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Fascinating possible backlash from the judicial activism imposing gay marriage piecemeal upon the United States – from NRO’s The Corner:

Connecticut insiders are buzzing about the possible consequences of Friday’s same-sex marriage decision for Question One on the ballot Nov. 4—a call for a state constitutional convention. (See www.ctconcon.com for more info).

Connecticut, unlike California, has no direct initiative and referendum process. But in a unique feature of the Connecticut process, voters are asked every 20 years whether or not they wish to convene a constitutional convention, which would then have the authority to propose constitutional amendments to voters.

By an accident, or an act of God, the Connecticut court decision imposing same-sex marriagecame down less than three weeks before the once-in-twenty-years chance Connecticut voters have to call for a constitutional convention—this Nov. 4.

Question One asks: “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the state”?

A broad coalition of groups, including the Federation of Connecticut Taxapyer Organizations, eminent domain groups energized by the Kelo decision, and even some Green Party spokespeople have expressed support for the idea.

In the Sept. 29, Hartford Courant, for example, Mike De Rosa, head of the Green Party in Connecticut, told the newspaper, “We shouldn’t be afraid of democracy.” “A lot of conservative groups are looking at it from their own ideological paradigm,” De Rosa said. “We see it as an opportunity to free the system, to open it up to more choices and more voices. That’s very frightening to people.”…

…On Friday, after the court ruling, , the Catholic Conference in Connecticut joined the list of groups urging Yes on Question One.

“This decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court also raises a very real concern about the infringement on religious liberty and freedom of speech with the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage,” the Connecticut bishops’ declared, “The real battle in this court case was not about rights, since civil unions provide a vast number of legal rights to same-sex couples, but about conferring and enforcing social acceptance of a particular lifestyle; a lifestyle many people of faith and advocates of the natural law refuse to accept.”

For a while there the electoral dice seemed to be rolling for McCain and the GOP, and then they started to roll for Obama – so much so that even some yellow conservatives jumped on the Obama bandwagon…but then the financial crisis started to calm down, ACORN’s voter fraud jumped into the public square, McCain and Palin came out swinging, the 2006 poster-boy for GOP malfeasance has boomeranged on the Democrats and smeared them even worse than Foley did the GOP…add in things like insane rulings by leftist courts in California and Connecticut, and it seems that the electoral dice are starting to love John McCain, again.

The only rational prediction one can make for Campaign ’08 is that it has been, is and likely will remain unpredictable. A couple days ago the DNC was floating stories in the MSM about how Congress would gather after Obama’s triumphant victory and start passing his legislative agenda even before he took the oath…now the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will spend some days trying to defend their defense of Tim Mahoney…a nice, juicy scandal of sex and misused taxpayer dollars. Now, the GOP won’t benefit from an MSM megaphoning Democratic corruption and difficulties, but methinks the cumulative effect of Obama’s background and inexperience, Congressional ineffectiveness and leftist/Democratic corruption could start to sway some people – make them, just perhaps, opt for the candidates in the race – McCain and Palin – who have a track record of going after corruption even when its on their own side.