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(WRCB-TV) Obvious Now that it's becoming obvious that the guy with the great teeth and fantastic hair is going to win the nomination, all those "concerns" over his religion are disappearing faster than a bowl of potato salad at a Baptist picnic   (wrcbtv.com) divider line 257
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2012-01-16 10:40:06 AM
Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.
 
2012-01-16 11:26:43 AM
It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability. We are afraid that the godless Democrats can't see past their hate for religion to vote for someone is obviously better than Obama.
 
2012-01-16 11:35:30 AM
Well that's good. Concerns about his religion are retarded.

You should be concerned about the fact that he doesn't hold a position he won't change if the polls tell him to.

You should be concerned that his tax plan will further push the economic divide between the rich and the poor, which will eventually lead to the breakdown of society.

You should be concerned that he would be a TERRIBLE president.
 
2012-01-16 11:53:09 AM
what_now: Well that's good. Concerns about his religion are retarded.

You should be concerned about the fact that he doesn't hold a position he won't change if the polls tell him to.

You should be concerned that his tax plan will further push the economic divide between the rich and the poor, which will eventually lead to the breakdown of society.

You should be concerned that he would be a TERRIBLE president.


But I read in an email that Fartbongo wants to personally kill the living fetus babies of active serving military members at an OWS rally and give their rich fetus goo to welfare recipients.
 
2012-01-16 11:56:04 AM
what_now: You should be concerned that his tax plan will further push the economic divide between the rich and the poor, which will eventually lead to the breakdown of society.

You should be concerned that he would be a TERRIBLE president.


For the GOP those are features instead of bugs.
 
2012-01-16 12:23:50 PM
www.hollywoodreporter.com

funniest f**king play ever.
 
2012-01-16 12:47:10 PM
I'm less concerned with his religion than with his weirdness. Romney just seems weird for some reason.
 
2012-01-16 12:48:18 PM
Well, Party does come before country, ya know?
 
2012-01-16 12:48:59 PM
Don't worry, by November he'll have always been a good Christian and a staunch fiscal and social conservative. I would also not bet my last dollar that by then he won't also have always been from Texas.
 
2012-01-16 12:49:40 PM
The Stealth Hippopotamus: It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability. We are afraid that the godless Democrats can't see past their hate for religion to vote for someone is obviously better than Obama.

Better at what?
 
2012-01-16 12:49:51 PM
Aar1012: But I read in an email that Fartbongo wants to personally kill the living fetus babies of active serving military members at an OWS rally and give their rich fetus goo to welfare recipients.

AND THEN PEE ON THE DEAD LIVING FETUS BABIES!!!
 
2012-01-16 12:50:01 PM
Now that it's becoming obvious that the guy with the great teeth and fantastic hair is going to win the nomination, all those "concerns" over his religion are disappearing faster than a bowl of dicks at a Rick Perry convention


FTFY
 
2012-01-16 12:50:08 PM
Philip Francis Queeg: The Stealth Hippopotamus: It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability. We are afraid that the godless Democrats can't see past their hate for religion to vote for someone is obviously better than Obama.

Better at what?


Being a white Republican.
 
2012-01-16 12:51:33 PM
A Dark Evil Omen: Don't worry, by November he'll have always been a good Christian and a staunch fiscal and social conservative. I would also not bet my last dollar that by then he won't also have always been from Texas.

That made me laugh, cry, and die inside all at once.
 
2012-01-16 12:52:23 PM
The Stealth Hippopotamus: It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability.

Well, good news! So does Romney. In fact, that's pretty much his one core belief: he really, really wants to be President. He wants to be President so very badly. If he loses this race, he's either going to go Harold Stassen and run every four years he still draws a breath, or he's just going to be an utterly broken man afterwards.
 
2012-01-16 12:52:41 PM
MLK wasn't allowed into Mitt's version of heaven until 1978.
 
2012-01-16 12:52:45 PM
Wait, Romney getting the nomination hasn't been obvious?
 
2012-01-16 12:53:16 PM
I guess that fundies would vote for a cultist over a black man. I figure fundies would vote for Satan over a black man.

It certainly seems as though the Republicans are given up on their criteria that the president should be someone they can have a beer with.

BTW, is everyone familiar with Brigham Young's phrase "lying for the lord"?
 
2012-01-16 12:53:18 PM
No one should be terribly surprised that the hardcore partisan types will rally around whoever the nominee is.

The same way the candidates who ripped on romney during the campaign will now be his bestest friend.

welcome to politics.
 
2012-01-16 12:53:50 PM
EvilEgg: Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.

How so?

For the record, I have concerns about any religion the president self identifies with. In most cases it makes him a liar, in some cases it makes him weak minded and willing to accept an unlikely premise on the basis of what some other guy said was true.
 
2012-01-16 12:53:58 PM
We are afraid that the racist Republicans can't see past their hate for President Fart's black black skin to vote for someone is obviously better than the Republican candidates.

Hmm it's equally dumb and wrong when you flip it around
 
2012-01-16 12:54:37 PM
His religion is the one thing on which he hasn't passionately and wholeheartedly flip-flopped. Every other position generates "concerns" because nobody knows if Romney's position today is a 180* reversal from yesterday's or tomorrow's position. The one thing we all know for sure is that there is no way to predict Romney's position on any topic after election.
 
2012-01-16 12:54:58 PM
Southern Baptists embracing a Mormon? That's gotta be a sign of the Apocalypse.

Personally, I'd be more concerned with his Gordon Gecko-esque past.
 
2012-01-16 12:55:30 PM
I wonder if Arkansas would go his way?

Mountain Meadows...
 
2012-01-16 12:55:47 PM
HA HA!

The bigotry of your party is going to bite you on the ass!


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2012-01-16 12:57:04 PM
bugontherug: I'm less concerned with his religion than with his weirdness. Romney just seems weird for some reason.

Romney's religion and his weirdness are not mutually exclusive, if you know what I mean.
 
2012-01-16 12:57:06 PM
drewsclues: Wait, Romney getting the nomination hasn't been obvious?

Well, it's been obvious to anyone who can think for themselves. It doesn't take a genius to figure out he's the only one that stands a chance, however small that chance is.
 
2012-01-16 12:57:07 PM
jcooli09: EvilEgg: Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.

How so?

For the record, I have concerns about any religion the president self identifies with. In most cases it makes him a liar, in some cases it makes him weak minded and willing to accept an unlikely premise on the basis of what some other guy said was true.


So you would only vote for a president that knows literally everything and cannot delegate? I'm not a religious man myself, but I think you're kind of mistaking a characteristic of religion for a weakness of religion. Everyone has to take other people's word on things at some point, there's a reason that specialization is the hallmark of civilization.
 
2012-01-16 12:57:32 PM
Don't Troll Me Bro!: A Dark Evil Omen: Don't worry, by November he'll have always been a good Christian and a staunch fiscal and social conservative. I would also not bet my last dollar that by then he won't also have always been from Texas.

That made me laugh, cry, and die inside all at once.


Republicans make grammatical tense hard.
 
2012-01-16 12:57:50 PM
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2012-01-16 12:59:01 PM
Jim_Callahan: jcooli09: EvilEgg: Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.

How so?

For the record, I have concerns about any religion the president self identifies with. In most cases it makes him a liar, in some cases it makes him weak minded and willing to accept an unlikely premise on the basis of what some other guy said was true.

So you would only vote for a president that knows literally everything and cannot delegate? I'm not a religious man myself, but I think you're kind of mistaking a characteristic of religion for a weakness of religion. Everyone has to take other people's word on things at some point, there's a reason that specialization is the hallmark of civilization.


"Doesn't believe in stupid crap" == "omniscient". Well, thank you, Jim, but I promise it is possible to have a rational grounding without actually knowing everything.
 
2012-01-16 12:59:08 PM

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Bring on FlipFlop McHair, the destroyer of jobs!
 
2012-01-16 12:59:11 PM
The Stealth Hippopotamus: It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability. We are afraid that the godless Democrats can't see past their hate for religion to vote for someone is obviously better than Obama.

Possibly the funniest thing I've read on Fark in a long while. Well done indeed. One of the most amusing things about the coming summer will be watching the "Jesus Camp" types rationalize voting Republican when the GOP nominee is a prominent member of a religion that they preach is a "satanic cult",.
 
2012-01-16 12:59:38 PM
jcooli09: EvilEgg: Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.

How so?

For the record, I have concerns about any religion the president self identifies with. In most cases it makes him a liar, in some cases it makes him weak minded and willing to accept an unlikely premise on the basis of what some other guy said was true.


That's what I will never really understand about so many of the religious anyway. How is someone able to be so convinced that he/her flavor of supernatural beliefs is The Truth being able to outright dismiss in the mind that a slightly different (or even largely different) flavors of the supernatural are wrong? For most it just seems to be based on what their family/family religious leader told them as a kid. I will just honestly never understand it.

Granted, many religious people are less set in stone and more open to the possibility of them not having personally solid knowledge of the Ultimate Truth. Unlike the people like Pat Robertson who hear their god(s) talking to them directly in their heads.
 
2012-01-16 12:59:50 PM
The concerns will never go away. Romney will always be plagued by a whisper campaign running through the very evangelical churches which are supposed to be focusing their efforts on electing him. The best way for him to counteract this will be to nominate an Evangelical Preacher as his running mate. I vote for Huckabee.
 
2012-01-16 01:01:24 PM
No subby, the "liberal" media is now solidifying around Romney, and will put forth the narrative that other Protestants don't hate Mormons as much as they say, that they don't think they worship a moon god, and don't think they are actually servants of the Antichrist.

They want a horse race damn it! They want a horse race and will fight tooth and nail to make it happen.
 
2012-01-16 01:02:35 PM
Magorn: The Stealth Hippopotamus: It's the Republican primary, we dont care about his religion. We care about his electability. We are afraid that the godless Democrats can't see past their hate for religion to vote for someone is obviously better than Obama.

Possibly the funniest thing I've read on Fark in a long while. Well done indeed. One of the most amusing things about the coming summer will be watching the "Jesus Camp" types rationalize voting Republican when the GOP nominee is a prominent member of a religion that they preach is a "satanic cult",.


I have a feeling it will be something along the lines of "Religion shouldn't matter, it should be about his policies! Separation of church and state hurr durr!"
 
2012-01-16 01:02:43 PM
meat0918: No subby, the "liberal" media is now solidifying around Romney, and will put forth the narrative that other Protestants don't hate Mormons as much as they say, that they don't think they worship a moon god, and don't think they are actually servants of the Antichrist.

They want a horse race damn it! They want a horse race and will fight tooth and nail to make it happen.


There's more truth to that statement than I want to accept, I think.
 
2012-01-16 01:03:27 PM
EvilEgg: Mormon is better than radical Muslim athiest.

What does that have to do with the presidential campaign?
 
2012-01-16 01:04:31 PM
redmid17: bugontherug: I'm less concerned with his religion than with his weirdness. Romney just seems weird for some reason.

Romney's religion and his weirdness are not mutually exclusive, if you know what I mean.


Maybe. But campaigning against Romney's Mormon religion is inconsistent with progressive principles. Campaigning against Romney's weirdness is not. Whether or not Romney's Mormon religion contributes to why he's a weirdo, the simple fact is the man is a weirdo. Voters are right to take that into account.
 
2012-01-16 01:06:52 PM
meat0918: other Protestants

Uh.... I may have forgotten more about religious studies than most people will ever learn in their lives, but I'm pretty sure Mormons aren't considered Protestant.
 
2012-01-16 01:07:30 PM
Lost Thought 00: The concerns will never go away. Romney will always be plagued by a whisper campaign running through the very evangelical churches which are supposed to be focusing their efforts on electing him. The best way for him to counteract this will be to nominate an Evangelical Preacher as his running mate. I vote for Huckabee.

Or a third candidate backed by mega churches runs, splintering the Republican vote into equal parts crazy right wing fundies and kinda crazy anybody but the black guy
 
2012-01-16 01:09:52 PM
Jackson Herring: meat0918: other Protestants

Uh.... I may have forgotten more about religious studies than most people will ever learn in their lives, but I'm pretty sure Mormons aren't considered Protestant.


Are they Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christians? Generally, that's considered Protestant, although I will admit it is not typically something they are called.
 
2012-01-16 01:10:22 PM
Jackson Herring: meat0918: other Protestants

Uh.... I may have forgotten more about religious studies than most people will ever learn in their lives, but I'm pretty sure Mormons aren't considered Protestant.


There's even an issue as to whether or not they're Christian. Yes, they say they worship Christ. But the Christ they worship is different from the one Christians worship.
 
2012-01-16 01:10:26 PM
FormlessOne: meat0918: No subby, the "liberal" media is now solidifying around Romney, and will put forth the narrative that other Protestants don't hate Mormons as much as they say, that they don't think they worship a moon god, and don't think they are actually servants of the Antichrist.

They want a horse race damn it! They want a horse race and will fight tooth and nail to make it happen.

There's more truth to that statement than I want to accept, I think.


IIRC they kinda did that with the 08 race, even though Obama had the important electoral college votes locked up based on the polls they made it seem like McCain could easily win it.
 
2012-01-16 01:11:48 PM
bugontherug: Jackson Herring: meat0918: other Protestants

Uh.... I may have forgotten more about religious studies than most people will ever learn in their lives, but I'm pretty sure Mormons aren't considered Protestant.

There's even an issue as to whether or not they're Christian. Yes, they say they worship Christ. But the Christ they worship is different from the one normal Christians worship.


Important to qualify that, since I really don't take a side on the issue.
 
2012-01-16 01:15:28 PM
Headso: FormlessOne: meat0918: No subby, the "liberal" media is now solidifying around Romney, and will put forth the narrative that other Protestants don't hate Mormons as much as they say, that they don't think they worship a moon god, and don't think they are actually servants of the Antichrist.

They want a horse race damn it! They want a horse race and will fight tooth and nail to make it happen.

There's more truth to that statement than I want to accept, I think.

IIRC they kinda did that with the 08 race, even though Obama had the important electoral college votes locked up based on the polls they made it seem like McCain could easily win it.


It's the same as when they trot out a climate change denier, a moon landing denier, a supply-sider or John McCain. Their belief systems have be thoroughly disproved, but the media needs a horse race or the advertising dollars dry up.
 
2012-01-16 01:15:58 PM
Great teeth?

Fantastic hair?

Shoe-in for the party nomination?

cache.deadspin.com
 
2012-01-16 01:16:41 PM
bugontherug: I'm less concerned with his religion than with his weirdness. Romney just seems weird for some reason.

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2012-01-16 01:17:24 PM
what_now: Well that's good. Concerns about his religion are retarded.

You should be concerned about the fact that he doesn't hold a position he won't change if the polls tell him to.



Is this bad? If politicians are put into office to do the bidding of the people, then maybe they should change. Obama certainly didn't mind shoving his pay-outs-to-the-unions healthcare plan down everyone's throat when all polls show the world was against it.
 
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