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Brian Brown in Rolling Stone: "Put on [the] Reality Glasses"

 

We love our President Brian Brown's short quote in Rolling Stone!

"...Brian Brown, the President of the National Organization for Marriage, doesn't think turnout has anything to do with it [gay marriage losing at the ballot box], and he calls "delusional" the notion of a shift in attitudes toward gay marriage. "People need to put their biases aside and put on their reality glasses," he told me. "I don't put a lot of stock in any of the polls that are out there," he said. "They're getting more and more ridiculous. Any person with common sense and a little bit of political sophistication – that hasn't bought into the mythology of the inevitability of same-sex marriage – need only look at the polling before North Carolina" and other states where it failed by ballot."

12 Comments

  1. Posted June 11, 2012 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    Bingo!

  2. GZeus
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    Then why can't you even reach your 50,000 goal for Dump Starbucks after so many months and several worldwide translations of the site?

  3. Posted June 11, 2012 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    ZJuice:

    We have a different approach to politics than you guys.

    We build a strong ground game and then play smash mouth football when it counts.

    You might want to consider our 33 consecutive victories against your polls-and-pundits-propaganda approach as prima facie evidence that we have the superior political strategy.

  4. Zack
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    @Zeus

    Political victories are not won by how many people sign a petition condemning the actions of a company or person.

    The only poll that truly counts is the ballot box. And like Rick mentioned, 33 consecutive victories tell me that the grassroots movement has a pretty nice track record.

    November is the big one and it's going to be one heck of a ride.

  5. Bev
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

    I'm praying for you, Brian Brown!

  6. Good News
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    Me too Brian.

  7. John Noe
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    More bingo to come this November.

  8. grandmaliberty
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 6:36 pm | Permalink

    I am praying period... to God to restore our nation to some semblance of normal morality.....

  9. Posted June 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm | Permalink

    I think we ought to distribute Reality glasses for use ny our opposition on election night.....

    Nah.

    That'll be clear enough that no glasses of any kind will be necessary.

  10. Posted June 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm | Permalink

    I think we ought to distribute Reality glasses for use by our opposition on election night.....

    Nah.

    That'll be clear enough that no glasses of any kind will be necessary.

  11. Tyler
    Posted June 12, 2012 at 1:26 am | Permalink

    "I don't put a lot of stock in any of the polls that are out there"

    You know, except the ones that affirm what I already believed to be true.

  12. Posted June 12, 2012 at 1:33 am | Permalink

    Tyler:

    Actually, we honestly don't p[ay attention to polls.

    Elections are won in a very particular way, and this way we have demonstrated in an empirical way to have understood and practiced very well.

    Polls are irrelevant.

    Elections are relevant.

    You win polls.

    We win elections.