Today’s Reading List - August 17, 2007
Ahhh, the left…
Where to begin with this piece of fetid, anti-religious waste product on paper? Rhonda Chriss Lokeman wants to back people of faith into a corner that allows them no nuance, no thought or reason. She presumes that if you are staunchly religious (though in this case she appears to limit herself to Romney and Mormonism) you cannot think, that you cannot disagree with your church, that you are somehow incapable of subtlety.
But most offensive is her "nickname" for Romney - "Big Love." This is, of course, a reference to the HBO show about a polygamous family, a show that makes plain the fact that it does not represent LDS faith. If you don't like a candidate and you want to hang him with a sobriquet that is a little insulting, it should at least be based in something somewhere approaching reality.
This piece boldly illustrates that attacks on Romney from the left based on religion, are really attacks on religion in general. She tries to make a case that Romney's faith denies him any claim to votes from the Religious Right, making it appear, as if the Religious Right are the bigots.
Why is it that as Romney ascends, and The Question appears to be quieting down (at least for a while), the left is getting shriller and shriller about it? Could it be they are wrong about Romney, and the Religious Right is proving to be far more open-minded than they imagined?
About That Movie…
Yesterday, we passed on an item out of the Chicago Sun Times about the Romney campaign's attitude concerning September Dawn. It was based on "unamed" sources. Later in the day, MSNBC reports the campaign denies commenting on the movie at all and, and the movie producers deny having Romney in mind when they greenlighted the film. Oh come on people, give the CST a break, I mean we darn near had a Question free day yesterday, the MSM couldn't allow that to happen.
The Huckabee Boomlet…
OpinionJournal's Political Diary (subscription required) seems to assume that the Religious Right is Huckabee's for the taking after his stronger-than-expected showing at Ames last weekend. This assumption presumes that Evangelicals will automatically vote for Evangelicals, something of a bigoted presumption. Especially in light of this:
Iowans do not typically expect to pay for their own tickets, yet Mr. Huckabee claims to have won more than a thousand more votes than the number of tickets he provided. A former Baptist minister, he compares the extra support to the Biblical feeding of a crowd of thousands with two fish and five loaves of bread.
Given the Luntz results from the New Hampshire debate, such claims are going to have very narrow appeal.
Elsewhere…
Friday Finally…
A little inter-sectarian humor.
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coltakashi on 21 Aug 2007 at 4:12 pm #
It sounds like Mike Huckabee is identifying himself with Jesus, or at least is asserting that a divine miracle was responsible for his second place showing in Iowa. Which raises the questions, First, Why does he assume that God is supporting his candidacy? Second, if votes in the straw poll are an indication of God’s favor, the fact that Mitt Romney won the most votes must mean that God likes Huckabee, but he has BIG LOVE for Mitt Romney! Third, it sounds like Mr. Huckabee is very much in the mode of looking for signs of divine intent in events, kind of the thinking that the critics of having really religious people in the presidency cite as a reason NOT to put people like that in charge of the power to cause a nuclear “Armageddon”.