Ooooooooooh ... that hurts. I'm trying to prep myself to get enthusiastic about Romney in case he's our only option. McCain and Giuliani aren't options for Republicans and I believe now completetly that for Republicans to nominiate either of them would be so moronic as to make me and millions of others just toss their hands up in the air and say, "To hell with it. The Republican party is dead."
The ONLY, and I mean ONLY ONLY ONLY reason I'd vote for either of them, and it's looking more and more like Romney too, would have to do with appointing judges (a priority which I haven't mentioned in lists I've posted previously, silly me).
And although I admire and have defended Romney's attempts to show that he respects and will uphold the 2nd Amendment, he doesn't have me really convinced because the 2nd isn't about nor has ever been about hunting, it's about DEFENSE. Hunting is irrelevant with regard to the 2nd, and a politician who doesn't demonstrate that he understands that from the git-go, makes me nervous.
THEN you go and post this bit about Gay Youth Pride Day -- and "Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs" for seventh and eight graders no less!!!! That really disgusts me about Romney, absolutely drops him hugely in my regard. Any civilization that strives to normalize homosexuality, is a civilization bent on self-destruction and immorality, period. I have loved and liked many people who are homosexuals, but I cannot and WILL NOT condone homosexuality nor pretend that it is normal or acceptable. If people need to be gay, let them be gay in the closet. I don't want nor need to know about it, and for damned sure CHILDREN don't need to know about it.
It will be very, very difficult for me -- and I expect millions of my fellow conservatives -- to muster any kind of enthusiasm or faith in a guy who believes that "Gay Youth Pride" is of value or that elected officials have any business endorsing it. This is, to me, really REALLY a very big RED FLAG.
My point in posting the link to Baywindows was to point out to someone, redgirlinabluestate I think, that just because a governor issues a proclamation, it does not mean that he’s invested in the topic or even cares.
In many cases, an activist group or other bunch of people draft the proclamation (State Pickle and Maple Sugar Day, In Honor of DBrow for Excellent Database Coding, whatever) and lobby the gov to sign it.
So GLESN or PFLAG or some GSA group or GOAL drafts up the text and lobbies for signatures, 90% of the time they get it. GOAL got theirs, PFLAG and GLESN got theirs. There is unfortunately a paucity of Romney proclamations on the official Mass government site- it would be interesting but not terribly informative to see what else he issued proclamations for. You’d think there’d be a list compiled but I fersur could not find it.
Baywindows does have a very interesting Romney page but it does not show that he supported their causes all that much. My overall impression of their Romney library is that he promised all sorts of things to get votes and didn’t come through, I’d be interested in your take.