Erick Erickson at RedState.com has some explanations as to why the Cooch screwed the pooch. One of the many who share the blame, says Erickson, are those uber-powerful LesboHomoGays that run everything.
While I hate to lend credence to his ideas (I went and read them so you don't have to!), I find it another mark of progress that the LGBT community and supporters can be blamed for the loss because they have so much power.
Mr. Erickson's article is posted here: http://www.redstate.com/...
In it, he states his theory that Cuccinelli would have won if only he had more time to tell people that Obamacare is bad. It shows how Erickson believes Cuccinelli started out in a horrible position and improved as he turned the race to a "referendum" on the law.
To describe Cuccinelli's originally worse-off position, Erickson writes this:
Cuccinelli had all the insiders aligned against him. He was the outsider. The gays hated him, the Chamber of Commerce hated him, the kid killers hated him, the GOP establishment hated him — all the insiders hated Cuccinelli and his campaign made the strategic blunder to try to work their way inside instead of dancing with the folks who got him to the dance.
It lists all the "political insiders"--those with the power of mainstream politics--aligned against Cuccinelli. And first among those "insiders" is ... the evil bad lesbohomogays!
I am sure most DKos readers would agree both that the LGBT community has made great strides over the decades and that it has a long way to go. But that the LGBT community can make it to first place on Erickson's list of evil insiders is to me a datapoint on that arc of equality worth noting.
Again, I am not suggesting that any credence be given to Mr. Erickson's theory or his rantings in general. But isn't it nice to know that the LGBT community has come far enough--in his eyes at least--to make it to first place on his list?