Trying to blog while on a business trip is proving almost impossible, but - in the interest of being even-handed in my criticisms of Mormons - I wanted to drop this on you:
Actress and Green Party presidential candidate Roseanne Barr told The Daily Caller that voters should be concerned about presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith.
Barr told TheDC that Mormonism should be an election issue “only if you have a problem with a guy having his finger on the nuclear button who thinks Jesus was hanging out with the Indians and that the Romneys will be running their own planets in the hereafter.”
Romney is the first Mormon to secure a major party’s presidential nomination. His religion became a political issue during the Republican primaries when pastor Robert Jeffress, a supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy, denounced Mormonism as “a cult.”
President Barack Obama’s campaign has repeatedly said that Romney’s religion is “off limits” for campaign mud-slinging. The notoriously unfiltered Barr, however, does not share Obama’s qualms.
“The religion? Don’t get me started — I grew up in Utah,” she said. “Look, lots of Mormons are nice people. I’m sure a whole big crowd of Mitt’s grandmothers are looking down proudly at his run for the White House. But if people knew more about him and how he made his money, and maybe his religion, which is more socialist than anything Obama’s proposed, they wouldn’t want him anywhere near the Oval Office.”
WE are electing YOU - not the other way around - so you don't dictate the criteria we do that on.
Second, as much as I hate agreeing with Roseanne Barr, it should be obvious I've been saying the same thing she is - especially the part about living with Mormons being completely different from the in-passing experiences so many parade in their defense (the "I met a Mormon and he was so nice" bullshit,…) Such people know nothing - especially compared to this atheist - and are leading their country to the slaughter in a silly effort to assert otherwise.
That said, when it comes to Roseanne's charge that Romney "thinks Jesus was hanging out with the Indians," it looks like the Mormons just might have received a *little* science to back that up:
Israeli geneticists have found that a tribe of Native American Indians may have a genetic mutation typical of Ashkenazi Jews.
The genetic mutation is a harmful modification in the BRCA1 gene, prevalent among Jews of Eastern European descent, which increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.O.K., if you read the story, it becomes pretty clear the Mormons have got no case, but it's enough to further their delusions and, I thought, worth a mention. Man, are they pathetic.
Where to begin... calling Barr an actress?
ReplyDeleteI can't get past that one.
I hope your trip is successful and get home safe.
ReplyDeleteMy expectations were never high with Romney...but they were higher than this.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for many an erstwhile Republican/conservative who at least had some hope, that bubble is pretty much up, away, and reaching the maximum expansion event horizon.
ReplyDeleteBut better now than later.
...and Leavitt has more than this stinky-poo in his past, plus he's a very good bud of Romney so highly unlikely that he'll be tossed under the bus completely and for good (maybe a grand show of it for the press and the little people, but he'll be brought back -- there is too much connection between those two men for there not to be, and ideologically they think very much alike).
However, I don't think people realize just how much power they still have left -- if there was ever a time for people to not act dejected and especially not "shut up and do what you are told" it is now (while there is still just a sliver of time and opportunity left)...nobody is yet forcing anyone to vote for either of these two shysters.
PW