As this campaign tack seems to acknowledge, over-reliance on the evangelical (and conservative Catholic) base is not a winning play in political battles around gay rights.
They would have us remain a nation of five year olds, stuck in an infantile refusal to acknowledge, grieve over, and plan for, our own deaths or the deaths of those we love.
But I have to acknowledge that, over the years, our party has contributed to this debt burden and government spending binge.
"We have to acknowledge that over the last five years those on out of work benefits have seen their incomes rise twice as fast as those in work," the chancellor said.
The new civil rights agenda is: can our kids read the menu?" It's time to acknowledge that over 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education we are witnessing a de facto resegregation of our schools, with blacks and Hispanics more separate from white students than at any time since the civil rights movement.
She went on to say, "It's also disappointing to watch a once-original franchise morph into a generic slasher series, in which random people are killed in banal ways just to up the body count" and closed her review with, "No matter how much money The Final Chapter makes over Halloween weekend, it's time to acknowledge that this game is over".
Few opinions were swayed as sharp exchanges marked the hearings, with committee Republicans challenging Mr. Clinton's representatives over and over to acknowledge that the President had committed perjury.
While Schwartz took a not-quite veiled shot at Harbaugh's collegiate pedigree, the 49ers coach was quick to acknowledge that he had been over-eager with the handshake.
And politicians of all stripes have never been eager to acknowledge that they preside over economic decline.
But he refuses to acknowledge that reducing taxes over the long term implies that public spending will fall as well, or to specify which parts of state activity he would then transfer to the private sector.Labour is even less transparent.
I wonder if I come back again, maybe without Hank, just me under the shuffleboard lights, if she would teeter over to acknowledge that we knew each other, had made a mutual impression.
