Anyone recall Bush reply to interviewer that civil unions might be the answer?

[blm]

Remember about a week before the election in 2004 when Bush did an interview with NBC - possibly Dateline program, and he was asked about gay marriage. At this point he already has his base so he tried to sound moderate, and said he thinks the solution might be civil unions. I didn't believe for a minute that he meant it, it was just old-fashioned Bush family shift slightly to the left politicking.

Well - his base HATES civil unions, too, but somehow this never became an issue the next day in the media so it slipped past the fundies.......but.......

I think we can use the video of Bush saying this and spread it widely to possibly assure that civil unions at the LEAST gets pursued thru a Dem congress, which should open the doors wider for gay marriage in the states. Seems like it would be hard for conservative Dems to disagree with it, considering there are filmclips all over the internet and the news of Bush saying he thinks it's the solution.

I know there's a poster here who gets access to NBC news video clips, and I can only hope this clip can get located.

Oh well - this idea just popped in my head after my brain flashed on those minutes of the interview for some reason. I even remember some threads we had going here during the interview.

For those of you who remember the interview then, whaddya think? Doable?

And hsher, is this a videoclip you can get hold of?

The way I see it, Bush made these statements never expecting he'd have a Dem congress who would be happy to support civil unions WITH him....heh....make him do something positive he said he'd do for once. Take the issue completely out of 2008 so gays can stop being the GOP pinata of choice and we can deal with real problems like poverty and the environment for a change. This country just has to get over the rampant homophobia, and I think we should use Bush's words as a battering ram to make it happen - what are they gonna do, blame liberals? Let's make him do what WE want for a change.

[emdee]

1. I know he said it on Larry King Live. nt

nt

[blm]

6. can't believe I missed that one, too.

But then, I lost interest in LKL after so many years of shilling.

[ruggerson]

2. It was on Larry King

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4. Good memory. I wonder if he said it on NBC, too, as I seem to recall a woman

interviewer.

In any case, shouldn't we be circulating these clips to back him into a corner so we can move this issue more aggressively - sooner, rather than later, and get a milestone under our belts BEFORE some Rove type tries to target gays as an issue again in 2008?

[ewagner]

3. It was also on FOX NEWS.

I linked to it here....

http://woodcodems.blogspot.com/2006/10/holy-crapbush-supports-civil-unions.html

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5. Seems to me the clips would be a goldmine to push this issue through

as so many people are very unaware that these statements even occurred as no media reported it as a follow up NEWS STORY. Thus the disbelief of so many on the blogoshere when it happened.

Bush was just never expecting a Dem congress, so he would never expect to be held to any of his past campaign shifts to the left.

We should give him a BIG SURPRISE come Wednesday.