How do you know that outreach to conservatives won’t work? Have you talked to any? As to Palin, please tell me what about her is representative of what is wrong with the conservative movement?

And she does not lend herself as easy to ridicule as does the man she bested in St. Louis, the man who is, alas, our Vice President. Go check her record before mocking her and compare her accomplishments to those of the president.

And yes, Stepehen, Andrew Sullivan has become a liberal.

To answer some of your questions, I don’t think there were any gay Republicans on the panels because I don’t think there was any Republican leadership active in the fight on Prop 8. I would welcome any information about such a creature. About the best I saw was a statement from Arnold against it, but he was hardly doing much to stop it. I don’t think we expected many right-of-center people because there aren’t that many to expect. I don’t meet many Jews at my Quaker meeting, either. It happens, but it isn’t my expectation. As the data shows, only 19% of Republics voted No on 8.

I was one of the people who didn’t stand or applaud when the leadership indicated they did the best they could. I am sure they did, but it was clearly not good enough. Geoff Kors, however, seemed to get what went wrong and he did apologize for it. I grew more impressed with him as the day went on. Like leads to success like learning from failure.

I don’t think we plan much outreach to conservatives. They aren’t very receptive to the outreach and I think those resources will return more if used to focus more moderate voters. I think resources put into reaching out to the religious and minority communities would return considerably more. We make fun of Palin because she so easily lends herself to it and is representative of much that is wrong with the conservative movement these days. When Forbes thinks Andrew Sullivan is a liberal, and even conservative bloggers disavow Bush, I think we liberals can be confused over just who and what is conservative and not.

I didn’t read about McCain asking people to vote no on Prop 8, but Obama did.

#1: Unfortunately, the knee-jerk cries of “racism” will start immediately. Even broaching the subject of widespread minority homophobia brings up bogus claims about “gay racism”, almost uniformly using white gays as examples; there are also condemnations of the straw man of “gay white privilege”. This is the six-year-old’s argument: “he did it too!”