top republican announces he is gay - no one cares

[Bilge_Rat]

Is this a sign that U.S. Conservatives are moving away from their obsession with social issues and joining the 21st century?

The center of gravity of the conservative movement in this election season is with fiscal conservatives. The Tea Party is infusing the Republican Party with new energy, and Tea Party leaders and supporters say they do not want to talk about social issues: even if they do not personally support same-sex marriage or abortion, they think the Republican Party spent too much time talking about them and not enough time trying to rein in spending.

As head of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Mehlman advocated the Bush administration’s push for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which Republicans had hoped would galvanize the party’s conservative base in 2006.

Now he joins several other members of the Bush inner circle who have publicly stated their support for same-sex marriage. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a daughter who is gay, has said he supports the right of gay people to marry, as has the former first lady Laura Bush.

“There are now more and more Republicans, and conservative Republicans, who have talked about this issue through the prism of being an equal rights issue, and being an issue that should not define the conservative movement and the party,” said Steve Schmidt, who was part of that inner circle as a spokesman and strategist for Mr. Bush’s 2004 campaign.
Mr. Schmidt spoke of his support for same-sex marriage in 2008 to the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group, when he was chief strategist for John McCain's presidential run. Like Mr. Cheney, he spoke in personal terms, telling the group that his sister is gay and that she and her partner are an important part of his and his children’s lives.

Matthew Dowd, another top strategist for Mr. Bush who broke with him after the re-election campaign, said that same-sex marriage had ceased to be a big issue for many voters — including conservatives and religious ones — even in 2004. In polling and focus groups before that election, he said, Republicans and conservatives cited terrorism, taxes and the war in Iraq as the issues that would move them to the polls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/us...l?ref=politics

[AVGWarhawk]

Is this a sign that U.S. Conservatives are moving away from their obsession with social issues and joining the 21st century?

This obsession is not soley exhibited by conservatives and not all conservatives obsess over it. But, yeah, slow news day yesterday. No one really cares.

[Dowly]

Don't care either, I'm just here for the 1up. Anyone seen that ****ing plumber, Marie, Maria, what the hell his name was?

[ETR3(SS)]

Mario? Yeah he's right...well he was right here. He's kinda chubby, couldn't have gotten far.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

Mario? Yeah he's right...well he was right here. He's kinda chubby, couldn't have gotten far.

Ah yes, Mario. Thanks, I'll have a look around, git was here last night, all was well, had a few cold ones and watched telly, then he went all ape**** and jumped thru the ceiling. Now I'm in trouble with my neighbours.

[ETR3(SS)]

No problem that guy is pretty weird. Always seems to be muttering something about a king and a princess. Wonder what that's all about.

[Sledgehammer427]

you guys crack me up.

I'll be in my shell.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

No problem that guy is pretty weird. Always seems to be muttering something about a king and a princess. Wonder what that's all about.

Jesus tell me about, I had to listen to that drama for one and a half hours, we went from Princess Peach being just careless to be kidnapped all the time, to being attention whore all the way to her being a cheating bastard. I was right about ready to suck on the barrel of a shotgun when we were done.

Luigi's cool, tho. He's all laid back watching his brother do all the hard work. Which reminds me, should probably go check if he's still alive, poor bugger passed out into my bathtub.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

you guys crack me up.

I'll be in my shell.

It's better than staying in the closet.

[Takeda Shingen]

Ever notice how Luigi just never gets any respect? He didn't even have a name in the original. He was just the green guy you had to be if you were Player 2.

[AVGWarhawk]

Whats up with the mushrooms?

[Takeda Shingen]

And who leaves man-sized gold coins laying around just anywhere? How's a guy supposed to hold 100 of those things anyway?

The sky is every color but blue. Blue is the refracted color.

[tater]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

The sky is every color but blue. Blue is the refracted color.

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tater

Originally Posted by tater

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tater

On the whole that which isn't will be from.

Notice the sentence ending in a preposition.