Timex
2701
This sounds pretty sketchy to me… Even if his family went to a mormon church in Nevada for a few years while he was in elementary school, I can’t see this really having any impact on anything.
For the rest of his life, he has seemingly been a pretty staunch Catholic, which fits with his cuban heritage.
This idea that he’s a secret mormon seems akin to suggestions that Obama is a secret muslim because he attended a muslim school for a few years as a kid.
Besides… He’s Catholic, which is generally enough of a reason for prejudice.
You say that like it’s crazy and no-one would ever believe it, but millions of right-wing loonies do believe it.
Dejin
2703
As charmtrap points out there’s a whole group that does believe Obama is a secret Muslim and that’s the exact group that you expect to come out because they hate Obama so much. That’s the same group that’s most likely to be concerned with Rubio being a secret Mormon.
Scuzz
2705
So want Mosques built everywhere or do you want the option for multiple wives. Wow, that is quite a choice.
I’m not so sure. They believe it about Obama because he is a liberal. Rubio is a conservative so rumors of his Mormonism are nothing but liberal lies.
No need to choose – Islam gives you the option of multiple wives too. I forget what the rules are, but I seem to remember that more than three is considered gauche.
Rubio is one of the future faces of the party. He knows this. He is only going to accept the nod if he thinks that there is a good chance that Romney can win. The only way that is happening is if we slip back into recession this summer.
It is all about the economy. We’ll see how it plays out.
Imryll
2709
Actually, my New Oxford American shows an “i” as the first vowel sound in both believe and nigger. The first vowel sound in negotiate, however, is a schwa.
Actually, I confess that I do pronounce it “nigotiate.” This may not be correct but it is how I pronounce it myself.
Miramon
2711
Schwas go both ways. As long as you slur it a little, it’s OK :)
I hear they only experimented a little in college.
You generally only hear about gaffes from Joe Biden, but I really enjoyed one of his recent quotes:
Jazar
2714
So whose the veep gonna be?
Jazar
2716
Very smart move by Romney.
Yeah, that’s a great campaign slogan, both pithy and memorable.
Show me the death certificate.
Not, obviously, that we’re sitting around the slogan minting table here, but there is the whole anti-GM propaganda thing to consider. Sadly the “Government Motors” thing seems to have had considerable traction in the “decal of Calvin peeing on disfavoured truck brands” demographic.
Perhaps, but in an election it’s the multitudinous factory workers creating crank-shafts, door handles, transmission casings, etc. that the campaigns will be trying to reach; specifically the white male ones. Obama can point at Romney and say “this guy was willing to let your job die!” Romney might pick up some votes in the South (which he already has wrapped up anyway) by implying that all those workers are now “government employees” and should be fired, but he won’t make any friends in Ohio or Pennsylvania with such an attack.
If I were a Romney strategist, I would counsel him to avoid any and all mention of the auto-industry bailout. It’s a loser of an issue for him and he’s got nothing but Obama’s successes at the end of that tunnel. He should go to the manufacturing states and concentrate on telling them that his policies will make the environment friendlier to businesses, which will mean more jobs in the future decades, while Obama’s “pour tax money on the problem” solutions only makes things better in the short-term and will do nothing to make their kids’ lives or their retirements better.
[Note: I don’t believe the above, but I think it’s a message that would play pretty well in Ohio.]
