our Constitution was written for a people of faith and religion

Nownownownownow Lefties, the Mitt is correct here. Let's own up to it, he has Spake Wisdom that we all should acknowledge and act upon. To wit: the relevant sections of our constitution was written in plain English, the American unilanguage, for the edification of the above F&R loonies to make it overtly illegal for any specific F&R, and more specifically, their F&R mythology, to control unilateral governmental power. Take that, Dapper Dan.

Nice of him to mention Washington and Adams and leave out Jefferson. Jefferson wouldn't have said that, exactly. (:

Though I think it's rather silly to keep referring to the "Founding Fathers" in this sense. What they meant and what they thought really isn't that important. Furthermore, they're not around to clarify. We shouldn't take the Constitution (for example) as the fundamentalists take their holy books -- it's not infallible. It's the supreme law, not the ultimate doctrine, and it can always be amended. It's a framework for government and not a decree by the American Pantheon in Trumbull's famous picture of the Declaration Committee.

When you try to justify actions by appeal to "the Founding Fathers meant it", that's essentially requiring us to be Classical in other ways. Indubitably, the Founding Fathers regarded Classical music above whatever Devil's music was written by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and William Schuman, and they intended the American public to only listen to such music. The Founding Fathers did not intend for blacks to be able to vote or even be citizens. The Founding Fathers had distinctly 18th Century views on things, and just because they had them doesn't mean we have to.

Romney's irritating. He should just win the nomination already and let the Democrats win.

But there is a dumb reason people might vote for Romney comparable to the one why they might move for Huck -- he's so handsome and "presidential." The simplicity of those things might transcend, for a lot of people, the complex truth that he's valueless to the core.

* Making a home of France and Massachusetts and then running as a France and Bay State basher

* Equating his sons' support of his campaign with the sacrifice of American soldiers

* Trying to help the Archdiocese of Boston sidestep civil rights laws so it could discriminate against gays

* Wanting to "double Guantanamo"

* Strapping his dog to the roof of his car

* Playing games with the First Amendment to let Mormons in and nonbelievers out

* Being worse than a Bible literalist -- a phony Bible literalist

* Decrying one party controlling all parts of his state's government, but loving it when his party took over all parts of the Federal government

And so on...

A Comment to Leah's great post.

Nice post, VL!

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. . . . it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people. - Frank Irving Cobb

Didn't I read somewhere about the separation of church and state?

Since the President now has unlimited authority to declare any US citizen as an 'enemy combatant' without any recourse or rebuttal from the condemned, this action being completely and unreservedly approved by the Democratic leadership, Mitt has made it clear that he will extend this decree and have all US Citizens that do not profess a claim to any religion rounded up and imprisoned to be tortured forever.

The next phase will be to order the roundup of all US citizens that are not identifiable as 'christian'. The question is, which religion will he institute as the official religion of the US gov't? And how will he avoid a new civil war between mega-churches?

I can't wait for a Mitt "lifelong hunter" Romney candidacy for the final run!

No one is going to vote for a Mormon, and a lot more people will learn just what a freakish cult it is. Besides, what dumb thing will he do next? Remember the Communist slogan he shouted to the Cuban Americans in Florida? Bring 'im on!

... is that Romney seduced liberal Massachusetts into voting for him. Obviously, he didn't run on religion here, but still it says that his Alpha Ken Doll persona can work on a lot of presumably skeptical people.

Let's hope Mittwit cured Massachusetts of their skewed concept that electing Rethuglican governors somehow "balances" our representation.

I remember very well when he ran how it was a-ok to bash Catholics but somehow it was bigoted to bring up any aspect of the sexist racist cult of LDS.
I think that has changed, especially in Bible-belt where they don't take too kindly to the Mormon rewrite of Jesus and his brother Satan. Heh.

But of course, Hucksterbee would also be an amusing candidate. Maybe all the College Republicans would get tired of not only not getting laid but also having Born-agains be their poster boys.

... that we didn't have split representation at the national level. Funny.