Letters to the Editor
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and giuliani's not ambitious?
Please. Based purely on the evidence, I'd rather see Romney as President than Giuliani. Giuliani is stone cold crazy. Romney? Maybe a little crazy, and maybe just slightly more opportunistic...but not by much.
When it comes to the GOP, you take what you can get. Romney may be the least demented of them all. And let's not discuss Ron Paul: to him there is no such thing as a Commons at all. And that is just as crazy, and a lot more destructive, than believing Joseph Smith talked to God.
Truth is, you don't become a millionaire businessman without developing some fairly sophisticated cynicism. Whatever his goodie-two-shoes image, Romney didn't do what he did in business without competence and a realistic perspective. That already makes him more qualified to be president than anyone else in the GOP lineup. Especially Giuliani.
There's also the distinct possibility that Romney is a closet moderate. Unlikely...but possible. The other guys? They're all nascent mussolinis.
Sad how GW Bush has so lowered the bar for presidential candidates. We may not raise standards again in my lifetime. Aside from his destructive SCOTUS appointments, and his decimation of the integrity of government, that's probably Bush's worst legacy: now any fucking idiot can be president.
'course, I'd rather see Russ Feingold as President. But that ain't gonna happen.
I give it to Clinton by a nose...barring the unforeseen.
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Log Cabin Lunatics
What do they get from the Republican Party? The Republican Party gets a few more votes from them, and they can smirk at them while those votes are counted. Oh well, P.T. Barnum said , "There's a sucker born every minute."
I can fully understand not voting on a singular issue, and that gay Americans have a wide variety of concerns...BUT the Republican Party actively courts people with a rabid desire to harm gays. The Republican Party is more than happy to use gay Americans as their perennial punching bag. Security, national defence, foreign policy, tax policy, energy, health care? The Republican Party has been a disaster on all fronts. There is no reason in hell for these Log Cabin Lunatics to persist in their insane support of the Republican Party. Personally, I think they're just attention whores.
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@had_enough
You're right. This isn't about Romney's ambition or his "wide stance" on abortion or gun control. Because with the campaign Giuliani's been running, he has the same problems as Romney.
This is about Romney being "the only top-tier candidate still trotting out the push for a constitutional amendment," as Log Cabin's Tucker writes on his blog.
The Log Cabin supported George W. Bush in 2000. But when Bush formally supported a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage in 2004, the Log Cabin Republicans felt betrayed. They struck back with a million dollar ad campaign. This is where they cut their teeth and really learned how to organize. Now they're using their new-found skills to go after Romney for the same reason.
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Destroy the party from within
I know a heterosexual couple who have been members of the Log Cabin Republicans for over a decade. These are two people whose primary reason for being Republicans is greed; that is, unwillingness to pay taxes. But they are foursquare against the conservative social positions of the Republicsns.
So they look at their membership in tne Log Cabin Republicans as "destroying the party from within."
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Romney governed badly.
Romney was a disaster for MA. I'm still not quite sure how he managed to get elected... I have no idea what the people who voted for him were thinking.
During his tenure, our brand-new tunnel smushed someone, many major industries left the area... want to blame the Democratic legislature? Come on! The legislature is ALWAYS Democratic in Massachusetts... Democratic when the businesses came in, and Democratic when they left.
During his tenure, he went around to Republican events and talked smack about Massachusetts, bemoaning how horrible it was to work with us. Is that what he's going to do when he's President? Go around to International events and say, "Look, I know my country sucks, but they're who I've got to work with, I swear, I'm different!"
I'm so glad the log cabins are exposing his hypocritical BS. Too bad the majority of MA didn't see through it when he ran for Gov... of COURSE he was lying. Didn't any of them remember the remarks he made while running for Senate?
Go Log Cabin Republicans!!!
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Demonstrators, it's time to get out the footwear!
Remember the obnoxious morons who used to show up at John Kerry rallies waving their beach sandals above their heads, mocking in unison "Fliiiip Floooop, Fliiiip Floooop" over and over like a bunch of demented imbeciles?
I remember one guy who used to show up everywhere and anywhere in the country where Kerry was speaking and he had a giant flip flop he made and carted from place to place. He would position himself behind Kerry whenever possible so the cameras couldn't miss his puerile prank.
Well now, here comes the Latter Day Savior in his holy underwear, flippin' and floppin' all over the place like a dying cod, a snake-oil salesman's grin on his face.
Get out the flip-flops folks. And find that guy with the giant flip flop and see if it's for sale.
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Mitt Romney
deserves whatever he gets from groups in his past who now feel abandoned by his flip-flopping. The GOP will rue the day they came-up with that clever slogan. Too bad about the invention of video. It's such a curse to these modern political candidates. I mean, with truth and all being an option and now, apparently, a liability. Those pesky video. I hope the Log Cabin group has better luck than the "phony soldiers" in trying to place their ads on a Clearwater channel...
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But will Fox run it?
Maybe Fox news won't run that ad for fear of upsetting the viewers who prefer the Fox perspective on things and tune in only for that...
You can see where this all leads: People hearing exactly what they want to hear, and nothing that would upset their safe little world view, on either side. And then a country eternally split 50-50 between competing extreme ideologies.
And Civil Discourse taught as a quaint device of "early Democracy" in carefully screened History classes, which meet right after the Science classes read the Bible to learn about the geophysics of Earth and the development of species. And the word "debate" in its original meaning removed from the dictionary as "not politically correct" and possibly upsetting to the public.