Prolife Mitt Romney Watch

New Romney Numbers - Fate Is Cruel

It's going to be long tumble from the top.

Eyeon08 sums it well - it will not be sustained, the campaign is great - too bad about the candidate.

Meanwhile, somebody apparently dressed up as a rhinoceros as RINOs for Romney

And, not to be missed:

Hugh Hewitt has his undies in a twist over Peggy Noonan's joke about Romney's underpants.

"While the other candidates bang away earnestly in a frozen format, Thompson continues to sneak up from the creek and steal their underwear--boxers, briefs and temple garments."

If an orthodox Jew was in the running, would Peggy have added "yarmulke?" Or if a devout Catholic, a mention of a rosary or a scapula? I doubt it.  There are acceptable bigotries and unacceptable bigotries.  Anti-Mormon drive-bys that are good for a laugh play well in some circles --the same circles that used to indulge Catholic and Irish jokes.

I'm sure poor Hugh was more upset about Noonan's disclosure about the big old choo-choo train named Fred coming their direction, than he was the underpants.

Does Romney know the difference between science fiction and reality?

Eyeon08 has another frightening glimpse under the hair.

This from his speech this weekend at Regent:

"In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past."

I thought that was cuckoo.  Apparently, Romney read it in a science fiction book but intellectually processed it as reality.

From Eyeon08 -

Here:

This time, he confuses French marriage law with something he read in a science fiction book based on the Book of Mormon! What? I mean, I have read a lot of science fiction, including a lot of Orson Scott Card. But I would never, never confuse that with French marriage law. (H/T Wonkette)

I'm starting to think Romney really thinks he's winning.

I'm scared.

What if someday he wakes up in the White House thinking Orson Wells was really reporting the news?

What if he sends the go-to guy to get Spiderman 3 after Bin Ladin?

 

Romney's Evolution Fib

There's something disingenuous about David Brody's swings between euphoria and skepticism.  How can a reporter expect to be credible when one day, it's clear he's onto Romney's consistent lying - and the next, he reports as though he thinks the words coming out of Romney's mouth are something we can all believe?

Brody seems surprised that Romney believes in Intelligent Design but doesn't want children to learn about it.

The last thing Romney needs is another reason for Evangelicals not to vote for him.

If Brody doesn't know that horse is long dead, he better think about another profession.

The Romney people made matters worse with their response.

Romney holds to his statements that children in school should be taught that humanity is a godless evolution from chimpanzees, only.  Teaching Intelligent Design must be left for the affluent who can afford private school. 

Carpetbagger calls the duplicity:

Kevin Madden, Romney’s spokesman, told Brody, “Governor Romney believes both science and faith can help inform us about the origins of life in this world.” This only piqued CBN’s curiosity.

With all due respect, what does that mean exactly? It leaves me with more questions. I have asked for further clarification which I assume will be forthcoming here at the Brody File. I have now asked the Romney campaign specifically if he believes in Darwin’s theory of Evolution or does he take the Creationist view? The answer above suggests that he may believe in both. I’m not saying he does. I’m just saying I’m a tad bit confused by the answer.

Here’s the key point. The majority of Born Again Evangelicals take the Creationist viewpoint. Some Evangelicals already have concerns about Romney’s Mormon faith. He needs support from Evangelicals to win. That’s why this issue is an important one that needs to be cleared up. I don’t think this is an issue that Romney can avoid. I believe his views need to be clear.

If other elements of the religious right follow up, Romney could find himself in a bind fairly quickly. By not raising his hand, Romney pretty clearly noted that he accepts the reality of modern biology. He’s willing to pander to the far-right on a great number of issues, but he seems to have drawn the line here. There are some depths to which even Romney won’t go.

But in his party, and with his base, that may not be good enough.

CBN’s Brody adds:

I understand Evolution can mean different things to different people and it can be a complicated issue. But Darwin’s theory of Evolution is more clear cut. It is considered a “religion” of sorts by fundamentalist Christians. I fully realize that a Commander in Chief will not be making any “executive” decisions when it comes to Evolution. But since many Evangelicals are looking for a candidate with solid social issue conservative beliefs, Evolution enters the equation along with abortion and gay marriage.

 

After Debate, Romney surges in polls, down, down, down

A new post-debate gallup poll has Romney Galloping towards the Gutter.

Gallup

Romney's Record of telling Bishops What To Do

Good hair, shameless lies

From Deal Hudson's blog:

According to the Boston Herald on December 9th, 2005, “Gov. Mitt Romney abruptly ordered his administration to reverse course yesterday and require Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraception medication to rape victims. In a turnaround that foes derided as politically motivated, Romney directed his Department of Public Health to scrap rules that exempted the Catholic institutions from a new law governing the medicine.” 

“I don’t say anything to Roman Catholic bishops. They can do whatever the heck they want. Roman Catholic bishops are in a private institution, a religion, and they can do whatever they want in a religion.”

Eyeon08 has more on Romney's Flip Flop on killing embryos to retrieve stem cells:

     MODERATOR:  And you won’t take any from these fertility clinics to use either?

     ROMNEY:  I’m happy to allow that to — or I shouldn’t say happy.It’s fine for that to be allowed, to be legal.  I won’t use our government funds for that.  Instead, I want our governments to be used on Dr. Hurlbut’s method, which is altered nuclear transfer.

However, he wrote in the Boston Globe (see my previous post), when he vetoed a stem-cell bill:

Some stem cells today are obtained from surplus embryos from in-vitro fertilization. I support that research, provided that those embryos are obtained after a rigorous parental consent process … Known as altered nuclear transfer, this method could allow researchers to obtain embryonic stem cells without the moral shortcut of cloning and destroying a human embryo.

A bill that includes methods such as these and bans all human cloning would receive my full support.

In other words, he said he would fund IVF leftover research. Now he won’t.

Romney quickly backtracked from saying he was "happy" about the legality of killing embryos for research, to saying it's fine.  Dandy, so long as it's privately funded by the pagans privately and the "parents" of the unborn children consent.

I'll continue to repeat what is well-known and permanent by insiders:  The religious right is not going to giddy up with Romney.  He's finished.

Interesting Reaction from the Left on Romney's National Security Blunder

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,"Romney said.

Bin Ladin, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin reign in peace.

A pulse of the right and the left found his statement absurd and shocking.

Left: Are any of these Republican candidates actually serious? Or are they just jokers and liars? Mitt Romney does not think it's worth any kind of effort to find Osama Bin Laden, the man who masterminded the murder of over 3,000 Americans:

Right: But if the quote is correct, just speaking as one taxpayer, I would say a) we have already spent billions and gone to a lot of effort to try to get bin Laden, and b) it would be worth still more money and still more effort to kill the man behind 9/11.  I can't imagine any serious Republican candidate for president would say otherwise.  Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again.

There was a day when I was concerned that the selling of Romney by National Review Online, Jim Bopp, K-Lo, Maggie Gallagher, Mass Citizens for Life, etc. would put this buffoon in the White House, but that fear, thanks be to Christ and the Holy Spirit, no longer exists.

Romney, Hugh Hewitt and the Chicken Has Come Home to Roost

“I’m not in favor of his religion by any means...." 

Romney can have unfavorable convictions about the religion of others?

Will Hugh Hewitt call Romney a religious bigot?

I find the effort to mainstream religious tests and even religious bigotry to be abhorrent and far outside the political mainstream.

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful.