In the smash Broadway musical “The Producers,” Roger de Bris says, “Of
course that whole second act has to be rewritten. They’re losing the
war? Excuse me. It’s too downbeat.”
That seems to be the Democratic Party’s analysis of why President Bush
announced support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages.
Whatever one thinks about the merits of such an amendment, we are amazed
(OK: not really) at the degree to which the Gang of 500 casts the
President’s decision in purely political terms — rather than a response
to the tens of millions of real Americans who are fundamentally freaked
out by what is going on in (Nancy Pelosi’s) San Francisco and (John
Kerry’s) Massachusetts.
While we wait for Vice President Cheney to finally agree to that
long-standing, highly pending interview request from The Note, we gotta
say that the notion that this election is going to be decided on gay
marriage — rather than the economy and who can keep America safe —
seems loopy to us.