For the first time in the history of the GOP party, they don't have a Protestant on their ticket.

[Major Hogwash]

Wow!
Romney is a Mormon, and Ryan is a Catholic!
Jesus Sesame!

So how does the Republican party intend to win in the deep South?
Or across the Bible belt?
Or even up in the Rust belt?
Or even in the Corn belt?

Man, they're even going to lose in the Pea belt.
("Eat your peas" reference)




Folks, Obama was just re-elected President of the United States today.
This was a humongous mistake by Romney to give in to the extreme right of the Republican party and select Ryan to be his running mate.

The House Republicans that are in tight races are quaking in their boots tonight.
They know the tea party is over.
Two years after the tea party successfully pulled a coup d'etat on the Republican party, they haven't created a single job.
Yet, the tea party candidates all ran on creating jobs in the United States.

"Where's the jobs, Mr Boehnor?"
That question is even more relevant today than it was nearly 2 years ago!

The GOP just went too freakin' far to the right.
Romney just drove their bus off of the cliff.

[Freddie]

1. Ah, but...they're both white

The thing that really matters

[Herlong]

2. Jesus came to America

And when I die, I get my own own planet. I reveal one year of my taxes, and none of my religion. So shut up about that. Muslim, Kenyan. Where's your birth certificate?

And it is not funny at all that this is the Republican candidate.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. have they ever had a non-Protestant on their ticket before?

I was thinking maybe Spiro Agnew - but although he was raised Greek Orthodox - he was Episcopalian by the time he entered politics.

[shanen]

4. I don't think I buy that claim

The Mormons claim to be Christians, and they aren't Catholics, so I think that means they are classified as Protestants by default. Funny sort of default and even funnier sort of Christians, but they aren't nearly as weird as the Scientologists--and at least no one can accuse the Mormons of being secret Muslims or even worse, closet atheists.

I really have mixed feelings on this issue. I think that religious freedom is a really good thing, even though I'm an agnostic. However, I also think that some religions are seriously crazy. For example, how would voters feel if a candidate said his religious was Scientology? I think that would be a major issue or concern for many Americans...

Right now my feeling is that Romney picked Ryan for two reasons. One is that Romney has been running the numbers and he is becoming desperate. The second is that Ryan may have been one of the few plausible candidates who could actually be enthusiastic about it. Most of the others are too smart and could smell the desperation, but Ryan is a Ayn-Randian lunatic, so he thinks his "innate superiority" justifies whatever he feels like doing. That's fits well with the Mormon disdain of gentiles.