Campaign Attacks -- Mud or Milquetoast?

“A blogger at Red State has an interesting theory. “
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I hardly call this interesting. I would lean more toward pathetic. The author is comparing her personal experience with a Baptist minister politician to that of a Mormon candidate. VERY different! Mormons are constantly clouded by bigotry and misunderstanding about their faith. If a Mormon commit’s a crime the headline reads “Mormon man Joe Blow murders wife.” Whereas, if a Baptist commit’s a crime the headline reads “Joe Blow commit’s a crime.” For other faiths the difference is made in thought between bad man and good church. Whereas, for Mormons it is bad man equals bad church. I could go on and on about the differences between Mormon and other faiths polar difference when it comes to public and media perception. Point is this Mormons have enough bigotry with out creating their own. Maybe this authors’ hypothesis could have credit if Romney, the LDS church, or any of his flock was the one injecting his faith into his political campaign. However, since the man, his church, and followers like me have done nothing but try to distance and promote that his faith has absolutely nothing to do with his politics I very seriously doubt any of us would risk under minding everything he has accomplished toward that goal. If he or any of us wanted that we would be demanding a “Mormon” speech, now wouldn’t we? Furthermore, we are not talking about a poll calling to give anti Romney speech about religion. We are talking about the word “cult” or an inference to it. Mention cult and it hardly drives sympathy- rather just the opposite. This theory seems more like someone who wants to take credit away from the issue. Mudslinging on political issues is one thing but mudslinging a persons faith and slandering a religion is deplorable and should be unacceptable to voters.

Jay Allbritton-
I do however find it interesting that the only "interesting theory" you posted was depicting Romney to be the culprit. Ever thought about fair coverage? Huckabee? McCain? Rudy? Thompson? Guess we will never know from your article. Maybe Christopher or Eric can give some fair coverage to the matter.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE BLACKMAIL
Extorted by intimidation
threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.slinging mud,this is the real Hillary.
Will the real Clinton please stand up? YES.
Hillary Clinton

"A democracy is always temporary in nature, it will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves --"generous gifts"--from the public treasury." "From that moment on,-- the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the" most benefits" from the public treasury. Professor Joseph Olsen of Hemline University School of Law, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000 Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1
Professor Olsen adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country! Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in" government-owned tenements"-- and, living off various forms of "government welfare!."