Stuff That (Increasingly Desperately Disillusioned) Obama Supporters Say

[joshcryer]

298. The LCR didn't "make them look bad." It was political gamemanship, and it *worked*.

Look at us, bickering over whether the Republicans ended DADT or not. Their approach was not guaranteed to succeed. And Obama and the Democrats had been pushing the repeal of DADT for years before the LCR made their move. There were other more important things such as HCR and stimulus stuff to get passed (this, btw, is why single issue voters threw Obama under the bus over DADT, because their single issue was more important).

The vote tally shows that in fact that, no "parts of both parties managed to get something done." It was an overwhelmingly Democratic party move. Look at the vote tally. Mostly Democrats. And yet, because LCR filed a lawsuit that wasn't guaranteed way to end DADT, they get more credit, at least to be as put in a category of "parts of both parties," when it was, again, an overwhelmingly Democratic Party move.

In fact DADT could've set worse precedent if it was upheld, which it could've been; I agree with you SCOTUS ruled "in favor" of DADT, but without leaving precedent, it's basically not a predictor of what they would've done, I don't know how it would've actually went and I fully admit that.