to the 19th century economically.

Now, that same Religious Right may prove to be a millstone around their collective necks. It's entirely possible that the seething Dominionists, apoplectic over this Supreme Court ruling, may overwhelm what remains of the pragmatic voices in the Republican Party and nominate a true knuckle-dragging anti-gay crusader. Such a candidate would stand little chance in the general election.

Can they afford to throw the hate merchants under the bus?