Lindsey Graham promises "Rotating First Lady"

Senator Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, will surely never be President, but just in case, the unmarried candidate for the GOP nomination is heading off speculation about his hypothetical First Lady.


From ABC News

What will bachelor Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., do if he’s elected president in 2016 without a first lady?

“I've got a lot of friends,” the Republican presidential hopeful joked in an exclusive interview with the UK news outlet Daily Mail Online.

“We'll have a rotating first lady.”

It’s the first time the war hawkish South Carolina senator acknowledged his marital status since he began contemplating a run for the White House in 2016.

Oh, but wait - he also has a sister! She can be first lady!

From Newsmax

Republican presidential contender Lindsey Graham, a lifelong bachelor, has come up with a plan for how to fill the role of first lady should he take up residence at the White House.

"Well, I've got a sister, she could play that role if necessary"

. . . Graham announced his candidacy in Central, South Carolina, on June 1. His sister, Darline Graham Nordone, was there to introduce him.

Nordone has previously said she's occupied with her immediate family and her job as a public information director for the state's Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, so it's unclear what role she could take up in a Graham presidency, CNN reported.

Many have speculated over the years that Lindsey Graham is actually gay and in the good-old Southern church-going Tea Party - courting closet. But he certainly won't "come out" during a Presidential run, lest the South Carolina Evangelicals refuse to vote for him in the primaries. Indeed, he sought to reassure his conservative voters that though he is unmarried, he is not "defective" - a dog whistle for gay, perhaps. In fact, he almost married one of them-thar wimmens, so he's macho, y'all.

From Politico

Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’s not “defective” because he’s single. While he’s “been close once” to marrying a woman, he’s unsure why he never did so. And he said that if voters want a John F. Kennedy-esque clan in the White House, they should look elsewhere.
“If you are looking for Camelot, I’m not your guy,” Graham said in an interview. “If you’re looking for glitz and glamour, I’m probably the worst choice in the bunch. If you are looking for a determined person to be president, I think I can fill that bill.”
. . . “I’ve been close once early on, [as I was] taking care of my sister,” Graham said when asked why he never married. “It’s something I really don’t know the answer to, other than I think it’s OK. At the end of the day, there’s nothing wrong about not being married. Having a marriage and a good family and children is a blessing. But I don’t think I’m a defective person by any means.”

Soon the crazy spread to other politicians, as Senator Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, said this:

From Politico

“I’ve been joking with Lindsey,” Kirk said, according to audio from the Huffington Post.

“Did you see that? He’s going to have a rotating first lady. He’s a bro with no ho.”
After emerging from a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the usually outspoken Kirk was mostly mum about what he’d said about Graham, a longtime bachelor with White House ambitions.
“No. No, comment,” Kirk said. Asked if he regretted the comment, Kirk responded: “I do.”

His old bromantic friend John McCain chimed in:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Graham’s best friend in the Senate, offered this assessment: “I know he’s dated some attractive women from time to time, but I’ve never seen him get real serious.”
McCain added with a big laugh: “I’ve often told Lindsey that he couldn’t find anybody that loves him as much as he does.”

Okay! :)

Bigoted Fossil Judge Roy Moore Doubles Down on Gay Marriage

Cartoon: J.D. Crowe on AL.com

Previous Related Posts:
Gay Marriage Comes to Alabama
"Godless Perverts" - Religious Right Upset by Supreme Court DOMA Ruling
Stacey "Don't Say Gay" Campfield Voted Out in Tennessee

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Judge Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of Alabama, has taken a stand on Gay Marriage in his state that is in opposition to the Federal Supreme Court, which is leaning towards striking down all state bans on same sex marriage in our country.

Moore is such an ancient bigoted fossil that he (A) Keeps doubling down on his untenable position and (B) doesn't realize what a fool he is making of himself. However, it's quite a satisfying spectacle to watch unfold. :)

Even in Alabama, Moore is considered an extremist. In 2003, he was removed from the same Chief Justice post for putting up a copy of the Ten Commandments in his office.

From CNN

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Alabama's judicial ethics panel removed Chief Justice Roy Moore from office Thursday for defying a federal judge's order to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building.
The nine-member Court of the Judiciary issued its unanimous decision after a one-day trial Wednesday.
The panel, which includes judges, lawyers and non-lawyers, could have reprimanded Moore, continued his suspension or cleared him.
The ethics panel said Moore put himself above the law by "willfully and publicly" flouting the order to remove the 2.6-ton monument from the state judicial building's rotunda in August.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled the granite carving was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. Moore refused to obey the order but was overruled by his eight colleagues on the state Supreme Court. (Full story)
On November 3, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Moore's appeal of Thompson's ruling. (Full story)
Moore "showed no signs of contrition for his actions," the Court of the Judiciary found.

Unfortunately, the Tea Party voters of Alabama returned him to his post:

From New York Times

He ran for governor twice, and failed, but in 2012, he shocked the political establishment with his re-election to the state’s high court, cashing in on name recognition and Alabama’s widespread Christian sentiment and skeptical stance toward federal government power.

“If you look at the professional class in Alabama, most of them would say they’d wish he’d just quit this foolishness and let Alabama move along with the rest of the country,” said Glen Browder, professor emeritus in American democracy at Jacksonville State University and a former Democratic congressman from Alabama. “But he’s popular in the church crowd.”

Chief Justice Moore’s office is decorated with a wooden plaque of the commandments, along with a portrait of George Washington and a photograph of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. (Chief Justice Moore said that he has never been a segregationist, but that has no qualms about making arguments in favor of states’ rights when they are warranted.)

The Gospel According to Roy http://t.co/w2AMRIzc5H #RoyMoore #LGBT pic.twitter.com/ze4zEFYFgC
— SPLC (@splcenter) February 12, 2015

Yesterday he pointed out that he has Gay Friends. Yes, he really said that, with no apparent irony. So yeah, if he has homosexual friends, then there's no problem that he tried to halt gay marriage in Alabama, right?



Via Talking Points Memo

"I've had many friends who are homosexual," Moore said during an interview with John Heilemann and Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics. "I've treated people just like other people. This is not about how I treat people, or how I go to a wedding or a marriage or anything. It's about the constitution of Alabama and the Constitution of the United States."

"You wouldn't be reluctant, personally, to go to a same-sex wedding, then?" Halperin prodded.

"I would not go to a same-sex wedding," Moore responded. "No."

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore: I Have 'Many Friends Who Are Homosexual' http://t.co/qGwmpLnO30 And a Black friend:) pic.twitter.com/WkVRDe3M0d
— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) February 12, 2015

Roy Moore met his gay friend while jousting at windmills; don't tell him the friend is actually a tree
— Robert (@robert_s_sparks) February 11, 2015

Dollars to donuts Roy Moore and Mike Huckabee have the same gay friend. http://t.co/chcO2dLfF2 (and, in my heart, it's Bruce Vilanch)
— Adam Smith (@asmith83) February 12, 2015

Amazing showdown on CNN with Chris Cuomo today:




CNN Transcript 2-12-2015, Chris Cuomo and Judge Roy Moore

CUOMO: . . . I understand what you're trying to do here, you're trying to defeat the federal law. The question is, why?

MOORE: No, I'm not trying to defeat the federal law. There is no federal law and that's the point. No judge in the United States or federal district court has the right to invent the definition of marriage, which is not even contained in the United States Constitution. And that's the problem. We have people going in trying to mandate to the state of Alabama that the sanctity of marriage amendment in our Constitution is wrong, and that's simply not right to do.

CUOMO: Well -- well, it certainly is right. That's how this works, right, is that the federal law says that a state law is discriminatory and they change it. And certainly the distinction you're trying to draw with the district court, you don't have an independent case in front of you, your honor, about your own marriage law. This is about gay marriage in general and the equality in general and that's why the district court's able to say it. But again, you're right, we shouldn't get into the thickets.

I would suggest something else looking at your letter that you wrote to the governor of Alabama. For you, marriage is about the divine institution. It's as true as your words and as the pin on your lapel. You want to say that God says marriage is a certain thing and you don't want to hear anything else about what a definition of marriage could be. Is that a fair suggestion?

MOORE: No, that's not a fair suggestion. I go by the law. Of course I believe marriage was defined by God, but so does the United States Supreme Court. In the case of Murphy versus Ramsey, they said that marriage and family are the basis from the holy union of one man and one woman in the state of matrimony. That was clearly the United States Supreme Court opinion. It's been the court of opinions in state courts across this country. And especially in Alabama, we've recognized it as a divine institution in our law. Naturally it existed hundreds and even thousands of years before the United States even came into existence.

CUOMO: Right, but we are a nation of laws and not just God's law. And what your state did in 2006 was what many did, which was, you tried to define marriage to exclude. And what happened in U.S. v. Windsor, the case that is on everybody's lips now because it changed it, is that those laws that define marriage as only between a man and a woman are unfair and fail the test of equal protection. You know that. You know that when they meet this spring many people believe the Supreme Court will affirm this and say that state laws and constitutional provisions like your own are unfair. The question is, why won't you accept that definition of marriage?

MOORE: First, when the Supreme Court meets, I believe state's rights is going to be a big part of this. And I don't believe they have the right to push upon the state a definition which this state does not recognize, indeed, which the United States Constitution does not recognize. In fact, in Loving versus Virginia in 1967, when they declared that interracial marriages could not be prohibited, correctly so, they referenced marriage as the right of free men and women to enter into pursuit of happiness. They quoted basically out of the Declaration of Independence which said that God gave us these rights. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They're unalienable because they can't be taken away and they can't be mandated on the state in this instance.

CUOMO: Of course they can, though, your honor. That's what happens. It used to be legal to have slaves. Your state had a lot of laws on the books, like other states, where times changed and those laws had to change. And this is another example of that.

MOORE: You know slavery -- slavery was wrong and in 1857, when the Supreme Court of the United States declared in Dred Scott that black people could be property, one justice dissented. He said that when a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws is abandoned, the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution. We're under a government of individual men who, for the time being, have the power to declare what the Constitution is according to their own views of what they think it ought to mean. Those words by Benjamin Curtis are exactly what's going on in the United States Supreme Court and the federal courts of this state -- of this nation today.

CUOMO: And just as they were --

MOORE: And the United States Supreme Court hadn't ruled on this issue.

CUOMO: And they will. But they have ruled on what the substance of it is. And you've had a federal court tell you to marry people and you're not. And I would suggest that, based on what we're hearing right now, your refusal goes to what you believe marriage is about and not just to the law.

MOORE: No.

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. . . MOORE: Nobody's arguing about racial discrimination in this case. This is not about racial discrimination.

CUOMO: It's about discrimination.

MOORE: It's about sexual -- it's about sexual preference.

CUOMO: It's about discrimination.

MOORE: Being -- overcoming an institution which has existed in our state, in our United States, for centuries. And I think it's wrong.

CUOMO: But it's about discrimination. In 2006, you created a constitutional amendment that, by design, discriminated against gay people. And now you are being told by the federal law that is wrong.

MOORE: Again -- again -- again, that is a constitutional amendment to the Alabama constitution, and it's clearly within the bounds of state law and federal law. Again, there is nothing in the constitution about marriage. How can judges go in and define a word? They're doing exactly what they did in 1857 in Dred Scott.-

CUOMO: They just did it in U.S. v. Windsor. They just looked at the Defense of Marriage Act and said you cannot define marriage as just between a man and woman.

MOORE: That was between Congress. It did not affect the state, according to the ruling in Windsor.

CUOMO: But you can't say that the Court hasn't spoken about it. It was the exact same issue. It just wasn't a state law and that's why we're having the next case in June --

MOORE: I can say the Court -- I can say the Court spoke about it, because they said this does not apply to the state. It applies to the federal law passed by Congress.

CUOMO: That's right, because of the specific issue before them. And now they're meeting again in June. And if June comes and they hold the same way, then what will you do?

MOORE: Then I will do what the Court should -- or what the Court should have done under Dred Scott. If it's an unlawful mandate, you don't have to recognize it. You can recuse from the case.

CUOMO: So you still --

MOORE: You can dissent. You can dissent to the United States Supreme Court, just like you can dissent to anything else.

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. . . CUOMO: State by state, the rulings all going the same way. State by state, they're all going the same way

MOORE: You can't say the law -- you can't say what the law is with the United States Courts of Appeals differ on this very issue.

CUOMO: And you can't say that even if the Supreme Court rules against your personal position, you won't follow it because it offends your faith. You can't do that as Chief Justice.

MOORE: I said I would not -- I would not oppose the law except with an opinion or a dissent. That's what I said.

CUOMO; No, I asked you would you follow it.

MOORE: I did not say I would not recognize the law.

CUOMO: I asked you if you would follow it and you went into a word salad about whether I would follow it.

MOORE: And I asked you if you would follow Plessy versus Ferguson.

CUOMO: I am not the Chief Justice.

MOORE: Well, you can't answer the question either.

CUOMO: You answer it first. Will you follow it if they decide in June that gay marriage is equal protection.

MOORE: I will recognize -- I will recognize the United States Supreme Court opinion is binding over the state courts. Me, personally, I will make that decision when it comes, sir.

Gay Marriage Comes to Alabama ~ Updated

The Supreme Court allowed Gay Marriage to go forward in the state of Alabama this week, and the results were both exhilarating and at the same time a throwback to the equal-rights battles of the 60s. Some judges apparently forgot their learnin' and decided to forget that Federal Law trumps State Law.

Alabama Chief Justice, Roy Moore, tried to stop the whole process last week when he ordered Judges not to obey.

From Alabama.com

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore late Sunday ordered all probate judges and employees in Alabama to follow existing state law and not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or recognize same-sex marriages.
. . . Moore wrote that if any probate judge defies the order, Governor Robert Bentley would have the responsibility of ensuring that state law is "faithfully executed."
He has also said that the judges are not bound by the orders issued in that case, Searcy v. Strange. Instead, he said, probate judges fall under the direct supervision and authority of the chief justice.

Well, let's just say he was wrong, and most Judges chose not to follow the order. Some stalled and hid in their offices or decided not to perform any marriages at all, like the Probate Judge of Mobile. Some just delayed a few hours, probably hoping the TV cameras would go away, or maybe to talk down some of the employees screaming that it was against their religion, etc.

But in most places on Monday morning, February 9, 2015, same-sex weddings began to occur all over the state of Alabama - a historic sight.

UPDATE: "Redneck Reporter" Jeremy Todd Addaway posted a hilarious spoof of the fear-mongering going on in Alabama (and other states) over Gay Marriage and how it effects everyone else.

“I read on the news today some information, that homosexuals will be getting married in Alabama today, so I wanted to give you a live report from Blount County,” he began.

. . . “This pile of brush is still here, and there are no homosexuals layin’ on top of it, doin’ homosexual things,” Addaway said.

“None in the shed either, but we need to check into this further,” he continued, delving ever deeper into his backyard.

“We’re back here by a pile of junk — and it’s still here — and there’s no homosexuals doin’ homosexual things here either, so it looks like we’re pretty safe here in Blount County, don’t think we’re gonna be subject to plagues of homosexuals fallin’ from the sky.”

Take a look at these awesome front pages of newspapers across the state! #ALMarriage #lgbt #Alabama pic.twitter.com/S5Xc2engKX

— Equality Alabama (@equalityalabama) February 10, 2015

Tori Sisson & Shante Wolfe get their marriage license at the Montgomery Co Probate Office. @MGMAdvertiser #ALMarriage pic.twitter.com/Pui2GFZRB6

— Mickey Welsh  (@mickeywelsh) February 9, 2015

Dear California: Alabama is now more progressive than you. A-L-A-B-A-M-A. http://t.co/2MD0ojgbEv #SCOTUS #ssm

— AxeGrrl (@Axe_Grrl) February 9, 2015

And the Supreme Court gave a strong signal that Alabama is a bellwether state for the rest of the country, as well as Federal Law:

All over but the counting? Thomas: 'A signal of the court's intended resolution' on #samesexmarriage http://t.co/LkWyDw8u8M #SCOTUS #ssm

— Richard Wolf (@richardjwolf) February 9, 2015

Clarence Thomas: Alabama gay marriage "acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution" http://t.co/MgZPr3G8fk

— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) February 9, 2015

Cari and Kim brought the lawsuit that won the freedom to marry in Alabama. Pls RT to thank them! #ALMarriage pic.twitter.com/yhbrtYP1kD

— Southern Equality (@CSElive) February 9, 2015

Couple told they can’t marry in Anniston drive instead to Gadsden, Roy Moore’s hometown #ALMarriage h/t @AnnistonStar pic.twitter.com/HjKjzkMsVg

— SPLC (@splcenter) February 9, 2015

Pat & Curtis met in high school and have been together for 30 years! Waiting for license in Birmingham #ALMarriage pic.twitter.com/XbBScLUPy4

— Equality Alabama (@equalityalabama) February 9, 2015

First couple wed in Birmingham, #ALMarriage Dee and Laura Bush http://t.co/t4ox8WB3de #LoveCantWait via @HRC pic.twitter.com/vjLAuwQmLt

— HumanRightsCampaign (@HRC) February 9, 2015

Couples still waiting for windows to open to receive marriage licenses at Mobile County Probate Court in #MobileAL pic.twitter.com/WMJXHuklgo

— AL.com Mobile (@ALcomMobile) February 9, 2015

From @JasonIsbell to Joe Biden, a round-up of yesterday's top tweets celebrating #ALmarriage: http://t.co/3Oc7svBbOv pic.twitter.com/EtdMQzJBSS

— AL.com (@aldotcom) February 10, 2015

#ALmarriage has Roy Moore assuming his favorite position http://t.co/5FfupHytnl @aldotcom #SSM pic.twitter.com/8U46ehEELt

— Jeanne K. (@SnarkAmendment) February 9, 2015

AL courthouses closed for marriage business look like 50 yr old photos. And #RoyMoore you will be forced to open them just like Wallace.

— Rev. Debra Haffner (@RevDebra) February 10, 2015

Excerpt from Washington County Probate Judge Nick Williams' "Declaration in Support of Marriage" pic.twitter.com/dTBY2MbIZ4

— Casey Toner (@ctoner) February 9, 2015

More from Washington County Judge Nick Williams on refusal to marry gays #ALmarriage pic.twitter.com/4IRoUzoTul

— Casey Toner (@ctoner) February 9, 2015

"Godless Perverts" ~ Religious Right Upset by Supreme Court DOMA Ruling

We have become SODOMITES!
~ mountain lion on Free Republic

That great sucking sound that Ross Perot spoke about is getting louder and louder. Soon I, being heterosexual, will be able to claim it a disability.
~ shadeaud on Free Republic

I would argue that there are no legally married same sex couples, since such a union can’t be consummated due to the biology required.
~ babygene on Free Republic

What comes after “slouching” toward Gomorrah?
~ schmoe on Free Republic

“What comes after “slouching” toward Gomorrah?”
Acts of GOD: earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, fire, famine, pestilence. GOD will not be mocked.
~ stars & stripes forever on Free Republic

Face it. Marriage was lost when government was allowed in.
~ cripplecreek on Free Republic

My thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is okay: "Jesus wept."
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 26, 2013

Remember; these godless perverts HATE 2B called what God calls them #SODOMITES;call their name;its time2 stop trying 2B politically correct
— Dr. Don Anderson (@DrDonKAnderson) June 27, 2013

I pledge to no longer follow any laws whilst Obummer is POTUS. I will only follows God's laws as defined in the Bible. Marriage = 1m1w.
— Rev. Norman Price (@RevNormanPrice) June 27, 2013

LETS GRAB OUR GUNS AND MARCH FOR GOD, GUTS AND GLORY ON THE WHITE HOUSE! LETS SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR #DOMA AND GODS INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE!
— Rev. Norman Price (@RevNormanPrice) June 27, 2013

Sodomites are desperately trying to change America to suit Satan's agenda. Christians need to rise up and fight the LGBTaliban!! #tcot #ccot
— Rev. Norman Price (@RevNormanPrice) June 28, 2013

The DOMA ruling has now made the normalization of polygamy, pedophilia, incest and bestiality inevitable. Matter of time.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 26, 2013

One man, Kennedy, has decided marriage policy for 315 million people. That is tyranny. All hail the king.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 26, 2013

Sodomy-based marriage is an egregious violation of the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God." May God have mercy on us.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 26, 2013

On DOMA: Supreme Court to Christians: You are Dred Scot. You have no rights this Court is bound to protect.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 28, 2013

I think this is the conundrum and gets back to what you were saying in the opening — whether or not churches should decide this. But it is difficult because if we have no laws on this people take it to one extension further. Does it have to be humans?
~ Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

. . . if we throw up our arms in frustration and surrender the political arena to the left, it will get a whole lot worse. We are headed toward the criminalization of Christianity. Let me explain.
If a family were teaching its children that the KKK is the correct model for society, people would rightly be outraged. If Child Protective Services found out, that family would face the possibility of having its kids taken away for psychological child abuse.
When it comes to same-sex marriage, the militant homosexual movement and its left-wing media allies have, unbelievably, taken the normal view of marriage and equated it with the kind of raw bigotry I just described.
If we stop fighting, in short order you will not be able to teach your children that God intended them to marry someone of the opposite sex.
~ Garry Bauer on Right Wing Watch

When they say you can't be opposed to the redefinition of marriage unless you're a hater or a bigot, then it seems to me that when some other case comes up they're going to establish some constitutional right or find that marriage is unconstitutional in its current form. That to me will put the death knell in it.
. . . There's a lot of areas in our country where people are going to hold firm to what they know is the truth and what they know is best for children and families and for society and there will continue to be a battle . . . just like Roe vs. Wade.
~ Rick Santorum

Supremes Signal Demise of DOMA

Transcript of Oral Arguments in DOMA Case, U.S. vs. Edith Windsor

Final update: #scotus 80% likely to strike down #doma. J Kennedy suggests it violates states’ rights; 4 other Justices see as gay rights.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) March 27, 2013

JUST IN: RT @jancbs: Today's arguments suggest federal Defense of Marriage Act in jeopardy. Five justices imply law is unconstitutional.

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 27, 2013

If #SCOTUS doesn't get derailed by procedural issues, and does rule on DOMA, strong likelihood law will be struck down.

— Nina Totenberg (@NinaTotenberg) March 27, 2013

#DOMA is probably done: Experts say #SCOTUS will likely strike down homophobic law slnm.us/1oeBNVF

— Salon.com (@Salon) March 27, 2013

"There are two kinds of marriage. Full marriage and the skim milk marriage." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg nyti.ms/14oqI9m

— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) March 27, 2013

Edith Windsor exits the court twitter.com/jeneps/status/…

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 27, 2013

Edie Windsor on being at the Supreme Court today: "Thrilled and exalted and humbled, very humble"

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 27, 2013

Windsor: "It went beautifully, I think the justices were gentle..I didn't feel any hostility or any sense of inferiority."

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 27, 2013

Edith Windsor is adorable! She is making history. #DOMA #LGBT #SCOTUS

— IGMvon (@IGMvon) March 27, 2013

Kennedy signaled virtually no sympathy with DOMA. Roberts, Alito, Scalia seemed to think it's valid.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 27, 2013

Justice Kagan noted that the DOMA House report evinced a moral disapproval of gay marriage - a GOP move that may hurt their legal case.

— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 27, 2013

The Obama administration lawyer closed with the moral argument against DOMA in court today: This is *discrimination.*

— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 27, 2013

Latest poll shows 56% of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act thkpr.gs/YEvwDB

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 27, 2013

Justice Breyer invoked 1983 case in DOMA questioning wapo.st/XGZeEI

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2013

Cannot stop laughing at this RT @huffpostpol: CNN reporter predicts #DOMA is doomed, then gets hit by giant umbrella huff.to/14ozaWa

— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 27, 2013

Pelosi on Paul Clement defending DOMA in court: "What a stale role to play in life."

— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 27, 2013

John Boehner Committed Six Times As Much Government Money As He Originally Said He Would Defending DOMA read.bi/10e5zHW

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 27, 2013

Reports from the Supreme Court this morning sound positive. We will find out in June. Patience.

— Sandy (@SandyYost1) March 27, 2013

Ann Romney Loves Women, Avoids Female Issues

Women, you need to wake up. Mitt will be there for you, he will stand up for you, he will hear your voices, he knows how to fix an economy, he's a can-do kind of guy, he's a turnaround guy.
~ Ann Romney in Findlay, Ohio, on September 6, 2012

One Day Later . . .

Ann Romney Interview with KWQC Iowa on September 7, 2012

Anchor David Nelson: "What is your message to voters?"

Ann Romney: "My message, really was, ‘women, I hear your voices,' and the interesting thing about this economy, this tough economy that we're going through, is that women have been hit the hardest. And I wanted to make sure that women of America knew that we have been across this country for the last year and a half and we are very aware of how tough it is for them.

They are juggling so many things, and I think all of us know that women work harder than anyone and that they hold down jobs, they are raising the kids, they're trying to get food on the table and everything else and they're really being stretched and my message was really for women and it's saying ‘trust my husband, he does not fail he will not fail' and he is going to work harder than anyone to make sure that your economic prosperity and your future will be more sound with him."

Anchor David Nelson: "Here in Iowa, as you know, same-sex marriage is legal. Do you believe a lesbian mother should be allowed to marry her partner?"

Ann Romney: "You know, I'm not going to talk about the specific issues. I'm going to let my husband speak on issues. I'm here to really just talk about my husband and what kind of husband and father he is and, you know, those are hot-button issues that distract from what the real voting issue is going to be at this election. That, it's going to be about the economy and jobs.

*snip* . . .

Anchor David Nelson: "Do you believe that employer-provided health insurance should be required to cover birth control?"

Ann Romney: "Again, you're asking me questions that are not about what this election is going to be about. This election is going to be about the economy and jobs."

Anchor David Nelson: "Well, a Pew Research poll shows those issues are very important to women, ranking them either "important" or "very important."

Ann Romney: "You know, but I personally believe, and this is what I'm hearing from women all across the country that they are going to look for the guy that's going to pull them out of the weeds and get them job security and a brighter future for their children. That's the message.

Listen, I've been across this country, I've been for a year-and-a-half on the campaign trail. I've spoken with thousands of women and they are telling me, they're telling me a couple of things, one they say they're praying for me which is really wonderful, and then they're saying, ‘please help, please help. We are so worried about our jobs.'

So really if you want to try to pull me off of the other messages it's not going to work because I know because I've been out there."

Anchor David Nelson: "Well, I don't want to pull you off any message. You just told a reporter who was questioning you in Cleveland that you want women to have a secure and stable future. I asked you about marriage and whether lesbian mothers should be allowed to marry. Isn't marriage a part of creating a stable future?"

Ann Romney: "You know, again, I'm going to talk to you about the economy and about job creation and about how my husband is the right person for the right time. This is going to be an election that is very important for women, and we are going to make sure that their economic prosperity is more certain under a President Romney."

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Quit asking me questions! I’m not here to talk about that! Why are you people bullying me? Let me spew my talking points!
~ BobCesca.com

I thought her husband was the only smarmy Romney. Now I know what drew them together!!!!!
~ comment by FedUp on The Hill

The issues are about what WE the People say they're about, not what Ann-toinette says they are.
~ comment by Carabella1 on The Hill

Women for Romney!
"We can meet a rich guy like Mitt if we try harder. So dream on!"
~ comment by moricone on The Hill

Contraception is an economic issue. What rock does this woman live under? Oh, wait, that's right-she lives under two rocks: Wealth & Privlege.
~ comment by Deborah P. on Think Progress

They would have been better off interviewing Rafalca.
Stomp your hoof once for NO and twice for YES,
This vapid woman is as useless as her husband.
~ comment by Charles A. on Think Progress

Birth control is just that, control. A woman's right to control when and if she has a family is directly related to the economy. Her husband has vowed to 'get rid of planned parenthood' that helps thousands if not millions of women in this country have access to birth control.
~ comment by Rene O. on Think Progress

She should go back to one of her many homes and speak to one of her underpaid staff about whether this is an economic issue. She might learn something.
~ comment by Nora W. on Think Progress

Ann Romney.... She loves you Women, just dont you dare talk about womens issues.m.kwqc.com/default.aspx?p…

— Michael Steffes (@mqsteffes) September 7, 2012

Mitt: "Ann is a great spokesperson on women's issues. Except female contraception. That's not something women should get involved with"

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) September 7, 2012

"Women, you need to wake up!" ~ Ann Romney, said in a distressed voice to a room full of white women.

— eclecticbrotha (@eclecticbrotha) September 5, 2012

Ann Romney will appear with Mitt on MEET THE PRESS. She will also make sure his hair is combed neatly and that he has a nutritious lunch.

— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) September 8, 2012

Ann Romney won't answer questions on contraception. But women should still vote for Mitt because he totally has 5 kids....

— Christie Mount (@christiemount) September 8, 2012

.@anndromney & @mittromney LOVE YOU WOMEN! So much in fact, they're gonna make all your decisions for you. Now if that's not love, what is?

— Memphis Foto (@sommarnatten) September 8, 2012