Reply #5: No. Things like same sex marriage and pot legalization are not just possible, they're inevitable.

[Warren DeMontague]

The truth neither the "values voters" or some on the left want to acknowledge is the libertarian, Libertarian (there is a difference) not to mention just plain self-interested streak in the electorate. Massive waste of tax dollars doesn't help- and no, I'm not talking about stimulus or unemployment spending, I'm talking about the military, the drug war, the war in Iraq, etc. etc.

I think a cogent case could be made for targeted tax increases on the top earners could be made, but it would get a helluva lot further in the context of real "change"- cut the military, end the drug war, legalize, regulate and TAX marijuana.. stop pissing away our $$$ on all sorts of idiocy, from "abstinence only" education on down.

But the same old arguments aren't going to cut it. People are receptive to "liberal" ideas on things like gay marriage, but that doesn't mean they are old-school liberals. There is more than one axis at work, here, beyond simple left-right.