Today’s Reading List – August 2, 2007
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In light of his visit, The Denver Post ran a feature piece about Romney that would have been a tremendous opportunity to familiarize the public with the GOP's top fundraiser and his thoughts on key issues. The article was a whopping three pages entirely devoted to the Mormon faith. Romney does, in fact, have an ambitious political agenda, but you wouldn't know it from the article.
It may very well be that the peculiar focus on Romney's faith is a way to cover for the paucity of seriousness on the Democratic side. If the Democrats' latest debate was any indication, soothing the anti-war left will be of far greater concern than national security or pro-market solutions to health care and Social Security. And it is on exactly these issues that Mitt Romney is so compelling.
The left, using The Question as a smokescreen? Ya think?!?!? What is really sad about it is how many people are taking the bait.
Religious bigotry comes in many forms. Jack Tapper reports on a letter circulating in Iowa pitting Brownback and Huckabee:
The letter was written by Pastor Tim Rude of Walnut Creek Community Church in Windsor Heights, Iowa. A Huckabee volunteer.
He writes that "Huckabee is an evangelical. He has not learned how to speak to evangelicals; i.e. Bush 41 & 43. He is one of us. I know Senator Brownback converted to Roman Catholicism in 2002. Frankly, as a recovering Catholic myself, that is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the Governor's. I don't if this fact is widely known among evangelicals who are supporting Brownback." [emphasis added]
"His discernment" is fundy code language – it is, frankly, an overused phrase amongst fundies and has come to more or less mean – stupid. It amounts to an ad hominem. But that phrase "He is one of us" is just heinous. While it lacks epithets or perjoratives of any sort, I honestly cannot think of a more bigoted statement.
Tapper points out that this offensive missive was not done by the Huckabee campaign and argues that it is problematic for the campign to apologize for stuff like this on the part of their supporters. That's too simplistic. A campaign does not necessarily need to apologize, but they should denounce. It is simply a qualification for office to have no tolerance for bigotry, you may not be responsible for it, but you sure as heck should not accept it. Which reminds me, we never heard a peep from Guiliani. And believe me, we called….
On Faith this week is looking at the Hindu prayer in the Senate. My opinion is that the enitre controversy springs from slogans and labels substituting for information and understanding.
Finally…
John Mark Reynolds, borrows from Rush Limbaugh and "illustrates absurdity by being absurd."
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