Dana Perino calls marriage equality "crass politics of the left" [View all]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Perino calls marriage equality ‘crass politics of the left’

By David Edwards
Monday, May 14, 2012 10:48 EDT

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/14/perino-calls-marriage-equality-crass-politics-of-the-left/



Former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino on Monday said that President Barack Obama only ended the “charade” that he did not support same sex marriage because his campaign wanted to use “crass politics” to divert attention from the economy.

Over the weekend, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat charged that “the Obama White House has consistently sought to change the subject from the unemployment rate to contraception, or immigration, or now even gay marriage.”

“Obama is currently running for re-election as an opponent of sexism, homophobia and social reaction in all its forms,” Douthat wrote, arguing that Obama should instead be focusing on “how Mitt Romney wants to take away your retirement security to pay for tax cuts for the rich.”

“All of these things the campaign has come up with on the Democrat side have lasted sometimes 48 hours, sometimes a full two weeks– you think of the contraception controversy — but then there’s another one, one on top of the other,” she explained. “But still, the most important thing to every voter is the economy. So they might on the Democrat side — they might win the little skirmishes, but what you want is to win the war.”