{"id":132631,"date":"2012-11-06T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=132631"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:03:25","slug":"mitt-romney-mourdock-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/11\/06\/mitt-romney-mourdock-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney, Surrogate Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Article:<\/strong> LOL Of The Week: Speaking For God<\/a> in The National Memo.<\/p>\n

The Text:<\/strong> Clearly Mitt Romney has decided the only way that he\u2019ll ever be able to fulfill his destiny of bringing about the third term of Bush\/Cheney is to run for Bush\u2019s first term\u2014or President Obama\u2019s second.<\/p>\n

For anyone who remembers George W. Bush tripping over himself to agree with Al Gore, lying about his tax plan and rejecting \u201cnation building,\u201d Romney\u2019s fey flirtation with the center is chilling\u2014especially when you know Romney\u2019s 17 Bush\/Cheney advisors are stewing in the wings, tuning their war drums.<\/p>\n

The difference in 2000 was Bush had nothing to prove to his base and spent a year running as a \u201cCompassionate Conservative.\u201d Romney is banking on six weeks of approximating sanity being enough.<\/p>\n

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Everyone points out what a brilliant strategic move Romney made at the first debate, as if it\u2019s a good sign that we may elect a president whose expertise\u2014along with avoiding taxes and exporting American jobs\u2014is hiding what he\u2019d actually do in office.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t deny the success of Romney\u2019s deception.<\/p>\n

The Obama campaign\u2014as Romney ran to the right of Rick Perry and picked the author of the most anti-middle-class budget in recent history as his running mate\u2014decided to brand the King of Bain with extremism. This turned his true flaw of \u201cno core\u201d into his greatest strength. He then shifted to the center with a deftness that shocked even the president.<\/p>\n

Now, all Mitt has to do is survive just one more week pretending to be moderate and he has somewhat of a chance of winning and taking the country over right as the \u201creal recovery\u201d he\u2019s promising begins.<\/p>\n

But Romney\u2019s one problem is that he can\u2019t shut down the Republican Party until November 6.<\/p>\n

Following the summer of Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin\u2019s \u201clegitimate rape\u201d comments, we got Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock telling us that rape isn\u2019t God\u2019s will, but the rapist\u2019s baby is.<\/p>\n

What was Mitt Romney\u2019s response? A statement saying he disagrees with Mourdock\u2019s statement but will continue to support the candidate, allowing the ad he shot endorsing Mourdock to continue airing.<\/p>\n

LOL.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s dangerous for Romney about Mourdock\u2019s comments is the \u201cGod\u201d part. While most Americans are religious, the extremes of the fundamentalist agenda are exactly the kind of issue that keep Republicans from growing their base.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a reminder for the GOP: Jesus never mentioned gay people or abortion once. But he sure was pissed at people who didn\u2019t help the poor.<\/p>\n

Yet who does the GOP target with their righteous indignation? Gay people, women and\u2026 the poor.<\/p>\n

This summer, the national gay and lesbian news magazine The Advocate broke precedent to endorse President Obama for his unprecedented support of gays and lesbians. Simply, no president has done more to advance their equality in American history.<\/p>\n

Beyond the end of Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell, stopping the defense of the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act and his support for gay marriage, the Executive Order the president issued allowing gay couples to visit each other in hospital rooms was a huge practical victory for equality.<\/p>\n

And Mitt Romney may end it.<\/p>\n

Why? What convenient excuse have bigots always used to deny minorities equal protection under the law?<\/p>\n

States\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n

Romney himself has done incredible harm to equality. In the GOP primary debates he bragged that he stopped Massachusetts from becoming the \u201cLas Vegas of gay marriage.\u201d This betrays a disdain for gays and lesbians that Romney vaunted as he began his quest for the presidency, telling voters in South Carolina, \u201cSome gays are actually having children born to them. It\u2019s not right on paper. It\u2019s not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and father.\u201d He even took steps to prevent gay couples to claim their own children on their birth certificates.<\/p>\n

Romeny\u2019s flimsiness on abortion rights suddenly reappeared when he lied and told an Iowa editorial board he wasn\u2019t supporting any new abortion restriction legislation. He is.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Alter points out how a Romney presidency would be an endless effort to keep the far right happy. Imagine if he didn\u2019t nominate a virulently anti-choice Justice to the Supreme Court\u2014Sarah Palin or Rick Sanotrum would have an exploratory committee for a primary challenge up and running by the next morning.<\/p>\n

But Romney\u2019s support of Mourdock betrays his disdain for women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

Mourdock could have easily said that life is life\u2014despite the circumstances that create it. This is a more dignified and consistent answer than even the one given by Todd Akin, who conjures magic to justify his extreme views. Instead he injected God\u2019s will into the equation.<\/p>\n

No one has better explained the offense a victim of rape takes to this assertion than MSNBC\u2019s Melissa Harris-Perry:<\/p>\n

You see, Mr. Mourdock, the violation of rape is more than physical. Rapists strip women of our right to choose, of our right to say no, of our right to control what is happening to our bodies. Most assailants tell us it is our fault. They tell us to be silent. Sometimes they even tell us it\u2019s God\u2019s will. That is the core violation of rape\u2014it takes away choice. Richard, you believe it is fine to ignore a women\u2019s right to choose because of your interpretation of divinity. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney may believe it\u2019s God\u2019s will that he become president. He\u2019s using feigned moderation and fabricating scandals in Libya to make that will come true.<\/p>\n

Luckily for us, the Republican Party still exists in a form that cannot hide the extremism Romney will bring into the White House. It\u2019s a reminder that in every way the Romney campaign promises more power and less oversight for the powerful and more obstacles and contempt for the powerless.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s God\u2019s will, Richard Mourdock and Mitt Romney are His ideal spokesmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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