Paiva-Weed and Metts probably fought like hell against SSM in hopes you'd give them a pass on this issue. They're just doing a little horse trading, that's all.

I don't know much about Paiva-Weed,but I think Metts is a church deacon or something and he probably is socially conservative on this particular issue.
I think he's been criticized by a left wing blogger or two on this.
Just recall that in California Black voters went something like 96% for Obama and 70% against SSM.
A friend of mine from college days who is a Black woman in her early 60's is very much in favor of E-verify and against illegal immigration in general and is dead set against SSM,yet she considers herself a liberal.She is also an attorney who passed the NY state bar exam on the first shot,even though she went to law school in New Jersey.That is hard to pull off,so she's a pretty smart cookie.Oh yeah,she voted for Obama.
Now what was the point of this Rhody?Simply that people don't act according to the expectations of social engineering liberals.

When blacks play along with the right, I just remember what happened to J.C. Watts, the former congressman from Oklahoma, who the GOP put in the front row on its socially conservative initiatives just to prove it wasn't racist.
God forbid, when J.C. got uppity and sought a spot in the House leadership, the powers that be showed him the back of their hand, and he ended up leaving Congress. After he did their bidding, he was still denied a seat at the table.
Maybe that explains some of the hardcore conservative animus against Michael Steele.

This page appears to recieve a good ammount of visitors. How do you get traffic to it? It offers a nice individual twist on things. I guess having something real or substantial to talk about is the most important thing.