“Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It’s on the fast-shifting poll data on marriage equality and gay rights in general, and how that should affect Republican policy and language. And the pollster’s conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse.

Read the bluntness of this. This is the GOP establishment talking to itself. And the Republican pollster who arguably knows more about the politics of the gay issue than anyone else (how else to explain the Ohio campaign of 2004?) is advising them in no uncertain terms that they need to evolve and fast, if they’re not going to damage their brand for an entire generation” – Andrew Sullivan

h/t Huskerred

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   At least someone in the Republican Party is acknowledging it. That last line in the memo is the most logical sentence...

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    Despite the divisive and unchanging rhetoric of popular pundits, it seems progress is possible. Read and be amazed:

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    The GOP has already damaged its “brand” with younger Republicans on this issue. How many of the younger Republicans can...

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    I know a lot of Republicans who cannot stand the anti-LGBTQ mentality of so much of the party. So not only are they...

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    Okay, so apart from the “gay and lesbian, gay and lesbian, gay and lesbian” and the part of me that wants to cry because...

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    SUPER interesting!!

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