Rachel exposes Republican hatred for Mitt Romney.

[Scuba]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#43261437

Rachel's piece focuses on the hatred Republicans have for Mitt Romney. Viscious stuff, really.

With guest Michael Steele. Runs about 18 minutes.

As part of this piece, she explores Romney's avoidance of position on the Ryan 'grandma killer' budget. He's not had to answer that question.


This explains Romney's reluctance to address the issue.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'm not a fan of Romney, but I feel the republican hatred is unfounded.

He's right of Bob Dole, the latter whom the party found palatable in 1996, a mere 15 years ago.

If it's because he's Mormon, that's religious bias, which has no place in political debate.

If it's because of his state iniative on public healthcare, he's not doing that shtick anymore. Relax.

Like I said, I wouldn't vote for him, but IMHO, he's their strongest candidate under the circumstances.

I guess republicans would rather be right than electable.

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Of course there is a religious bias, unfortunately.

How many non-Protestants have been elected to the Presidency?

I think we all know that answer.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Little known fact: Four presidents were Unitarian-Universalists.

http://www.dlmark.net/4pres.htm

[kick-ass-bob]

5. That's cool to know. What's not cool is when I search for

"how many non protestants President"

The first link up is this:

"Is that right that since 1600 all US president are protestant except JF.Kenedy ???"

1600?

[Bucky]

6. I'm a UU. But I don't think we should take the hit for Millard Filmore

He's like Nixon was for the Quakers. I don't know why Lincoln liked him. Between his knuckling under to the slavocracy and his pandering to the Know Nothings, there's really not much to admire about old Millard.

[Bucky]

2. The ironic thing is that Romney's pretty smart to keep his distance from Ryan's plan

Of course Romney's unpopularity is a character issue, or rather a lack of character issue. All the other Republicans are either too stupid to realize the plan will wreck seniors' health or they're too chicken to tell the misled Republican base the truth, that privatizing Medicare will kill their election chances as well as kill their parents a few years early. Romney's at least smart enough to remain cagey on the issue.

And Republicans just hate smartness.

[PATRICK]

7. They hate just about everything so after a while

it has to be qualified a lot. Hillary was hard core, grinning common culture hatred that almost makes naked racism seem rational and virtuous. Romney is more soft core on several red flag specifics. He has to feel that he still is a natural candidate who can win the nomination despite the baggage. Can't any stained and stupid candidate have a chance in the GOP? It is their single claim to EEO. Any ham sandwich anointed by the top gets more than fair shot, damn the people.

However, where does that anointing come from these days? Out of control billionaires and their Tea Party loons? Corrupt fundies with their eternally frustrated moral agenda? The National Committee? The reservation of old and discredited warhorses disastrously recycled into ALEC, other think tanks, media pulpits and corporate boardrooms? Big Money and multinational interests? the Military/Industrial, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Crime, Big Banks and Big Lie complex of complexes? How do you respond to so many wolf packs when you have to openly throw voters and their children into their maws to get that permission?

There are just a bunch of loons who keep their childlike desire to be POTUS intact through this gauntlet of degradation, criminality, lunacy and anti-democracy. They used to ridicule the lesser spectacle of Dem contenders as "dwarfs" but there are no words to describe the GOP game. Orcs in suits and Fundie approved skirts? Seven flies killed in one blow mistaken for giants in yet another reality-is-stranger than fairy tale in the ongoing Great American Nadir?

All of the GOP candidates are distinguished only by their awesome flaws with zip to contribute and lame skills in the parrot TP jungle. Those flaws will of course be off limits in the MSM for their immediately disqualifying transparency. Result: a terrible humor is born(slouching like a beast toward the Oval Office)in our time of real world need.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Fear & hate are the essential Republicon Family Values

Republicons live in fear, and they project hate. Such shriveled souls know little light, and reason is to no avail in their contorted frame of reference.