Meet the Press and Chris Matthews went back and forth on (among other things) gay marriage in San Francisco, saying pretty much the same thing as has been said elsewhere.
Face The Nation brought in Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family, to get the far right's commentary on the subject. Interesting, it was about as sputtering and angry as Buchannan was back in '92, and if he were to take the Republican stand at the RNC come summer, it may well freak out the soccer moms who lllllove Bush in a flight-suit talking about No Child Left Behind. Bush's stand on the subject during SOU makes one think that he's going to avoid looking mean about it -- which is what Derek has been saying for some time now, though I haven't believed it, until now.
The gay marriage issue could turn out to be a briar patch for the democrats. "Oh please, please don't bring it up Republicans", and they get on-stage for a national address talking about the national meltdown in values and structure and the death of 3000 years of human culture and how it will increase child rape and murder blah blah blah, and suddenly, the Republicans are looking not quite like the compassionate conservatives Bush wishes they were (again, as Derek has been saying).
I may have been wrong about this being an issue to avoid for this election -- if the Republicans are forced to come out against it, they will probably have to rail against it by peole like James Dobson, people most of those in the middle wouldn't want to be in that column.
This week with George Stephanopolous: long discussion on the outsourcing of middle-class and service industry jobs. No conclusions, no major insights, but clearly theres buzz on it.
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