Romney, Giuliani, and McCain are all flip-floppers of the first class. If the Dems run with that (ha!), they’ll get a big boost. Too bad I expect them to be pandering to fundamentalists in the “center” instead.

I think what Southern Protestants do depends on who the Dems lob up. The Social Right has worked tirelessly to unite all these groups not around what they believe about each other, but around a fear of Clinton Planet. I can see some sitting it out if the Republican nominee is a Mormon, but if the Dems nominate Hillary they’d vote for Hitler….

As far as Regency is concerned, the Bush administration has several graduates in fairly important posts from there. To call that school’s credentials dubious is an insult to the word dubious.

The really cool thing is Bush used his “Faith Based Initiative” to give Robertson over a Million buckaroos.

I’m sure Romney knew he had to placate the frothing masses to maintain his fragile far-nut-wing credibility…after all, if he wins, these will be the people he recruits to enforce *his* will.

Believe me, there’s no irony intended when I say “God help us.”

Also, I don’t think I understand Martin’s comparison correctly. Did Romney force Bill Weld to crash into guard rail? Or did he convince him to shut down the government for a week and then pay everybody regardless of the budget crisis? As a New Jerseyian, I tend to twitch whenever Corzine’s name is brought up.

It will certainly be an interesting look at what matters more, that’s for sure.

I don’t know how much things have changed, but back in the ’80s there was big dust-up in Wilmington, NC. The city had to basically cancel a church softball league because the “Christians” wouldn’t play with the Mormons. One of the Methodists, I think, said something to the effect of “we can’t extend the hand of Christian fellowship to people who don’t worship the same god that we do.” I’m sure things have progressed a bit since then, but in large parts of the South you’re dealing with Protestants who are taught, as I was, that Catholics are all going to Hell.

As an aside: what I find interesting about not “knowing” Cain and Abel’s names is that it was a prepared speech, no? Surely someone would have looked it up if he went ‘oh, I can’t remember their names,’ especially since he has quite a bit to prove as far as having things in common with evangelical christians (and certainly biblical literacy would be a good idea).

What’s probably as telling as that Mitt Romney didn’t seem to know Cain and Abel’s names is that no one from Regent seemed able to cue him. I guess that was because they were all playing video games like these.
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It’s a can’t lose situation for the Dems…if the nod goes to someone like Romney, it doesn’t matter WHO gets the nomination, because they’ll clown him like it was opening night of Cirque Du Soleil. If it goes to someone more moderate (Giuliani?), that’s proof that the far-right agenda of the conservatives is no longer capable of winning them elections for the nonce.

And if he would have read more than a “few verses” he would know that the reason Cain killed Abel was because Abel kicked his ass in Ms. Pac Man. Yet another Golden opportunity missed.

I think P.J. O’Rourke said it best a few weeks ago on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”: running as a Republican presidential nominee once you’ve been governor of Massachusetts is like being the rabbi of Temple Shalom and deciding to run for Pope.