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I don't know how Weigel wrote this with a straight face:
"Guinta came into the race with a libertarian streak," acknowleged Connie Mackey, president of FRC Action PAC. "His intentions were good -- he was focused on small government. But I don't think he understood all of the issues at first, and he got mugged on them. It didn't seem at first that gay marriage would be an issue he'd have to look at as a small government libertarian, but he saw what happened when it was forced to a vote in New Hampshire, and he realized that it was an issue." What he saw, she explained, was the rough-and-tumble strategy liberals used to push it through.
According to Mackey, Guinta has assured social conservatives that he's moved closer to their stances on the issues -- Mackey has a letter from Guinta explaining his new views.
"Candidates evolve," said Mackey, "and they tend to evolve toward us, not toward the libertarian streak that Guinta came in with. And when that happens, that tells us we won't just have a good vote. We'll have an advocate."
Patent, of course, but left unsaid, is Frank Guinta's primary evolutionary instinct to attach himself to whatever right-wing group he needs to in order to stave off his many GOP rivals.
But more to the point. Now that Guinta has embraced the Family Research Council wing of the radical right, perhaps someone will ask him whether he also supports FRC's $25,000 effort to water down a House resolution condemning legislation in Uganda that would allow the execution of human beings for the crime of being gay.
