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Thursday’s ruling by the California Supreme Court overturning a ban on gay marriage previously passed by a vote of the California electorate has fueled a political firestorm.
Just hours after the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Mathew D. Staver was already raising money to overturn the decision.
Mr. Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Florida group that defends traditional marriage, flew to Dallas on Thursday night for a late dinner meeting with a fund-raiser. The topic was how to finance a campaign for the California Marriage Protection Act, a November ballot initiative that would amend the state Constitution and effectively undo the court’s decision.
“I flew to Dallas to discuss this specific issue,†said Mr. Staver, who had several trips on similar business planned in the coming week. “And we talked until the early morning hours.â€
Such late-night strategy sessions will probably become common as those on both sides of the same-sex marriage issue start what they anticipate to be a protracted and expensive battle.
The Evangelical Right from across the United States will help fund the campaign and the Christian churches will turn out their members to vote in record numbers.
Look for Hispanic voters to turn out to vote for the California Initiative and Consitutional Amendment 07-0098 as the Catholic Church weighs into the political fray. At the same time, they will cast their Presidential ballots for John McCain or against African-American Barack Obama.
An expensive social issue campaign will excite the electorate and drive the turn-out of massive numbers of the RIGHT voters.
The moribund California GOP must be licking their chops at the prospects.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) poses with Sandy (R) and Marvin (C) Mehlbrech and their family members and local residents during a campaign stop at the Mehlbrech’s home in Junction City, Oregon May 16, 2008
Why did Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Presidency apparently FAIL and disappoint so many of her female fans.
From young feminist activists to the grandmothers who embrace Clinton along the rope line at her campaign events, many women who voted in large numbers for the former first lady during the primaries have begun mourning the turn of events. They know their dream of electing a female president this year probably will not come to pass — and wonder when it ever will.
“For us, getting a woman elected is major,” said Laurine Glynn, 72, of New York City. “We’ve waited, fought a lot for this. I do worry that my generation won’t see a female president.”
And, the pundits are now analyzing her campaign for its obvious weaknesses.
In a brilliant article, the New Republic’s Michelle Cottle lets Hillaryland advisers, aides and adjuncts speak for themselves.
Read them all.
Flap’s take is very simple: Hillary took Barack Obama for granted and did not organize and compete with him in Red State America. Obama won those elections and cauci using his early fundraising largess and amassed the delegate lead he now enjoys.
Hillary’s campaign made a strategic error by brusing off Obama early on.
End of story.
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Michael Ramirez on Barack Obama and the Appeasement Flap
Mark Steyn dissects Barack Obama’s outrage over his appeasement foreign policy and Democrat minion protests that he means NO such nonsense.
It says something for Democrat touchiness that the minute a guy makes a generalized observation about folks who appease terrorists and dictators the Dems assume: Hey, they’re talking about me. Actually, he wasn’t – or, to be more precise, he wasn’t talking only about you.
Should Obama be elected President, America will revert to a pre-Reagan world.
President Reagan talked with the Soviets while pushing ahead with the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. He spoke softly – after getting himself a bigger stick. Sen. Obama is proposing to reward a man who pledges to wipe Israel off the map with a presidential photo-op to which he will bring not even a twig. No wonder he’s so twitchy about it.
Twitchy indeed. Can America in this dangerous world trust the Presidency and the mantle of the free world to an inexperienced Carterish figure who expresses outrage over criticism and calls it disrespect.
Obama thinks America just doesn’t understand.
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Barack Obama has created a FLAP with his APPEASEMENT foreign policy. And, the CUT and RUNNING shoe DOES fit.
Flap is looking forward to the debates between Obama and John McCain.
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