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i've run into folk who work from the same basic vantagepoint. i find the way the thinking works to be tactically incomprehensible, preferring to work with the republicans who tolerate and/or use the log cabin in a special zone of expediency, but whose overall politics are antithetical to questions of equality.
i had a broader conversation with some friends the other night about this same kind of thing, people who vote republican even though they are old-line liberal types (you know, in the 24/7 cable news sense) as a way of protesting or trying to change what they see as entrenched and unresponsive politicos backed by a powerful state-level democratic party machine. the thinking is entirely local. bigger questions like "but these are republicans" register, but what happens is that these folk emphasize personality characteristics of the candidate they support and imagine that a republican will somehow represent their interests because he is a "good man" or she a "good woman."
i don't really understand the bracketing of republicanness in a tactical situation.
but what this seems to point to is an obvious problem that lots of people see from different angles very often of limitations to the american single party state with two right wings system.
except that the right wings are identical.
the question, insofar as it's of any real interest---by which i mean there's political reality in which this is self-evidently a wedge issue used by the right as an aspect of its interaction with the social conservatives the republicans crawled into bed with via ralph reed.
there's interest-group politics which typically cut across these lines because focus on a single issue often works that way and it's also usually politically expedient to go narrow on these matters.
then there's the scatter of individual viewpoints, which may or may not cross with any of the vectors that comprise either of those two fields (if you like)....
we can keep lobbing rocks at this level if we want. it seems, though, that the scenario is pretty obvious and that nothing will come of it.
but lobbing rocks is sometimes fun.
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