Romney facing religious test within the Republican Party
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Romney facing religious test within the Republican Party
El Estándar – El Estándar – Dec 16, 2007
6 Mitt Romney delivered a speech about his religious faith and the faith of all Americans stating that the values of our beliefs should influence our government. But because of the religious bigotry that exists in the Republican Party Romney felt he had to do a “JFK-type” speech to convince GP voters that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will not dictate the office of a U. In reality this was a speech that should not have been given.
For Republicans Falling in Love Is Hard to Do
New York Times – Dec 16, 2007
“It’s all ‘who did what wrong seven years ago. ’ They are also not talking about the future which is a sign of a deeper Republican malaise. The Republican Party has run out of intellectual steam and good ideas. ”This is an inverse of the way things normally are in presidential campaigns. Nash a conservative historian said there had not been an election since 1940 — the year Republicans ultimately nominated Wendell Willkie of New York to take on Roosevelt — when the party seemed so uninspired by the field. “It seems like there’s a broader amount of concern and a greater degree of reservation about this field than I can recall” Mr… “Then I do not think it will be hard to get out the Republican vote. ” It says something about the state of affairs of the Republican Party today that three weeks before the Iowa caucuses Republicans are looking to Mrs.
Are Presidential Politics Getting Down and Dirty?; Baseball Rocked by…
CNN International – Dec 16, 2007
And there’s no doubt that he’s been out there courting the evangelicals. That’s why he really surged in Iowa. Here’s the bigger issue I think Howie which we may be missing that for a long time there’s been this marriage between the Republican Party and the religious right religious right kind of going along with the Republican Party. But when you have a leader in the religious right at least threatening to become — and it looks like he could become — the leader of the Republican Party then the tail is wagging the dog. And what happens when the party’s in fact taken over by the religious right? That’s the Huckabee candidacy. KURTZ: Well I don’t know that I would him a leader of the religious right. He doesn’t agree with everything that some religious right leaders agree — espouse.
Making faith a political issue creates a religious test
Deseret News – Dec 16, 2007
” It was a risky move for him unfortunately precipitated by the ironcladgrip that the conservative evangelical right wing has on the RepublicanParty. The fallout from the speech and the heightened attention to Gov. Romney’s Mormon faith has begun. I was shocked and deeply saddened tolisten to the anti-Mormon tirade that spewed forth from political punditLawrence ‘Donnell on a recent episode of “The McLaughlin Group. ” The panelwas discussing Gov.
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