What Romney Has To Do At Tonight's Debate

Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 30, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

[Edit35]

Huckabee is a heck of a nice guy, a fabulous man of God, and a fabulous family man.

Most Americans don’t want a President who promotes his Christianity first, and leaves the nation’s business as an afterthought.

A Huckabee nomination would drive away secular conservatives, Jewish Republicans, Catholic Republicans, and everyone else who believes, like me, that the White House would become a theocracy.

[tortdog]

Romney by 21 and 14 points.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ma/massachusetts_republican_primary-538.html

[tortdog]

>Those who claim that mantle are not to be trusted.

Upon what do you base your distrust on Romney?

[redgirlinabluestate]

You know what Ann Coulter said about that. She basically asked don't all decent Americans want equal rights for all citizens? I do. Equal rights is not special rights. Nor does it equate with promoting a homosexual agenda. And the bottomline is that Mitt is the ONLY one running who went out of his way to fight to preserve the institution of marriage. He fought against the homosexual agenda. I doubt he won over many gay rights actitivists with that one -- but it was the right thing to do, just as promising everyone equal rights is the right thing to do.

Romney supports the amendment protecting marriage between one woman and one man. Supporting equal rights for all is not the same thing as supporting gay marriage or promoting a homosexual agenda.

Ann Coulter understands the difference:

I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media -- how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers. Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against.

I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us. ~~ Ann Coulter

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Institute For Marriage and Public Policy President Maggie Gallagher, writing for National Review Online, wrote that the Governor's testimony on the issue before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was "the single most eloquent and articulate defense of our traditional understanding of marriage I have heard from an American politician." (Maggie Gallagher,"In Defense Of The Family," National Review Online, 6/25/2004)

[HoustonTech]

Jokelahoma,

How many do you suppose will vote for Romney because of his Mormon ties? Are they bigots for voting against someone because he is not a Mormon? That’s what they are doing.

And did you answer my question whether you would vote for a Muslim?

Your kneejerk reaction to hearing that someone would make a person’s religion a consideration in his vote is just as bigoted (if not more) than what you claim to be bigoted. A bigot is one who is intolerant of the views of others. But considering one’s religious views does not make one intolerant. There are many religious views that in my judgment make a person’s judgment questionable. I suspect some would say that my religious views are such. You problably would. But I would not call someone a bigot just because he held that view. That would truly be bigoted.

[Scythian]

I heard that 10 minutes before tonights debate a shocking news story is going to break on McCain, He is the love child of M. Thatcher and JFK, concieved in, you guessed er’, meh’ ...ico

[thelastvirgil]

McCain be gracious? C’mon, what’s this guy been smoking?

[redgirlinabluestate]

Transcript of the Governor's testimony on the issue before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Maybe McLame will have a Dean attack and go ape $***.

Sooner or later, that moment will come.

[Yaelle]

Maybe McLame will have a Dean attack

McCain seems very subdued in public these days: willpower or Valium.

[truthkeeper]

Ask McCain if he would like to fly on his jet like he did Charles Keating’s....

Notice how we NEVER hear anything about l'affair Keating? I was beginning to think I had hallucinated the whole thing.

[truthkeeper]

He has to out Shamnesty McCain’s “hispanic outreach” director Reconquista Hernandez.

Dittos! How about playing a little hardball, FGS?

[HoustonTech]

Upon what do you base your distrust on Romney?

Surely you jest! I'm not going to repeat what has been documented about a thousand times on FR already. If you don't think I have good reason to question Romney, there is nothing anyone could produce to change your mind.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Oh, but if McCain is our nominee, rest assured the dems and MSM will be talking about it on the nightly news early and often as an example of our alleged corruption and greed. McCain’s Keating 5 baggage, his inside-the-beltway cronies and his unstable temperament will be exploited endlessly.

[truthkeeper]

I’m with you.

[tortdog]

No one here has yet to prove that Romney has gone back on a campaign promise once in office. All that they can come up with is that Romney’s PAST positions were flawed.

I can agree with the latter. I don’t see why that means you can’t trust a person who has proven to keep his promises.

[redgirlinabluestate]

We know, we know. We've already established -- you know better than all of them put together. LOL.

[dandiegirl]

I know Romney’s no true conservative. I didn’t know that his negatives are higher than McCain’s. Yes, everyone running at this stage is a liberal, but there is only one EVIL liberal. I’ll vote for anyone to keep the EVIL liberal out.

[truthkeeper]

He needs to bring up the NYT story McCain got spiked,

I'm sorry to be dense, but which story was that? (I can hardly bring myself to read half of these McCain threads, so I guess I'm out of the loop.)

[Constitution Day]

LOL.

Of course that is the ONLY thing that matters to some.