Today, NRO quotes an NPR interview with Romney and it should be apparent that he has opened a door he should have left alone. I’m not the only one questioning this decision and I have yet to see a good explanation. In 1960, there were questions left from the 1928 Al Smith campaign. Kennedy answered them. Romney should have left it at that. This may actually enough to sink his campaign as he will validate all the questions to be asked by anti-religious reporters who consider anyone of faith to be “weird.”
Maybe so, Dr. K., but I liked the way he slammed the interviewer for asking questions that lacked real substance. Perhaps most voters really do care about LDS theology above the economy and foreign policy. But I *know* that NPR interviewers care more about finding anything to make a Republican candidate look bad than anything else.
Heck, the way they are going, the media types might even go after Our Hillary. But I doubt it, given the recent “debates.”
It is a bit incongruous that the Left can believe in UFOs, reincarnation, etc but yet they dismiss traditional beliefs.
All animals—or ideas—-are created equal. But some are more equal than others. Remember when Clarence Thomas was accused of inappropriate behavior toward Anita Hill? “No woman would lie about something like that,” we were told.
Fast forward to the women who claimed Bill Clinton misused them. Why, those women are crazy or partisan, or not worth reporting on, we were told.
Cindy Sheehan had “absolute moral authority” to protest actions in Iraq, because she tragically lost her son. Yet were “right wing” parents who had lost a child overseas given an equal platform? Nope.
It all depends on the “D” or “R” next to your name, these days.
Funny how JFK’s strategy in 1960 became the model. His approach was, “yes I’m a Catholic, but not so’s you’d know it!” So a cultural/nominal Catholic got a pass. It was a big deal back then, though.
doombuggy, don’t forget: exotic religions are cool, too! Especially in inverse proportion to one’s knowledge of same.
It’s not that Romney opened the door, it’s that the liberal media bashed the front door down and stormed into the living room demanding “answers”.
He has now changed the topic to “Freedom of religion” and says he will not accept any theology questions.
“He has now changed the topic to “Freedom of religion” and says he will not accept any theology questions.”
I can hear it now – Flip-Flopper!
Heh.
I like flip flops. on the beach. not so much with a politician.
I despair of most candidates, too. Vivian Louise, who do you like, now and in the past, as politicians? I admire Teddy Roosevelt, but he wouldn’t “work” today. I think that media and our post-ironic society has damaged politics in all kinds of ways.
National Review Online editors just endorsed Mitt Romney for president.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmMxYTUyYzA1YTk2YzE5NGVmNjc0OGFjYWJmNzMzNjI=&p=1