Talking Points returns

[lollardfish]

Premise: Democrats win elections when they are about health care, education, environment. Republicans win elections when they are about gay marriage, abortion.

National security right now is a toss-up (typically Republican, but support on Iraq extremely low).
Taxes are a toss-up (everyone likes lower taxes, but deficits high enough to raise concern for fiscal conservatives.

Problem: The gay-marriage ammendment is clearly an attempt to push the debate into a Republican side.

Solution: Democrats should say, when asked about gay-marriage, "The founding fathers wrote the Constitution to protect freedoms, not take them away. No further comment."

Better one-line answers?

Comments

[bchbum-98.livejournal.com]

One important purpose of the Constitution is to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority; writing discrimination of a minority group into the Constitution is counter to its purpose.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I agree, totally. But that's not "catchy" because it uses big words. :)