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 get that.
Sometimes people like that are paid political operatives. Very sparse posting history, for one thing, and pushing Romney for a long time and parroting the same RINO-blather too.
No thanks!
” I hate and loathe and abhor the R establishment more than I hate and loathe and abhor Dems”
Yeah let’s have a revolution at the convention... oh boy oh boy. I sure do hate those establishment guys who want the those liberal dems out of office, because those R’s running for elections are worse dang it.
I’d rather have Pelosi, Reed, and Obama than those liberal republicans. All the republicans in the establishment are worse. I ain’t vote’n for any of them.
Gonna sit and watch America burn before I lift a finger and vote the dems out of office... “I hate and loathe and abhor the R establishment....”
end sarcasm - did I get it right ?
You do have that in common with the dems - they hate and loathe the R establishment too.
BTW, Thank you for noticing my “funny” postings.... I try to entertain a bit.
“How do you word process with no thumbs or frontal lobe?”
I give up - tell me...
(now that’s funny)
“Very sparse posting history,”
some people have jobs
It's not a case of mitt not being "perfect" enough for Conservatives. It's the fact that he's not anywhere close to being one. He's a fag fondling liberal. The total f*cktards voting for him fail to see this - or they're just f*cktarded liberals who won't come out and admit they like mitt because he represents their liberal values.
You have a job - maybe with the RNC?
The GOP establishment and conservative principles are not on the same page. Not only that, they’re not in the same book or even in the same library.
“You have a job - maybe with the RNC?”
I should have a job with the RNC... I’m good.
But sadly I don’t - just a normal registered Republican.
I’m pretty excited about Romney / Ryan ticket.
Did you work for the RNC ? Your attitude makes me think you used to work for them if you understand their principles.
You’re boring.
Life’s too short.
“You’re boring.”
sorry - you wanted the attention.....
>>>>yawn<<<
good nite little jerry...
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