Yes, these folks seem as unconcerned with the economic state of the nation as Congress and the President. So while their initiatives to legalize illegals have slowed, they now find their spidey senses tingling towards the gay community. They'd rather turn to more identity politics and target a demographic they've got no prayer of harvesting enough votes from to make a difference for their unprincipled version of the Republican Party. As a result, they not only waste time pandering, but also chase away more of the conservative base that's fed up with their antics. Brilliant.
Running concurrently with another brief signed by Big Government corporate titans (go figure!), Jeffrey Lord reports on a group of GOP elites who "have run to the Supreme Court demanding the judiciary shut off debate on gay marriage."
The story has predictably been front page news at the New York Times and in the world of the liberal media, the Times leading with this:That's exactly what these RINOs are up to...except rather misleadingly.
Some of the signatories’ names are published here at the Blaze. The group — including names such as Ted Olson (the Bush 43 Solicitor General), Meg Whitman (the last GOP nominee for Governor of California), Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Richard Hanna of New York, ex-Bush-appointed RNC chairman (and 2004 Bush campaign manager) Ken Mehlman, Bush national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, Bush commerce secretary Carlos Guitierrez, Bush deputy attorney general James B. Comey and Reagan budget director David Stockman — has decided to force gay marriage on the American people without their consent.More than two dozen Republicans — including a top adviser to Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and a former congresswoman who made banning same-sex marriage her signature issue — have added their names to a legal brief urging the Supreme Court to declare that gay couples have a constitutional right to wed.
The brief comes as the White House is considering whether to weigh in on the same-sex marriage case; at this point, the Republicans who signed the document are taking a more expansive stance than President Obama, who favors same-sex marriage but has said he would leave it to the states, as opposed to making it a constitutional right.
The list of Republicans on the brief now tallies more 100, organizers say. It now includes Beth Myers, who ran Mr. Romney’s 2008 campaign and was a senior adviser to him in 2012, and Marilyn Musgrave, a retired Colorado congresswoman who was once rated the most conservative member of the House by the American Conservative Union.
Ms. Musgrave, who lost her bid for a fourth term in 2008, was an unsuccessful sponsor of a constitutional amendment to bar same-sex couples from marrying; she once warned that if gay couples were allowed to wed, “the next step is polygamy or group marriage.”
The brief, organized by Ken Mehlman, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who is gay, will be filed on Thursday as a friend-of-the-court, or amicus, brief to a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that bars same-sex marriage, and all similar bans.
Effectively making of this case a gay Roe v. Wade.
They've watched an Obama administration shove the so-called Affordable Care Act down America's collective throat, they've felt the progressive winds of class warfare strengthen, then they experienced a pricely defeated in an election year that the liberal media continues to tell them to this day had more to do with identity politics than the fact that many of their candidates didn't stand for anything principled, and thus many Americans didn't bother to support them (not to mention that most of the conservative candidates faced twofold attacks). All of this and more, though, has left a stinging bite with the Republican Establishment. Yet, instead of reaccessing themselves, they ignorantly blame and attack their base, before the liberal media, as well as alongside them. And in their desperation to be liked by the media miscreants, they've said 'bon voyage' to principle, specifically morality, and 'hello' to their own brand of identity politics...an area that has already been mastered by the Democratic Party, whom they stand no chance of outgunning. No matter...if at first you don't succeed, cast aside morality altogether (never mind that all law is based on the moral order of right and wrong), and pretend to support, anything really, in a disingenuous effort to garner votes (as I said earlier, votes that they have no chance in hell of substantively gathering).
But beyond moral arguments, the biggest offense is that these guys are acting just like the liberal statists: when you can't get something passed locally, run to the federal level and force it upon all the people!
Sadly, what’s really going on here is that this list of Republicans on this brief, some of whom I know and certainly have high regard for as former colleagues — have suddenly decided they can’t trust the American people.One would certainly think...and there lies the problem with these ruling class Republican elites. And if they can't persuade, they'll run roughshod over you, and do what they want to do...just like the Left. They could care less about their communities, as long as they can pander to what's perceived as the 'in' thing to do for votes. What they fail to see (or maybe they do and just don't care), is that while they're placating to one group of people who from all indications have rejected them massively in favor of the Democratic Party, they're turning what's always traditionally been their base off and against them.
Indeed, one of the Republican signers of this brief is former Utah governor Jon Huntsman. Who makes his case for signing over at the American Conservative. Read closely and you will see the problem. Huntsman says he tried to persuade the people of Utah to support civil unions — but that “70 percent of Utahns were opposed.”
So Huntsman is joining Mehlman and this GOP crew and running to the Supreme Court of the United States to join in yet another left-wing bid to have a handful of un-elected judges make this decision for the rest of us. Do Utahans oppose gay marriage? Tough cookies is Huntsman’s response. He will no longer try to persuade — he will get the Court to do his bidding. Just as that same Court made that decision on abortion. And yes — slavery.
One would think that these Republicans would know that the absolute best way to win over the mind of the American people on a controversial issue is to go to them directly and make the case. To have enough respect for their intelligence and sense of fairness.
Lord concludes with a grim prognosis...
...in this rush to political correctness, not to mention appealing for votes, the GOP elites who have signed this brief are oblivious to the idea that they are seen as signing not a Supreme Court brief — but a death warrant.Compounded with the corruption of an age-old sacred institution, this also effectively contributes to the destruction of the key opposition party to the statist Democrats...and on a microcosmic scale of what that famous saying states about a great civilization being conquered, 'not from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.'
A death warrant that down the road means one thing, and one thing only. One thing that will, to say the least, hardly be celebrated at campaign time:
The effective abolition of marriage in America.
