Romney Sharpens Appeal to Conservatives

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By JIM DAVENPORT

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney directly appealed to social conservatives in South Carolina on Thursday, criticizing Democratic rival Barack Obama for supporting age-appropriate sex education for children as young as kindergartners.

"Senator Obama is wrong if he thinks science-based sex education has any place in kindergarten," Romney told some 150 people at a restaurant in the northern part of the state. "We should be working to clean up the filthy waters our kids are swimming in."


Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with supporters during a campaign stop, Thursday, July 19, 2007, at the Beacon in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Obama, campaigning in New Hampshire, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that Romney was only trying to "score cheap political points." He said he was noting in his comments that he supported laws in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in which local communities and parents can decide how to provide children with information about sexual predators.

The criticism aimed at Obama was part of a broader effort by the Romney campaign to heighten its presence in the early voting state, which holds its primary Feb. 2.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070720/D8QG0E1O0.html

[Eugene]

1. Who needs science? Let em' learn about sex on the streets.

/sarcasm

Mittens just outdid himself.

[Alcibiades]

2. Romney then went on to outline his sex education plan.

"I believe in the family, in traditions, in family traditions," he said. "Sex education should not be mandated by the federal government. It's a question of state's rights, and here in South Carolina, I know there's a long tradition of support for states' rights, as well as for keeping sex where it belongs, in the traditional family." Romney then went on to point out to the all-white audience that Obama "Is himself the product of miscegenation of the sort that could be prevented by family-centered sex. I understand that you good people in South Carolina had some good laws on that some time ago." Romney also expressed support for legislation that would render Obama illegal. "About time," he said, "he's uppity."

[Mz Pip]

3. That did it!

:rofl:

That and Mitten's new make up. Though there are probably some place in the South where that's illegal, to. Too much blush is a violation of natural law.

Mz Pip
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