I am fucking Flat OUT Amazed....

[sarettah]

Fucker has some shrewd handlers I would guess...

He comes out hard for a Constitutional Amendment against Same Sex marriage. An issue that plays extremely well to the right and get's barely a reaction from most of the moderate left. But in there, there has to be the realization that a constitutional amendment is probably the most rigorous process within the constitution and has a very poor chance of succeeding.

According to our World Book Encyclopedia (1989 edition...lol...When the kids were in middle school) There had been at that time over 7000 constitutional amendments proposed. Of those proposed, only 33 were passed through Congress to the states for ratification and of those, only 26 had been passed.

In other words, there is no way in hell that a constitutional amendment will go through by the election. The process will barely have started. The only part of the process that will occur between now and November is the proposing of the amendment and the debating of the amendment. Both of which offer tons and tons of grandstanding photo ops and speechmaking opportunities for all the members of Congress and for the presidential candidates themselves. A perfect issue for an election year.

In addition, imho, there is no way a Constitutional ban on same sex marriage will go through. I think that ultimately people will decide that all marriage laws and such should best remain at the state and local level and that eventually you will see same-sex marriage. It is a ways off yet, but it will come.

Since there is no chance of it being anything dangerous before the election and the probable extinction of it after the election it becomes the perfect non-issue issue. He can't go wrong on it, he can stand and be as right as he wants on it knowing that there is no way he will leave any permanent damage.

Guy is shrewder than I was giving him credit for, or Cheney and company is





Last edited by sarettah at Feb 24 2004, 11:46 PM