Jake Tapper quoting...somebody. Can you guess who?
[He] was asked at the National Press Club, "given recent events in Iowa and elsewhere, is some form of legalized gay marriage inevitable for the United States?"
"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," [he said].
“I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."
That would be be Dick Cheney.
So lemme get this straight: lefties hate Bush and Cheney, but love Obama. Yet both Bush and Obama say that marriage is between a "man and a woman." And now here's Dick Cheney saying gay marriage is all right, as long as the states get to make the rules. At a stroke, this pleases the states-rights conservative crowd, but throws a hefty bone to liberals, a bone that even Obama himself won't toss.
Imagine. The Prop 8 crowd's heaviest hitting political ally turns out to be a man they absolutely despised for the past 8 years.
GLBT's for Cheney in 2012?
No. That would be crazy. Never happen. Never.
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