Posted on 08/08/2012 5:35:12 AM PDT by IbJensen
LAS VEGAS, August 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mitt Romney’s decision not to condemn mayors threatening to deny Chick-fil-A the right to do business was a missed opportunity and may cost him votes in November, a growing chorus of social conservatives warn.
Last Friday in Las Vegas, when a reporter asked the Republican presidential nominee about the controversy over Chick-fil-A and charges about a diplomat’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, he replied, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.”
After company president Dan Cathy said he supported Biblical marriage, homosexual organizations called for a boycott, and several prominent Democratic mayors threatened to withhold permits for the Christian business to operate in their cities. The fast food chain broke sales records during the August 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” called by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Christian radio talk show host Bryan Fischer asked, “Well, governor, exactly what was not a part of your campaign? The part about natural marriage? The part about freedom of religion? The part about freedom of speech? The part about freedom of entrepreneurship? What? If you will not publicly stand for those values, what will you stand for?” These questions were echoed by talk show host Mark Levin.
“Social conservatives have to make up their mind whether they should just simply stay at home, or go out there and vote for Romney,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said. “I’m astonished that he couldn’t even come to grips with the question. Leaving gays out of it, do we want the chief executives, the mayors of large cities trying to intimidate, using the power of government against private enterprises whose politics they disagree with? I think it’s a pretty simple issue.”
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Several conservative writers confessed to being flummoxed by Romney’s absence, calling it a “missed opportunity.”
“I don’t understand why Mitt Romney doesn’t just get his Secret Service detail and take his press corps down to a Chicken-fil-A and show solidarity with these people,” said columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. “It’s instinct. Reagan would have walked right on down there naturally.”
To excite the party’s base, Richard Viguerie, a conservative activist for more than 50 years, has suggested the GOP invite Dan Cathy to address the Republican National Convention. “Republicans should oblige President Obama’s desire to make same-sex marriage a central issue in the November election, and campaign unequivocally as the party of the traditional values Dan Cathy stood for,” Viguerie wrote.
Even prominent members of the party’s neoconservative wing, which has little time for social issues and generally supports the homosexual lobby, encouraged Romney to stop at Chick-fil-A. “Didn’t happen,” wrote Bill Kristol.
Some supporters of same-sex “marriage” have defended the beleaguered chicken chain.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a social liberal who considered running against Romney as an independent presidential candidate, said “it’s inappropriate for a city government or a state government or the federal government to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city or operate a business in the city or work for somebody in the city.”
Congressman Barney Frank, who recently “married” his boyfriend, agreed, “I don’t think government should discriminate against Chick-fil-A because of the views of the owner.”/
Even Antoine Dodson, the flamboyantly homosexual subject of a viral video, has said, “A lot of people from the gay community was [sic] actually telling me not to eat at Chick-fil-A and then you know, I started having these flashbacks, because I started believing like, the gay community — we have went [sic] from being bullied to becoming bullies,” he said. “And I don’t think that that is fair, because I’m like, aren’t we like in America? Like, we have freedom of speech.”
“I don’t think it’s American,” he said.
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All you people that hate Romney so much that you don’t care whether Obama wins are a sad commentary on your outlook towards this country!
I don’t question your sincerity, patriotism, or morality - BUT I DO QUESTION YOUR SANITY!
Go ahead and whine about Romney’s past (who didn’t during the primaries), but it’s now OUR SIDE against THEIRS for all the marbles. You keep thinking it’s ‘Romney’ vs ‘Obama’ - you are completely missing the big picture for the next 4 years and the sad fact is, that you people don’t appear to give a RATSSASS about it...
- MORE SOCIALIST REGULATIONS
- MORE SOCIALIST SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
- MORE SOCIALIST TAXATION
- MORE SOCIALIST BRAINWASHING OF OUR SYSTEM
Let’s not forget to credit the stupid people who voted for him in the primaries.
As long as your going to persist in attacking Romney at every opportunity, could you give us some new photos, art work or line of reasoning?
I’m tired of seeing your repetitive posts. It has turned into spam.
“America cannot survive another phoney.”
Sounds like smart thinking. So, let’s keep the present one!
The primaries are over, but now DU’s work is being done right here in FR. Unbelievable!!!
Yep. Why conservatives would vote fr a liberal/socialist Marxist on a Republican ticket, I am sure I don’t know. It is a vote that says we-are-all-in-for-socialism, so, here, “hit me again”.
Please don’t wrap up in the flag and then hurry off to go vote for Romney. The two will never go together.
Again, Romney’s pro-abort and pro-gay. He is the father of Romneycare. He is a self-professed progressive, and he has no core of conservative principles; possibly no core of political principles at all, aside from advancing himself politically.
Yet you want to vote for him to relieve us of obama, just as aptly described above.
And you question OUR sanity?
Stupid people put Romney where he is, by voting for him in the primaries.
Let me check cafepress and see if they’ve got a t-shirt for that. “I’m with stupid. Romney in November!”
Well, I am NOT with stupid. I will not be an accessory to the process of slowly but surely dissolving the conservative opposition to the Democrats in a solidly two-party system.
Either the GOP must lose until it learns to fight, or America is lost.
Romney will not save it, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Likely a coward as well.
Probe: Mitt missed chance to keep Tavares jailed - Could have nixed killer’s early exit
Friday, December 28, 2007 - Boston Herald
"Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration failed to act on disciplinary recommendations
that would have kept ex-con killer Daniel Tavares locked up another year -
and behind bars at the time he was accused of killing a newlywed couple in Washington state."
"Despite Tavares’ long history of violence, the Romney-led Department of Correction
took no action on recommendations that he be stripped of “good time” because
of assaults on prison guards in 2003 and 2005, said sources familiar with a state probe into the case."
So, Romney not weighing in will cause the 2% freakshow to stay home? GOOD.
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I applaud Mitt for not allowing a “reporter” to set the tone of his campaign or set dialog for his campaign.
To be silent about ChickfilA - a showing of the Peoples values, does not and should not imply, that Mitt disagrees with those values.
Mitt is not my first choice for President, but I'm damn sure gonna vote against the current resident! Who, If I recall, has not said a word about chickfila
I won’t stay home on November 6th, but I will vote early for Romney/?....
Why?
I will not live under another 4 years of the Communist/Socialist/Anti-American Obama Administration, and a vote for anyone else will assure Obama just that!!!!!!!!!
Ok, in that case, stupid people voting for Romney made it close enough to cheat.
I love how you get my drift sometimes, Tom. :)
They’re building up a whole heap of bad ju ju and are going to get bitten hard.
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