There is absolutely no upside on the political calculations for omitting God and Jerusalem from the platform. It is a political disaster that is worth more to Romney than all the money he raised last month.
It looks horrible. Then, just when we thought it could not get any better, they magnified the mistake with the three floor votes where the “no’s” seemed to win.
This was another “you did’nt build that” moment.
Unless somebody besides Hugh Hewitt reports it,there’s no downside. I just heard ABC news According the them, “it was placed back in”, no mention of Villarogosa’s corrupting the vote (hey, so what, he’s a Dem! OF COURSE they push election fraud).
Also ABC’s stenographers dutifully reported that Obama couldn’t speak in the stadium because of weather (despite the balmy weather report.