On campaign trail, Romney ratchets ups God rhetoric

[spanone]

Washington (CNN) – At campaign events these days, Mitt Romney often says that if he is elected president, he will emphasize the role of God in American society and will not “take God out of the public square.”

That kind of rhetoric is a departure from earlier less God-focused versions of the Republican candidate’s stump speech and his early apprehension with discussing his Mormon faith.

According to Mark DeMoss, Romney’s adviser to the evangelical community, such lines are designed to create a contrast with a Democratic Party that had to fight to get God into its platform at its recent convention.

“I will not take God out of my heart, I will not take God out of the public square, and I will not take it out of the platform of my party,” Romney has been saying in his stump speech since the Democratic platform fight this month.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/on-campaign-trail-romney-ratchets-ups-god-rhetoric/?hpt=hp_t3

[JaneyVee]

1. Sounds like something Al-Qaeda or the Taliban says.

[nc4bo]

2. Striking in its similarity. nt

[JaneyVee]

4. Iran-The neocon conservative paradise.

[Initech]

13. Agreed - he's setting an extremely dangerous precedent.

Sometimes I really wonder how our religious fundamentalists are any different than the ones we're fighting.

[NightWatcher]

3. but the evangelicals wonder if he means his "god" or their God

The one who created the Garden of Eden in Jackson Co Missouri and lives on the planet Kolob or the one who they pray to who created the Garden of Eden somewhere in Mesopotamia


I know several rw'er who are also fundies who might be staying home this election, esp if it looks like Obama is guaranteed a win by a 5-10 pt polling advantage. Mitt's hurting the repukes downticket races already. You wanna talk about an enthusiasm gap...

[WinkyDink]

18. He means his future self, on his own planet. :-)

[man4allcats]

5. So he's basing his campaign on superstition?

What a fool! Then again, in America maybe not. Three hundred million strong and many of them just dumb enough to buy it.

[RKP5637]

6. Just what America needs a fundy dystopia. Romney is such a damn tool and fool. n/t

[man4allcats]

19. + 10

10 is almost always the highest I ever give. Thanks for posting.

[RKP5637]

20. Thanks for the + 10. It is greatly appreciated! n/t

[reflection]

7. Yeah, that's the way to capture the center.

Dude, if you haven't sewn up your base by now you are fucked nine ways to Sunday.

[nc4bo]

9. God = Tool. Romney just snuck in a little "tell". nt

[Voice for Peace]

12. lol.. just posted the same thing. "it" or maybe god is akin to "thing"

(as in "thank you, thing" from Addams Family)

[spanone]

10. wonder how God feels about being used as a political pawn?

[Voice for Peace]

11. I wonder how God feels about being called "it"

(I mean if there is or were a God with feelings, hypothetically.
It's ok to be godgender neutral, but a lower case i?)

[TwilightGardener]

14. That's great, if I'm voting for a preacher. Which I'm not.

[Victor_c3]

15. I used to think of myself as "agnostic", but I'm straight up atheist these days

This sort of "god" rhetoric scares the bejesus out of me. It's funny that the right wingers act all offended at Sharia law, but if they could get away with implementing a strict biblical interpretation of how to live life (similar to Sharia law) on America, I'm sure they would.

The combination of the republicans and religion makes them absolutely unappealing to me. If they could separate themselves from the church, I might actually be able to believe that they have the best interest of the country at heart. Instead, they make it clear that they want to turn this country into a theocracy and start a new round of crusades in the middle east.

[RagAss]

21. Poor Mitt, trying to pull rabbits out of his ass to save his shitstain campaign.

[jsr]

22. Romney's God: