I know silly not to expect it since it serves the cause.
We accept LDS folks in the cause DESPITE our reservations about their faith. Indeed I said often during the Prop 8 fight I would gladly defend LDS folk if attacked by the lefties. So did others.
But when you use the faith as an excuse to promote the UNCONSERVATIVE, well that is where we part ways.
Mitt is barely even moderate.
Mitt happens to be Mormon.
Mitt is unacceptable.
Mike Huckabee is barely even a moderate and in some cases worse then Romney.
Huckabee happens to be Evangelical.
Huckabee is unacceptable.
There will be Mormons who will defend Mitt at all costs, including the reputation as Conservatives ignoring his obvious record and failure in that regard.
There will be Evangelicals who will defend Huckabee at all costs, including their reputation as Conservatives ignoring his obvious record and failure in that regard.
To there credit there will be both Mormons, and Evangelical (indeed a greater number of both) here on FR who will reject them both despite being religious peers.
See a pattern yet there Reno?
This is not about who we want at the table, it is about what those at the table will stand for POLITICALLY. Mitt being a Mormon does not now make socialized medicine and weak abortion stances part of Conservative thought.
Oh, to your credit you finally did actually post a link to something...
I find that quite interesting. FR is a politically conservative website established for the furtherance of conservative ideals. Yet, you & the cabal DAILY post threads &/or posts that have absolutely nothing to do w/ the furtherance of conservative ideals but rather to tear down a church or two that don't meet your religious litmus test. Kind of a strange way to accept folks into the cause don't you think?
I haven't said anything about Romney for some time now. During the last cycle, I thought he was the best viable candidate. He certainly has his warts. I don't know that I will back him this next time around depending on what the choices are. I will support the best viable candidate.
Your repeated assertion that LDS folk blindly support LDS pols is annoying at best, & disingenuous at worst. I don't believe there is a single LDS conservative here on this board that supports or makes arguments for Harry Reid, who happens to be LDS as well. I for one, am actively engaged in the overthrow of Reid in fact. So much for that red herring.
I don't begrudge those who don't support Romney. I think there is merit to many of the arguments against him. What I am against, is the non support simply because he is LDS. Does that exist? Ask Amoreperfectunion. He at least has had the intellectual honesty to admit he would never vote for a Mormon for POTUS, period. If you don't believe there are others that believe likewise here, then you probably believe you're doing a great conservative work in carpet bombing Mormons on a daily basis on the anti-Mormon threads.
Very conservative! /Sarc
The day you folks start spending far more time advancing REAL conservative causes here rather than brow beating your conservative brethren b/c of religious beliefs, is the day you may be taken more seriously.
There was a recent thread where conservatives took you guys to the woodshed over your paranoia w/ Mormons. Perhaps you should seek professional help. At the very least, perhaps it would be good to spend time on a conservative site like FR actually advancing the cause, rather than tearing it down through your malicious rants against conservatives that actually do work hand in hand w/ those that have different religious views. You know, kind of like our fore fathers did.
Some of the cabal here probably wouldn't have voted for Washington, Adams, Jefferson, or Lincoln simply because they weren't Trinitarians, or in other words, their view of "real" Christians. Boggles the mind frankly, especially conservative minds.
No wonder the Libs have so much success portraying the right as conservative loons. You guys often give them a lot of ammo. Got to prep for a bus. trip. Have a great week.