OT Headline on AP used the phrase Mitt mentum.
Now, after looking at that photo, I am about to burst into song. Looks like a choir.
2.
Schlemizel
So who is he going to pick for VP? Ol Frothy there would certainly help him with the Christianist nutbags but two religiously odd zeros would not electrify the voters.
I know we have been over this ground before but it beats having to think about listening to these douchebags bleat on for the next 10 months.
I think he needs a teabagger love interest and get that he would like it if they were at least a little bit tanner than Willard is or else has a vagina. Why not both?
3.
c u n d gulag
Unless you’re a god-bothering moron authoritarian, Icky Sticky Rickey could put a kilo of coke to sleep.
That kid on the near right looks like he smells something unpleasant coming from the back of Frothy’s trousers.
5.
JPL
@Schlemizel: Santorum doesn’t really add to the ticket, imo. The tea baggers will fall in line and do as their told. Bishop Romney will select someone who can help him win a state that was blue last election.
6.
jibeaux
“Whyyyyyy did my mom make me come to church today, damn.”
7.
RSA
I like how Santorum seems to be standing on the tilted set of a 1960s Batman villain hide-out.
Those kids are slumping like the heat is up too high in that church. I know it’s January but in Pompano Beach you STILL need to set the A/C for COOL…
9.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
Well, it’s not like most of them would’ve heard anything new coming out of his mouth there. Why not zone out the same scold bullshit you know is coming?
“When Santorum preaches, even the choir nods off.” That’s what you might take away from this photo. I can easily picture a newspaper not daring to run it, lest the Mr Frothy for Prez people accuse it of deliberately mocking their candidate.
14.
flukebucket
I love the fan that the lady is using to keep the young fellow that is leaning on her conscious. Do any of ya’ll remember those? The cardboard fan on a popsicle stick that had a picture of Jesus holding a lamb on the front and the name of a funeral home on the back. I had almost forgotten those.
Bleh. My bad. I blame caffeine, or otherwise lack of. Your choice.
17.
amk
@jibeaux: for a minute there, I read it as sluttiness of …
18.
sdhays
@Schlemizel: My bet is Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for VP. Virginia is must-win for the Republicans and for some reason Governor McDonnell is popular here. He’s also southern and very conservative, which are two things I think Romney will look for in a VP. Also, Obama won Virginia by 13% in 2008 and he currently leads in polls, so the Republicans are going to have to do something special to bring it back to their column this year.
19.
Amir Khalid
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
After an uncharacteristic fit of decency, during which she defended the First Lady from the right’s shameless and unfounded personal attacks, Washington Post Right-Leaning (TM) op-ed writer Kathleen Parker resumes normal service.
20.
Villago Delenda Est
Yeah, it’s the Parker bint, not the Turner babe. I clicked through and in my dazed state that anyone would make so ridiculous a claim as “Mitt Romney is too perfect” didn’t even read her name right.
She still needs to share what she’s smoking, or with FSM as my witness, I will call Joe Friday on her ass.
@PurpleGirl: I read too much about politics, because I knew who he was talking about before clicking over. Crazy shit written by someone named Kathleen? Yep, that’s Parker.
24.
JPL
Parker pictures Bishop Romney as Gary Cooper in the Fountainhead. I think of Bishop Romney as head of the Pinkerton’s. I guess the characters are pretty close though.
@sdhays:
Thats a new guess, have not seen his name up before. Good reasoning it might make sense.
Anyone thinking Willard will need a “home run” like Grandpa Walnuts did? Reach out for some wild card loon that makes the boys at the review all tingly?
28.
forked tongue
Those chorus members look like they’re feeling really “blah.”
29.
deep
somehow this blog entry resulted in a Google Ad for “Colombian Singles”.
Ugh. NSFW fercrisakes!
30.
Schlemizel
@deep:
NSFW? How about having to see Newts ugly face every time I come here?
31.
JGabriel
In breaking news via TPM, man worth quarter-billion not worried about the poor, says that’s Democrats’ problem, runs for president:
Mitt Romney on CNN Wednesday morning said he is concerned about the heart of America. “I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there,” Romney said. … “We will hear from the Democrat party, the plight of the poor,” he added.
You’re a real keeper, Mitt. So glad you’re running to be the GOP’s standard bearer. I can’t imagine anyone more suited to the role, anyone more aligned with the GOP’s core lack of moral concern.
somehow this blog entry resulted in a Google Ad for “Colombian Singles”.
Everytime I see an ad that is totally inappropriate to my concerns, income, and desires, I feel a sense of relief and reassurance: it means the Intertoobz(tm) does not yet have perfect information about us if advertisers still target us with ads for products we’ll never use or purchase.
Bishop Romney will select someone who can help him win a state that was blue last election.
Yep, probably a Baptist from VA or NC, someone not necessarily of the tea party, but someone who has good relations with them and the religious fundies.
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34.
handsmile
Rih Santorum will not be Mittens’s number two for the simple fact that evangelical Protestants who may be hesitant to cast their ballot for a Mormon president would not find a Roman Catholic vice president any more appealing.
However, Frothy would likely be a strong contender to be selected as Secretary of Health and Human Services in a Mittens’ administration. Imagine that horror.
But that’s all glum speculation. For now, enjoy the comic genius of the latest “Bad Lip Reading” video, starring Rih “I’m Crazy but I’m Right” Santorum:
I’ve always wondered how many wetsuits ol’ Ricky has at home.
36.
shortstop
Would McDonnell take it? Will most anyone take it? A lot of what are considered rising stars (for instance, Rubio, who’s got so many financial problems they may not want him) aren’t going to want to end their careers by being tied to a Romney loss. On the other hand, McDonnell’s no spring chicken and this would likely be his only chance unless he’s kidding himself, as so many of these guys do, that he’s viable presidential material down the road.
Rih Santorum will not be Mittens’s number two for the simple fact that evangelical Protestants who may be hesitant to cast their ballot for a Mormon president would not find a Roman Catholic vice president any more appealing.
This points to a larger problem for Mitt.
Romney belongs to a religious minority (Mormons) which most other Christians look askance upon. Should he win the nomination, he can’t afford to select a VP from any other minority group (Catholic, Hispanic, Black, Jewish, Female) — despite running to lead an increasingly diverse country — without potentially alienating the GOP’s resentful, xenophobic, conservative base.
The risk is not that Santorum will be Mitt’s or Newt’s VP pick, but instead that they’ll give Santorum a key cabinet position such as Secretary of Health and Human Services as a reward for helping bring right-wing evangelicals aboard in November. Santorum as Secretary of Health and Human Services would be positioned to do infinitely greater damage to people in this country, women in particular, than he ever would as Vice President (at least provided Willard or Newt did not die in office during their term as POTUS).
40.
Violet
That is an excellent photo. Those kids really would rather be somewhere else. Can’t say I blame ’em.
Yes, indeed, a problem that will (praise the Lord) grow only larger for Mittens and his political confederates with current American demographics.
A minor quibble: In the American Christian empire, it is predominantly the evangelical faction for whom Mormons and Catholics remain theologically treacherous and thus unfit for public office. Mainstream Protestant denominations (e.g., Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, American (not Southern) Baptist) have established detente with the Papists and, to an increasing degree, the followers of Joseph Smith over the past 20 years.
Those who self-identify as evangelical Christians, however, overwhelmingly vote as faithful members of the Republican flock. Thus, as you indicate, the vice presidential camel for Mitt to thread through the electoral needle.
@JGabriel: That’s impressive. And I didn’t think Romney could get less likable. My bleeding heart liberal elitist friends all feel sorry for him in his Quixotic quest for a raison d’etre. Or, at least they did until now.
As I commented above (#34), Santorum stands an excellent chance of being selected as the HHS Secretary in a Romney administration should that political nightmare occur. And we certainly agree as to the harm he would inflict upon the American commonweal in that post.
But such an appointment would perhaps be a “reward for helping bring…aboard” conservative Roman Catholics, not evangelical Christians. That faction continues to regard Santorum’s faith with suspicion. Even after a conclave of religious conservative patriarchs in Texas reluctantly designated Rih as their anti-Mitt crusader before the South Carolina primary, evangelical voters there did not rally to Santorum.
47.
maya
Mitt Romney is too perfect?
What else would you expect from the conjoining of Jeebus and Moroni.Or:
He is not!
Is too!
Na ah!
Is too!
48.
shortstop
@handsmile: Generally speaking, the evangelicals made peace with Catholic candidates a long time ago. They became uneasy allies during the anti-choice wars of the last 25-30 years and that’s only been strengthened by some of the other culture battles since; the “Baptists won’t vote for Catholics” CW is very much out of date.
That’s not to say Santorum would be a good VP choice for Mitt; he isn’t and he won’t be chosen. As many people have been pointing out here for weeks, Santorum leading HHS is the truly scary prospect.
49.
grandpa john
@JGabriel: Adding this to the string of other totally unaware statements he has made , one has to conclude that the man really is a robot, because no actual human could be so total lacking in self awareness as Mitt.
Thanks for your reply! Respectfully, my own understanding on the subject of Christian Evangelical-Roman Catholic relations (informed by Neuhaus on the right to Sproul on the left) would suggest that the ink is not long dry on any such treaty. As to Baptists, there remains a significant gulf between the American and Southern congregations in their respective political and religious practices.
I was unaware of earlier commenters prophesying the doom of a Santorum/HHS appointment. No small part of why I linger at this blog is to admire and learn from its political seers.
52.
shortstop
@handsmile: I’m not suggesting that all is happy and collegial between those camps. The treaty ink may still be tacky and there’s no small number of non-signatories, but it’s really relative. A Catholic-suspicious Protestant fundie may not hang out with RC folk after work, but when the choice is between, say, a black Protestant Democratic candidate and a white Catholic Republican, white evangelicals frequently fail to remember what it was about Catholicism that bugged them so much.
Note that Gingrich, a Catholic, is getting his biggest support from evangelicals, who are employing a different sort of relativism there: JFK probably would have laughed hysterically to see a Mormon of today getting the same treatment he got in 1960. It will be interesting to see whether the extensive Mormon efforts at preventing same-sex marriage will eventually have a leavening effect on evangelicals’ deep distrust of them. Perhaps not, since the LDS church tends to keep its support of Prop 8, etc., as low-key as possible, in contrast with the USCCB’s tendency to shout its policy stances to the skies.
I’ll also note that Santorum himself received very strong support from PA evangelicals when he was senator there. For many evangelicals, it’s simply become more about the cultural issues than about the faith of the individual candidates. What killed a big piece of knee-jerk evangelical anti-Catholicism was the sense that they were banding together for larger common goals, the most important being defeating the godless abortionists. (The left might possibly take a lesson in coalition building from the religious right–both Protestant and Catholic fundamentalists.)
I do think JGabriel is correct that Romney, being of a Suspicious Bent of Faith himself, cannot afford to choose another “minority” as a running mate. (Exception: he might have chosen Rubio were it not for the aforementioned financial problems; he badly needs to win FL and these people are just dumb enough to think that Rubio would appeal broadly to Hispanic voters.) But if Romney weren’t a Mormon, I don’t think Santorum’s Catholicism would have been a major disqualification.
Again, thank you for taking the time to elaborate upon your position. Whatever disagreement we may have on the subject is only one of degree. Unquestionably, it is so-called cultural issues (abortion, gay rights, school curricula) that have forged conservative Catholic-evangelical Christian alliances.
Most certainly on this statement:
when the choice is between, say, a black Protestant Democratic candidate and a white Catholic Republican, white evangelicals frequently fail to remember what it was about Catholicism that bugged them so much
we sing from the same hymnal.
54.
Chinn Romney
I feel the urge to burst into song too. Let’s do a round, I’ll start: “He’s got the Whole World, in his hands. He’s got the whole world, in his hands…”
These guys are awesome. All four of them, I love them to pieces. It’s easy once you realize none of them has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the general election. I don’t understand why anyone would lose sleep over that prospect. Polls, schmolls. Not happening.
55.
SRW1
The kids are all great, you know, “at that age they can’t lie”, but what is particularly hilarious is the lady on the left with the hanky.
Fer Christ sake Ricky, they’re never gonna vote fer ya, if ya make ’em cry?
Anyone thinking Willard will need a “home run” like Grandpa Walnuts did? Reach out for some wild card loon that makes the boys at the review all tingly?
He doesn’t strike me as a gambler at all. He’ll have quantities of data entered & spit out the safest person, leading to a Dull/Duller ticket.
Maude
OT Headline on AP used the phrase Mitt mentum.
Now, after looking at that photo, I am about to burst into song. Looks like a choir.
Schlemizel
So who is he going to pick for VP? Ol Frothy there would certainly help him with the Christianist nutbags but two religiously odd zeros would not electrify the voters.
I know we have been over this ground before but it beats having to think about listening to these douchebags bleat on for the next 10 months.
I think he needs a teabagger love interest and get that he would like it if they were at least a little bit tanner than Willard is or else has a vagina. Why not both?
c u n d gulag
Unless you’re a god-bothering moron authoritarian, Icky Sticky Rickey could put a kilo of coke to sleep.
Joey Maloney
That kid on the near right looks like he smells something unpleasant coming from the back of Frothy’s trousers.
JPL
@Schlemizel: Santorum doesn’t really add to the ticket, imo. The tea baggers will fall in line and do as their told. Bishop Romney will select someone who can help him win a state that was blue last election.
jibeaux
“Whyyyyyy did my mom make me come to church today, damn.”
RSA
I like how Santorum seems to be standing on the tilted set of a 1960s Batman villain hide-out.
PaulW
Those kids are slumping like the heat is up too high in that church. I know it’s January but in Pompano Beach you STILL need to set the A/C for COOL…
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
Well, it’s not like most of them would’ve heard anything new coming out of his mouth there. Why not zone out the same scold bullshit you know is coming?
Meanwhile, in a semi-OT aside, Romney has a different problem, according to a WaPo op-ed by Kathleen Turner: He’s simply too damn perfect, and Americans can’t deal with it. Seriously, that’s her fucking argument it seems.
jibeaux
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Slander not the sultriness of Kathleen Turner!
Villago Delenda Est
Mitt Romney is too perfect?
Whatever this Turner bint is smoking, she’d better share, or I’m calling the cops!
burnspbesq
OT, but …
That package you’ve been waiting for? Looks like it may be delivered as early as tomorrow.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577195472977887722.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk
Amir Khalid
“When Santorum preaches, even the choir nods off.” That’s what you might take away from this photo. I can easily picture a newspaper not daring to run it, lest the Mr Frothy for Prez people accuse it of deliberately mocking their candidate.
flukebucket
I love the fan that the lady is using to keep the young fellow that is leaning on her conscious. Do any of ya’ll remember those? The cardboard fan on a popsicle stick that had a picture of Jesus holding a lamb on the front and the name of a funeral home on the back. I had almost forgotten those.
PurpleGirl
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
@jibeaux:
Fear not jibeaux… I clicked through and the column was written by Kathleen PARKER, not Kathleen Turner. KT’s sultriness remains unsullied.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@PurpleGirl:
Bleh. My bad. I blame caffeine, or otherwise lack of. Your choice.
amk
@jibeaux: for a minute there, I read it as sluttiness of …
sdhays
@Schlemizel: My bet is Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for VP. Virginia is must-win for the Republicans and for some reason Governor McDonnell is popular here. He’s also southern and very conservative, which are two things I think Romney will look for in a VP. Also, Obama won Virginia by 13% in 2008 and he currently leads in polls, so the Republicans are going to have to do something special to bring it back to their column this year.
Amir Khalid
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
After an uncharacteristic fit of decency, during which she defended the First Lady from the right’s shameless and unfounded personal attacks, Washington Post Right-Leaning (TM) op-ed writer Kathleen Parker resumes normal service.
Villago Delenda Est
Yeah, it’s the Parker bint, not the Turner babe. I clicked through and in my dazed state that anyone would make so ridiculous a claim as “Mitt Romney is too perfect” didn’t even read her name right.
She still needs to share what she’s smoking, or with FSM as my witness, I will call Joe Friday on her ass.
p.a.
how do you spell oleaginous?
PurpleGirl
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
Lack of caffeine is entirely understandable. I’m about to have a second portion of caffeine, myself.
jibeaux
@PurpleGirl: I read too much about politics, because I knew who he was talking about before clicking over. Crazy shit written by someone named Kathleen? Yep, that’s Parker.
JPL
Parker pictures Bishop Romney as Gary Cooper in the Fountainhead. I think of Bishop Romney as head of the Pinkerton’s. I guess the characters are pretty close though.
@sdhays: That’s my bet.
Amir Khalid
@p.a.:
O I L Y.
Villago Delenda Est
@p.a.:
R*E*P*U*B*L*I*C*A*N
Also, T*E*L*E*V*A*N*G*E*L*I*S*T
Schlemizel
@sdhays:
Thats a new guess, have not seen his name up before. Good reasoning it might make sense.
Anyone thinking Willard will need a “home run” like Grandpa Walnuts did? Reach out for some wild card loon that makes the boys at the review all tingly?
forked tongue
Those chorus members look like they’re feeling really “blah.”
deep
somehow this blog entry resulted in a Google Ad for “Colombian Singles”.
Ugh. NSFW fercrisakes!
Schlemizel
@deep:
NSFW? How about having to see Newts ugly face every time I come here?
JGabriel
In breaking news via TPM, man worth quarter-billion not worried about the poor, says that’s Democrats’ problem, runs for president:
You’re a real keeper, Mitt. So glad you’re running to be the GOP’s standard bearer. I can’t imagine anyone more suited to the role, anyone more aligned with the GOP’s core lack of moral concern.
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JGabriel
@deep:
Everytime I see an ad that is totally inappropriate to my concerns, income, and desires, I feel a sense of relief and reassurance: it means the Intertoobz(tm) does not yet have perfect information about us if advertisers still target us with ads for products we’ll never use or purchase.
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JGabriel
@JPL:
Yep, probably a Baptist from VA or NC, someone not necessarily of the tea party, but someone who has good relations with them and the religious fundies.
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handsmile
Rih Santorum will not be Mittens’s number two for the simple fact that evangelical Protestants who may be hesitant to cast their ballot for a Mormon president would not find a Roman Catholic vice president any more appealing.
However, Frothy would likely be a strong contender to be selected as Secretary of Health and Human Services in a Mittens’ administration. Imagine that horror.
But that’s all glum speculation. For now, enjoy the comic genius of the latest “Bad Lip Reading” video, starring Rih “I’m Crazy but I’m Right” Santorum:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4970
“I’m living for donuts and venison….”
The Moar You Know
I’ve always wondered how many wetsuits ol’ Ricky has at home.
shortstop
Would McDonnell take it? Will most anyone take it? A lot of what are considered rising stars (for instance, Rubio, who’s got so many financial problems they may not want him) aren’t going to want to end their careers by being tied to a Romney loss. On the other hand, McDonnell’s no spring chicken and this would likely be his only chance unless he’s kidding himself, as so many of these guys do, that he’s viable presidential material down the road.
JGabriel
@handsmile:
This points to a larger problem for Mitt.
Romney belongs to a religious minority (Mormons) which most other Christians look askance upon. Should he win the nomination, he can’t afford to select a VP from any other minority group (Catholic, Hispanic, Black, Jewish, Female) — despite running to lead an increasingly diverse country — without potentially alienating the GOP’s resentful, xenophobic, conservative base.
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phoebes-in-santa fe
@forked tongue: Well put.
cmorenc
The risk is not that Santorum will be Mitt’s or Newt’s VP pick, but instead that they’ll give Santorum a key cabinet position such as Secretary of Health and Human Services as a reward for helping bring right-wing evangelicals aboard in November. Santorum as Secretary of Health and Human Services would be positioned to do infinitely greater damage to people in this country, women in particular, than he ever would as Vice President (at least provided Willard or Newt did not die in office during their term as POTUS).
Violet
That is an excellent photo. Those kids really would rather be somewhere else. Can’t say I blame ’em.
handsmile
@JGabriel: (#37)
Yes, indeed, a problem that will (praise the Lord) grow only larger for Mittens and his political confederates with current American demographics.
A minor quibble: In the American Christian empire, it is predominantly the evangelical faction for whom Mormons and Catholics remain theologically treacherous and thus unfit for public office. Mainstream Protestant denominations (e.g., Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, American (not Southern) Baptist) have established detente with the Papists and, to an increasing degree, the followers of Joseph Smith over the past 20 years.
Those who self-identify as evangelical Christians, however, overwhelmingly vote as faithful members of the Republican flock. Thus, as you indicate, the vice presidential camel for Mitt to thread through the electoral needle.
wasabi gasp
Dude’s askew.
burnspbesq
@JGabriel:
I would have thought Romney had other things to do this morning that would have kept him from shooting TV spots for the Obama campaign.
In other news that got buried under the noise from Florida, the Dem candidate rolled to a 15-point win in the special election in OR-1.
slag
@JGabriel: That’s impressive. And I didn’t think Romney could get less likable. My bleeding heart liberal elitist friends all feel sorry for him in his Quixotic quest for a raison d’etre. Or, at least they did until now.
slag
@handsmile: Hahahahaha! “And I hold it so it’s a fancy fist with joy”.
handsmile
@cmorenc: (#39)
As I commented above (#34), Santorum stands an excellent chance of being selected as the HHS Secretary in a Romney administration should that political nightmare occur. And we certainly agree as to the harm he would inflict upon the American commonweal in that post.
But such an appointment would perhaps be a “reward for helping bring…aboard” conservative Roman Catholics, not evangelical Christians. That faction continues to regard Santorum’s faith with suspicion. Even after a conclave of religious conservative patriarchs in Texas reluctantly designated Rih as their anti-Mitt crusader before the South Carolina primary, evangelical voters there did not rally to Santorum.
maya
What else would you expect from the conjoining of Jeebus and Moroni.Or:
He is not!
Is too!
Na ah!
Is too!
shortstop
@handsmile: Generally speaking, the evangelicals made peace with Catholic candidates a long time ago. They became uneasy allies during the anti-choice wars of the last 25-30 years and that’s only been strengthened by some of the other culture battles since; the “Baptists won’t vote for Catholics” CW is very much out of date.
That’s not to say Santorum would be a good VP choice for Mitt; he isn’t and he won’t be chosen. As many people have been pointing out here for weeks, Santorum leading HHS is the truly scary prospect.
grandpa john
@JGabriel: Adding this to the string of other totally unaware statements he has made , one has to conclude that the man really is a robot, because no actual human could be so total lacking in self awareness as Mitt.
Hal
Harpo! Who dis
womanman?!handsmile
@shortstop: (#48)
Thanks for your reply! Respectfully, my own understanding on the subject of Christian Evangelical-Roman Catholic relations (informed by Neuhaus on the right to Sproul on the left) would suggest that the ink is not long dry on any such treaty. As to Baptists, there remains a significant gulf between the American and Southern congregations in their respective political and religious practices.
I was unaware of earlier commenters prophesying the doom of a Santorum/HHS appointment. No small part of why I linger at this blog is to admire and learn from its political seers.
shortstop
@handsmile: I’m not suggesting that all is happy and collegial between those camps. The treaty ink may still be tacky and there’s no small number of non-signatories, but it’s really relative. A Catholic-suspicious Protestant fundie may not hang out with RC folk after work, but when the choice is between, say, a black Protestant Democratic candidate and a white Catholic Republican, white evangelicals frequently fail to remember what it was about Catholicism that bugged them so much.
Note that Gingrich, a Catholic, is getting his biggest support from evangelicals, who are employing a different sort of relativism there: JFK probably would have laughed hysterically to see a Mormon of today getting the same treatment he got in 1960. It will be interesting to see whether the extensive Mormon efforts at preventing same-sex marriage will eventually have a leavening effect on evangelicals’ deep distrust of them. Perhaps not, since the LDS church tends to keep its support of Prop 8, etc., as low-key as possible, in contrast with the USCCB’s tendency to shout its policy stances to the skies.
I’ll also note that Santorum himself received very strong support from PA evangelicals when he was senator there. For many evangelicals, it’s simply become more about the cultural issues than about the faith of the individual candidates. What killed a big piece of knee-jerk evangelical anti-Catholicism was the sense that they were banding together for larger common goals, the most important being defeating the godless abortionists. (The left might possibly take a lesson in coalition building from the religious right–both Protestant and Catholic fundamentalists.)
I do think JGabriel is correct that Romney, being of a Suspicious Bent of Faith himself, cannot afford to choose another “minority” as a running mate. (Exception: he might have chosen Rubio were it not for the aforementioned financial problems; he badly needs to win FL and these people are just dumb enough to think that Rubio would appeal broadly to Hispanic voters.) But if Romney weren’t a Mormon, I don’t think Santorum’s Catholicism would have been a major disqualification.
handsmile
@shortstop: (#52)
Again, thank you for taking the time to elaborate upon your position. Whatever disagreement we may have on the subject is only one of degree. Unquestionably, it is so-called cultural issues (abortion, gay rights, school curricula) that have forged conservative Catholic-evangelical Christian alliances.
Most certainly on this statement:
Chinn Romney
I feel the urge to burst into song too. Let’s do a round, I’ll start: “He’s got the Whole World, in his hands. He’s got the whole world, in his hands…”
These guys are awesome. All four of them, I love them to pieces. It’s easy once you realize none of them has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the general election. I don’t understand why anyone would lose sleep over that prospect. Polls, schmolls. Not happening.
SRW1
The kids are all great, you know, “at that age they can’t lie”, but what is particularly hilarious is the lady on the left with the hanky.
Fer Christ sake Ricky, they’re never gonna vote fer ya, if ya make ’em cry?
cckids
@Schlemizel:
He doesn’t strike me as a gambler at all. He’ll have quantities of data entered & spit out the safest person, leading to a Dull/Duller ticket.
My keyboard to FSM’s ears/macaroni appendages.
Gus
Look at all those blah people.
SpreadingSantorumdotcom
I said blah people
Rick