Four Valid Republican Points

Wed. May 9, 2012:

1.  Paul Ryan is coming to his senses -- if he doesn't reverse himself -- about basic banking:
THE EDITORS: Even Paul Ryan agrees: “Don’t let banks use their customers' money to do anything other than traditional banking.” Sounds like an endorsement of the Volcker rule in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

2.  Moderate Republican columnist David Brooks argues persuasively that both Democrats [including colleague Paul Krugman] and Republicans are debating the wrong question:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/opinion/brooks-the-structural-revolution.html

3.  Even NYT editors agree with Republicans that President Obama has been far too passive a leader
-- especially on health care reform.  "Even Democrats say the president has been too aloof in his first term, not bothering to make his case in the Capitol, not interested in the LBJ-style flesh-pressing or arm-twisting that can rescue a law out of the mortuary of bills . . . He never made the sale with the public on the [Affordable Care] law . . . rather than shy away, it is time to explain [the law] to the public in detail what that would mean and why it is important that he be there to fight for it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/opinion/campaigning-beyond-inspiration.html

4.  A few Republicans who oppose gay marriage may not be as bigoted as opponents assume.
There are plenty of older folks, of both parties, who hold the following credible position:
All citizens -- including gays of both genders -- should enjoy absolute & total equal rights regarding marriage, BUT:  the word "marriage" itself does have a different history.
Exhibit A:  The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (NY, 1966) defines "marriage" as
"The social institution under which a man and a woman establish their decision to live as man and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc."
One does not have to be a "bigot" to feel jarred by, literally, a reversal of this definition.
Simple solution:  Coin a new word, for the new, full equality for a pair living together by legal commitments & religious ceremonies totally equivalent to "marriage."
Worthy readers, feel free to submit your candidate for the new word:
"Pairriage"?