Posted on 08/08/2012 5:35:12 AM PDT by IbJensen
LAS VEGAS, August 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mitt Romney’s decision not to condemn mayors threatening to deny Chick-fil-A the right to do business was a missed opportunity and may cost him votes in November, a growing chorus of social conservatives warn.
Last Friday in Las Vegas, when a reporter asked the Republican presidential nominee about the controversy over Chick-fil-A and charges about a diplomat’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, he replied, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.”
After company president Dan Cathy said he supported Biblical marriage, homosexual organizations called for a boycott, and several prominent Democratic mayors threatened to withhold permits for the Christian business to operate in their cities. The fast food chain broke sales records during the August 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” called by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Christian radio talk show host Bryan Fischer asked, “Well, governor, exactly what was not a part of your campaign? The part about natural marriage? The part about freedom of religion? The part about freedom of speech? The part about freedom of entrepreneurship? What? If you will not publicly stand for those values, what will you stand for?” These questions were echoed by talk show host Mark Levin.
“Social conservatives have to make up their mind whether they should just simply stay at home, or go out there and vote for Romney,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said. “I’m astonished that he couldn’t even come to grips with the question. Leaving gays out of it, do we want the chief executives, the mayors of large cities trying to intimidate, using the power of government against private enterprises whose politics they disagree with? I think it’s a pretty simple issue.”
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Several conservative writers confessed to being flummoxed by Romney’s absence, calling it a “missed opportunity.”
“I don’t understand why Mitt Romney doesn’t just get his Secret Service detail and take his press corps down to a Chicken-fil-A and show solidarity with these people,” said columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. “It’s instinct. Reagan would have walked right on down there naturally.”
To excite the party’s base, Richard Viguerie, a conservative activist for more than 50 years, has suggested the GOP invite Dan Cathy to address the Republican National Convention. “Republicans should oblige President Obama’s desire to make same-sex marriage a central issue in the November election, and campaign unequivocally as the party of the traditional values Dan Cathy stood for,” Viguerie wrote.
Even prominent members of the party’s neoconservative wing, which has little time for social issues and generally supports the homosexual lobby, encouraged Romney to stop at Chick-fil-A. “Didn’t happen,” wrote Bill Kristol.
Some supporters of same-sex “marriage” have defended the beleaguered chicken chain.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a social liberal who considered running against Romney as an independent presidential candidate, said “it’s inappropriate for a city government or a state government or the federal government to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city or operate a business in the city or work for somebody in the city.”
Congressman Barney Frank, who recently “married” his boyfriend, agreed, “I don’t think government should discriminate against Chick-fil-A because of the views of the owner.”/
Even Antoine Dodson, the flamboyantly homosexual subject of a viral video, has said, “A lot of people from the gay community was [sic] actually telling me not to eat at Chick-fil-A and then you know, I started having these flashbacks, because I started believing like, the gay community — we have went [sic] from being bullied to becoming bullies,” he said. “And I don’t think that that is fair, because I’m like, aren’t we like in America? Like, we have freedom of speech.”
“I don’t think it’s American,” he said.
I seriously doubt that. CFA turnout shows how hyped the base is ... nothing more.
Was anyone waiting with baited breath to hear what Mitt Romney had to say about the CFA thing? It wasn’t about him. Who cares?
SnakeDoc
Romney should have sent CFA to Obama reelection headquarters for lunch on CFA day...
That would have sent a message on so many different levels
In the end I think this missed opportunty pretty much going to blow over once we enter into the last 8 weeks of the election
“He can see the American people clearly have spoken on this issue”
He cannot comment on this issue because polygamy beliefs of Mormons would be raised. One can’t have one without the other and he’s certainly NOT going to speak out against other Mormon beliefs
What I think the I-won’t-vote-for-Romney crowd doesn’t understand is that we got Romney because we didn’t have enough votes, at the right time, in the right places to defeat him. Moreover, we don’t have a strong leader. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had or the army you hope to have one day (Rumsfeld, ca. 2003). Then you get your people in everywhere you can.
For example, we should have an organization dedicated to getting conservatives into schools, academia, appointed government positions. That’s where you have to fight them, for now.
Romney’s handlers decide where their cardboard man should be posted, placed, planted, posed, and propped.
They’ve done ok so far. Got him the votes needed for nomination. Barring a miracle he will be the candidate.
Why should they put him on a white-hot controversy that will throw them off message and give the media a chance to run fresh anti-Romney quotes from any lefty with a tongue?
Besides, insofar as the cardboard has any personal opinions at all, he is pro-gay; and likely neither Romney nor his handlers are well-versed in the finer points of the controversy, such as the impropriety of govt officials discouraging businesses on the basis of political correctitude.
Really, is anyone surprised that Romney demurred?
If he’s a wimp, what are the people who will vote for him?
I am not staying home on election day. I’m going right over to the polls to vote for the candidates I prefer for many different national, state and local offices. But I do not plan to vote for either of the presidential candidates on the ballot.
No one is asking for perfection... we’re just asking for someone that slightly resembles a conservative; not a north eastern liberal with a R after his name.
One thing about Romney I’m certain of: Romney is not a member of the New World Order fraternity, the Council on Foreign Relations.
That’s something in his favor and something he can say he shares with Ronald Reagan.
Sometimes the fire is so bad, playing with the hose just wastes time and you have to go with demolition to keep the fire from spreading. I think that's where we're at. The GOP will collapse before the country does, so perhaps that will avail.
There isn't enough water in the Romney hose and furthermore, it has been known to spew pro-abortion, pro-gay, socialized medicine crud.
It wasn’t a “missed opportunity.” Romney doesn’t consider those mayors to be his foes or the Chik-Fil-A folks to be his friends. He is a Manageriaal Republican, a statist who thinks he can manage the Total State in a more businesslike manner.The problem with the kenyan is his incompetence, not his ideology.
I am voting for neither socialism or Marxism/Leninism. If the poobahs at the convention force out the Bishop and replace him with a conservative American statesman, that's who I'll vote for. Until then, I write in Bruce Wayne, Pat Paulsen, Donald Duck etc.
He comes from a long line of real Republicans- Ford, Bush I, arguably Bush II, Dole, McCain and the Depression era Republicans. Republicans have had few presidential candidates who wanted the job and knew how to get it. Nixon and Reagan did.
They won’t see much difference in outcome. They believe that Romney will manage the socialist state more efficiently and with not so much fireworks but it will still be a socialist state. I believe the fireworks and “unrest” will be at a higher level because leftists are intensely concerned with which Party runs the State, more so than with ostensible purity of ideology, though purity of ideology is the rallying cry. For the Left Lenin’s question, “Who? Whom?” is of paramount importance once the ideology is settle, and, with Romney as the Republican candidate, the ideology is, indeed, settled.
Yeah, butt look how much of the gay vote Romney picked up. /sarc
AC/DC?
This isn’t Romney’s fight....Obama put Gay Marriage in the forefront....Chick-fil-A does not discriminate - the owner has differing opinions about some things....what on earth is wrong with that. Stay focused people, you’re letting the propaganda sway you with thoughtless remarks. Better you worry about downsizing our military or Obama getting another bailout to fix some of the mess he has caused....NO to AID for countries that hate the USA. Those are Romney’s fight, those are fights for all of us.
How is voting for Romney "fighting the socialists?" Romney will be a less vindictive socialist. Maybe.
Barack Obama = nanny-statist, progressive, globalist, elitist, pro-abortion, socialized medicine pusher, soft-on-illegals, gun control advocate, who says whatever he needs to say at any given time, including falsely smearing his political opponents.
Is that what you’re opposing when you oppose Obama?
And you’ll vote for Romney because you’re against all those things?
I hope YOU feel good. Good and ashamed of yourself!
Toll. Tole is enameled or metal.
Mr. Donohue, though a great crusader, has fallen victim to two-dimensional thinking. The option this social conservative will follow is to vote conservative all through his ticket, showing Mutt Romney all the same courtesy he has shown me through the election process when it comes time to vote for President.
Which is to say, none.
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