Middle Class Populist

I am sure we are all touched by the great patriotism of Mitt Romney, first who wants to send your sons and daughters to fight in Iraq while his sons stay home to fight the wicked forces of liberalism by supporting their dad in his political campaign. Well that is till now when CUT AND RUN CAPITALIST Mitt Romney dropped out of the Presidential race because he did not want to loose countless millions more of his own money!

God he made that stupid speech to the conservatives. You can sense at how shallow even they see him now! John McCain has not hidden his emotions concerning Romney. McCain is a “mere multimillionaire”. John McCain as a “mere multimillionaire” cannot self finance his own campaign. National campaigns are far too expensive even for those with John McCain’s resoureces! Mitt Romney is somewhere above the one hundred million mark. If Mitt Romney did not drop out, then since he has a large number of sons, they might be reduced to “mere multimillionaires”! Oh the loss! If Mitt Romney really believed he is helping our troops who are risking far more than being reduced to “mere multi-millionaires” then he would fight on!

What is really pathetic is the Vietnam era type language that Romney and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party are using. They act as if those who want to bring our troops home from Iraq are making America unsafe! This blogger is not a knee jerk PC Liberal. Hell I even supported the war initially and still think the world is better without Saddam Hussein. But we never had the troops levels to conduct a SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq!

Can you imagine it is 1949 and Munich were to revert to control of the Nazis or Kyoto to revert to Japanese Imperialists? Well that is the situation we are in now in Iraq! We should have turned over control to a friendly General who gave lip service to democracy. Hell we have no problem now do we with capital investments and technology transfers to China or Vietnam? Tell me is that what our troops died for in Vietnam so CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS could ship America’s financial and technological resources to our enemies in China and even VIETNAM while they make a profit? Yet the bleeding hearts of the Republican party whine for these corporations that forsake their “American Identity” to now self style themselves as “Multinational Corporations”. Are China and VIETNAM democracies? Oh maybe China and Vietnam are the “role models” of Bush type Democracy that the CUT AND RUN CAPITALIST$ want Iraq to emulate! Now I $ee, don’t you?

Just look at the accomplishments of the Republicans under Bush. Don’t forget under the first six years they also controlled both Houses of Congress. What did they do to preserve our Homeland?

• They are not supporting our troops in Afghanistan. Opium production is at an all time high while Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is gaining strength. Next door in Pakistan rogue radical Islamic nuclear scientists can now team their knowledge with Afghan opium money and Al Qaeda operatives as their “delivery system”! But what worry over a mushroom cloud over our cities? Hell no Iraq is so much more important!
• Our nation’s borders are wide open. No need to worry terrorists can now use trucks to cross our borders from Mexico!
• Al Qaeda operatives don’t have to swim the ocean instead George Bush and his fellow travelers wanted to surrender our ports to the United Arab Emirates. You know the nice folks who allowed centrifuges to go through their nation to Pakistan and made the Pakistani bomb possible! Portfolio Security not port security is the slogan of the Republicans!
• While the Port deal was killed none the less there is no serious screening for bombs and nuclear material at our ports and Airports.
• Halliburton, the great role model of CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS is moving their CEO to Dubai. They even have a subsidiary in Iran!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority; our great Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to support Individual Freedom from it’s subjugation to the agenda of the effete snobs of Corporate Collectivism!

God Bless The Middle Class!

God Bless America!

Stand Up For America against these effete snobs of CUT AND RUN CAPITALISM!

Mitt Romney gave an excellent speech in Iowa concerning the relationship of Church and State. In prior posts I was critical of his political flip flops and still am. However in this post I want to focus on his speech concerning religion and freedom. Romney’s speech was beyond excellent in this 60’s hippie’s opinion! I am not an atheist but still break out the old 1960’s style incense and practice meditation! Like Romney I am religious but not mainstream! But there are issues here to be addressed.

When I was a teen in the 1960’s prayer was banned from our schools. In my senior year in high school we used the auditorium for the whole senior class as our home room. Our high school principal went around the prayer prohibition by making us say (not sing) the words of the last stanza to the song “My Country tis of thee”. As this occurred, almost every day it seemed, some in the class refused to rise but sat during the recitation. They would then be literally dragged out screaming and kicking to the words below! Somehow the word “freedom” in the prayer below just did not seem right!

Our father’s God to thee.

Author of Liberty to thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright,

With freedoms holy light

Protect us by thy might

Great God our King!

My religious beliefs are anything but conservative. I have a separate website (rather neglected) concerning my liberal off beat religious beliefs.

www.AquarianFreeThinker.Com

With the above in mind, even though I never want any atheist to have to endure alienation at school or in the political sector, I believe this nation needs to retain some sense of “Divine Providence”. This is a term that I feel is traditional yet free of particular churches. The problem is if you throw God all together out of public life you make the nation “atheist”. Like Mitt Romney, I follow off beat religious beliefs and his speech moved me greatly! If you did not hear it you can see it below.

Some commentators did not like Mitt Romney’s saying that he believes in separation of Church and State while he also added, “I will not separate us from God who gave us liberty.” If you listen to the You Tube video above you will note he believes that religious symbols should not be removed from the public square especially for holidays. Mitt Romney also spoke how some in this nation want to throw the Divine out of all aspects of public life.

I do not want to divest atheists, nor require a religious test for them to run for public office. However I applaud Mitt Romney fully! I am tired of the “more rational than thou” attitude by some of my own fellow liberal Democrats! I am tired of atheism being asserted as our national religion! I would not require anyone to pray but I do support nondenominational public prayer when Congress and the Supreme Court start their sessions.

Now I am really going to do it folks. Yes I even support the recent act by the Governor of Georgia to publically pray for rain! So long as the prayer is inclusive I support it. What I do not support is Governor Huckabee talking like Pat Robertson! I get scared when I hear folks say “The Lord told me…….”. Cool aide anyone?

One final thought by this Non-PC liberal Populist Democrat who was a 60’s college hippie and should know better but:

Have you noticed that as our society took God out of the public square and out of our class rooms the drug pushers and drug addiction came in?

YES THIS IS A LIBERAL TALKING FOLKS. Back to Mitt Romney! Beyond excellent speech Gov. Romney! Now do you believe water boarding is torture? No that is not “just” a political question but also a religious one!

I do not believe there should be a “religious test” to be President of the United States. But then some in the Christian might say otherwise! I find the news media is treating Mitt Romney’s religion with kid gloves! If the Christian Right find religious doctrines to be important to their vote then let’s supply them with the relevant data!

Being a psychology major from the 60’s when Transactional Analysis was popular let me remind my readers of a neurotic “game” that Eric Berne listed in his book, “Games People Play”. That game was called “Let’s you and him fight”, where someone would set two other people up to fight. Well I don’t like those who flip flop on abortion and Gays in the Military just to win elections. Nor do I like the Christian Right for labeling denominations whose services I attend as cults! While I am a liberal Episcopalian I also attend services of Unity and Religious Science! So I suggest we wage Psychological Warfare on the conservative block by getting the Evangelicals and Mormons to go at one another. Oh yes Merry Christmas!

Here are some “talking points” concerning Mormons vs. Christians.

• Mormons believe that God has a Divine Wife who we will meet in heaven.
• Mormons believe that the reason marriage is so important is because those who achieve an ideal Mormon marriage go on to become the Gods of new universes.
• God and his Divine Wife were once not Gods but mortal humans like us in another universe. There in that other universe, the God we worship today (and his Divine Wife) served another God and his wife.
• This gives a new dimension to the latest cosmological theories of the “MULTIVERSE”.
• Christianity, while the true religion and Mormonism the only true Christian Church, is none the less only the valid religion of THIS UNIVERSE!

Again Mormon Theology is none of my business! But since both Mitt Romney and the Christian Right seem to want to drag religion into politics I believe they should deal with the consequences. Show the above “talking points” to your Christian Right friends! Mitt Romney flip flops and was for abortion and Gays in the Military when he ran for election in liberal Massachusetts! Now that he is running in the national Republican arena his values have changed. He says he is “PRO-LIFE”! Well below is a video that someone posted to You Tube that shows how devoted he is to the quality of life when it conflicts with dogma!

This poor guy has no relief from pain except with doctor approved marijuana. Yet our pro-life hero will not even answer his question.

Mitt Romney is the Republican rival to Hillary Clinton. Romney is the King of Flip and Clinton the Queen of Flop! But that is not the only thing they have in common! They both have developed a “Theme Song” for their respective campaigns! I was going to examine all of his flip flops but this post would be too long. Hence I will give follow ups. But for this first one let’s examine Mitt Romney’s new campaign theme song listed below. You have to play it to understand it! Very appropriate theme song.

The boy above is NOT the star character of this clip who comes in a few seconds. Can you just imagine Mitt Romney’s face on the star character in this video clip who you meet in a second after the boy leaves! This would be a great political ad for a rival! Great Theme Song for Mitt Romney!

I am a Non-PC Populist Lou Dobbs Democrat! Mitt Romney has flip flopped with an “election relative” morality on:

• Abortion
• Water Boarding
• Gays in the military

However in addition he as also done so concerning the Bible. While that does not bother me as a religious liberal, the so called liberal news media gave him a free ride by not informing his core Christian Right constituents of this flip flop! This core constituency of Mitt Romney holds the Bible very seriously and Mitt Romney does not share their values. Interesting is that the so called liberally biased news media gave Mitt Romney a free ride. To treat this and all of Mitt Romney’s flip flops in one post would make this post too long. But I will list follow ups.

I am not a member of the religious right nor am I a conservative. But I would love to see him get the Republican nomination just so the right wing will self-destruct in the November 2008 election. Aside from the fact that he dances the “flip-flop” on issues like abortion and Gay marriage, he has another problem with the religious right. Most of you reading this know he is a Mormon. That would not stop me from voting for someone if they also held my popularist democratic views. But the Christian Right will NEVER accept him. Let’s dissect the conservative movement for a moment on a religious dimension for this analysis.

1. Conservatives who are atheist or agnostic. Mormonism not an issue. His issue Flip/flopping is an issue.
2. Conservatives who happen “also” to be mainstream Christian or Jewish. Mormonism not an issue. His issue Flip/flopping is an issue.
3. Conservatives who are Christian fundamentalists and whose conservatism flows from that religious perspective. - Serious problem here besides the flip/flopping.

Aside from the fact that Governor Romney flip-flops relative to his constituency which destroys his credibility with all three conservative groups above, the last group “Christian Fundamentalists” view Mormons as Anti-Christian. The reasons for that are deeper that you might think.

The “Christian Right” is “Christian” first and conservative second. Now I have no problem with calling Mormons “Christians”. But then again I am a liberal Episcopalian and frequent New Thought Churches and even have practiced “TM”. In the view of Christian Fundamentalists, Mormons have certain beliefs that make them incompatible with Christianity. Furthermore Christian fundamentalists would more likely vote for a Jewish candidate than a Mormon. The reason is they don’t feel “religiously threatened” by Jews. Have you ever heard of Jews claiming to be Christians? Do Jews try to convert Baptists?

Mormons have anti-Christian beliefs if you are a Baptist. Besides believing in a second set of scriptures they have further beliefs that would make a Baptist vote for a practicing Gay before they vote for a Mormon. These beliefs are:

• God has a wife who is our Mother God. And you thought Baptists were hard on Catholics for ST. Mary?
• All good Mormons who are married will one day become the God Father and Mother of a new universe.
• The God of Christianity besides having a wife was once a mortal in another universe and rose to become a God and created this universe.
• The ultimate Deity is far beyond Christianity.
• The Mormon Church is the “Only” Christian Church. That is why they keep gemological records, because if you convert, then you can sanctify the marriages of your ancestors. They will not be able to proceed to become Gods themselves but then at least they can live in paradise with this universe’s God. (The Christian God and His Wife).
• Mormons must proselytize! They do so on a massive scale.

While most of the Mormon beliefs I listed above might be off the mainstream they are a fatal to a candidate who wants to court the Christian Right. Most people only know that Mormons have a second set of scriptures. But these latter beliefs will be made known by the leadership of the Christian Right to their flocks as this election heats up. What is really funny is that Mormons have almost the same view as Baptists on social issues. But I believe you will NEVER see the Christian Right back Romney especially after the leadership of their churches speak up on these religious differences!