Posted by
cornpone on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:23:33 AM
Mitt Romney, the slickster millionaire from Massachusetts, is now playing on
the public's sympathy, crying lugubriously "I am a victim."
It all started when an unknown group hired a PR firm to "push poll"
voters to let them know that Mitt is a Mormon.
Mitt immediately cried "un-American" instead of defending his Mormon beliefs, which many religious conservatives rightly believe to be bizarre enough to call into serious question the candidate's personal judgment and powers of discernment.
Push polling is indeed sneaky, but so what else is new? Bush Republicans did it against John McCain in South Carolina, and it was done against Steve Forbes when he ran in the republican primaries.
The practice is of course deceitful and unethical, but it is certainly NOT "bigotry"as the term is most generally used and understood.
*Bigotry* as the word has been commonly understood by most people (although not Webster's dictionary)
is basically an attitude or intention to discriminate against, or actually mistreat someone based on life's
un-changeables: such as race, sex, age, or physical disability.
But someone’s beliefs and philosophy are not one of life's un-changeables. They are judgments and conscious moral choices. Therefore, they should be fair game.
The current liberal PC mantra that any belief system is beyond criticism simply because it’s religiously based is utter pernicious nonsense.
Any religious doctrine or belief system should and must to examined- just like any secular philosophy, and it must stand on it's merits.
There can be no unexamined, or unquestioned ideological sacred cows if you want to be the President of this great country.
Mitt, if you have religious beliefs, the voters have a right to know them and discuss them so they can evaluate your personal judgment.
So please stop crying "I am a victim" and saying your critics are "un-American".
What’s really un-American is your big government mandatory health plan that FORCED people in Massachusetts to buy those inadequate, overpriced health insurance policies that are not attractive enough for people to buy voluntarily on their own accord-in a free market.