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Related: About this forumDebbie Wasserman Schultz: Mormonism off limits
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74831.htmlBy DARIUS DIXON | 4/4/12 11:42 AM EDT
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired back Wednesday at Utah Sen. Orrin Hatchs claim that Democrats would attack Mitt Romneys Mormon faith in the fall election, saying the charge was nonsense and that the issue of religion was off-limits.
That is just preposterous, the Florida Democrat, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, told MSNBCs Chris Jansing when asked about Hatchs comments at a campaign stop in Utah.
That suggestion is utter nonsense. Lets remember that President Obama has had so many things hurled at him birth certificate questions, whether he is or is not a Christian, Wasserman said. For them to suggest that religion will be injected [into the election] by President Obama and the Democratic Party, I mean, I think they need to take a look inward at the accusations that their party and their supporters have hurled before they take that step.
On Tuesday, Hatch, a six-term Utah Republican and a Mormon, told a group of GOP delegates: You watch, theyre going to throw the Mormon church at him like you cant believe.
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CanonRay
(14,080 posts)when Mitt has 100,000 Mormons out it Utah making calls and getting donations, she'll be sorry. Remember what they did with Prop 8. This will be a religious crusade.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)I know the feeling but, Democrats ought to show who's the adult person in the race.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Democrats get hog tied by Republicans demanding and getting it both ways when it comes to religion. They used certain churches as untaxable PACs, openly plan to push their religious views on all of us through laws and THEIR very activist judges in the courts, but those nasty Democrats be warned; you heathens must never touch a Republican's religion.
I'm disgusted by the entire sick marriage of extremist denominations and the Republican Party; yes they are a minority overall, but YES the fuckers nearly always get their way.
GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)then it is open season
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)magic underwear gang back at Rmoney, the pukes are already doing a fine job of that themselves.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)one of them. First of all, that is far below the President to use something like that. The Repugs. would not think twice, however.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I expected nothing less.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)rawtribe
(1,493 posts)Does proposition 8 ring any bells?
Fuck Romney and his bigoted cult.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)a strong stance against egregious positions held by any particular institutions or individuals, but I share your anger over the Mormon church's role in the Prop 8 debacle.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)I think a religion with magic underwear, hand signals, seeing stones in hats, the garden of eden being in Missouri is relevant because it goes to the question of your sanity. I don't see what the Obama children have to do with anything?
RZM
(8,556 posts)I highly doubt the Prince of Preibus would dream of saying that the Obama daughters are fair game.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Republicans discuss nothing but religion and how their discussion of it makes them better than Democrats.
We have a totally screwed up political system, but it works for our corporate rulers very well.
safeinOhio
(32,632 posts)that the republican party is the party of the "money changers"?
msongs
(67,343 posts)Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)Teehee...
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Wasserman Schultz IMO is a lousy DNC chair. She is the same individual who threw the unfortunately named Anthony Weiner overboard before he even confessed. She wants to prevent the president from speaking the truth, knowing that the Mormon Church has no intention of keeping religion out of this election.
We can expect an army of creepy looking young kids riding bicycles in every corner of the US dressed in white shirts, black pants and a black tie passing out Romney propaganda while Obama spends the entire campaign on the defensive against all the bullshit they throw at him.
Jesus, where the fuck is Howard Dean when you need him? If I had the $ I'd start a PAC to do everything that Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the party wasn't gonna do. And the best part is they couldn't stop me.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Do you really think he would criticize Romney over his Mormonism? I doubt that very much. He probably won't do so now and he's not even DNC chair anymore.
onager
(9,356 posts)Democrats always "take the high road," and that's exactly why we keep getting our asses handed to us.
Screw the high road. At some point, you need people willing to get down to the same level as the GOP guttersnipes and kick the shit out of 'em.
Trust me, the element of surprise would be on our side. Since the Dems have rolled over more often than Snooki at a Jersey beach party.
Way back in 1998, when "Monica-gate" was at its most frenzied, Bob Mulholland was an advisor to the California Democrats.
Mulholland came up with a great strategy - he was going to start digging into Repubs' personal lives with the same microscopic intensity they were applying to Clinton.
He was immediate attacked by the DNC. With the usual "high road" bushwah. And the DNC demanded that Mulholland apologize to any sensitive souls he might have offended...in the frigging GOP!!!
Mulholland refused to apologize.
Then he said this, which should be carved above the doors of every Democratic headquarters in the nation:
"As one who served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne and was wounded during the Tet Offensive, I learned that if someone is shooting at you, you shoot back."
theaocp
(4,232 posts)Obama can just say nothing and the country can decide if they support Mormonism or not. Clowns.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Let Hatch and the GOP keep bringing it up. Mormonism is still viewed as a strange religion, even a cult, by much of the country - including the huge portion of Republican supporters known as evangelicals and fundamentalists. We don't have to say a thing - their minds are already made up.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)I guess for better or worse this why I'm on THIS SIDE.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)darkstar3
(8,763 posts)we'll keep seeing the center move to the right.
Jim__
(14,058 posts)... against him.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)by people claiming the right to rule the planet.