GOP Consultant: Death Penalty Supporters Will Be Like Gay Marriage Opponents

Posted by | May 17, 2015 14:00 | Filed under: Politics

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Republican strategist Matthew Dowd says opponents of the death penalty will be as outmoded as gay marriage opponents in 20 years.

Dowd told a This Week panel he didn’t understand the conservative support for the capital punishment, which is back in the news thanks to the jury that handed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a death sentence last week.

“Twenty years from now, people that are for the death penalty are going to be in the same place as people that are against gay marriage,” Dowd said. “The death penalty is going to go the way of opposition to gay marriage.”

“I find it amazing that conservatives are all for the death penalty and government involvement in the taking of a life, but they’re not for government involvement in health care, and the saving of a life?” he asked. “I don’t get the disposition on this.”

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7 responses to GOP Consultant: Death Penalty Supporters Will Be Like Gay Marriage Opponents

  1. StoneyCurtisll May 17th, 2015 at 14:27

    Matthew Dowd should expect an extreme scolding from his cohorts on the right and Fox “news’…
    How dare he speak like a rational person..
    Extremism is the only ideology the right excepts.

  2. Larry Schmitt May 17th, 2015 at 14:27

    Wow, a republican with common sense? We should clone him.

    • StoneyCurtisll May 17th, 2015 at 14:31

      We better hurry, cause he ain’t gonna be around for long…:)

      • bpollen May 17th, 2015 at 15:42

        Not toeing the “R” line means he’s going to be kicked out of the He-Man Women Gays Minorities Poor Liberals and Democrats Hater’s Club.

  3. granpa.usthai May 17th, 2015 at 15:04

    not that it could never ever happen in a Kristian nation, but what if it’s found out later that the executed person was innocent?
    do they like get a recall from hell and placed in a part of heaven for ‘special treatment’?
    do those who were wrong get an exemption for MURDER under a secret code of the big 10?

  4. tracey marie May 17th, 2015 at 18:49

    The right does not make sense just lot’s of hate noises

  5. Kick Frenzy May 17th, 2015 at 18:58

    Who is this guy a strategist for?

    Whoever it is, they aren’t listening.

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