Let's just call it like it is: Anybody who is energized by Obama's recent announcement is simply a useful idiot who is being duped by a distraction. Why don't they stop and wonder for a moment why Obama did not make this announcement one, two or three years ago. It's not a coincidence that Obama and Biden "changed" their mind on this issue just this past week, shortly after Mitt Romney clinched the GOP nomination and is starting to gain traction with a slowing economy (Seen the jobs report for April? Seen the situation in Europe? How about JPMorgan's $2 billion loss out of Britain?). Some people need to stop and ask themselves why they are supporting politicians who have politicized a sensitive issue in the exact same disgusting fashion as George W. Bush eight years ago, albeit in the opposite direction. Why do some people like being used with little to show for it?
Maybe it was because the economy was in such bad shape that gay rights were much less important. Maybe it is because people were less accepting of LGBT rights. Maybe it was because the President had a huge legislative agenda (including the Affordable Health Care Act). The American public now supports gay rights by a larger margin than ever and that is unlikely to diminish.
"Gay marriage" is not a distraction from the economy. It is an inexorable trend not worthy of resistance. But if the focus of the campaign becomes "whatever President Obama is for I am against", then it is Mitt Romney who falls for the distraction.
I know what you think about the economy -- that President Obama has done everything to impede the 'progress' of America toward a New Feudalism and is thus evil. LGBT rights, like civil rights for ethnic minorities in the past, will not hurt economic progress. But this may show Mitt Romney as nothing more than opposition to an effective President.
Congratulations!
