The Washington Post today is running a round-up of coverage on Karl Rove from the fourth estate.
The bit that really got my attention was this tidbit from Rove’s appearance on Fox News hosted by Chris Wallace this past Sunday:
“WALLACE: So the president intends to go ahead and push for the constitutional amendment?
“ROVE: Absolutely. . . .
“WALLACE: Explain to me why civil unions can be handled at the state level but marriage can’t.
“ROVE: Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. And the ideal is that marriage ought to be and should be a union of a man and a woman.
“And we cannot allow activist judges to overturn that. We cannot allow activist local elected officials to thumb their nose at 5,000 years of human history and determine that marriage is something else.
“And the people have a right to be involved. And since this was forced upon the political process by activist judges, we need to do everything we can to keep it from being decided by activist judges.
“WALLACE: OK.”
Can we just let this amendment DIE already?
I am moderately hopeful that this effort will fail once again based on seeing some of the results from the recent New York Times/CBS News poll that show a majority of Americans not supporting the amendment. If judicial review is “forcing” same-sex marriage on America, then so would this amendment need to be forced onto America.
Now, if only that side of the argument wins out over the side that passed amendments to 11 state constitutions this past election day. Unfortunately for us, what Rove has done well is build a grass-roots structure to mobilize voters which will be difficult to counter.
