Sarah Palin broke with her running mate, Sen. John McCain, yesterday in an interview, saying she supports a Constitutional amendment on gay marriage.

You knew it was just a matter of time before this issue came up, and her real views came out. Ironically, however, I think Gov. Palin is asserting this issue now, late in the campaign, less to shore up the conservative Christian base, which is already shored up, but to set herself up as a viable presidential candidate in four -- though more likely eight -- years.

Still, these are the issues that candidates continue to focus on in times of crisis, the issues that divide us, the ones with which we have been consumed while the real problems are ignored?

And I feel sorry for Sarah Palin's good gay friend, who "chose" to be the way she is ... now, that's a great friend, in kind of the same way that Dick Cheney is a great father.

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