Republic writer Linda Valdez argues that President Obama’s support for gay marriage is a “gutsy” act (you can read her column here).

 Really?

 Here’s what Valdez says:  “His stand is courageous because he may have alienated some of the independent voters he will need to win re-election. He took a chance for decency’s sake anyway.”

 He might have, but is this the issue that will sway enough independent voters away from Obama and to Romney?

 I don’t think so.

 Seems to me that Obama found himself — after Joe Biden’s and Secretary of Education’s Arne Duncan’s pronouncements in favor of gay marriage — in a position of having to explain his so-called “evolution.”

 I’d call it the typical cautiousness Obama displays.  Does anyone really think he was ambivalent about gay marriage until recently?

 No, I applaud the President for supporting — well, sort of supporting, since he believes this is a state’s rights issue — gay marriage.

 But gutsy?

 Naw.