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[ebonlock]

From Romney's speech last night:

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom"

Excuse me? Sally Quinn's interesting and accurate response:

QUINN: I have to say that I'm really stunned because I think it was an obliteration of the idea of the separation of church and state. He eliminated anybody who was a doubter, an atheist, an agnostic, a seeker. It's like, if you believe in God or Christ, you're on my side. If not, you're not.

Bingo. Though my favorite response comes from Barbara at Mahablog:

Millennia of human history in which religion did just fine without freedom are cheerfully ignored.

Comments

I wish I had proof...

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...that I was flogging Huckabee a year ago as the breakout candidate. I know I told people, but I wish i had something in writing. Better yet, I wish I had a betting slip from Paddy Power or William Hill or Ladbrokes with £20 on it and (XXLNUMBER):1 as the odds.

But I digress.

Mitt Romney is an idiot. Even setting aside the fact that the largest Protestant denomination in the country officially considers him a cult follower (that's not just talk, that's Southern Baptist doctrine, and I have the papers from the Watchman Foundation to prove it) - how on earth did he ever think he could be more attractive to the evangelical vote than an ACTUAL SOUTHERN BAPTIST PREACHER?

If Romney wanted to have a prayer (HA HA SEE WHAT I DID THERE), he should have taken a page out of the Gary Hart playbook and run as a technocratic non-ideological managerial-competence type, pointing to the SLC Olympics and his time in Massachusetts as proof that he could change the tone in Washington and be a capable administrator. Sure, maybe you have a rough time getting through the primary, but McCain's habit of bucking the faithful was working just fine in 2000 until he hit the Rove dirty tricks machine in South Carolina. This year, by the time they get to SC, it might be too late if one guy has already taken Iowa and NH.

Instead, Romney went for the Bush offense: say what they want to hear and try to look inevitable. Since NH was considered an easy get because of his proximity, Iowa became the ballgame, and he dumped an absolutely shit-fuck-obscene amount of money into the Hawkeye state. And now, with a month to go, he's sitting on a 2-7 and Huckabee's just flopped a straight.

Looking at the GOP field right now, I don't see how any of them can possibly win the nomination. Of course, I feel the same way about the Ds at the moment...

Re: I wish I had proof...

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Why aren't you on tv? Seriously.

TV??

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You must be joking. I have my credibility to consider ;)

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Argh.

Hi. :) I hope you got my email, but if not, to sum up: our naughty dog chewed your package to tatters. :( I hope there were only two things in it, because that is what I managed to salvage, having to prize one of them out of her mouth. Bad dog!

In other news, this had me giggling:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYjUWSfj7fE

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Email? Huh, didn't see it but I'll double check my inbox. But given how much trouble I've had convincing Pye that ribbons aren't toys and that he should stop stealing presents to play with this year, I can't really be too surprised that your dog thought the box was the best chew toy ever :)

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Oh, and ***hugs***. I forgot them before.

:)

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Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?

Olbermann: We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked, at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so, whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed were still even remotely plausible.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22134108/from/ET/ __._