The cat-fight over possession of the religious right continues unabated, this time in the form of Twitt Romney's pandering, factually inaccurate and terminally stupid 'JFK Moment' speech to the converted at Bush I's 'library'.
I think the Times sums it up objectively although other commentors have broached subjects the Times omits.
The republican nabobs are now stuck with a self imposed means test for their prospective election to high office, that, in and of itself, is as far removed from the Founding Father's vision of the evolution of the States as one can get and yet this defacto imbuing of the Founders with revisionist 'Christian' intent goes, mostly, unchallenged in the traditional media.
For me, Professor Cole nails it...
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The religious right is a voters group, without which it would be pretty difficult for a Republican to win; much like it would be inconceivable for a Democrat to win without Blacks, or teachers' unions.
Politicians pander to interest groups. Personally, I think Romney chose to use "the speech" to deflect attention from his inconsistent record on issues that matter to the right, like abortion and gay marriage. It's probably easier to sell the Mormon thing.
I have less of a problem with people like the christian right who are involved in politics over matters of principle, as opposed to the Al Sharptons of the world looking to shake someone down.
Oh, and by the way, if Democrats thought the Religious right were up for grabs, they'd be on them like Michael Moore on the last piece of fried chicken.
The religious right is a voters group, without which it would be pretty difficult for a Republican to win; much like it would be inconceivable for a Democrat to win without Blacks, or teachers' unions.
Politicians pander to interest groups. Personally, I think Romney chose to use "the speech" to deflect attention from his inconsistent record on issues that matter to the right, like abortion and gay marriage. It's probably easier to sell the Mormon thing.
I have less of a problem with people like the christian right who are involved in politics over matters of principle, as opposed to the Al Sharptons of the world looking to shake someone down.
Oh, and by the way, if Democrats thought the Religious right were up for grabs, they'd be on them like Michael Moore on the last piece of fried chicken.
Blacks, hispanics, whites, gays, upper class, middle class, lower class... the Democratic party is reflective of modern America, not just gated communities and their mega churches in fricking Kansas.
The religious right is not a monolithic bloc as most would have. It is becoming more apparent, as polling intensifies, that the Christianists are splintering into several disparate groups with their own, outdated and ultimately divisive, single issue agendas that, for the most part, America rejected in 2006. That cannot be pleasing to their bigoted, bombastic, self-righteous super-lobbyist leaders, who's entire existences rely on delivering, en bloc, the herd.
I think most of the republican field is unaware of the schisms developing within this caucus and blithely pander to the imagined masses.
Romney is a flim-flam artist, over-concerned with perception and nuance, whilst lacking any moral or ethical rectitude, he is therefore, considered by most, unelectable. His 'speech' mentioned his church once, rather than clarify the positions and peculiarities of his denomination he avoided them and tried to sell himself as a pseudo born again evangelical with only marginal differences of faith and worship. We all know this is not true, his mormon faith is an impediment and to most evangelicals who see it as, at best, a cult and, at worst, a kin to devil worship it can not be overcome by spouting platitudes and fallacies.
The Democratic party does not need the religious right, it already has everybody else, who needs a bunch of radical crazies intent on changing the world to fit their twisted image of it... we just tried that, it went very badly!
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