[SoConPubbie]

What was it about Pontius Pilate that you dislike the most? The fact that he tried to talk the people into doing the right thing or the fact that he let them make their own choices?

Or the fact that he had the power all along to stop and chose the weasly, cowardly, lie that he was giving the people what they wanted and he had no power to stop it?

Exactly what Mitt Romney did with Gay Marriage in MA.

[TigersEye]

Did he have the authority to stop it? Sure. Was that his duty? I think his orders were to keep peace and order in Judea not involve himself in their internal disputes. He could have ordered everyone in the crowd killed at his pleasure. Then Rome would have hung him on a cross.

No, I don't think there is an analogy equal to Mitt's cowardice at all. Mitt was the governor not some mid-level magistrate of a PITA podunk county in MA. Mitt faced some criticism in the press not the wrath of a Caesar.