Posted on 04/04/2008 9:02:40 AM PDT by indcons
More than 20 social-conservative leaders purchased a full-page ad in an Arizona paper warning Sen. John McCain against picking Mitt Romney as his running mate, calling the former Massachusetts governor a "deal breaker" and an "utterly unacceptable" choice for social conservatives.
The open letter to Mr. McCain, which focuses on Mr. Romney's record on abortion and gay marriage and calls him "unfit to be a 'heartbeat away' " from the presidency, runs in tomorrow's editions of the Prescott Daily Courier. It's dominated by block type words "No Mitt."
The ad is timed to coincide with a McCain rally tomorrow on the courthouse steps in Prescott, Ariz., where Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona announced his 1964 presidential bid.
"For us the bottom line is this," the ad states. "The unvarnished facts of Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts make him utterly unacceptable as a Vice Presidential running mate. A very large (and growing) number of social conservative voters who have become aware of that record are likely to abandon a GOP presidential ticket on which Romney's name appears."
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What has Mormonism got to do with anything?
If I am not mistaken, this development will only make McCain more likely to select Romney.
Which, in my estimation, would be a good thing.
It’s odd that we get a black, raciest, rejectionest at the same time we almost had a member of a not to long ago white racist rejectionest creed.
There were very long threads on FreeRepublic, critizing Mormonism and Mitt Romney, for months and months.
Look, I've learned to accept McCain. I'm in the 5th stage here of the 5 stages of dealing with death, OK? McCain's going to do what he's going to do and it doesn't matter what Rush or conservatives do except get behind conservative Republicans at local, state and Congressional races and completely tune the presidential race out, which explains my decreased participation here on FR lately.
A sad, but accurate, statement.
I miss the old FR.
Please help me spread the word regarding Black Liberation Theology. I’m not sure how get people to understand the threat that it poses.
He should ignore Christians who have no problem with Tyrants as long as they’re “Christian Tyrants”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1996539/posts?page=30#30
C.S. Lewis:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Do you feel the same way about Newt and Rush?
And presumably you both voted for Reagan, despite his divorce from his first wife?
Yes, I know the conventional wisdom is that Jane Wyman left Reagan -and not the other way around. But marital break-ups are usually complicated, with fault on both sides. So who knows.
Two small children were also involved in that divorce: Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan. Michael has spoken lovingly of his adoptive father; but we know he was profoundly affected by the divorce, as was Maureen.
I would've preferred Romney as the GOP nominee (and I voted for Romney in my state's primary). But I think that to reject McCain as a candidate on the basis of a long-ago divorce, and to make assumptions about his character based mostly on things that happened during an extremely difficult period of his life --when he had just returned from 5 years of captivity in North Vietnam-- is wrong.
I miss old FR too.
Exactly.
(No fair calling my bluff)
Oh, I don’t know... Duncan Hunter? I’ve seen other names, certainly better than McLame.
What happened to freedom of religion. The liberals have it.
You are right. Of course, 25 million new, uneducated, non-English speaking, government dependent, Democrat voters, virtually guaranteed with a McCain presidency, also represents "a real threat" to this Country.
Sorry. I wasn’t calling a bluff, I was hoping you actually knew of one.
*sigh*
Looking at the list of signatories, I think that at least half are mainly opposed to him because he’s Mormon, but they won’t/can’t say that publically and they’re using the other issues as their supposed reasons to oppose him as the VP candidate.
Prescott is a conservative town politically and socially. They voted McCain close to 90% in the ‘04 Senate race. In this year’s primary Romney got the second highest vote total. If these yahoos show up in person they had better be very, very careful what they say. Prescott voters don’t put up with much.
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