Andrew Sullivan: Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

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8. I see actually two issues that the GOP have grossly miscalculated

That is both the Gay and the Female issues. Obviously the right has never embraced the Gay issue and has engaged in fights against the Gay movement for equality. So they, according to this polling, have fallen much behind the general openess to rights for Gays in the US.

But combine that with this year's fight against women regarding rights, birth control, etc. I don't really understand it but it is almost like the right is trying to self destruct. That really doesn't make any sense. And the politicians who are the old school Republicans, such as Richard Lugar, are very much stuck. They are surrounded by the extreme right who are making them disappear in primaries. Now the general public is stuck voting for moderate lefts or extreme rights. In 2010 the extreme rights won big time because the left didn't vote.

However, in 2012, we have a great position to blast these extremists back to the dark ages with our votes. Not only do we have the power to keep new extremists from getting into the House and Senate, but we also have the power to remove many of these extremists (such as Allen West) from the House.