You know what....?

If you ignore the homophobia, the wowserism, the phoney aw-shucks persona, and a creepy veneration for the President, then Senator Orrin Hatch's approach to gay marriage doesn't differ too much from John Kerry.
The jowly querulous Bush Idolater from Utah was on the Imus program yesterday, sounding surprisingly unconfrontational on the issue of homosexual nuptials.
He didn't like the idea (well....duh), however he was decidedly cool to the idea of Bush's federal marriage amendment.
He even went on to assert that the matter was one for the states to decide!
Oh you waffler! The very nub of John Kerry's take on the matter, what is this world coming to??
This was a revelation to me, it marks the first time Hatch had allowed any daylight to get between him and his darling President since before the 2000 election.
Oh don't get me wrong, Hatch is still an anti-abortion fanatic, he'd happy consign you over to the Department of Justice on that issue if he could.
But for some reason I can't discern he almost sounded human in regards to the issue.
Maybe he has seen some scary polling data, usually this is the only thing to stop the GOP when it gets kultural crusading on the mind.
Ghod what do you suppose will happen this fall when GWB goes into his fagbashing Pontifax Maximus trance and John Kerry quotes Orrin Hatch back to him?
Or even (dare I say it?) Dick Cheney?