this is self-evidently a problem for romney that is created by the discourse he finds himself forced to use because of the assumptions concerning the constituency that he, as a republican, feels compelled to reach. so it is an internal problem for republicans, a consequence of their 20 years of organizing and mobilizing the christian right, for example, and of the drift in their internal language that has resulted from this mobilization.
so i find it vaguely interesting in that another way of seeing this is as a problem confronted by a relative moderate in the context of a party that has drifted well to the right.
but past that, i figure that the republicans made this bed for themselves, and now they have to lay in it.
the other matter raised in the op is of no interest to me.
i dont care particularly about whether fundamentalist protestants or anyone else has a problem with mormons.
that there are such problems is not a surprise.
but like i said above, the republicans made this bed for themselves...
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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