It appears the Indiana Democratic Party is taking shots at Mitch Daniels by sending out Daniel’s invitation to gay and lesbian voters to conservative legislators and groups. Sort of like South Carolina when Lindsey Graham’s opponent attacked Guiliani’s friendship with gays and lesbians.
Hello guys–we are supposed to be the more tolerant party….
I’m torn on this. On one hand, the republicans should feel free to reach out to the gay community, and it’s not a bad thing that they do. On the other hand, is it okay for them to reach out, knowing that their true base is virulently opposed to such actions?
It’d be like the democratic party reaching out to the NRA, but trying to keep it shushed up so that the gun control groups don’t find out about it.
Don’t handwring over this. The Republican Party in Indiana has long had ties to some nasty, hateful fundamentalist groups. The Democrats are just making sure they’re lying in the bed they’ve made.
Daniels is a Bushite, remember. He operates from Rove’s playbook. Indiana Dems are right to play bare-knuckle in return.
As Gail said, it’s not about opposing gay rights, it’s about counter-punching against an opponent that will not hesitate to stoop to new lows in a campaign.
Let me offer up the alternative way to handle it–issue a press release welcoming his overtures to the gay and lesbian community—forthright and hits the same audience–in fact send the press release to everyone.
Arch,
I don’t think anybody got the memo on tolerance. It’s a commodity in short supply in political circles.
“What does it profit a party to win the election if it loses its soul doing so?” isn’t a question asked much.