Obama's gay marriage move has no impact on policies: Still Hasn't Signed Anti-Discrimination Order

[joshcryer]

130. They are not pretending that they are, they are accusing Obama of not being "liberal enough."

They're trying to 1) prove to their own right wingers that Obama is throwing his own under the bus (this makes them happy) and 2) as the OP has attempted to do, disenchant liberals with Obama. It is a perfect divide and conquer tactic. And it works as we see people in this very thread spouting misinformation that they "have been force to pretend that they are" supporters of gay rights.

They were in the corner as soon as they embraced the racist, homophobic teabaggers and the fringe right wing. This was done in 2010. It is only now coming to bite them in the ass so that one of their pollsters has had to come out and warn them. They have 1) zero chance of "embracing gay rights" this election cycle, or even next election cycle and 2) they will continue moving to the right because it is the only way they can differentiate themselves.

The right will not be "dragged kicking and screaming" they will be obsoleted and fall out of favor to the American public.

Partisanship is a good thing, Obama's "reach across the isle" approach is what has caused progressives to be disillusioned with him in the first place, and ironically the right wing has used Obama's bipartisanship against him to divide and conquer even more. They have people convinced that they are even "pretending" to care about civil rights when nothing could be further from the truth, they're not pretending, they're not even considering it on any significant level, just a memo was written by a pollster who saw the writing on the wall. That's it. They're masters of manipulation.

Hopefully the party, after 4 years of obstruction by the right wingers due to Obama's naive "bipartisanship strategy," realizes that FDR-style partisanship is the only way anything progressive is going to get done. The fact that Obama has come out in support of gay rights indicates to me at least on social issues that may be the case, and it will go a long way to destroying right wingers like those who write on the Weekly Standard which was linked by the OP.