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In a tactic only slightly more sophisticated than "your shoelaces are untied" that grows increasingly threadbare each election year; the Republican party has patronizingly trotted out another wedge-issue to distract the middle and lower classes into voting against their own best interests.
It's the tired-and-true "gay + noun" formula. As in: "gays + in the military", "gay + adoption", or "gay + marriage".
The "gay + noun" technique is so predictable that you could build a factory with a computer program that generates random "gay +" wedge issues.
This year it looks like "gay + marriage" reruns. For the 2008 election season it may as well be anything from "gay + auto insurance" to "gay + bounty hunters" to "gays + in the Olympics".
Because the "gay + noun" technique has been overused in recent years, and has lost much of its effectiveness, this year we saw a major switch in Republican wedge issues heading south of the border.
They tried to to make Mexicans the new "gays" by using scare-tactic propaganda from right wing media outlets, in combination with talking points from Republican politicians; to blame illegal immigration for taking American jobs, to the high price of gas, to lurid and spectacular crimes.
Thankfully, the attempt to demonize Mexicans back-fired spectacularly as millions of Latinos across the country took to the streets to protest and fight back in a manner not seen since the 1960's.
So now the Republican Party is running home scared to its momma - the tried and true "gay + noun" factory formula; with a gay marriage amendment to try to constitutionally regulate something that has been the exclusive province of state law for the entire history of the Republic.
It is embarrassing that the Republican Party is so devoid of good ideas that it must resort to wedge issue tactics like this in the first place.
Since when did it become the government's job to "protect" YOUR marriage anyways?
Isn't that YOUR job - to protect YOUR OWN marriage?
When will Republicans get around to dealing with real problems, rather than wedge issues that don't improve anyones life? It's far more productive to have formulas that create products and jobs, rather than rhetoric and fear.
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