It’s the gays, stupid … or is it?
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Republicans got handed a crushing defeat last November, no doubt about it. In the aftermath of those crushing losses, the party is scrambling to figure out exactly what went wrong … and try to fix it. A growing number of social libertarians within the GOP are looking to homosexuals as the salvation of the party. One of them is Lawson Bader, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Bader, who took the helm of CEI just two months ago, hosted an unofficial panel/happy hour at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) called “Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance out of the Closet.” The panel, which featured National Review ’s Jonah Goldberg , GOProud president Jimmy LaSalvia, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, Margaret Hoover , and libertarian strategist Liz Mair, was held in reaction to CPAC officials declining to...