Posted on 05/14/2012 6:52:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
As anyone who has worked on a presidential campaign knows, there is always an undercurrent of trepidation that the candidate or a trusted advisor will say or do something that connects in a very negative way with the vast majority of voters.
As we witnessed, Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, recently created one of those self-inflicted and lasting wounds when she said on CNN that Ann Romney had "actually never worked a day in her life."
Whoops. The Obama White House and campaign came down on Rosen's head like a ton of bricks. From President Obama to his top advisors, all immediately declared that Rosen should apologize and that family should always be "off limits."
They did this not so much because they believed it or because it was the right thing to do, but rather because they were petrified that Rosen's ignorant and idiotic comment would offend millions of voters they will need come November.
OK, President Obama and his team now have vigorously and repeatedly declared that the families and spouses of a candidate should forever more be "off limits."
Next, President Obama and his team should just as vigorously declare that a candidate's faith should be "off limits."
They should, but they won't.
Why?
Because the Obama White House and campaign are counting on the smear-merchants from the left to continually target Mitt Romney's faith from now to Election Day. Not only are they counting on them to engage in this un-American attack, but they need the haters in the far-left media, in Hollywood, in the music business and in education to do their dirty work.
Again, why?
Because they can add and subtract. The Obama campaign knows that one of the reasons President Obama won in 2008 was that from 2004 to 2008 between 3 million and 4 million Republicans decided to stay home and did not vote. As Obama won several states by razor-thin margins and as his campaign knows he is suffering from an "enthusiasm gap" from some of his previous supporters, they are going to need to suppress the Romney vote in 2012. * * * * *
How? Among other things, by creating doubts and false impressions about Romney's faith.
For the moment, it seems that Maureen Dowd of The New York Times has been handed the baton and is leading the smear parade for the far left. She has already written several columns that have questioned Mitt Romney and his faith. Columns that have been reprinted in hundreds of newspapers and have been quoted on numerous shows.
While Dowd is proudly carrying the Bigot Baton, others from the far left are quickly sprinting to her side.
Jeffrey Weiss, a liberal and an alleged "Religion" columnist with RealClearPolitics, recently attacked Romney by saying, "It is past time for Mitt Romney to address relevant questions about his religion." Really? Does Weiss then have an obligation to "address relevant questions about his religion?"
Beyond Dowd and Weiss, we have the foul-mouthed Bill Maher of far-left HBO saying Romney's faith "was so ridiculous that even Tom Cruise wouldn't join it."
Always on the verge of bursting a blood vessel, big talking head Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC declares that much of Romney's religion is "made up."
Recently, the liberal Al Hunt of the equally liberal Bloomberg "News" wrote a two-for-one column in which he not only tried to amplify those doubts about Romney's faith, but belittled Evangelical Christians at the same time. How proud he must be. * * * * *
CNN recently ran a segment that showed pictures of Mitt Romney, Harry Reid, Gladys Knight and a few others and asked, "What do they all have in common? Answer: They are all Mormons."
Are you kidding me? What an amazing coincidence that CNN would pick the Mormon faith to single out during a presidential campaign.
Now, Montana Democrat Gov. Brian Schweitzer has shamefully waded into the smear-the-Mormon-faith cesspool.
Enough.
President Obama has declared families and spouses of candidates "off limits."
He must now personally and publicly call off Schweitzer and his other corrupt supporters from the left who are eagerly and continually targeting Romney's faith.
If he does not, Obama merely confirms his campaign strategy.
“It would also be nice if people here stopped attacking it.”
As long as I have life and breath, I will stand up against and “attack” the enemies of true Christianity. Mormonisn is NOT Christianity, it is a cult based upon the lies of a the most notorius flim flam man of the 19th Century. The equivalent, worse actually, than the 20th Centuries L. Ron Hubbard.
I DO NOT, NOR WILL I EVER SUPPORT OBAMA. However, I feel just a strongly about Romney. He shouldn’t be the GOP candidate and wouldn’t be if the GOPe didn’t force him on us. Voting for that fool is just asking for the GOPe to continue to destroy any chance of ever getting another Ronald Reagan.
Obama is open evil. Romney is insidious evil. Both are evil.
Work on getting conservative Republicans elected to the House and especially Senate (where they can block SCOTUS appointees). However, don’t push the ABO nonsense...there is NO lesser of two evils.
Boy was that clever. I will have to memorize that.
FWIW-...It is "bated"....and you are wrong. Look it up. I can give you the link if you want......Ha! But I promise...it's bated...not baited.
Muslims definitely think their brand is right and everybody else is wrong.
It would be nice if more Christian sects felt the same. No hallowed-out church will ever beat them with a "believe whatever, ten suggestions" PC mindset.
Indeed, they might even fail to survive.
Elsie - wake me up when Mormons are blowing themselves up and flying planes into buildings and paying $$$$ to the families of terrorists....
Shame on you for comparing a thing like Islam to an actual religion.
I’m gonna guess you are being sarcastic. That being said, I said the same thing in 2008: That the good news about a Romney run is that the core beliefs taught by Mormonism will be vetted. That is actually a lot more important than who becomes president.
You want the Mormon beliefs to be “vetted” in the public space? LOL - I’m still waiting on Islam to get a proper vetting.
Again wake me up when Mormons are plotting to overthrow governments and murder thousands of women and children.
—Again wake me up when Mormons are plotting to overthrow governments and murder thousands of women and children—
Which is worse, a religion that kills the body or a religion that teaches a false Christ and laeds its adherents to eternal death, even if their body lives to be a hundred?
The eternal is the higher principle. A religion that kills people’s body’s just does what is going to happen eventually anyway. Not good, but not as bad as a religion that has eternal consequences.
But both are bad.
That has been my experience too, both in Arizona, here on FR, and here in Ohio.
When asked about false prophets, Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them." The LDS church, like the catholic church, continues to grow and flourish. The protestant sects are all shrinking, and some are plain dying. Pretty much says it all.
I’d ask the people who worked in the World Trade Center Twin Towers but they were unavailable for comment.
Life is a mist. Murder is tragic, no doubt. But according to the apostle Paul, for us to live is Christ and to die is gain.
And one should not fear him who can kill the body, but Him who can kill the body and soul.
There literally is a fate worse than death. Those that consider death the worst travesty that could happen to a Christian are missing the point.
I will wait with BATED breath....your answer. : )
I don't care.
You apparently are willing to overlook the SINS of the MORMON leaders.
I will contunie to show them every time someone glosses over MORMON history and says "it mattereth not".
IN this THREAD!
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I’m willing to bet that you have more sins than any Mormon leader has every had. You are one of the worst supposed Christians I have ever come across. If I was you, I’d start worrying more about myself and less about other people.
Sigh...
You're proven wrong again.
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/bated+breath.html
What?
I thought you complained about them doing just that?
MMM
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