Mitt Romney is to Mormons what the Kennedys are to Roman Catholics.
The LDS needs to do something to clean up its own house before Romney singlehandedly wrecks the pro-family and conservative image they've spent several generations working to create.
8 posted on Sun May 13 2012 14:39:21 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by saganite: “That’s unfortunate. Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.”
130 posted on Sun May 13 2012 18:34:12 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Republican Wildcat: “This is not civilized conduct - shouting people down so they can’t be heard - identical conduct to the fringe left we’ve seen before.”
Correct.
I'm disturbed by the arguments some are making that shouting people down is an acceptable tactic of political discourse. Advocating rational debate rather than mob tactics is not merely being civil and polite; it is being conservative. We should be as aggressive as we possibly can in debate, but we need to debate wrong arguments, not shout them down.
Conservatives are not liberals. We believe in such things as absolute truth, original intent, logic, etc. While honest liberals share our concepts of truth and are sincerely and honestly wrong, many liberals simply do not believe in the same standards of truth that we do. As conservatives, we are supposed to be debating our opponents and proving them wrong.
If we aren't doing that, either 1) we don't have confidence in our own arguments or 2) we don't have confidence in our ability to defend our arguments.
If 1) is true, we ought to become liberals. If 2) is true, then we ought to shut up and let someone talk who knows what he's talking about.
Ron Paul supporters need to listen and follow 1) or 2).
Else he'd VOLUNTARILY allowed his nominating petitions in Virginia be reviewed by designated party volunteers just like all the other nominating petitions.
He accepted the deal Mullins and Bolling worked out so his didn't get reviewed ~ that showed us the kind of man he really is.
We really need a different candidate ~ certainly the Mormons could come up with someone better than this ~ the guy oozes sleaze from every pore.