Mitt wants a .. porn filter on every computer in America? Next on Lawrence O'Donnell

[flamingdem]

Wow, now I'm sure he's toast!

[flamingdem]

1. Romney campaign quietly promised ‘vigorous’ porn crackdown, Reagan prosecutor says

Get ready for Magic Underwear everyone!


Former Justice Department official Patrick Trueman, who proudly participated in federal pornography prosecutions during their “heyday” in the late 1980s and early 1990s, told The Daily Caller that Mitt Romney’s campaign assured him that Romney would “vigorously” prosecute pornographers if elected president.

Trueman, the president of Morality in Media, contacted the Romney campaign earlier this year about the “untreated pandemic” of Internet pornography. “They got back to us right away,” he said.

Bob Flores, another former Justice Department official who prosecuted pornographers, accompanied Trueman to an hour-long meeting with Romney foreign and legal policy director Alex Wong, Trueman said.

“Wong assured us that Romney is very concerned with this, and that if he’s elected these laws will be enforced,” Trueman told TheDC. ”They promised to vigorously enforce federal adult obscenity laws.”

Trueman said he would like for Romney to speak publicly about cracking down on porn, but believes Romney avoids the subject because he “saw that Rick Santorum got beat up in the mainstream press for being so forthright.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/18/romney-campaign-quietly-promised-vigorous-porn-crackdown-reagan-prosecutor-says/#ixzz217sqiKP7

[Happyhippychick]

34. "Crackdown" on porn? Giggle.

[MotorCityMan]

54. Oh good lord, a porn filter?

Of all the things wrong in this country, THIS is what he is campaigning on?

He'll loose half of the rethug's with this one.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. I'LL GIVE YOU MY PORN WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY STICKY, DEAD HANDS!

[rocktivity]

15. DUzy candidate!

rocktivity

[MrMickeysMom]

18. !

Please don't call me for that code blue!

[warrprayer]

65. Another DUZY

... nomination here

[freshwest]

3. This will play great with the fundies. Not that they don't view porn, but they advocate against it.

[L0oniX]

4. My bet is that they view it more than any others.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. yes

for all we know Slick Willard might too

[freshwest]

26. But the public face is the good boy wearing magic underwear and never engaged in extra-marital sex.

If he never does view it, but actually is faithful to his wife and that stuff, it still doesn't make him fit to be president. It's an illusion all the religious candidates sell the public.

His sociopathic ways are dangerous to anyone who is within his power. But we're really talking about a voting block that for the most part, is no engaged in a struggle to survive economically. Or they wouldn't take time out to manage other people's lives...

[freshwest]

19. It's alleged they do, but it fits their rhetoric. Fundie women call this as 'feminism.'

Don't shoot the messenger, though.

Just telling you what the ones I know say bout this.

[JBoy]

27. But only for "research".

[GoCubsGo]

29. Except that many of those fundies are tea bagger types.

And, supposedly being concerned about "gubbmint interference in our lives", something like this ought not to go over well with them. Just remember how they had conniptions when Clinton wanted V-chips put in TV sets. This is no different. Either this will make their heads explode out of confusion, or they'll explode altogether from being so full of shit.

[Incitatus]

5. I'm beginning to wonder

if he's dumber than W. He seems better at making money, but the stuff he says. WOW!

[Politicalboi]

6. Next he'll take away your

Booze, and fine ya for cussin. And he's gonna retroactively baptize all Christians to Mormonism.
We'll all be riding bikes and converting others. Invasion of the Christian Snatchers.

[flamingdem]

8. The bikes part is good for the environment buuutt I don't want to be Mormonized

or de-porned particularly and forget about it don't even THINK about touching my COFFEE!

[Drunken Irishman]

37. And your right to masturbate! They already got poor Fred Willard!

[flamingdem]

50. Was that the Mormon patrol

what with the new porn filter we'll all be heading for the Pink Pussycat Theater!

[flamingdem]

7. Just a guess - the Dems have found a good followup to BAIN PAIN!

ha ha ha

They're showing a good sense of humor this round.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He'll lose the fundie vote, for sure.

The greatest use of porn is in red, conservative states. And Utah is one of the states where Internet porn is most popular.

This could, uh, blow up in his face. The money shot, I think they call it.

[flamingdem]

17. He lost the wanker group

um that's a very large group from what I hear

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Pretty much everybody?

[Generic Other]

10. Mitt Romney Aide Promises Crackdown On Porn

Romney seemed to say the right words for Trueman in 2007, when he was campaigning for president in Iowa the last time. "We got to clean up the water that our kids are swimming in," he said in a TV ad. "And by that I mean the pornography, the drug culture, the violence, the sex, the perversion that bombards them day in and day out. So I want to make sure we enforce our obscenity laws."

Romney has promised that if elected president he would require every new computer be sold with a porn filter.

Despite those tough words, Romney's campaign has taken campaign cash from the head of a company that produces hard-core pornography. And gay porn filmmaker Michael Lucas, who has endorsed Romney, told the Daily Caller, “I don’t see any danger coming from Romney when it comes to porn. It’s just not there."

There may be another reason Romney isn't talking up porn: he needs the support of millions of primary voters who supported Ron Paul, who did not make opposition to sexually explicit materials a campaign plank.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-aide-promises_n_1687210.html?1342724102&ncid=webmail10

So from this article , I am to conclude Romney supporters hate porn worse than dirty underwear. But Ron Paul's supporters are wanking pervs. OK.

[flamingdem]

11. We're going to all end up like Donny and Marie!

Sexless but with nice white teeth.

[IDemo]

16. "Crackdown" would make a good porn site name...

[flamingdem]

23. Plumber sex?

I bet there are videos about that.

[Generic Other]

31. Introducing porn into the election debates would certainly create a distraction!

And how come the gay porn producer is backing Romney anyway? Politics clearly makes strange bedfellows.

[flamingdem]

35. This is a good onslaught follow up to Bain, I'm not sure it has legs

but it's a good subject to undermine him further, he's not mainstream!

They're working the "weirdo" angle well with this

[TheMadMonk]

39. Rule 34. /nt

[flamingdem]

40. The wrench rule? nt

[randome]

33. 'The' pornography. 'The' drug culture.

It's like he has no clue what he's talking about. He doesn't even have a good speaking manner.

There are robots in Japan who can convey better ideas than Romney!

[siligut]

60. It's like the war on drugs

It will drive the price up and put the little guys out of business. That is why Romney donors are all for it.

[RedStateLiberal]

13. Then he's lost the vote of one special interest group...

...the Average American.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

14. This should not be underestimated...

my grown kids still hold a grudge against Tipper Gore for
her successful campaign to provide warning labels on music
lyrics. They were kids when this took place and have never
forgiven her.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Porn filters are hot

Oh, wait

[madinmaryland]

22. Call you Congressman, RIGHT FUCKING NOW, MITT!!

[4th law of robotics]

24. That should please some people here

pretty strong anti-porn crusade on certain parts of this site.

/would it be an anti-rape device since porn is necessarily rape?

[flamingdem]

30. The report just now said he could have put them on all the Staples computers!

So he really was going to do this, wow.

[SfromCanada]

64. Exactly who the bleep said "porn is necessarily rape?"

[hifiguy]

67. Not just "porn"

Some make the argument that all heterosexual sex is by definition rape.

http://radfemimages.wordpress.com/the-gears/#PIV

Discussion at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11142363

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse_(book)

[4th law of robotics]

68. If you can stomach it this thread is quite enlightening

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12556398

[madinmaryland]

25. Uh-Oh!! Larry Flynt is now awake!! Hmmnm....

Mitt and ....

[Incitatus]

28. A porn filter on every computer and an elevator in every garage!

[hifiguy]

55. And a dog on every roof!

Each day that goes by I am more convinced that Mittens is a poorly programmed robot from whatever the Mormon planet is.

[nc4bo]

32. Why?

What's his reasons?

Even the good ole boys who come to see him speak aren't going to happy with that, I'm sure.

[kestrel91316]

36. Wow. He's the ultimate nanny-stater, isn't he????

[Happyhippychick]

38. Don't worry Mitty, we promise to retroactively not have an orgasm after our next one.

[flamingdem]

42. I hope that animation company in Taiwan does something funny

about how Mitt an Ann have sex through their undergarmets!

When she has a headache he has to do the retroactive thing.

Oh my goodness I bet he's never masturbated, or admitted it to himself anyway.

No Mitt you cannot be president you are too odd.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

41. Could this finally get the media talking about his religion?

While normally I wouldn't care about someone's beliefs as long as they don't affect their public acts in office, since Romney is not just a believer but a church official, I think we need to know if he thinks he has a specific mission for Mormon doctrine on behalf of his church and what that might be.

[flamingdem]

43. Yes, exactly, this connects to his non-mainstream religion and how

it could impact all of us should he gain power.

The idea that he would subject people to his religious ideas, as he was going to do by putting a filter on all Staples computers, is extreme!

[Homer12]

44. Every rightwing middle aged man in the USA would vote against him.

n/t

[Booster]

45. Hypocrit that he is, he could have already done this since Bain owns Staples & they've sold millions

of computers. Problem is they wouldn't have sold millions if they came with a filter, so money always comes first for Mittens.

[flamingdem]

48. I see a good debate retort about one's personal values vs. $ ne

[Kalidurga]

49. Yeah but he is going to fit them with a retroactive filter.

So, the porn wouldn't be viewed retroactively.

[Booster]

57. Oh, great. Now I'm totally confused. lol

[Fire Walk With Me]

46. That sound you are now hearing is the majority of Americans scrambing to vote for Obama

[snooper2]

47. how would I be able to check out Santorum's website then

[gopiscrap]

51. What a nazi ass wipe

and we should be refering to him as Willard, that is his name, not Mitt.

[Nye Bevan]

52. I believe certain DUers would support this.

Come on, don't be shy.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

53. Potentially the wedge issue from Hades

This could be like one of the DU porn threads, played out on a national scale. Yeeks. It sort of seems like they're pursuing that angle, given how Morality in Media promotes its cause:

“... pornography is a common cause of the destruction of marriage. It leads to misogyny and violence against women and is a contributing factor in sexual trafficking.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/10/401517/three-leading-gop-nominees-porn/

[_ed_]

63. It's only a wedge issue if you don't

even have the slightest respect for freedom of speech.

[Jamaal510]

56. Well, he can forget about the male vote.

I wonder what happened to his message of small government.

[flamingdem]

58. That's all he had left! nt

[Clinton Mask]

59. Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)

[B Calm]

61. Free Republic will be off limits!

[Fumesucker]

62. After reading the thread it's obvious a lot of DUers underestimate the hypocrisy of wingnuts..

The male wingnuts will happily vote for Willard even if he promises to totally shut down porn, it doesn't matter how much porn they might use they think liberals are far worse and it will hurt liberals more than it will hurt them.

It's the same way with abortion, I know wingnuts who have actually had abortions and taken family members to have abortions who will nevertheless vote for a candidate based on the single issue of promising to make abortion illegal.

<sigh> It's all about sticking it to the dirty librul commie nazi soshulist pinko hippies, double entendre most definitely intended.

[Bluenorthwest]

66. And yet he worked at Marriott, which at the time was in fact the largest purveyor of porn in the

country with 'in room movies' making huge profits for Mitt and Marriott. They were the single largest distributor of porn in America.

[Spike89]

69. Almost everyone is missing the $$$ shot...in a manner of speaking

He is going after internet porn with the filters. It is internet porn that is harming the porn industry. People don't go to adult bookstores or theaters (well, except for Fred Willard) when they can easily get tons of pirated and free porn of every variation on the internet. No need to risk an embarrassing charge on your business hotel receipt if you can simply boot your laptop and hit the porn "tubes".

As with most things republican, there is no greater sin than disrupting a money-making business and no sin in making money (even from gay porn).