Crazy Christians for a Mormon
The chancellor of Bob Jones University has endorsed Mitt Romney.
Is it over now? Romney’s problem up until now has been whether he’ll get the support of the religious Right, seeing as it’s really the Christian Right. If someone like Bob Jones III can endorse him, I would think most of the Christian Right can get behind him.
I can’t decide whether this is a good or bad thing. The other leading contender is Guiliani, who’d be ridiculously bad on civil liberties and foreign policy, but probably wouldn’t piss me off on social issues. Romney will piss me off on social issues and foreign policy-wise he’s probably just as bad as Guiliani. Then again, maybe not.
Guiliani is the preferred candidate of Christopher Hitchens, by the way. That’s not surprising, but damn it’s disappointing.
Of all ‘values’ in the ‘values’ voters, none usurps abortion. The fact is that Romney is more willing than Guiliani to play up on that issue. He played a different tune in Mass, but what the hell are you going to do?
My brother went to Bob Jones university. They was too much nut-jobbery there even for him.
Guiliani is a daddy figure for those who were traumatized by 9/11. I think, given Hitchens’ move to the right after that date, his support for the invasion and his belligerent attitude about Arabs, that he might have been traumatized. Hence, his support for Guiliani. Is that a syllogism?
That is disappointing. Despite his stance on the Iraq War, I respect Hitchens. Did he give any reasons why he’s supporting Giuliani?
I think Mark’s got it, Rebecca. He essentially wants to see Islam eradicated and by force. Guiliani does appear to be the most extreme in that regard, but doesn’t appear to be that religious or socially conservative.
I know everyone’s moved on to bigger and better things, but since we’re discussing Rudy I wanted to share this priceless quote about him I just found elsewhere on the Internets:
That guy eats power for breakfast and shits crazy in the afternoon.