Interesting:

And finally, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that BC04 is simply freaking out at Kerry's exposure, deliberate or inadvertant, of a vulnerability in their base-first strategy, which depends heavily on piggy-backing battleground state referenda on gay marriage.

This makes sense, and I find it interesting. It was clearly in effect in Michigan when I was there, but it's a spectacularly short-sighted strategy for the GOP. Younger conservatives (they're out there) aren't fired up about banning gay marriage. Most of them, in fact, are fine with it -- or with civil unions or some equivalent solution -- and don't want to be strongly associated with outright homophobia.

By tying their base-mobilization strategy to bigotry and religious fundimentalism, Rove's GOP is narrowing their base and turning off younger party activists.