I will be interested to see how many Republicans ultimately choose to vote to eliminate the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. CNN reports that 78% of the populace, and 85% of women, support ending the discriminatory policy. That is a very healthy number and there is clearly no political benefit to opposing the change, no matter how much more fired up the GOP base is about the issue than the electorate at large.
I know it’s tempting to say that the Republicans will oppose the change in lockstep, but I don’t think that they will. On the other hand, I am most consistently wrong when I predict that the Republicans will splinter on some issue. They tend not to.
