You don’t stop that agenda by nominating an O’Donnell in Delaware and turning a Senate seat from safe Republican to safe Democratic.

If DeMint and Palin want to show that helping O’Donnell over the top — she won late and by six points — wasn’t a capricious spreading of fairy dust, perhaps they should go to Delaware now and get her elected to the Senate.

You made it possible. Now make it happen. I would be happy to be proved wrong about O’Donnell’s electability — I want Republicans to win that 51st seat. Stay in Delaware and show us you were right. The beaches are said to be lovely in the fall.

In a surprising outcome, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) was announced this afternoon as the preferred 2012 Republican presidential nominee among social conservatives in a Values Voters Summit straw poll.

Pence squeezed by in a small margin against former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — last year's winner by a landslide — earning 170 votes out of 723 cast over two days.

"I think Congressman Pence gave an outstanding speech last night when he spoke, but he has also been providing more crucial leadership… among social conservatives and, really, conservatives in general," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, which put on the event.
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A new generation of Republican POLS are starting to rise.

The simple truth is that “[t]here are millions of Americans,” as one of the Plaintiffs’ own expert witnesses has acknowledged, “who believe in equal rights for gays and lesbians … but who draw the line at marriage.” M.V. LEE BADGETT, WHEN GAY PEOPLE GET MARRIED 175 (2009) (ER1351) (quoting Rabbi Michael Lerner). And the people of California, 44 other states, and the vast majority of countries throughout the world continue to draw the line at marriage because that institution continues to serve a vital societal interest that is equally ubiquitous—to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring, stable unions for the sake of responsibly producing and raising the next generation.
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The standing issue may reset the entire district court decision