In a Washington Post “analysis” today, David Von Drehle writes, “Washington political veterans generally believe this could be a plus for President Bush, whose homespun philosophy that ‘marriage is between a man and a woman’ manages to please his conservative base voters even as it reflects the opinion of a majority of Americans.” We’ve apparently transported so far into the “progressive” future that stating that marriage involves differing genders is “homespun”?

Von Drehle slyly implies that Bush might have trouble with “social conservatives” on this issue, while “gay leaders”

did not fault Democratic candidates for trying to “shade toward the middle.” The “middle,” as defined by the Post, is to endorse “civil unions,” which is about 97 percent of gay marriage, a semantic pose.