I get the point--conservatives want John McCain to make a big deal out of gay marriage. But what's he going to do? You can only ban gay marriage once. It's already banned in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The "Obama judges are going to impose gay marriage upon the country" is probably the most promising angle to exploit this issue, but isn't McCain already hard right on "activist" judges anyway?
The reason why McCain hasn't exploited this issue seems simple to me: there's no easy way to exploit it, as far as I can see. The article seems to proceed from the assumption that there's some way for McCain to exploit the issue to his advantage and that he's just gun-shy over the whole thing. I don't think so. He probably figures that getting young people and gay folks pissed at him in order to fire up the base probably isn't going to help his unifier cred, and there just isn't a percentage in it for him. Might as well leave it the hell alone. I sure as hell know it's not out of some high-minded principle that he's laying low on marriage, considering his boostering for the (failed) 2006 same-sex marriage ban.
