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I sure hope the GOP doesnt drop its objection. They are shooting themselves in the foot with their position and I hope Rafael Cruz wins their nomination and makes it a central part of his campaign.
If you remember, Obama didn't support gay marriage in 2008....until the polls rolled around and voila he changes his mind.
Gore was anti-gay until 2000. I shouldn't have to explain what was going on at the time to influence his views lol.
So what you will see is Republicans saying stuff about gay marriage to win primaries and then in the general election they will soften their tone or avoid the topic if the polls show them losing votes over it.
Basically, all of these scumbag politicians will let the polls tell them what they think about gay marriage depending upon which election they are in at the time.
It's both parties too. If Hillary had to reverse position and oppose gay marriage in order to win the presidency....anyone here stupid enough to think she wouldn't?
Probably not this election based on the comments made by some of those running.
I agree with this.
I wouldn't be surprised if gay marriage becomes the focus of the 2016 election with the GOP candidate making a national constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman his priority. The social conservative base is extremely angry about gay marriage right now will not let it go. Being that the older, white, rural, Southern voter decides the primary winner, I don't think the party is ready to nominate a candidate that supports same sex marriage. Maybe in 2024 but not in 2016 and possibly not even in 2020. Mike Huckabee has already said he will run as a third-party candidate if the Republican Party nominates a candidate that supports marriage equality.
Slowly, but not for around fifteen years or so. For the most part it won't be mentioned anymore by the majority in the party. You will hear about it indirectly in terms of passing religious freedom bills for some time though.
My thoughts as well.
I cannot see the GOP dropping it's opposition to same sex marriage in the next two or three election cycles.
In strong left-leaning states where the Republican party has a mindset on social issues that's close to the Democratic party in right leaning states, I would predict Republicans dropping their opposition to same sex marriage to be 15 -30 percent. Still unlikely (at least in the near future), but not out of the question either.
In strong right-leaning states, with Republicans who are at the far right when it comes to social issues, I would predict the likelihood Republicans would drop their opposition to same sex marriage anytime soon would be about 0.00000000001 percent. Very close to zero.
At this point the fight over "gay marriage" amounts to a fight over the definition of an English word. Nobody is going to die on that hill.
Barack Obama fled the hill in 2012; Hillary fled the hill in 2013; GOP eventually to follow.
I don't really like the idea of redefining words, but I'm not going to die on that hill, and anyway gays should be able to do what they want. If they wish the right to spend millions on divorce attorneys, more power to them.
Maybe when they decide they want to have SOME shot to win Calif or NY in the election.
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