Posted on 10/15/2007 10:19:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
.....a top official at the conservative, fundamentalist Bob Jones University is throwing his political support to Mormon presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Robert R. Taylor, dean of the university's college of arts and sciences, said he believes the former Massachusetts governor is the only Republican candidate who both stands a chance of winning the White House and will reliably implement the anti-abortion, antigay marriage, pro-gun agenda of Christian conservatives.
"The fact that I'm seen as a Religious Right person would hopefully get others to step out for him," Taylor said in an interview in Greenville, S.C., the university's hometown.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13250.html (Romney gets some help from Bob Jones University)
Taylors endorsement, which he said he plans to announce in the near future, marks a stunning move for such a high-placed academic at Bob Jones University . Taylor acknowledged that endorsing a Mormon for president risked alienating the universitys conservative donors and alumni. But, he said, were not electing a pastor were electing a president.
It gets back to a point I argued last week: slowly but surely, the religious right is coalescing around Romney. At the start of the year, this seemed highly unlikely Christian conservatives simply wouldnt be able to get over their theological differences with the former Massachusetts governor.
But the circumstances have changed. Rudy Giuliani is a threat the religious right movement, Fred Thompson is too weak, John McCain is too untrustworthy, and Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback arent competitive enough. Romney offers evangelicals a competitive candidate who, at least now, says everything they want to hear about abortion and gays
Right back at ya!
This was posted last week and you might want to consider the advice for yourself: You and Spiff and some of the others need to start concentrating on promoting your own candidate
You first.
Consider the source.
I didn’t mischaracterize Mitt so there is nothing to fling in my face.
Fred08
“But the main thing that has always bothered me about Romney is hes a Republican that somehow managed to get elected governor of Massachusetts. That just never computed.”
I agree with this. I’ve never understood why he wanted to be governor of Massachusetts. So he could do what? Maybe he didn’t have a problem working with all those democrats. It is like putting yourself deliberately into a position where you will be constantly pressured and tempted to do something wrong. Unless, he didn’t think the democrats were wrong. There can’t be good reasons to want to be a governor of a left wing state unless you are left wing too.
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