... and the 43 win.  That's democracy for ya.

OK, to be fair, that's representative democracy for you, although with over three-quarters of Americans in favor the repeal of DADT I'm not sure what you'd call it. 

Bad timing perhaps?  Not the kind that Senator Scott Brown is talking about.  What repealing DADT would do at this point is take a piece off the chess board.  Once the rule is overturned and as with marriage equality wherever it has been implemented the sky doesn't fall, when, in fact, things go along smoother than before because this unnecessary distraction is off the table —

Oh, did I say "distraction"? 

When nothing happens as a consequence — and what would?  Would we lose the war in Afghanistan that we lost the day we declared it because of the repeal?  Would we weaken an armed services that DADT has already crucially undermined by spending millions on a witch-hunt and disrupting units, dismissing vital personnel like medics and Arabic translators? 

No, when nothing happens — not the rampant shower-room sodomy so lovingly detailed by supporters of DADT, not the hot nocturnal  man-on-man oral sex assaults, not the drop in new recruits, nothing — gays become useless politically.  You've lost a wedge issue that has proved invaluable in bringing out the lunatic fringe — especially for midterm elections — since the '80s. 

You wouldn't want to have to rely entirely on Muslim-Americans and Mexican immigrants, would you?  I mean, gays have been the gold standard in the GOP's GOTV efforts for a generation.  And conservatives do so hate to have to change. 

But the worm has turned.