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In reply to the discussion: Lay off Romney and his Mormon beliefs? [View all]Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)It shows you're a sensible human being, which means that it's useless in understandin the GOP, or how to oppose them.
We should not forget that, to conservatives, your destiny is determined by who your family is. It was ever thus: they believe in a kind of thinly-vieled feudalism without even realizing it. Remember that the most important fact about Barack Obama, according to them, is who his father was. It does not matter that he did not raise him, nor did it matter what his actual beliefs were. Google "Obama" and "Mau Mau" and you get 1,200,000 hits, even though the President didn't really know his father, the Mau Mau Revolution happened before the president was born and Obama Sr. was out of the country at the time anyway. None of that matters: Obama's father was Kenyan, the Mau Mau Revolution happened in Kenya, therefore President Obama is a classic opponent of wester colonialism. Q.E.D. Though why it is that the opposition of any American to colonialism and imperialism, especially British colonialism and imperialism is somehow disqualifying is beyond me.
Of course it doesn't make any sense to look into the matter of Romney's Mormonism, but that's the point: if the President is somehow dangerous because he listened to Rev., Wright's sermons, how can Romney's faith, supposedly the essense of the core of the soul of his being, be out of bounds?
Mr. Romney is a man who believes manifestly absurd things simply because his parents believed them. I think that's relevant.