Clint Eastwood comes out for Gay Marriage.

[pepperbear]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clint-eastwood-joins-republicans-gay-marriage-highlighting-growing/story?id=18620592


A growing split in the Republican Party deepened today when Clint Eastwood, the movie star who rocked the GOP convention by interviewing an invisible President Obama, joined the ranks of Republicans who are in favor of legalizing gay marriage.

The support for gay marriage by Eastwood and about 100 prominent Republicans, along with budding support within the party for immigration reform, is creating an obvious divide in the party. It pits moderate Republicans and party operatives on one side against conservative activists who drive turnout in the primary elections.

One of the four former Republican governors who signed the legal brief in favor of same sex marriage is ex-New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman who she says there are days she "absolutely" doesn't feel like part of the party because she says the GOP is being "defined by the talking heads and they don't for the most part represent me."

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[bluedigger]

1. I'm waiting for the chair's opinion.

j/k Way to go, Clint.

[JI7]

2. he has supported it for a long time

[Signal_Corps]

3. Furniture

He also came out pro furniture.

[Volaris]

4. This is a good thing...

The more the "moderates" (at least on issues like this) come down on the side of sanity and social justice, the harder it drives the loons to the circle of wagons. That 25-30% of the electorate that is hardcore CONservative, will keep getting smaller, until they account for NOTHING.

The Last Vestige of GOP Party Unity right now is the idea that government is Too Big...well, when lines start forming at airports, they force another shutdown, and GOP VOTERS stop getting those SocSec checks (oh, but they EARNED those, you see, the rest of us are just greedy parasites donchaknow) even THAT will be gone. Yes, the Sequester hurts. YES, it was done because (mostly) the GOP are acting like bratty children, and YES, DEMS are not exempt from some blame for all this. But in the long run, it hurts THEM more than it hurts US, because people will see how useful the government actually IS in their lives, and that's been our position from the beginning.

The execution of the sequester will be bad for us, but the RECONCILIATION of the problem will be nothing short of DEVESTATING for the Randian Philosophy they embrace over there. This combined with their near-TOTAL loss of the population on social issues, and the loons over there will account for less than 10% of the polled electorate. We just have to NOT be spineless for a while.

They have NO WAY to save face on this, unless WE give them one. I say fuck' em, DC isn't Beanbag League.

"Liz Warren for Whatever She Wants To Do With Her Public Life"

Peace,
Vol

[tanyev]

5. No more GOP convention invites for you, Clint.

[fitman]

6. Freepers

heads were exploding over this... I love it.

Took them 20 seconds to throw him under the bus.