Is this the enders for Mitt?
It's the last thing Mitt Romney needed. A member of the home team is advising John McCain NOT to choose the Mitt as his vice presidential running mate.Science fiction writer (and DNews Mormon Times columnist) Orson Scott Card writes an open letter to McCain, warning, "Don't do it":
What Mitt Romney would do, as your vice presidential candidate, is weaken you in areas that you absolutely must carry: The South and the Bible Belt.You cannot afford to underestimate the number of people who will never vote for a ticket that includes a Mormon.
Card says McCain must win because Obama doesn't have the credentials to fight terrorism and would appoint "dictator-judges."
If it were not for those issues, I would be voting for Obama this year. Instead, I must vote for you. And you must, for the sake of this country's future as a free land, win.Other hoped-for Mitt cheerleaders also have turned on him. The front page of The Washington Times warns picking Romney would alienate evangelicals.
The conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal rips Mitt's vaunted (by him) health insurance program. WSJ says that although 350,000 people have gotten covered under Mitt's plan, the program is a cost-overrun disaster.
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I hope McCain will pick Romney simply to send a strong message to the Evangelicals that the Republican party is not controlled by them.
I think Card should wait to see who Obama chooses as his running mate before dismissing a vote for Obama out of fear of lack of foreign policy experience.
Obama is far more astute than McCain. McCain is just four more years of Bush and how can we afford that?
On his recent trip to the Middle East and Europe, Obama did much better than McCain would've in the same situation.
This article just gives me another reason to NOT read Orson Scott Card (never liked him, anyway - now I know why).
Have you listened to Obama recently? Obama has backpeddled significantly from his primary rhetoric. He sounds like 4 more years of Bush more and more each day.
To J 11:08: the Republican party is basically a coalition of Evangelicals + Wall Street rich men. So I respectfully suggest that it is naive to suggest that Evangelicals do not run the GOP.
When will LDS folks wake up? We are despised by teh majority of Republicans, but the highest ranking Mormon in American government is a Democrat, Harry Reid.
Warchol's secret obsession and man-love of Mitt Romney continues.
The rest of us have forgot about him, but Warchol still fantasizes about the day Mittster reads one of his articles and the two confess their love for each other.
Time for Warchol to go join the Rainbow Parade is search of his next boyfriend.
Ah, the mind of Warchol. Make fun of the Mormon Times, then signal its relevance by implying Card's article is the end for Mitt... How's that work, Warchol?
I'd keep my distance from McCain if I were Mitt. Do all the attacking of Obama you want. Fund raise. Then watch McCain go down in flames.
In a mostly unrelated note, the next Futurama movie will be titled "Bender's Game". Really.
At this stage of the campaign, it's a "run to the center" for both candidates. Mitt represents positions to the right of McCain. He needs someone more moderate, if he's to have a chance with undecided middle / mainstream voters.
All Romney, all of the time.
Warchol should change is name to Wood-chol. That would be cool.
what credentials did bush have to fight terrorism? He and his administration ignored all kinds of indications that 9/11 was coming. Then, when bin Laden was running loose in the Afghan / Pakistan region, Cheney invades Iraq. Credentials....
When will the extreme wing back off the throttle?
"Sunday morning, a whole lotta ugly entered the church's sanctuary in the form of a man who was angry about "the liberal movement" and its tolerance for gay couples, among other things. The man started firing a shotgun he bought from a pawnshop. He killed two people and injured seven others before he was wrestled to the floor and later arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
According to the News-Sentinel, Knoxville police department investigator Steve Still wrote in the search warrant that Jim David Adkisson, the man who was arrested in the rampage, went to the church "because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets."
Adkisson, who had served in the military, said "that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement he would then target those that had voted them in office," the search warrant states. Among the items seized from Adkisson's house were three books: "The O'Reilly Factor," by television commentator Bill O'Reilly; "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder," by radio personality Michael Savage; and "Let Freedom Ring," by political pundit Sean Hannity."
Maybe OSC can focus on another alternate history novel in which Mormons don't have a persecuted-martyr complex, McCain goes postal on a panel of activist judges, and Romney gets the Republican nomination but loses to Hillary Clinton.
OSC is an egotistical idiot! Just because he wrote a few fiction books, he thinks he's an expert on everything. To show how far off the deep end he's gone, check this out:
http://mormontimes.comME_blogs.php?id=1586
Because of same-sex marriage issues, He actually advocates taking down our government “by whatever means is made possible or necessary."
Don't pay attention to the nutcase. It would be awful if his influence hurt Romney's chances.
Mr. Card would do well to stick to the one and only thing he can do well, writing fantasy stories.
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