Mel Martinez, the Florida senator of Cuban background, was tapped to be the Republican National Committee general chairman yesterday. Now you’d think that after the major loss of power in the Congress a week ago, the GOP would move more towards the center and try to fit as many people as they can into that party tent but by choosing Martinez, the party is making a major move further right.

Martinez has been on the record opposing Republican senator John McCain’s states’ rights stance on the marriage issue, saying, “It isn’t good enough to say, ‘Leave it up to the states. If we leave it up to the states, we will see the erosion of marriage that we’ve seen by activist courts, which we otherwise will not see if we protect the institution of marriage at the federal level.”

- He attacked his 2004 Republican primary opponent for supporting hate-crimes legislation, accusing him of catering to the “radical homosexual lobby.”

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