When President Obama endorsed same sex marriage yesterday, the expected backlash did not take long to materialize but as they say in the old country-"we ain't seen nothing yet"!
By the way, I'm writing another companion post on politics.
For what it's worth, here's my take on the situation:
I believe the President caught all the conservatives off guard with his timing and responses started immediately in the House (of course) but I would bet the "Romney" campaign was burning some serious "midnight oil" trying to figure out their next move.
Romney ends up with the chance to get pushed into a conservative corner most feel he was in anyhow.
Now of course here comes rounds of dirty political tricks from both sides. In fact Bobbie Douglas just sent me this story from "The Raw Story"
"Eric Fehrnstrom, a top aide and political strategist to presumptive
Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mitt Romney (MA), made
headlines earlier this year with a gaffe comparing Romney in the primary
fight to an “Etch a Sketch” that you can flip over and shake and start
over with as a blank slate in the general election. Before he was an
adviser to Romney, Fehrnstrom was a political columnist for the Boston Herald. According to a profile in GQ, in
1992, he outed recently-elected Massachusetts Rep. Althea Garrison (R)
as a transgender woman, effectively ending her political career.
Althea Garrison was a Boston politician and activist who was elected
as a Republican to the Massachusetts state House in 1992. Two days after
her election victory, Fehrnstrom published an article in the Herald announcing that Garrison had been born male.
“I can remember his glee when he found the birth certificate,” said a former Herald reporter named Robert Connolly.
The outing of Althea Garrison raises serious questions about the culture
of the Romney campaign, where Fehrnstrom operates as a privileged
member of the command team and as Romney’s longest-serving, most-trusted
political strategist. It has been said that if Karl Rove was “Bush’s
brain,” then Fehrnstrom is “Romney’s balls.”
I'm not going to say I'm unbiased and I believe there will be more than a few of right wing preachers who will work this theme into Sunday's Mother's Day sermons.
So get ready. All of this should be interesting!
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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