This is all over the news. Today Arlen Specter switched to the Democratic Party, getting the Democrats one step closer to a filibuster-proof sixty seat majority. Since the seating of Al Franken in the next several months is widely expected, the Republicans have pretty much lost their last bargaining chip.
Of course, the Republicans brought it on themselves. The social conservatives have a tight control over the party, leaving little breathing room for the moderates. Even as people like Megan McCain and Steve Schmidt start speaking out against their party's intolerance, the leadership has remained eeriely silent, unwilling to confront the one element in the GOP that brought them where they are today. A recent poll demonstrates their dilemma: even though republicans inside the Beltway are increasingly wary of wedge issues such as gay marriage, the rank and file GOP members outside the Beltway have no intention of moving away from their "3Gs": God, Guns and Gays.
Anyway, as much as I dislike the current GOP, I hope Specter's defection would serve as a wakeup call for them. For those who are still dreaming about imposing their conservative ideology on America, they should probably read this poll on the nation's changing attitude towards gay marriage.
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