Donald Douglas
American Power Blog
5/10/2012
From Ronald Brownstein, at National Journal, “Obama’s Gay Marriage Leap of Faith“:
But his decision also reflects a hard-headed acknowledgement of the changing nature of the Democratic electoral coalition. Indeed, historians may someday view Obama’s announcement Wednesday as a milestone in the evolution of his party’s political strategy, because it shows the president and his campaign team are increasingly comfortable responding to the actual coalition that elects Democrats today-not the one that many in the party remember from their youth…
…The “emerging Democratic coalition”?
Right.
These guys are just now recognizing a new party coalition, six months before the election. Give me a freakin’ break. The New Deal Coalition collapsed after Vietnam. I don’t know what these people are smoking, but the party lurched to the left in the 1970s and by now it’s basically a coalition of social democrats and neo-Marxists — and that’s putting it mildly…
The complete article, with video, is at American Power.
Related: Biden Apologizes to Obama for Sunday’s Gay Marriage Remarks
…Vice President Joe Biden apologized to President Barack Obama for making remarks that prompted the president to disclose his support for same-sex marriage before he planned to, according to an administration official…
Update: How President Obama played the press perfectly on gay marriage announcement
