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"franco:

"joet: Why do you call Romney a hypocrit? Do you know his heart?"

How bout what he said? This so shouldn't even be about him being a Mormon. Even if you don't like that, it should have to *get in line.*

Don't suppose while the Republicans are saying we should all be so tolerant of Mormons, that there might be a little room in our society for lil' ol' me?

This is usually-presented as a negative, I know, 'If we let those *other* protestants use our kids for a captive audience, what hapens if a *Wiccan* shows up and says Pagan people didn't actually write Harry Potter?! It'll be chaos!

I would say that, while Romney's trying to get his corporate sponsored bit of theocracy, maybe when people who want further irresponsible tax cuts and cry 'Tolerance!' could leave a little something for about a quarter of Americans who *don't* kneel before the God he publicly proclaims as Lord of America?

That phrase just don't sound right to some of us.

Go figure.

Franco: In this case I don't need to know his heart because the contradictory statements are in the speech. Just one example - he quotes the constitution's "no religious test" clause as the reason he shouldn't be asked about his faith's dogma, then turns right around and says Jesus is his Lord and Saviour (because that much of his faith will help him with evangelicals). That's hypocrisy right out of his mouth. Unless you are confining hypocrisy to saying one thing and doing another. Only a politician can accomplish saying one thing and then saying another.

Not only is Mitt Romney no Jack Kennedy (is that good or bad?), he's not even the same Mitt Romney who was governor of Massachusetts.

joet: Why do you call Romney a hypocrit? Do you know his heart?

Mr. Dickey, what you meant to say is that Jack Kennedy is no Mitt Romney!! You are right in that religion did not play a significant part in
JFK's life. He was bedding down every lady in the WH!! While Mitt has been a faithful husband. Romney's speech was eloquent, sincere, and powerful. JFK was only mouthing words he did not mean.

The speech was total hypocrisy. First, it was not about the general public fearing Mormons (they don't - George Romney and Mo Udall ran without the subject ever coming up). It was (as Charles Krauthamer writes today) about Huckabee in Iowa claiming to be the Christian, and polls showing evangelicals in Iowa squirming at a Mormon. Second, he invokes the "no religious test for office" clause as a convenient way of not describing his religion, then turns around and proclaims Jesus his lord and saviour (so he can fool evangelicals into not paying attention to the fact that no evangelical theologian thinks Mormons are christians), and then proclaims that you have to have some religion to be an American at all (atheists are not welcome). despicable.