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So today’s much hyped Mitt’s Mormon Speech (soon to be trademarked) is a miss. Mitt attempting to pull off George W. Bush’s dog whistle politics and make his Mormonism unthreatening. The speech was supposed to be some major address and it’s really just a variation on the stump speech. Most Americans will [...]

Gee, its too bad Mitt Romney decided to pander to the evangelist community in his speech on religion. Directly following a statement about the constitution’s prohibition against a religious test for office, he re-interpreted the 1st amendment using the now tired canard suggesting that the separation clause somehow does not mean God should be left [...]

I’ve written before on Mitt’s Mormonism and presidential politics (here and here). The comparison with John Kennedy is obvious: Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to achieve the presidency in American history. But he wasn’t the first to try. Al Smith did that decades before. And he lost, due in large [...]

Hey, blame it on the media. We love our garment wearing friends and neighbors. We refer to them in mixed company and affectionately as “magic pajamas”. But the media does not do “tolerance well”

At great cost to the Church of Latter Day Saints, Republic presidential candidate and flip-flopper extraordinare Mitt Romney has decided [...]

New old news I didn’t know. Mitt Romney raises taxes big time while Governor of Massachusetts.
Listen to this insider’s take on Tucker Carlson.

Willard (Mitt) Romney has a problem, according to Steve Benen on Talking Points Memo. Political pundits are waiting for him to deliver a speech similar to the one by John F. Kennedy in 1960, declaring that “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.” The problem is, [...]

This has been the bloodiest summer for U.S. forces in Iraq since the war began and Iraqi civilian deaths in Anbar have risen under the “Surge.” These are facts the media distorts every time they repeat one of the half-truths dripped from General Betray Us like slobber from one of Pavlov’s dogs.
Listening to all the [...]

Mitt Romney has backed himself into a corner with his life vs choice , and his political and personal vs Church/religious views.
Problem is, the American people and much less, the breed that will determine his success in the republican primary, do not “do” the subtleties required to “buy” his apologetic [...]

The few remaining supporters of the indefinite occupation of Iraq at all costs burst into paroxysms of joy this week. On Monday, the New York Times featured an op-ed by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution titled, “A War We Just Might Win.” Never mind the fact O’Hanlon and Pollack [...]

NBC and MSNBC are flogging the Ann Coulter thing to the max, and it’s getting more absurd. Why do these networks keep providing a platform for hate speech? This morning on Joe Scarborough’s show Coulter proclaimed that she’s getting tired of being called a Nazi every time she comes out with a new [...]

According to an article in the Boston Globe, presidential candidate Willard (Mitt) Romney enjoyed five years of draft deferments as a student and while serving a church mission in France. But he “longed…to actually be in Vietnam.” When his deferments were up, he drew a high draft lottery number and escaped being drafted. [...]

It was bound to happen and this is only the beginning. Two Mormon techies hosting her website edited it website without authorization because they didn’t like some of the sites she linked to. Her is journalist, blogger and radio talk show host Taylor Marsh.
In a fairly interesting article, Censored by Two Mormons, she re-posts e-mail [...]