When In Need of Electoral Help, Scream "Gay Marriage"

As far as I can recall, Sen Elizabeth Dole had never been one to make controversial social issues a centerpiece of her politics and had never really been one for paling around with the Religious Right.  I might be wrong about that, but my understanding was that while the Right liked her she was never a particularly vocal supporter of their agenda and only rarely, if ever, showed up at their events. Heck, until I wrote this post, Dole had been mentioned here so rarely that she hadn't even warranted a tag on the blog.

Which makes this mailer she and the North Carolina Republican Party are sending out targeting her opponent all the more pathetic - PageOneQ has the story and the images: