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Welcome back to hardball. all politics is local, and it doesn t get more local than your own family. that s especially the case when it comes to gay rights. harvey milke said 3 1/2 decades ago, once americans realized gay people exist in every family and every community, then the myths, lies and innuendo about homosexuality will be destroyed. today we saw a dramatic example of that. republican senator rob portman of ohio had been a reliable opponent of gay marriage until now. today he announced a major reversal. his reason was understandable and very personal. i ve come to the conclusion that for me, personally, i think this is something that we should allow people to do, to get married and to have the joy and the stability of marriage that i ve had for over 26 years. i want all three of my kids to have to including our son who is gay. well, senator portman is apparently the only republican senator right now in the united states senate to openly support gay equality, marriage equ ....
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Long senator portman s personal journey has been. it s not that his son came out to him and automatically he changed his mind and changed hi views. senator portman did what millions of other americans, certainly people around the world do, every day, every year, when a family member comes out to them. they take a step back. they reflect. especially if they re not comfortable with it at first. they take a step back. they reflect on it. they think about it. they talk to friends. they talk to clergy. depending on how long it takes them to make that personal journey, they express their personal support and confidence in their loved one. it could be a day, it could be a month, it could be two years. it could be never. yeah. so what do you feel about that? you know, i personally think, and i would never begrudge anyone s own personal journey on the question of marriage equality, but also on homosexuality. look, i m an openly gay person, ....
It s up to us to make sure that we learn from our mistakes and my mistakes and that we take advantage of that learning to make sure that we take back the nation, take back the white house, get the senate and put in place conservative principles. welcome back to hardball. that was, of course, mitt romney, this afternoon addressing the crowd at cpac. he received i believe, a warm response, watching on tv, from the conservative activists out there. was it a last good-bye from a party that has moved on already? in his remarks romney offered little of new advice, beyond a general warning not to be pessimistic about conservatism. he s still optimistic about america. does anyone care anymore that romney has to say, what he has to say? joe conason of the national memo. let me start with you, joe. is it an old jimmy durant good-bye in the old days, was ....
As a judge. i means he s not harshly anti-fwranti anti-gay. he s warm and fuzzy compared to the run of the mill cpac attendees. he can t cut it there. let me try something by you both. i don t even know your politics. i think i know joe s. it s a little left of me. just a notch. let s take a look at this. i want to ask this. is it the big problem, authenticity? it s a problem in both parties if you have it. i don t think romney is what he says he is. i think romney is a practical business guy primarily interested many making money and perhaps occasionally teaching others how to do it. a flophilosophy based on his ow practical experience of making lots of money and wants to keep the american system much like it was when he made all this money. it s pretty simple. i think when he starts talking all these philosophical beliefs and all this stuff, arcana, they go come on, i don t believe it. i want to give you something from the last romney appearance. here s romney s previous appearance ....