The right needs wedge issues to motivate their base. Especially when they have such an incredibly weak candidate.

right after it was announced the Democrats were putting equality in their platform?

Kinda drowned out that bulletin,....didn't it....

I expect the Right will try to pump up SOMETHING, some issue that will get their base to give a shit this year. Right now their base isn't seeing much reason to stand in line and vote. They come with a bogus idea: Gay people getting married hurts marriage. It doesn't have to make sense or be any deeper than that because it is just a dog whistle to call out their base and get them to hold their noses and vote for Romney.

The problem is their base is a bunch of rural types who voted for a cowboy and the Republican Party this time decided to say, screw that base, let's run a slimy, two faced, rich city slicker.

a guy on horse, who's self-reliant, a couple guns and no gov'mint. They have won with fake cowboys like Reagan and W and they probably would try to cowboy Romney but he can't even fake being human and the cowboy angle would have to involve his time in Utah because Massachuesettes and France just ain't cowboy country pardner. Mitt is running away from his Mormonism and stereotypes about Mormons don't fit at all with the cowboy myth -- no drinking, no coffee, no swearing, multiple wives just doesn't sound like a freedom fantasy.

Even Rafallca has more cowboy cred than Mitt.