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Suddenly religion has no place in the GOP

Truly a leg-slapping howler from Mitt Romney:

I would call upon Gov. Perry to repudiate the sentiment and the comments made by that pastor,” Romney told reporters just hours before the pair are scheduled to meet in another presidential debate. “Governor Perry said that introduction hit it out of the park,” Romney added. “I don’t believe that that kind of divisiveness based on religion has a place in this country.”

It’s almost like Mittens lives in some kind of bizarro universe, or maybe he just flat forgot what party he belongs to. But now that the question has beenr aised, you know what I’d like to see asked in the debate tonight? Are followers of Reverend Sun Myung-moon in a cult? Why or why not?

That would be a hoot.

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  2. tfkreference says

    Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Because moonies worship a charismatic leader who tells them to leave their families and give away their possesions, which is different from Christianity because…OK, I’m lost now. Maybe because the moonies actually do what he says?

  3. says

    Well, it is the BS of convenience.

    The fact of the matter is that Rick Perry was expected to coast through the primaries; he was the presumed front-runner before he entered and then the actual front-runner when he did.

    White, Southern white, social conservative…has everything that would appeal to the Republican Tea Party.

    Was creating jobs when the rest of the country was losing them.

    (OK, Ann Richardson and Bush the Younger did so in the resource-rich Texas more prolifically, and Perry created more minimum wage jobs than anything of worth, but we’ll ignore the fine print)

    Had no deficits when the rest of the big states were running one (used the stimulus that he hypocritically ranted against, and faces a $27 billion deficit, but again, we’ll ignore the fine print)

    State was burning, but he prayed, and people were distracted with his, well, wingnuttery.

    So it was smooth sailing to get the nigger black man out of the White House, or so it seemed.

    Then he oopsed on that free education for illegal immigrant thingy (not really his decision, but mainly Texas’s, but we’ll ignore the fine print).

    All that would still have been fine, till the cash-broke-no-spending-at-any-cost states realized that once the primaries are decided, the Republican klan-o-rama conventions do not make money unless the primaries are held when the race isn’t decided. That ad money is huge for those economies.

    So every state decided to move up their primaries, and Perry found himself staring at a three-run deficit, and it is the sixth inning.

    Needed to act fast.

    So he played one of his aces in the hole with the Mormon card. No self-respecting tea bagger was ever going to vote a Mormon in any more than he was going to vote a black man in.

    The baggers just needed to be reminded.

    And Perry did just that with an assist from Jeffress.

    Romney is fucked. He was coasting in the wake of the front-runner, Minnesota Palin at first, and Perry later, and Perry slips (temporarily) so badly that Mitt finds himself exposed.

    And there is no way to hide your Mormonism, even if you hide your underwear.

    So Mitt has no choice but to demand an apology of sorts from Perry. Otherwise he looks like a doormat. Which, we all know, he won’t get. But Mitt has to at least highlight it for some of those Baptists with the semblance of a conscience.

    If Mitt or the Republicans cared about religious intolerance, they would chided Herb Cain for it.

    They do not. The only surprise (seemingly) was that Perry played that card so early. He had no choice.

    What I am amazed (well, no longer) is that none of the journos had the pulse to ask

    “Guvnur Mitt, Do you believe that ‘that kind of divisiveness based on religion’ has a place in this country when FUCKING MORMONS POUR MONEY INTO PROP 8 IN CALIFORNIA TO DENY GAYS THE RIGHT TO A MARRIAGE, YOU BLOODY HYPOCRITICAL FUCK!”

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