Romney didn’t give the speech to us, but to right wingers in Iowa, who are jumping on the Huckabee, the “Christian leader.” That man scares the crap outta me. I’m much more afraid of a theocracy coming from Huckabee than Romney, that’s for sure.

Romney’s difficulty is that he’s chosen to participate in a party where the base is becoming more and more intolerant of people like him. Evangelical republicans hate Mormons in the same way segregationists hate multiracial marriage. Why any Mormon continues in the Republican party is a mystery to me. I guess that’s why fringe third-party candidates do better in Utah than they do other places.

I’d love to see Mittens lose the nomination to Huckabee as the Evangelicals swell in anti-Mormon sentiment, and then the twelve Mormon Republicans in Congress up and leave the party in protest. Then again, I’d love to see most of the right-wing Evangelicals that are surging in American politics get a swift kick in the groin.

Of course I meant Obama. On the other hand the logic works just as well using Osama. We don’t reject bin Laden because he is Muslim, we reject him because he is a mass murderor.

Here is a hard question for all you. Would it make any difference if Obama’s name was Osama? If so why? If not why would a typo matter? Only someone who kind of has bought into this racism to start with would care.

I think I have just found a member of a set previously thought to be null: the dirty election trick the Republicans would refrain from playing.

I actually think that if somone suggested secretly negotiating with Osama, then entering him on the ballot in Florida in the hope he would get that crucial 1% typo vote, somone would shoot the idea down.

I could be wrong.

True, some right-wing motormouths and also the Clinton campaign have been playing dirty with this issue already, but I doubt that has had much effect on voters. I was thinking more along the lines of the McCain illegitimate black child smear either right before the primaries or election day.

Maybe it’s a good thing they’ve brought this “issue” up so early and people will have lost interest when it counts and Obama will be able to dismiss it easier. Maybe democratic and swing voters are generally less susceptible to such smears. Who knows.

B. re #17, Jim Harrison’s comment is perhaps backwards. I was also born into a Mormon family, though not the Romneys. I converted at age 18, and suppose I would need serious therapy if I had not.

Sartre was sitting at the Café de Flore when a waitress came over to ask if he’d like anything.

‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I’d like a coffee without cream.’

‘I’m sorry,’ replied the waitress. ‘But we have no cream.’
‘In that case,’ said Sartre, ‘I’ll have it without milk.’