JoeB131
Diamond Member
Nice dodge. We were discussing the FACT that the GOP is much more fixated with religion as a qualification for office, than the Dems. What I did was show that your Wright argument was a strawman and now you're going for a rather overt attempt to change the subject.
But I give you credit! Yo do BOTH much more skillfully than most people!
In any case, my point stands. It is the GOP that overwhelmingly considers religion a qualification or disqualifier for political office. The Dems overwhelmingly just don't care.
Not a dodge guy.
Okay then I'll change the stuff off point of whether religion is a big deal to GOPers, to yellow.
Obama was forced to renounce his church, and I don't think he's even found a new one since then. Frankly, I think that his behavior was pretty reprehensible, because denouncing Wright wasn't his first response. His first response was to call his 80-something year old grandmother a racist. Why? Because she wanted her no-account husband to drive her to work because she was menaced by a stew-bum who happened to be black.
Why, yes. That's really racist. I mean, that's just as bad as saying "God Damn America!"
He only renounced Wright after Democratic elders told him he had to. Incidently, I don't think that Romney's religion has ever gotten much of a litmus test. The whole of Huckabee's supposed slander on LDS in 2008 was "Don't they believe that Jesus and Satan were brothers."
(For the record. Yeah. That's what Mormons believe. That and about 600 other batshit crazy things.) "
The more devastating things Huckabee said about Romney were not about his religion, but about his business practices and lack of moral convictions. My favorites-
"I look like the guy you work with. He looks like the guy who lays you off."
"He's not pro-Choice, he's multiple choice"
"He reached political maturity at 60"
None of the other candidates have even mentioned ROmney's religion this, other than Romney himself saying "Don't you dare call my cult a cult."
Seriously, I think we need a litmus test. Or a bat guano test.
The candidates don't need to bring up his religion. Remember where all this started? The religious leader of 30 Million voters told them on national tv, that "as good Christians, we should prefer a genuine Christian Candidate like that nice Rick Perry fellow."
My Far Right Wing nephew won't vote for Romney because of the Cult thing. Regardless of what you say, it's a BIG deal to a huge number of GOPers.
Guy, you highlighted points that Had NOTHING to do with religion. So let's try again by turning the NON religious points back to red.
Sorry, most of Huckabee's critiques of Romney had nothing to do with religion. And Obama throwing his grandmother under the bus had nothing to do wth religion. So you are starting with a dishonest argument.
Incidently, Romney was the guy who said voters had every right to look at his religion in 2008. Now, not so much.
And I'll point it out again. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in Jesus. My problem with Mormonism is the fraud, the self-delusion and the inability to apply reasoning skills, not the dogma.