Romney Says Nothing; Other Candidates Demand Equal Time

In the wake of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's highly-anticipated and widely-covered speech not about the tenets of his Mormon faith, the campaigns of several other White House hopefuls immediately demanded equal time from the networks.

A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani asked for an hour of prime time to enable him not to tell the American people why a lying sleazebag should be their president. Several prominent Mike Huckabee supporters have called on Oprah Winfrey to give him an extended opportunity not to explain why he pushed for the release of a convicted rapist who went on to kill at least one other woman.

Democrats also joined the fray. Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign said she was planning a major speech which will not be about the prospect of having Terry McAuliffe in Americans' faces for another four years. Senator Barack Obama said that if CNN, Fox and MSNBC would promise live coverage of his upcoming address, he would promise to not explain why finding common ground with Mitch McConnell and John Boehner is a good idea.

Political analysts were sharply divided about the wisdom of the rush to not meet rhetorical expectations. On the one hand, Time columnist Joe Klein praised Romney, saying that "not playing the Moroni card was the smartest way to play the Jesus card." But on the other hand, Newsweek columnist Karl Rove said that the failure of Romney's speech to live up to its "JFK moment" billing was proof that "Democrats hate America."

Asked for his reaction to the hat-tips that Romney gave in his speech to Muslims and Jews, the Reverend James Dobson commented, "Look. I don't care who he panders to. Anyone who says that secularists, doubters, atheists, agnostics, and so-called 'spiritual seekers' are the Anti-Christ is still a friend of Jesus in my book."

Spokepersons for People for the American Way, People for the Separation of Church and State, and the American Civil Liberties Union were not contacted for this article.

Comments

[kantcould]

And would you believe, I recently heard that some ambitious Wittenburg priest publicly posted a pooh-pooh of the Pope (I don't think it was on the net). There's just no telling what mischief ambition can lead you to.

[Chocolate2008]

Mitt will have to answer THESE questions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/7/111023/728/930/419085

[usna73]

The only people who had any "religion" in them yesterday were the honorees on CNN Heroes.

Not a single one of them considered their faith mandatory. They just did their good deeds as part of their humanity.

Seems like our politicians should pay more attention to the real leaders among us.

[Doofus]

No 'secular humanist' is getting elected President
any time soon, in case you thought you had a chance,
as a clear majority wouldn't vote for you.

But you can always become a Unitarian.

'While 25% of Americans say they would be less likely to vote for a Mormon for president, 45% express reluctance about voting for a Muslim and 61% say they would be less likely to support a candidate who does not believe in God.

Far fewer express reservations about voting for an evangelical Christian, a Jew, or a Catholic. Moreover, about as many people say they would be more likely to vote for an evangelical Christian or a Jew as say they would be less likely, and about twice as many people see being a Catholic as an asset as see it as a liability (13% vs. 7%). By comparison, just 5% say they would be more likely to vote for a Mormon, though two-thirds (66%) say it would make no difference in their vote.' (Pew poll)

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=353

[Crowhaul]

As an atheist, a patriot, and a US citizen, I can't help but feel alienated when I hear a speech the likes of the one Nutt Romney gave...

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

Equal time? Repugs 'demanding' equal time? LOL!!! It was senilr ol' Ronny Reagan who did away with that concept, the Fairness Doctrine. ow the repugs want equal time! That's just TOO funny!

[MinerSam]

As a non-Christian with High Moral and Ethical values, I am terrified of the Republicans Party, as they compete for who is more Christian.

Furthermore, Romney was once a took part in the Morman scheme to convert dead poeple to their religion. And even lately after agreeing to stop they recently converter Natzi hunter Simon Wiesenthal!

As someone who judges a candidate by their campaign, and who gets a lot of my facts live from C-SPAN....I consider Romney one of the low lifes...As aside from leaving behind a $1B deficity, he spent his governorship TRASHING Massachusetts for not having family valuses IN PLACES LIKE South Carolina.

Fact is that Massachusetts, WHICH HE USED AS A STEPPING STONE ONLY has lowest Divorce rate of our 50 staste, and the oldest Constitution in the world, and the most educated people in the nation.

And finally, CNBC did a story about him: That during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts he failed miserably to promote Business. That every day, out of MIT and Harvard Nanotech and Biotech companies are born, and that he allowed them all to be lured away to Southern states.

Romney is what My mother calls a Byke rider:
While kicking down the people bellow him he bows his head to those he is trying to get something out of.

[writerjohnny]

Everyone here may think that by posting witty comments to witty blogs they are stopping a future complete with a ruling class(George W., Rupert Murdoch and Putin), a bought off manager class(Tucker Carlson, Cramer the Stock-Market-Puppet and the Fortune 500 CEO list) and the mercenary/military class(along with high tech WMDs and surveilance capable of keeping the masses at bay LIKE NO TIME IN HISTORY). Sorry to be the bearer of so called bad news but if it isn't apparent now that capitalism has run it's course and the next logical step in human relations is right around the corner(hint - it's another "c" word) the human race is FUCKED!

[Pdubya]

was he really a mormon before he was a mormon?

flip
flop
flip
flop

or did he seek council to decide?

[droog]

Here's a thought: keep religion in a church and not in government!

[Doofus]

In this nation of Believers, only the man who
is the Best Believer gets to be Big Enchilada.

Or so Mitt would have US Believe.

[dantheman]

That's a pretty god dig at Obama there. It's funny, but not true. Obama isn't trying to fing common ground with the republican leadership, he's trying to find common ground with the republican masses. They've been misled and let down by their leadership. Obama wants to inlcude them in the new America in which we all have to unite to fulfill America's promise.

[droog]

Just another Republican hypocrite.
They're everywhere, everywhere I tell ya!

[RuthieM]

Romney absolutely said nothing! He went through all that just to get a platform and knowingly misled the American people by not telling them what Mormonism is really all about, which is what he was supposed to do, wasn't he. I didn't hear him say his "Book" is the 'Giddeon' Book and not the Holy Bible. In other words if Romney is sworn in he will most likely want to put his hand on the Giddeon Book and not the Holy Bible. He also did not say his belief in Jesus Christ is that He died and was resurrected. He said that Jesus Christ was or is the Son of man and that He is the Savior of Man. I think Romney is not being truthful about his Mormon belief. It is a cult and he should tell the people the truth about Mormonism.

[seaape]

Romney kept repeating the lie that freedom is the gift of god. Freedom is something that we won in a revolution, and is always in jeapordy.

For 1700 years the Christians did nothing for it. None of the scriptures talks about it.

And no one has ever been able to explain what "In God We Trust" means.