Mitt Romney Bites His Tongue

Mitt Romney didn’t really say much in his highly anticipated flop of a speech on faith in America.  Any honest person would admit that.  But what’s significant is what he didn’t and still refuses to say.

A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers, after Election Central inquired about the topic yesterday.

There is that old adage: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Ha ha, atheists!  Mittens doesn’t like you!  Take that, treefrogs.

– Psycheout

Mittens Set To Chat Up Mormonism

On Thursday, Mitt Romney, the slick chameleon, will attempt to more channel JFK than Reagan by trying to calm concerned folk about his Mormon faith.  He will attempt to sound like Jesus while parroting Joseph Smith.  And, for anyone other than his cheering fan section, the speech will fail to propel him towards the once thought inevitable nomination.

There is only one reason that this speech is being made now.  Well two, really.  Mike Huckabee and Iowa.  Will Mitt Romney be able to convince Iowan evangelicals that Mormonism is Christian and that it’s not a cult?  Sadly, no.  Wait, what am I saying?  Happily, no!  Go-o-o-o, Mittster!  “The speech,” as it’s being called, may well spell the beginning of the end for the Romney campaign.  Good.

For more detailed analysis, see Mitt Romney Rolls the Dice.

– Psycheout

Political Power in the Pulpit

B4B is honored to present this guest post written by Jeffery Curtis Foli, the former mayor of Chillicothe, Missouri.

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How far should religious leaders be able to go before they cross the line and breach the legal separation between Church and State, and who will hold them accountable? Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Gordon B. Hinckley, Oral Roberts, and some Catholic leaders are just a few who have challenged these issues.

I hope it is not the case, but if my story is any indication, Mormon religious leaders will take Mitt Romney aside as needed and help him remember just where his ultimate loyalties lie. I, as well as Mitt Romney, have made sacred agreements to support the interests of God’s future kingdom, as we see it within the Mormon perspective. But are individual religious interests and National interest always necessarily the same? In the case of a President Mitt Romney, is what is good for the Mormon people, equally good for all the citizens of the USA, and will the leaders press him?

I don’t know if Mitt ever had this issue before him in the past while serving as Governor of Massachusetts, but this possibility was twice made clear to me while I was serving as Mayor/CEO of the City of Chillicothe, Missouri. During one incident, I was taken into church offices and verbally threatened, by President and Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley via Stake President, and attorney, Detlif Lehnardt in a private meeting, with excommunication if I did not rescind my recently proposed legislation. I believe Federal Law (Tax Code Title 26 section 501) states that a Church cannot engage in such activity.

In another incident, Mormon leaders confronted me and told me to support the Mormon party line on a specific issue instead of what I knew was legal, honest, and in the best interest of those in my City. Since my oath of office was to represent the citizens of my City, and not the interests of the Mormon Church, I pressed each issue as far as I could in an appropriate way. I believe we can serve in both capacities in an open, honest, and honorable way, if the leaders will just keep their noses out of places they don’t belong.

Charges and complaints have recently been filed with the Sheriff of Livingston County Missouri, the ACLU, and the IRS. At each and every turn, these charges have been stonewalled, with no one wanting to challenge the accountability. The Mormon Church is enormously popular as well as powerful.

Just to reiterate, I ask, will Mitt Romney be his own man if elected, or would he be controlled by Religious Leaders? The multi-million man re-migration of Mormons to Missouri could be triggered in a small way just by the election of Romney. These issues are not at all isolated to the Mormons, I am sure.

Jeffery Curtis Foli
Former Mayor
City of Chillicothe, Missouri
1999-2003

Mittens Finally Gets Something Right

It’s not often that Mitt Romney says anything that real conservatives can agree with, so when he does it’s newsworthy. The Politico highlights one of these rare exceptions where OvenMitt gets something right for once.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, asked about putting a Muslim in his presidential Cabinet, said that he “cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified” based on the percentage of Muslims in the U.S., according to an Islamic businessman who asked the question at a fundraising reception.

Okay, he got it half right. Population has nothing to do with it. Buying into the religion of pieces does.

Kevin Madden, Romney’s national press secretary, told Politico: “At this point, we’re not focused on what Gov. Romney’s Cabinet might look like. But the governor does not believe that in order to effectively fight radical jihad you need to have Muslims serving in the Cabinet.”

Not unless you want to lose the war on Terror by admitting a traitor into your inner circle. Well done, Mitt. It’s good to see you using your head for something other than a place to hang your toupee.

Update: Reformulating the population argument, I think I can agree with it: based on the percentage of Mormons in the population, I cannot see that a Mormon President Romney would be justified at this time.

– Psycheout

RINO Update

For the latest on Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, head on over to Blogs 4 Conservatives. Romney opines on Adam and Eve and removes his own figleaf, while the cozy Rudolph Giuliani – Bernard Kerik connection is explored. Can we trust his judgement? Sadly no.

– Psycheout

Mitt Romney and Ballot-Box Stuffing

Janet Folger continues her great coverage of the race for the GOP nomination. Apparently Mitt Romney is attempting to buy his way to victory. This is not very surprising since I’ve heard the rumors about him buying the CPAC, Ames and other straw polls. He does have the money to do it, after all. And if he is taking such dishonest shortcuts it does tend to cast a bad light on his character, or rather lack of it.

With that in mind, here’s a bit of Janet Folger’s latest column about Mitt’s latest “victory:”

There are now two major polls that put Gov. Mike Huckabee in a 5-to-1 lead among values voters: the Values Voter Presidential Debate and the Values Voter Summit.

Among summit attendees, who paid the registration, airfare and accommodations, and actually heard the candidates’ speeches, Gov. Huckabee won more votes than all the other candidates combined – including Mitt Romney. Huckabee earned 51 percent of the vote compared to Romney’s 10 percent, Fred Thompson’s 8 percent and Tom Tancredo’s 7 percent.

Isn’t that interesting? But isn’t Huck, like former candidate Sam Brownback, a longshot who can’t win? Hmmm.

Efforts to try and skew the results of the Internet poll, such as the e-mail sent by Mark DeMoss (now on the Romney campaign), complete with a link and instructions to stack it, gained Romney a .5 percent edge for his prominently announced “win.” By the way, when that announcement was made following fanfare, including a drum roll, the audience (who were 5-to-1 Huckabee supporters) sat stunned. Had they announced the results of the real grass-roots activists who actually attended the event, we would have heard explosive applause instead of the sound of crickets and the clapping of a few Romney shills.

That sound is the Republican party being flushed down the toilet. Sad, isn’t it? Something is awfully fishy about this process. Buy a few votes here and there and squeak out “victories” over the candidates that actual honest grass-roots activists prefer. People were right, Mitt’s a slick businessman. But is this good for our democracy? Is it good for the Republican party? Is this good for America? I’m not sure I like where it’s headed.

More people need to get involved at the grass-roots and take charge of the process, otherwise astroturf wins. And that means we all lose.

– Psycheout

Richard Land Gets It Right

The GOP had better not take evangelicals for granted. Many of us will throw the Republican party overboard if they dare to demand that we vote for Rudy Giuliani. Don’t believe me? Well, Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), a very influential voice of religious conservatives, makes it absolutely clear. And I applaud him for speaking out. Hot Air provides some key snippets from an interview with Newsweek. The entire interview is worthy of a read, so be sure to check it out.

NEWSWEEK: So we wanted to ask you, first of all, about the third party idea and whether it’s serious. A number of people are suggesting it is just a threat.

Land: My intuition [is that] this is not a bluff. If Giuliani is the nominee, there will be a third party. There are things that Giuliani could do to help mitigate the damage. But I have been in too many discussions over the last 15 years where evangelical leaders have said, “The one thing we will never allow to happen is for the Republican Party to take us for granted the way the Democrat Party too often takes the African-American community for granted.”
This is not a bluff…

NEWSWEEK: When Rudy says “I will appoint strict constructionist judges,” you are not hearing that?

Land: I hear it. I hear it.

NEWSWEEK: Well, you don’t hear Hillary saying that.

Land [turns to question a Newsweek reporter]: Could you vote for a Klansman?

[Reporter responds] No.

Land: You’ve answered my question. I cannot vote for someone who believes that it’s all right to stop a beating heart.

That’s absolutely right. The pro-life issue is simply non-negotiable. Hasn’t the Republican party learned this lesson yet? Will the GOP throw the 2008 Presidential election and all that social conservatives have worked for during the last several decades? They will do so at their peril. As Land says, “this is not a bluff.”  And evangelicals and socons cannot be blamed if this happens.  It’s up to the party to make the right choice.  We will not obediently submit if an intolerable candidate is selected.

Land also had some interesting things to say about Mitt Romney. If Mittens were nominated, it would not necessarily be a deal-breaker; it wouldn’t necessarily result in Richard Land and other evangelicals voting third party, but there are a number of concerns that potential voters would have. Mitt hasn’t done much, if anything, to qualm their fears.

What are the three or four things that he absolutely needs to say more vigorously?

For starters, he needs to quit trying to convince evangelicals that Mormonism is an orthodox, with a small “o,” Trinitarian, with a capital “T,” Apostolic, with a capital “A,” faith. He is not going to win that argument [and] he doesn’t need to try. That’s not the issue. Kennedy didn’t try to defend Catholicism. He defended the right of a Catholic to run for President. What I think Romney has to do is he has to give a speech in which he defends the right of a Mormon to run for president and appeals to Americans’ basic sense of fair play. I would encourage him to say that “there was no higher percentage of Mormons in my administration than there were Mormons in the percentage of the population in Massachusetts.”

That is a concern that has been expressed to me by my constituents–that he would have a disproportionate number of Mormons in his administration.

What did Romney say [when you suggested that]?

He said he would consider it. [But] he has not given that speech. I’ve seen him go to South Carolina and say things like, you know, “Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.” Well, you know what, that ain’t going to work in South Carolina. The most generous description [evangelicals] will give [Mormonism] is the one that I give it, which is that it is the fourth Abrahamic religion, you know, Judaism being the first, Christianity being the second, and Islam being the third. And Joseph Smith plays the Mohammed figure in a fourth Abrahamic faith, but it is not a Trinitarian Christian faith.

Need I remind you that Mormonism isn’t Christian?

Brownbackers instinctively know that neither Giuliani nor Romney are acceptable; neither deserve their vote. If either choice is presented as the only one, they will look elsewhere: either third party or a write-in. You can count on it. This is no bluff.

See also: Rudy Giuliani: Soft on Child Molesters? Is this the kind of person that a President Giuliani would welcome into his cabinet?

– Psycheout

A Word About the RINO Rumors

Right now, RINOs, Helioleftists, and various other atheist moonbat treefrog America-haters are spreading rumors that Brownback is withdrawing from the GOP race today. I have one thing to say to these people- So what?

The GOP in its current form has become infected with people like Giuliani, who’d rather talk to his latest harlot on the telephone than talk to a roomful of veterans; McCain, whose only contribution to this campaign has been sucking airtime away from valid candidates; Romney, who wears magical underpants and worships a phony deity masqueraded as Our Lord; and Huckabee, who talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk. Brownback is better off as a write-in candidate, if it comes to that, than he is competing for the nomination with this assortment of closeted Democrats and flagrant heathens.

It is saddening, of course, that many patriotic Americans may sin by voting for the GOP nominee over Senator Brownback in a write-in campaign. One may still hold out a glimmer of hope that it doesn’t come down to that. However, one must also abide by the Edicts of God. If God decides to test America’s faith by having Brownback win a write-in campaign rather than as a regular Republican nominee, let us praise the Will of God.

A write-in campaign victory would be unheard-of in the annals of American politics. It would be nothing short of miraculous. 50% of America’s atheists would convert upon receipt of the news, saving their souls; the other 50% would commit suicide or flee to New Zealand, thereby damning themselves and everyone foolish enough to listen to them in future.

Yes, the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that having Brownback drop out of the Republican race for President is the greatest victory God could give the man, and the nation. It will make us all savor the sweetness of his 2008 write-in victory that much more.

We here at Blogs 4 Brownback will, of course, stand behind the Senator, no matter what happens today or in future. If the GOP rejects Brownback, they shall cast themselves into the Lake of Fire right alongside the Democrats. Brownback is for all true Americans, not RINOs or liberals or secularists of any stripe or persuasion.

God bless America. Let us all continue to pray for Brownback’s eventual victory, and let us all work hand in hand to see that the blessed work of God comes to pass.

UPDATE: The Book of Judges, Chapter 7:

^“1THEN JERUBBAAL, that is, Gideon, and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

²The Lord said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel boast about themselves against Me, saying, My own hand has delivered me.

³So now proclaim in the ears of the men, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him turn back and depart from Mount Gilead. And 22,000 of the men returned, but 10,000 remained.

⁴And the Lord said to Gideon, The men are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. And he of whom I say to you, This man shall go with you, shall go with you; and he of whom I say to you, This man shall not go with you, shall not go.

⁵So he brought the men down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, Everyone who laps up the water with his tongue as a dog laps it, you shall set by himself, likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.

⁶And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

⁷And the Lord said to Gideon, With the 300 men who lapped I will deliver you, and give the Midianites into your hand. Let all the others return every man to his home.

⁸So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands, and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his home and retained those 300 men. And the host of Midian was below him in the valley.

⁹That same night the Lord said to Gideon, Arise, go down against their camp, for I have given it into your hand.

¹⁰But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp

¹¹And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the camp of the armed men.

¹²And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

¹³When Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of ^[a]barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.

¹⁴And his comrade replied, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has given Midian and all the host.

¹⁵When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped and returned to the camp of Israel and said, Arise, for the Lord has given into your hand the host of Midian.

¹⁶And he divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches inside the pitchers.

¹⁷And he said to them, Look at me, then do likewise. When I come to the edge of their camp, do as I do.

¹⁸When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, For the Lord and for Gideon!

¹⁹So Gideon and the 100 men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when the guards had just been changed, and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

²⁰And the three companies blew the trumpets and shattered the pitchers, holding the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow [leaving no chance to use swords], and they cried, The sword for the Lord and Gideon!

²¹They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the [Midianite] army ran–they cried out and fled.

²²When [Gideon's men] blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every [Midianite's] sword against his comrade and against all the army, and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

²³And the men of Israel were called together out of Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.

²⁴And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites and take all the intervening fords as far as Beth-barah and also the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took all the fords as far as Beth-barah and also the Jordan.

²⁵And [the men of Ephraim] took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.”

So shall the victory of Brownback confirm God’s Infinite Love for These United States.

Making the Wrong Choice

In life it’s often easy to look back at times when one was presented with two or more choices and the wrong one was selected. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. But foresight can be too. A number of evangelicals have threatened, somewhat wisely, that if, in the worst case scenario, RINO Rudy Giuliani, a crossdressing pro-abortion pro-gay anti-gun liberal, were to get the GOP nomination, that they would vote third party rather than support the Republican party’s nominee. I do agree that, for conservatives with a conscience, Rudy is no choice at all. A Giuliani victory would destroy the Republican party and set back social conservatism for decades. It would likely set the pro-life movement, which has been gaining momentum for decades, back as well. That would be disastrous.

My reaction to the third party threat was, why don’t evangelicals and right thinking social conservatives throw themselves behind a good old fashioned honest to goodness conservative now, rather than wait until it’s too late and then go fishing in the third party dregs for a candidate with legs? It seems to me there are three decent choices: Duncan Hunter, who deserves the Secretary of Defense nod from whoever wins, Mike Huckabee, a decent Baptist Pastor who may not be as strong when it comes to fiscal and economic issues, and Sam Brownback, who is simply the best principled, conservative Republican in the race. Why, I ask, why? Rather than complain about the perceived top tier, why not get behind one of the other candidates and boost him up to frontrunner status? And still I wonder.

It seems a new meme is being put forth in the media which traditional conservatives should find quite alarming, myself included. Race 4 2008 has brought this to our attention with a post up this evening and I think the issue deserves consideration. The chilling title is The Dawning Realization of the Social Right. If the assertions are true, if the conclusions being made are accurate, it will not be a new dawn or morning in America, rather it will be the emboldening of the social wrong: midnight in America.

Simply stated, some in the media are suggesting that evangelicals and social conservatives are actually seriously considering getting behind Willard “Mittens” Romney. I know you’re laughing or shaking your head at this. And I hope you’re right. Evangelicals backing Mitt, flip-flopper extraordinaire? The Republican John F. Kerry?

It seems like they’d be much more comfortable with one of their own: a social conservative, someone who supported the Reagan revolution, and a Christian rather than a Mormon. So I’m not sure if these whisperings are true or not or if it’s just a liberal media trick to try and convince evangelicals to back their dream candidate. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if this is just a hamhanded attempt at manipulation, propagenda (propaganda with an agenda) if you will.

Build a Log Cabin for Mittens

Ah, with friends like these fairies, who needs enemies?

The gay wing of the Republican party endorses Mitt Romney and shoots him in the foot. Some days it pays to be a Republican. A real Republican.

– Psycheout

Abortion a Deal Breaker for Romney

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. Or something like that. Talking out of both sides of his face has been a successful strategy for Mitt Romney so far, but with his most recent flippy flop on abortion, things may be starting to change. And that’s a good thing for social conservatives.

Mitt Romney’s confusing statements on his support for a ban on abortion are not going to play well with the Evangelical vote, according to David Jeffers, author of Understanding Evangelicals: A Guide to Jesusland. “Evangelicals are clear on their position on abortion,” Jeffers explains, “We not only see Roe v. Wade as bad law, but also as the first egregious case of judicial activism. We want to see it overturned, and believe abortion to be a curse upon this great nation.”

Depending on his audience Mitt is either “effectively pro-choice” or “always for life.” But when the issue concerns the murder of millions of womb babies, a principled candidate cannot take both sides. One is either pro-infanticide or pro-life. Slick Willard may be losing some of his sheen.

Jeffers likens Romney’s differing stances to a double-minded man that the Book of James warns against: “he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:8)

That description, sadly, fits Mittens perfectly. UltaMITTly he seems to stand for nothing.

Moreover, Jeffers believes Evangelicals will not vote for Romney, and they will stay home from the polls all together. “Evangelicals believe it is un-Christian to vote against someone,” said Jeffers. Jeffers cites a Rasmussen poll that that 25% of Republicans say they would definitely vote against Romney.

“Romney and other top Presidential contenders are taking the Evangelical vote for granted,” said Jeffers. “Evangelicals won’t choose the lesser of two evils. They won’t choose evil period.”

Romneybots and Mittheads can take that to the bank. Romney has negative ratings that meet or exceed even Hillary and it’s only going to get worse as social conservatives learn the many contradictory positions of Multiple-choice Mitt on critical issues. If the answer is Romney, it was a stupid question.

Perhaps John MacMillan, a former supporter of Romney (when he was running for Governor in 2003), said it best.

“He’s as phony as a three-dollar bill,” said MacMillan. “When I started to look at his positions – gun control, pro-gay – I found out that he’s just as bad as (Teddy) Kennedy. I’ve been a Republican all my life, and leopards don’t change their spots. He’ll change his position, say anything, to get votes.”

It’s a good thing there’s still time for the GOP’s nominee to be chosen. We can still choose a principled, conservative Republican. A Mittens nomination will guarantee a Democrat President, even if he were somehow to win!

– Psycheout

Is Mitt Romney Human?

I’m not in a position where I can interview Mitt Romney so I’ll have to make do with accounts of those who have. Jon Ralston had a chance to sit down with Mittens and his perspective is interesting and confirms what many of us have long suspected.

Mitt Romney is virtually unflappable, doesn’t reveal too much and seems effortlessly articulate. He is genial without being smarmy, glib without seeming shallow, and dexterous without seeming calculating.

Those are all good qualities to have in a president, and he seems as presidential as anyone I have interviewed. He also may be the scariest.

Huh? Read on.

You hear politicians described as “smooth” all the time. “Silky” is the frequent adjectival addition to enhance the cliche. Romney is so silky smooth that you interview him for a half-hour and you wonder afterward whether you were even there, as if he just slid by you – yes, smoothly, without much effort and looking coolly presidential doing it.

He’ll apparently say anything while actually saying nothing at all. Remember Bill Clinton?

Romney’s duality, which has been caricatured as flip-flopping and praised as evolution, surely is troublesome for the contender. The seriousness behind Stewart’s question – is this guy for real or is he a hologram of a candidate? – will become central to whether he can get the nomination and win a general election.

Jon goes on to summarize the interview and how slippery his answers were. It’s disturbing to say the least. Jon closes with this:

Even caught off-guard, he handled that fairly well, just as he seamlessly dodged (even when pressed) my question about whether George W. Bush has been a great president.

We also discussed Romney’s Mormonism, which caused him to launch into a soliloquy on secular leadership and religious influences. Indeed, he ultimately struck me as many LDS politicians here have – deliberate, modulated and opaque.

Scarily, and effectively, opaque.

Read the whole thing. And then ask yourself: “Is Mitt Romney human?” Does anybody knows where this man stands on anything, or do his supporters merely think he agrees with them? He takes so many sides of any given issue that everyone could find something to agree with. Only Mitt Romney knows where he stands or rather if he stands for anything at all, other than for himself.

So, is Mitt Romney human?

Update: See also The Many Faces of Mitt Romney.

I’m astounded. I don’t know how else to say it. I just continue to be amazed at the number of Republicans who are so easily conned, duped and hoodwinked by Willard Mitt Romney.

Update 2: If you love flipping and flopping and flopping and flipping, see Mitt Romney Watch: Mitt Flips on Abortion Again.  Summary – 1994: pro-choice; 2001: not pro-choice; 2002: pro-choice again; 2004: pro-life; 2005: pro-choice; 2007: “effectively pro-choice”; 2007: “always for life.”  Dizzy yet?

Conclusion: Mitt Romney is a dolphin.

– Psycheout

Mitt Romney: “Not Electable”

John Herbert sums it up in one sentence:

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is not electable.

You got that right.  But let’s delve a little deeper.

Romney’s challenge is that one out of three Americans gives Mormonism unfavorable marks, that’s worse than any other religion. Only atheism rates lower.

He may as well be an atheist.  Mormonism is a cult, after all.  And atheism is a sign of a sick mind.  We all know these things to be true.

It would seem that, although not entirely Mittens’ fault, Mormonism doesn’t recognize the simple fact that life begins at conception.

Christian fundamentalists, who control much of Florida’s conservative politics, may buy into a pro-life Romney. But they remain queasy, if not about the flip-flopping, putting our nation in the hands of someone they see as a heretic. Mormonism rejects the pro-life stance that life begins at conception.

Now, that’s just crazy!  And there’s more.

If you’ve read Jon Krakauer’s unnerving narrative, “Under the Banner of Heaven,” you could easily believe that murder and polygamy are firmly ingrained in Mormon history.

Now that’s what America needs more of!  And scofflaws galore reside in Mitt’s “church.”  And that’s just great!

A California taxpayer, a Mormon, lost a verdict over his refusal to pay Social Security taxes. His reasoning: “The Social Security system violates the teachings of my church. Mormons take care of their own.”

Wow, now that’s logical, eh, Mr. Spock?  Actually that last bit is positively spooky, so let’s end on a pleasant note:

There are only about 14 million Mormons worldwide.

Only?  That sure sounds like a lot of people who have reservations for a furnished room in hell.  The rooms may be a little warm, but at least there’s Romney TV.  Porn for the whole family!  Enjoy!

– Psycheout

Romney Flip-Flops on Sons’ “Service”

Mittens Romney felt the chill in the air and retracted his earlier statement that his sons’ support for their dad’s run for President is equivalent to fighting the war on terror.  The amazing dolphin boy flips again!

Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney…admitted yesterday that he was wrong to compare his sons’ stumping for him with the sacrifices made by U.S. troops in Iraq.

Well, no kidding.  B4B already made that pretty clear.

“I’m very pleased and proud of my boys and the help they’re doing for their dad, but it’s not service to the country. It’s service for me. And there’s just no comparison there.”

Gee, why didn’t you say that in the first place?

“I misspoke there. I didn’t mean in any way to compare service in the country with my boys in any way.”

Mittens is either a fool or a liar.  He actually expects us to swallow this bucket of hogwash?  No thanks Mitty, we’re not thirsty.

A reminder: if you ever hear anything Mitt says that you don’t like, just wait a few days and he’ll say the opposite!  Very Clintonesque, Slick Romney.

– Psycheout

Mitt Romney: The Truth Comes Out

A “joke” in poor taste or the truth coming out?  You be the judge.

Last night, at the pre-Straw Poll “Ronstock” concert at the Bali Satay House in Ames, a Ron Paul volunteer played back a recording of competing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney joking about cheating in a State Fair popularity contest, stuffing the ballot box in Ames, and dodging questions across the state.

A Ron Paul event.  Something silly’s going to happen.

“Gosh, those Ask Mitt Anythings, how many of those did we have? 46? 47? Unfortunately, people took us for our word,” Romney joked, according to a sound clip on the digital recording device. “They asked me anything. There were some truly awful questions. But I, but I tried to dodge most of those. And I, I’ll keep on doing that as long as I can.”

But wait, there’s more:

Romney also joked about stuffing the ballot box at today’s Straw Poll. “At 7 o’clock they will count the ballots. We will stuff the ballot box, I hope,” he said on the recording.

And one can’t help but wonder if there isn’t a kernel of truth in this:

 And he joked about cheating in the Corn Poll, the bipartisan State Fair popularity contest in which attendees are asked to “cast your kernel” by placing a kernel of corn in a jar for their favored candidate to show their support. “I was a little dismayed because I saw Barack Obama — he had a lot of corn in that Mason jar,” quipped Romney. “But I was number one – so thanks for cheating!” The crowd applauded in the background.

Does a man who mocks the American people asking him questions, advocates stuffing the ballot box in his favor and condones cheating belong in the White House?  Not on your life.

Think Brownback.

– Psycheout