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What Romney Should Have Said!

Published on December 7, 2007 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

If Romney’s apology for being a Mormon impressed anyone, I can only assume they don’t live in America. If they do live in America, they need remedial education in Constitution 101. I don’t know if I am more embarrassed for Romney having to make the speech or for America for needing the assurrance.

I think Obama should do the same. I want to make sure that because he is black he doesn’t let some deep-seated resentment about slavery cause him to murder me in my sleep if he becomes Commander-in-Chief.

And I sure as hell want Hillary to swear to heaven that I don’t have to worry about an executive order requiring all first born sons to be castrated. (BTW, I was not a first born.)

Since Romney is running as a Republican, maybe I should direct my disgust at a party whose support for a candidate is apparently influenced by his religious orientation. However, I have little reason to believe that a Mormon candidate would not have to do the same thing had he been born a Democrat.

My sympathy, if any, for Romney is tempered by the fact that he asked for it. I don’t recall when it was or exactly what he said, but I seem to remember some months ago he made a reference to his faith. Well, open the door and let the morons come in. Say hello to all those non-judgmental people that are going to judge what that means. Frankly, when a candidate affirms his faith, I know two things: (1) He is being handled by someone, and (2) I am being manipulated.

I want an honest man, a guy who hasn’t been indicted for taking money under the table. I would probably hold wealth against someone (because I wonder about their ability to understand what “We the People” need), before their religious orientation.

Anyone that can look at a Romney and worry about the extent to which a good, moral man would ask his church what he should do about NAFTA certainly needs to be checked for alien implants.

I am much more concerned about the quiet egomaniac who had a religious experience and now is amazed that God has chosen him to be President. That kind of guy is likely to start a war with God’s enemies. He scares me to death regardless of whether he is a Mormon, a Methodist, a Baptist or whatever.

I sincerely hope that the need for candidates to disclaim undue influence by their church or their faith is a Republican perversion, because I want to vote for a candidate who will tell some folks to go to hell. That is why I won’t vote for a preacher for president or dog catcher. If any of this offends you, …………………………….

The Shelbinator on Romney!

Published on September 2, 2007 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The Shelbinator’s video post on Mitt Romney’s recent visit to Atlanta, via the Varsity, is worth a look.

I enjoyed the comments by the Shelbinator himself, interspersed with Romney’s stump speech, not because they were an expose’ on Romney, but because they demonstrate how void of meaning most political campaigning really is. I am sure that the same kind of criticism could be leveled at just about any politician and his campaign speeches, Democrat of Republican.

Would we be better citizens and voters if we all constructed this kind of video in our brains when politicians talk? My point is not that politicians talk nonsense, although many and most of them do and all of them do at times. My point is that, sadly, their nonsense satisfies us. We prefer the sound bites to real discussions of real issues. We pick the guy we like, and stick with him through thick and thin and war and deficits and only after 5 or 6 years do we ask ourselves: “Why didn’t he know who the president of that country was?”