"I don't think this is the issue that it once was. I think that the economic issues are so big that this one pales in comparison."—Republican Strategist John Feehery, on how same-sex marriage isn't the effective wedge issue for conservatives that it used to be. Or, as fellow Republican strategist Mark McKinnon puts it: "The wedge has lost its edge."
One notes, with bitter amusement, the irony that the current "economic issues" demanding everyone's attention are the result of disastrous economic policy ushered in by conservatives who were voted in on the promise to protect Real Americans from kissing boys, the exaggerated threat of whose alleged insidiousness was used to distract attention away from the truly grave enactment of conservative governance.
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