The Salt Lake Tribune
Friday, August 15, 2008
Ganging up on Mitt
UPDATE...
Mitt Romney's chances of being selected as John McCain's running mate must be getting better every day. Otherwise, why is everyone picking on him?

Fellow Bay Stater U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, right in classic photo, says Mitt is the "most intellectually inconsistent politician" he has ever known, referring to Mitt's flips on abortion, gay rights, and other issues, and will "say whatever he thinks will win the next election":
This man has zigzagged extraordinarily.
NEW VITAL INFORMATION: Investigative reporter Lee Davidson at the DNews revealed today that Frank is gay. Yep, it's true. Apparently, we therefore can ignore anything he says.

In any case, we expect such gas out of Democrats, but what about Mike Huckabee, who says:

There are better choices for Sen. McCain that have the approval of value voters.
And:
A lot of the Republicans I know [who would they be?] are not necessarily comfortable with Romney.

One thing for sure, the more Huckabee and his evangelical allies say it is not about Mitt's religion the more obvious it is. As for most of the rest of us — valueswise, we have trouble telling Mormons and evangelicals apart.

8 Comments:

At August 15, 2008 9:48 AM , OpenID sideon said...

It's not because Mitt COULD be the VP choice, it's because Republicans are doing the only thing they can do in this toxic environment of their own making (Bush and Co), which is eat their own.

Crunch crunch crunch, nom nom... and there goes Mitt.

Good riddance.

 
At August 15, 2008 2:49 PM , Blogger The said...

Just what the hell is a values voter anyway? I understand what a value shopper is. Is a values voter someone who looks for the lowest cost politician?

 
At August 15, 2008 4:41 PM , Anonymous sst! said...

dear lord, protect me from values voters. amen.

 
At August 15, 2008 5:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"we have trouble telling Mormons and evangelicals apart"

Mormons are volunteer leaders that practice tolerance towards the religious teachings of other Christian organizations.

Evangelicals are paid preachers who make a living attacking and mocking the religious teachings of other Christian organizations.

Point settled. Done.

 
At August 18, 2008 1:25 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mitt's lived out his usefulness raising money for the GOP... the Gas and Oil Party

 
At August 18, 2008 6:23 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

How is this tolerance mormon volunteer?
Mormons are volunteer leaders that practice tolerance towards the religious teachings of other Christian organizations.

Evangelicals are paid preachers who make a living attacking and mocking the religious teachings of other Christian organizations.

 
At August 18, 2008 8:10 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tolerance doesn't mean the absence of fact.

Evangelicals DO pay their preachers who ROUTINELY attack other "versions" of Christianity in their sermons (i.e. Catholics, Lutherans, Mormons, etc.)

Need more evidence? Just look at the inflamatory code-speak used by Huckaphony during the campaign.

 
At August 25, 2008 11:09 AM , Anonymous disillusioned said...

The longer I live, the more I realize that "organized" religion, which includes politics, lost any credibility hundreds of years ago. Thank you God for giving me a choice.

 

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