The "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) syndrome
was diagnosed at a very advanced stage by the 2006 election.
But apparently we've learned nothing. And the adulation over
the candidacy of Mitt Romney shows the condition is probably
terminal.
"RINOism" has infected much of the
conservative leadership, from evangelical leaders to Right
Wing talk show hosts. Southern Baptist leader Richard Land
and top conservative radio talk show hosts such as Sean
Hannity speak glowingly of Romney. Two of the most popular
conservative shows have become part of the liberal media
glorification of Mitt. One conservative talker has written
"A Mormon In The White House." He and other Republican
talkers are denouncing the "ugly religious bigotry" against
Romney.
What exactly are they talking about?
Before looking at the "bigotry" surrealism,
there is an extremely important reason Republicans should
not be hugging Romney and it has nothing to do with his
religion.
Romney
is the classic RINO and he was a disaster as governor of
Massachusetts. If he leaves America in the same condition he
left the Bay State, America will be toast by 2012.
1. Romney tossed Massachusetts a
socialist health care plan as he was walking out the
door. Bernie Sanders, the only socialist congressman
(and now a Member of the United States Senate), said
after he got into office, a national health care plan is
a tool to turn America into a socialist nation. "Romneycare"
has ominous ramifications on a number of levels, not the
least of which is – it will drive businesses out of
state, and ruin the economy.
2. He secretly validated gay
marriage in Massachusetts, while publicly declaring he
opposed it. He is on record as saying he is more pro-gay
than Ted Kennedy.
3. His reformer pose is
contradicted by his "get-along" handling of the worst
public works project corruption in U.S. history. "Big
Dig" corruption caused a number of deaths, including
that of a legal immigrant mother who was crushed by a
falling cement tunnel ceiling section. Romney
grandstanded about "getting to the bottom of this," but
quietly took large contributions from Big Dig
contractors.
4. He returned Massachusetts to a
one-party Democrat state by giving it a governor who
once reported to Hillary, via Janet Reno. By abandoning
his lieutenant governor, who then lost the governor's
race to Hillary's man, Mitt resurrected the Dukakis era.
Mr. Smiley's private shady deals are at odds
with his hygienic facade. The doublespeak press conferences,
the bold hypocrisy and devious campaign to mislead show that
beneath the "Reagan Republican" mask is a John Kerry flip
flopper and Bill Clinton deceiver. When the liberal
establishment is behind you, you're probably not a
conservative. When Time, Newsweek and the New York
Times look like your publicist and TV keeps pumping
you...uh...you're a liberal.
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But nothing reveals Romney's deviousness more
than his "bigotry" mind control campaign. This subliminal
indictment of evangelicals as bigots is made without good
evidence of evangelical hate. Evangelicals don't seem to
even dislike Romney. Except for angry bigotry charges by his
friends in the media, where's the evangelical bigotry?
The evidence Romney's "attorneys" wave around
in the court of public opinion comes from a poll, indicating
most evangelicals wouldn't vote for a Mormon. The subtext of
Romney's "spin" trick is 1. Mitt's another JFK (pssst – you
know, that anti-Catholic thing), and 2. If you don't vote
for Mitt, you're a bigot. This trick worked well with the
Gullible Vote for JFK. By the way, I can't keep track. Is
Mitt a Reagan Republican or a JFK Democrat? Time says
his hero is Eisenhower. It's kinda like Deja Vu all over
again. Remember when Hillary kept changing hairdos every
other day?
A Time headline asked: "Is it sheer
bigotry to say you won't vote for someone because he's a
Jew? Muslim? What about a Mormon?" Okay. What about an
evangelical?
Is it "sheer bigotry" that 93 percent of
reporters and editors said they wouldn't vote for an
evangelical?" Is it sheer bigotry that liberals are
foaming-at-the-mouth "Bush-haters" because President Bush
holds evangelical beliefs? A question for Time: Why
don't you think evangelicals have a right to vote according
to their religious beliefs? Are you saying it's "sheer
bigotry" if Christians don't vote for a Muslim for
president?
Since when do Americans not have the right to
vote for whoever they want, according to their deeply held
religious beliefs without the house organ (the media) of the
state religion (Democrat Socialism) indicting them of being
morally unfit to vote?
Did Romney raise the religion question to
cover up his record as governor? If he did, it worked quite
well. Hello. Were you aware of his record as governor? When
Romney cast himself as a Reagan Republican, he injected the
subject of religion into his campaign. Reagan's
founding-fathers-redeemer-nation beliefs were the foundation
of his politics. His religious beliefs and Romney's are
completely different.
A true Reagan Conservative is someone who
holds Reagan's "redeemer nation" worldview. If America's
founders were alive today, they would not vote for a Mormon,
because of their biblical, "city on a hill" beliefs.
The only way not voting for a Mormon becomes
"bigotry" is under the Democrat religious doctrine of
"tolerance," in which all religions are equally valid.
The central flaw in this doctrine is:
liberals ignore it. Democrats have a half-century record of
the boldest, ugliest bigotry in U.S. history. They call
evangelical Christianity evil. Liberals have compared
evangelicals to "Nazis" (California Governor Pat Brown in
1965) and Jihadists after 9-11 ("We have our own brand of
fundamentalist terrorists!").
The U.S. media would never run an editorial
titled, "Can a Mormon be President?" with the conclusion:
"no." But The New York Times did run an op ed about
John Ashcroft titled, "Can a deeply religious person be
attorney general?" The answer of course was "no." Was that
bigotry? In the surreal world of the media, the answer of
course was, "no."
Time writer Nancy Gibbs speaks of the
"fury" in which the "religious question" has raised itself
with Romney. She's right, but the furor has been in media,
not fundamentalist pulpits. Unfortunately, the only
Christian they could get to demean Mormons is America's
foremost bigot, Al Sharpton.
Mrs. McGillicuddy always voted for the Irish
Catholic candidate in Massachusetts' politics and no talk
show host accused her of being a bigot. So why is it
suddenly bigotry when evangelicals want to vote for the
evangelical candidate? In his famous speech before
Protestant ministers, Kennedy called his religious beliefs
"private." Romney publicized evangelical beliefs so he could
demonize them.
Some
evangelicals have always been very impressed with Mormons.
If only evangelicals behaved as admirably as Mormons! But
Romney's bigotry charges raise the question: do Mormons view
evangelicals as bigots?
I thought this free nation gives Americans
the right to vote for whomever they want without being
accused of "hate." If Romney is a conservative, why is he
pulling the "bigotry" card out of the liberal toolbox? It's
in the same league as "hate speech" laws and the Pelosi
"fairness doctrine."
The Romney campaign shows the Reagan
Revolution is over, replaced by a slithery liberal
Republicanism drenched in hypocrisy, blindness and
cowardice. Why would the Republican Party embrace a classic
RINO right after the 2006 debacle? Hello? Polls show 90
percent of Americans reject them. Has the Republican Party
got the Dukakis Syndrome: they just don't get it? RINO
loses. Seriously, do they want to lose?
It is astonishing to see how out of touch
conservative leaders are with the American people.
Reagan revived the GOP to its greatest height
since the Civil War, when it formed. Reagan's political
beliefs were the Big Picture beliefs of the founding fathers
– the historic American evangelical beliefs Romney calls
bigotry.
Obviously the 2006 election
taught the RINOcracy nothing. So for those conservatives out
there who haven't drunk the Kool Aid, let's review the
losing formula for 2008: RINO = GOP R.I.P.
