Bush has really blown it with supporting the Marriage Discrimination Amend

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Radicals serve up Gaytorade at the Grand Old Party
Freeze on social change might prove too bitter for popular tastes
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16531

BOSTON -- I understand the compulsion to "energize the base," but couldn't Republicans have found something a little less toxic than this brew of Gaytorade?
When President Bush came out in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, he was stirring up a cocktail to keep the cultural warriors in the party. It's assumed that this elixir will give them a sugar-high all the way to the election.

On the other hand, Anybody-But-Bush Democrats have greeted the infusion of this issue into the campaign with all the gusto reserved for the entrance of Ralph Nader. They could live without it.

There's no doubt that the Democratic candidates, especially John Kerry, would have been happier if the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court hadn't ruled until, say, late November. They would have been better off if the San Francisco mayor, a Catholic heterosexual who ran as the conservative candidate and who contributed $500 to the Bush 2000 campaign, hadn't suddenly gotten marriage on his mind.

But we've all gotten into the habit of assuming the cultural warriors on the right are the winners. Who says the constitutional ban is a Bush boon? Who says the "energized right" might not look like the "hyperactive righteous" by November?

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1. republicans, as usual, overplayed their hand

the American people don't care for tampering with the Constituion as a partisan tool for election purposes, no matter what the issue is.

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2. Thing is, now Kerry has to vote on the damned thing.

Democrats are split over this issue. Republicans, excepting a tiny minority, aren't.