Okay, if Lisa doesn’t buy me, and/or Rudy either, maybe she’ll believe: the Daily News?

“Gov. Paterson’s impassioned bid to legalize gay marriage in New York seems doomed in the state Senate.”

I’m not claiming to foresee for all time how the issue will play out. (I suspect if you look at what 18-year-olds think about national health insurance, socialism, and the War on Terror, you’ll get pretty depressed about those issues too.)

Bottom line: The prescription of Steve Schmidt and Company on how to rebuild the GOP — fewer religious voters and more gay rights — is silly.