Wednesday, July 18, 2012

111 Days To Go

A heat wave. A stalled economy.  A drought. A deadlocked congress.  This is like something of an an ancient mariner's epic.  There was a lot of political jazz to listen to during the Republican primary. It was fun.  Now we're just waiting for something,  anything,  to happen before November.  I know a way to spice it all up!  Tell you at the end of this post. The next pseudo- event I guess is Romney picking a VP.  But the short list isn't really very interesting.  What if Romney picked Chris Christie?  I know, I know, Christie wouldn't do it.  I'm saying what if.  It would then be a great ticket.  All you would have to do then is switch the candidates position so that Christie would be the nominee and Romney the VP.  Then of course Christie would want to pick his own VP and it sure as hell wouldn't be Romney.  Then  Romney would be off the table and Obama would be defeated.  In a piss poor economy the incumbent is pretty easy to beat.  But you simply need a good candidate.  Romney just isn't that good.  He might just win anyway.  But why not play it safe and put a better guy up against Obama?  Is it too late?  I don't know how a "brokered convention" works.  But it would sure be exciting.  Imagine a Republican challenger with the core and the moderates behind him.  With an aura of excitement about him and the wind at his back.  Then you could win.  Not maybe win.

It's amazing to me how polarised the electorate is now.  And more so every year.  I think Obama is a polarizing force.  Because there is a bloc of folks who will never ever ever vote for Obama.  No matter what.  They simply hate Obama.  Part of it is race of course.  But Hillary Clinton as a candidate was the same way.  With conservatives you have an unbending stance.  In a previous blog post I was sniffing around this concept of division and the line drawn in the sand of polarization.  I said things like "haves and have nots".  "Democrat vs Republican" Liberal vs Conservative".  I want to go one little tiny step further.

I want to say: "those that believe everything can be boiled down to "right or wrong"  "Yes or no"....  VS "those who don't know because there are too many variables"

To me,  conservative thinking is religious thinking.  There are no grey areas.

Liberal thinking is making up your mind on a situational basis.

I pick on conservatives.  But I know that one definition of a conservative is "A Liberal who has just been mugged!"

I'm very curious about an issue  in the upcoming election campaign.  My big questions  are:  Will the Democrats play the religion card against Romney?   Is it a cheap shot to do that?  Does a candidate's religion get a free pass?  Exactly how wacky is Mormonism?    If it is really wacky,  could it hurt Romney?  Wacky or not,  could an attack backfire on the Democrats?  Can it be the Dems haven't thought of this?

I think there is a special team in the Obama camp that is working on this Mormon thing.  I think they are holding back.  I think they have recruited disgruntled Mormons who had to escape from the religion and want to tell their bitter tale.  The team is accumulating data that will shock us all.  Maybe they want to explode it in October.

I have a blog post myself about the Mormons.  It's called "Utah" from Sept. 2010.  I was at the "Temple Square" in Salt Lake.

And last night I Googled up the Mormons and found these claims:     Of course I don't know if they are true!

If you get married in a Temple you have to get naked.
God lives at a star called Kolob.
You wear special underwear 24-7.
The underwear has the logo of the Free Masons on it!
Some of the ritual sacrements are the same as the Free Masons.
Joseph Smith was a known con man before he became the prophet.
The Mormans have a living prophet that is exalted as a god.
There are 12 disciples the living prophet is the head of.
When a man dies "sealed" as a Morman he has his own planet in the afterlife with thousands of women at his command  (this is so better than 70 measly virgins)
Joseph Smith dictated the Book of Mormon while reading golden plates which no one ever saw.  He stayed behind a screen when he dictated.  The guy writing it down decided to test J.Smith and claimed to have lost the previous page to see if J.Smith would then be able to dictate the exact same words from the golden plates.  J. Smith got very angry about the page being lost and said that God was angry and that a different place on the plates would substitute because God was omitting the original page!

And there is more and more and more.  Maybe it's a low blow.  But I hope the Dems go for it.  And I thought Romney was boring!

LLITTY     ::::+::::

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