Peter Lorre look alike (at his most creepy, of course) and Joseph Goebbels like propagandist Gary Bauer has a solution as to how the Republican Party can turn around its losing streak: become more stridently anti-gay. One can only wonder what kind of mind altering drugs Bauer is taking or what sort of severe head trauma he has suffered to come to this conclusion in the wake of last week's vote on anti-gay initiatives in four states, all of which went down to defeat. Oh, and let's not forget all the recent polls that indicate that outside of the South, gay marriage is approaching a tipping point of majority approval. None of this matters in the delusional world of Bauer and his fellow modern day Pharisees. The Advocate looks at Bauer's batshitery which I am sure the Democrats would love to see the GOP implement to hasten its death spiral. Meanwhile Jon Huntsman - who in my view might have defeated Obama had he won the GOP nomination - politely says that Bauer is nuts. Here are highlights:
As Republicans argue about the future of their party, Gary Bauer claims the way to lure minority voters into the fold is by amplifying their antigay policy positions. Recent data, though, seems contradictory to his advice.
Bauer led a PAC called the "Campaign for Working Families" that bought ads during the election for the likes of Missouri's failed Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin — the "legitimate rape" candidate who as congressman tried to ban same-sex weddings on military bases. Bauer said during a discussion on CNN's State of the Union that social issues supposedly unite minority voters.
But on marriage equality, Bauer's contention doesn't match with exit polling or with major polls of Latino voters conducted since President Obama offered his support for letting gays and lesbians marry.
ABC News reported on Election Night that preliminary exit polls showed Latino voters are actually more likely than other voters to back same-sex marriage, with 59% siding with equality.
That finding matched almost exactly with a poll from NBC Latino/IBOPE Zogby in October that found 60% support marriage equality.
Bauer had appeared Thursday on The Janet Mefferd Show and insisted that the reason Romney lost was his failure to talk more about social issues. It's a theme others like the National Organization for Marriage's president, Brian Brown, have also struck.
Former Utah governor and Obama administration ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, was also on the CNN panel and insisted "people don't want to be moralized to, they don't want to be lectured to" and above all they "want to be left alone."
"The Republican Party needs to decide whether it wants to win or lose going forward," said Huntsman, who lost the Republican primary race for president.
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