Romney has made a huge miscalculation. His intent was to embarrass religious conservatives into supporting him or shutting up. Well, I’m not shutting up about his radical liberal record up to this point.
He is trying to make it seem that our opposition to him is about his mormonism. As I told La Enchiladita the other day, I’d support Duncan Hunter (or Thompson, for that matter) if they were Mormon, because they BOTH have a record as staunch conservatives.
I didn’t need another speech about toleration. I had no fear that some apostles in Salt Lake were gonna own the White House. The coded message was simply: “Waaaaahhhhh...those big bad religious conservatives won’t let me play.”
Well, Romney attacked the wrong people. His real enemy was Giuliani who is funding and supporting Huckabee’s rise in Iowa. It was very calculated on Rudy’s part. Romney was at the top in Iowa and showed promise of running the first 6 states and creating a tidal wave that would unseat Rudy on Feb 5, Super Tuesday.
I predicted at the time that Rudy would support Huck for only so long, and then they’d have to bring Huckabee down a notch or two. That process is now starting. I noticed on FoxNews beginning Thursday that every mention of Huck on Thursday and Friday referred to him in a distasteful voice as “Baptist Preacher Huckabee...”
The man injecting religion into this race is none other than Rudy Giuliani. Like the good mobster that he is, his fingerprints aren’t on the weapons. He’s doing it through news surrogates...button men in the media.
Liberal Rupert Murdoch is pulling as many strings as is George Soros to try to determine the next president of the USA.
Well, that is certainly something I hadn't considered. I still think a good part of Huckabee's rise was due to the debate and Mitt flubbing the Bible question. After all, I would imagine it's common knowledge among the Christians that the reason he stammered over the answer was because of the addition to the Bible, the BOM.
~”Well, Romney attacked the wrong people.”~
See, your whole problem here is that you interpret the speech as an attack on the religious, when it was exactly the opposite.
This makes it most difficult to believe your assertions that your opposition to Romney is on policy grounds.
There are many people who say, “That was a great speech, but I’m still voting for somebody else.” Well and good. You, on the other hand, have taken a different approach: “That speech attacked me; I’m still voting for somebody else.” It’s not an approach that will win you many allies.
You said — “He is trying to make it seem that our opposition to him is about his mormonism.”
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t vote for any member of any cult group, no matter who they are or what the cult group.
It’s a “process of elimination” and that’s the first item on the agenda for me, in order to eliminate candidates. That’s first, and then after that, then I’ll get into their record. For me, Romney didn’t get past the religious cult part...
Regards,
Star Traveler