A Stitch in Haste

One thing I left out from my previous post:

If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country.

Mitt Romney is -- was -- the most disingenuous, self-obsessed, say-anything politician since Bill Clinton (I wish I had to go back further than that, but there you go...). The idea that he "did it for the party" rather than the party doing it to him is the most comical lie since "I didn't inhale" (damn, there I go again...).

In any case, let's mark the end of our brief bigotry nightmare with some choice excerpts from Romney's "suspension" speech (he couldn't even bring himself to call it a "withdrawal"):

--The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless. And tolerance for pornography -- even celebration of it -- and sexual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare programs have led to today's grim realities: 68% of African American children are born out-of-wedlock, 45% of Hispanic children, and 25% of White children.

--The development of a child is enhanced by having a mother and father. Such a family is the ideal for the future of the child and for the strength of a nation. I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It is time for the people of America to fortify marriage through Constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it.

--Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.

This would be sufficiently nauseating by itself: Pornography causes fatherless (mostly black) babies. Gay fathers cause defective babies. Judicial review is evil; the tyranny of the majority is noble and just. Europe is facing God's Wrath. Etc.

But remember: Romney's fatal flaw was his addiction to flip-flopping. He couldn't even make it through a single "suspension" speech without doing it:

These Jihadists will battle any form of democracy. To them, democracy is blasphemous for it says that citizens, not God shape the law. They find the idea of human equality to be offensive. They hate everything we believe about freedom just as we hate everything they believe about radical Jihad.
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It is the common task of each generation -- and the burden of liberty -- to preserve this country, expand its freedoms and renew its spirit so that its noble past is prologue to its glorious future.

Huh? Who hates whom because who believes society should or should not be based on "god-shaped law"? Who finds equality to be offensive? Who hates everything we believe about freedom? Who is focused on the "burden of liberty" to "expand its freedoms"? Who are radical social conservatives fighting when they're not righting radical Jihadists? Isn't it "their fellow Americans"?

Soulless bastard. To the very end.

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