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2012 The Republican Mutineer's Playbook
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:24 PM
The book is a litany of homophobic and anti-Mormon conspiracy theories, asking if Romney could be "a fibber, a charlatan, a con-man" with "the irrationalist DNA, polytheistic tenets and lie-filled history of the mind-
controlling enterprise into which the GOP frontrunner and his forebears were born." It says he regards "manipulative, exemplary sex predators...as holy prophets" and accuses Romney of bringing gay marriage to Massachusetts as a prelude to the legalization of polygamy. The book is full of amazing sentences:
We’ll see that the USA is indeed a “Chik-fil-a Nation” – a country committed to traditional marriage and sexuality –partly because we’re loaded with “Chik-fil-a Swing States.”And yet…Romney has seemed unable to find a good word” for the restaurant chain’s traditionalist owners. "Those are not things that are part of my campaign," Romney said just days ago. It figures.
This is a deep dive into evangelical crazy-town, and I'm looking forward to sitting down with the whole document and reading it this weekend.
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Their webpage is offering 100+ page ebook for sale if you're really feeling the need to curl up in a fetal position this weekend Paul. Gotta say I luv their name...
http://www.jewsandchristianstogether.org…
http://www.jewsandchristianstogether.org…
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They sure bring up sex a lot. I bet they just love staring at that cover picture for hours thinking about steaming hot chicken sandwiches.
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@1
Totally, I'll be up all night trying to figure that one out. Is that how Romnee even spells his name?
Totally, I'll be up all night trying to figure that one out. Is that how Romnee even spells his name?
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@1, @5 part of me thinks it's some weird attempt to pun on "ROM DUMP" (which is something you do to a computer chip who's contents you want to dissect), but that seems pretty unlikely considering the source, and the "ROMinee" part just makes no sense at all no matter how I think about it.
That said, is there a donation page for these folks? I think we should help them carpet-bomb the Tampa convention with these things.
That said, is there a donation page for these folks? I think we should help them carpet-bomb the Tampa convention with these things.
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Also, by capping the ROM, they put an emphasis on the first three letters of his religion - just in reverse. A psychological ploy, perhaps?
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Paul - I really appreciate the info ...and especially I admire your ability & willingness to wade so deeply into this shit spewed by truly delusional bizarros! Here's hoping you somehow emerge unscathed! ;)
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Do we really want Romney to be our date at the DUM PROM? Aren't there hotter, DUMmer candidates available?
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Minor correction: he's a Marine, not a soldier.
I mention this not to be nitpicky, but to further enrage the small percentage of homophobic dilrods that frequent SLOG just to have something to piss and moan about.
Speaking of which: congratulations to Brigadier General Tammy Smith, the US Army's first openly gay/lesbian flag officer.
I mention this not to be nitpicky, but to further enrage the small percentage of homophobic dilrods that frequent SLOG just to have something to piss and moan about.
Speaking of which: congratulations to Brigadier General Tammy Smith, the US Army's first openly gay/lesbian flag officer.
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I like how their nightmare apocalypse scenario is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces getting a happy homecoming. OH NOOOOOOOOOOES. Hopefully next they write opposition to fluffy kittens and weekends into their crazy-ass platform.
I mean, seriously though, kinda demonstrates their priorities and shoots any claim they might have to being 'patriots' right in the fucking foot. "No, but, for real, absolutely just fuck the troops just so long as we don't have to put up with fags. Right? I will suck Osama bin Laden's dead cock if that's what it takes to make sure men can't suck each other's cocks, oh, and poor people can't go to the doctor."
Also seriously, the bogeyman of polygamy, again? Why exactly is that our standard for marriage-related-slippery-slope catastrophe?
I mean, seriously though, kinda demonstrates their priorities and shoots any claim they might have to being 'patriots' right in the fucking foot. "No, but, for real, absolutely just fuck the troops just so long as we don't have to put up with fags. Right? I will suck Osama bin Laden's dead cock if that's what it takes to make sure men can't suck each other's cocks, oh, and poor people can't go to the doctor."
Also seriously, the bogeyman of polygamy, again? Why exactly is that our standard for marriage-related-slippery-slope catastrophe?
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@8 Thanks! I wish they'd just DUMP the CONvention. Isn't it just a age-old formality? Won't be half as interesting as the olympics. Off topic: Pretty sure tonight the guy with fake legs runs the relay.
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Gay Dude For Mittens, please chime in any time. Note that this simmering underbelly of hate in YOUR OWN GODDAMN PARTY is never, ever very far from the surface.
How do you stand looking in the mirror?
How do you stand looking in the mirror?
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Isn't this like finding one of those rogue Star Trek comics, where Kirk, Bones and Spock end up in a 3 way in some Colbarian Bug Juice pool?
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@19 Kind of. This does have an element of "political fan fiction for batshit evangelicals" going for it.
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Back in MY day, this sort of thing would have been printed up on a mimeograph, and you'd find copies of it in public telephone books all over town.
(I realize that I have left half the readership mystified by obscure references. I don't care)
(I realize that I have left half the readership mystified by obscure references. I don't care)
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Honestly I don't care who does it - Democratic mole agents or Batshit conservatives - I think stirring the Mormon pot up into a lather in order to alienate Base Republican Evangelicals from Romney is a good move.
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@21 - I dunno if you exactly date yourself, but you might have given a clue as to your origins.
If memory serves, this was not an uncommon thing, and still happens from time to time, in various urban locales in the Southeast. For some reason Tennessee and Florida stick out in my mind as more recent than most examples of the practice.
Telephone books AND telephone poles as well.
We might just want to keep our eyes open, given that we're talking Tampa for the upcoming hoedown....
If memory serves, this was not an uncommon thing, and still happens from time to time, in various urban locales in the Southeast. For some reason Tennessee and Florida stick out in my mind as more recent than most examples of the practice.
Telephone books AND telephone poles as well.
We might just want to keep our eyes open, given that we're talking Tampa for the upcoming hoedown....
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wait a minute....
the santorum wingnuts are sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobes and
our little Danny is a sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobe....
the santorum wingnuts are sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobes and
our little Danny is a sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobe....
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Danny's favorite HomoRetailer continues its plunge....
JC Penney 2Q earnings disaster
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) —
"J.C. Penney Co. offered up grisly details Friday of a terrible second quarter.
The midpriced department store chain reported a bigger-than-expected loss and plummeting sales. Shoppers are still not buying into a bold new gay-friendly advertising strategy. Penney even withdrew its full-year profit guidance.
After the report, Moody's Investors Services downgraded Penney's rating deeper into junk-bond terrain.
The bleak performance marked the second-straight quarter of severe sales declines since Penney featured two homosexual men in a Fathers' Day advertisement. The report confirmed it's going to be a hard sell to shoppers who are used to traditional marriage."
JC Penney 2Q earnings disaster
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) —
"J.C. Penney Co. offered up grisly details Friday of a terrible second quarter.
The midpriced department store chain reported a bigger-than-expected loss and plummeting sales. Shoppers are still not buying into a bold new gay-friendly advertising strategy. Penney even withdrew its full-year profit guidance.
After the report, Moody's Investors Services downgraded Penney's rating deeper into junk-bond terrain.
The bleak performance marked the second-straight quarter of severe sales declines since Penney featured two homosexual men in a Fathers' Day advertisement. The report confirmed it's going to be a hard sell to shoppers who are used to traditional marriage."
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What's all the fuss about a Mormon president? We already have a Muslim from Kenya.
Kidding.
Lovely reading, though. I always enjoy a report from the lunatic fringe.
Kidding.
Lovely reading, though. I always enjoy a report from the lunatic fringe.
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This is hilarious. I'm hoping for a brokered convention. Although unlikely, it would make for good watching!
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Troll dear, Anne D'Innocenzio didn't write that. In fact, when I googled a phrase from that supposed AP article, the only place it showed up was here on Slog, where you posted it to several different posts.
Ms. D'Innocenzio did write an article about Penney's today, but it said nothing about gay people. You can read it at
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2…
And Palamedes dear, I come from Iowa, but the religious tracts in phone books was a phenomena I never encountered until I came to Seattle for the first time in the 70's. But it was quite common here until the phone booths started to disappear.
As secular as Seattle is, or maybe because of it, we have a thriving religious whack job population. Apparently these days they just troll websites.
Ms. D'Innocenzio did write an article about Penney's today, but it said nothing about gay people. You can read it at
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2…
And Palamedes dear, I come from Iowa, but the religious tracts in phone books was a phenomena I never encountered until I came to Seattle for the first time in the 70's. But it was quite common here until the phone booths started to disappear.
As secular as Seattle is, or maybe because of it, we have a thriving religious whack job population. Apparently these days they just troll websites.
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1) The GOP is eating it's own at impressive levels. Just look at this and all the negative commentary directed at Romney by the Talk Radio hosts and Tea Baggers and Faux News people. And that's not even mentioning the evangelicals who don't consider Mormons to be christian.
2) Romney consistently shoots himself in the foot, insulting foreign allies while traveling abroad, begging the media to stop talking about his taxes which he won't release, Stating that he enjoys firing people -during a recession, no less.
You'd think with all this that Romney would be polling somewhere around 15% these days. Even the GOP faithful don't like (much less love) their nominee presumptive. Aside from his mother, I'm not convinced anyone truly loves Mitt Romney.
But we non-republicans are excited that Obama is leading Romney by.....2 %. That's Nate Silver,s calculation over at 538.com 2% of the popular vote is what separates Obama from Romney.
Only in a country where a guy named Danielson with no qualifications at all can defeat an extremely well qualified guy names Gonzales without spending a dime on campaigning or even trying to get anyone's vote, can you see an incompetent jackass like mitt Romney within 2 percentage points of the Presidency.
2) Romney consistently shoots himself in the foot, insulting foreign allies while traveling abroad, begging the media to stop talking about his taxes which he won't release, Stating that he enjoys firing people -during a recession, no less.
You'd think with all this that Romney would be polling somewhere around 15% these days. Even the GOP faithful don't like (much less love) their nominee presumptive. Aside from his mother, I'm not convinced anyone truly loves Mitt Romney.
But we non-republicans are excited that Obama is leading Romney by.....2 %. That's Nate Silver,s calculation over at 538.com 2% of the popular vote is what separates Obama from Romney.
Only in a country where a guy named Danielson with no qualifications at all can defeat an extremely well qualified guy names Gonzales without spending a dime on campaigning or even trying to get anyone's vote, can you see an incompetent jackass like mitt Romney within 2 percentage points of the Presidency.
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I assume that either the photographer or Facebook holds the copyright on the soldier's homecoming kiss pic. Did the manifesto's authors got permission to use them?
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@ 29 Look at these US-2012 President: 49% Obama (D), 40% Romney (R) (Fox/Anderson Robbins/Shaw 8/5-8/7)
US-2012 President: 52% Obama (D), 45% Romney (R) (CNN/ORC 8/7-8/8)
Also Romney can't seem to get over 191 electoral votes right now, so while its not in the bag, not as close as some think.
US-2012 President: 52% Obama (D), 45% Romney (R) (CNN/ORC 8/7-8/8)
Also Romney can't seem to get over 191 electoral votes right now, so while its not in the bag, not as close as some think.
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Paul - I was going to accuse you of masochism for wanting to read this, but now that I've started, I can't fucking put it down.
I'm tempted to jump ahead to the chapter entitled, "Anderson Cooper Was Born Gay?," but I'm too wrapped up in the complete take-down of LDS, which - judging from the table of contents - takes up half the book.
I'm tempted to jump ahead to the chapter entitled, "Anderson Cooper Was Born Gay?," but I'm too wrapped up in the complete take-down of LDS, which - judging from the table of contents - takes up half the book.
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@28
I used to visit a friend of mine in Sacramento, CA frequently and it seemed strange tracts and writings were everywhere. This was 2002-2006. One time there were a series home made art boxes all over town, filled with the most delightful sorts of nonsense. I kept a bunch of them, but lost it in one of the 10 moves I made since then. That town always seemed so weird, in a nice way -- I always wondered if it was the influence of all the trains and the hobos who rode them, as well as the migrants who came for the fields. I wish you could still find stuff like that in Seattle!
Speaking of, on a recent bike trip to Spencer Spit, we found that the pit toilet for the walk-ins along the water was home to some nice folky-weird art. Free bead art, and a cool diorama. Nice!
I used to visit a friend of mine in Sacramento, CA frequently and it seemed strange tracts and writings were everywhere. This was 2002-2006. One time there were a series home made art boxes all over town, filled with the most delightful sorts of nonsense. I kept a bunch of them, but lost it in one of the 10 moves I made since then. That town always seemed so weird, in a nice way -- I always wondered if it was the influence of all the trains and the hobos who rode them, as well as the migrants who came for the fields. I wish you could still find stuff like that in Seattle!
Speaking of, on a recent bike trip to Spencer Spit, we found that the pit toilet for the walk-ins along the water was home to some nice folky-weird art. Free bead art, and a cool diorama. Nice!
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Just for fun, here's a word cloud of this fascinating document:
http://worditout.com/word-cloud/99317
http://worditout.com/word-cloud/99317
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@15 I dunno... Rush Limbaugh, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Larry Craig and Newt Gingrich are still my standards for marriage-related-slippery-slope catastrophe.
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Damn. I just took a peek. That's one serious mound of pure vitriol. The sad thing is, if Romney doesn't pull his campaign out of the toilet pretty damned soon, he's playing right into their hands, and I don't want anyone in their hands. Holy shit.
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It's sponsored by a formerly pro-Santorum group -- if I had not read this clause I would have thought some clever Dems were getting their jollies teasing the wingnuts.
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Romney's going to announce his VP running mate Saturday morning on the USS Wisconsin and the Secret Service has reportedly paid Paul Ryan a visit tonight. That should make the teabaggers cream their pants.
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I wonder about the long term.
1) Moderate Republicans have no real place left to go. A few, like Lincoln Chafee, have the star power to get elected without a party to back them up. But the majority do not, so they get forced out like Arlen Specter or retire like Olympia Snowe.
While the Democratic Party is certainly inclusive-it has ultra conservatives like Charlie Melançon and Ronnie Musgrove in it's ranks along side the Progressive giants like Dennis Kucinich. But where will the republicans too moderate for the GOP and unwilling to join their former opponents go?
Will they break ranks and form their own party? Or glom onto an existing Third Party, thereby swelling it's ranks until it becomes competitive?
2) If the GOP ever does elect another President, given that nobody can ever be conservative enough for the GOP's current base, will that President be so reviled by his own party that, like President Taylor, he will be rendered incapable of governing?
1) Moderate Republicans have no real place left to go. A few, like Lincoln Chafee, have the star power to get elected without a party to back them up. But the majority do not, so they get forced out like Arlen Specter or retire like Olympia Snowe.
While the Democratic Party is certainly inclusive-it has ultra conservatives like Charlie Melançon and Ronnie Musgrove in it's ranks along side the Progressive giants like Dennis Kucinich. But where will the republicans too moderate for the GOP and unwilling to join their former opponents go?
Will they break ranks and form their own party? Or glom onto an existing Third Party, thereby swelling it's ranks until it becomes competitive?
2) If the GOP ever does elect another President, given that nobody can ever be conservative enough for the GOP's current base, will that President be so reviled by his own party that, like President Taylor, he will be rendered incapable of governing?
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Paul Ryan as his VP nominee? That's the buzz.
Romney - Ryan. "RR" as in Rolls Royce? The media will have some fun with that.
Romney - Ryan. "RR" as in Rolls Royce? The media will have some fun with that.
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well.
you've got to admit that JCP has been going down the crapper since Dannyboy gushed about the so so sweet father's gay ad....
well.
you've got to admit that JCP has been going down the crapper since Dannyboy gushed about the so so sweet father's gay ad....
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"Judaism and Christianity are monotheistic, but Judaism is unitarian (one personal G_d) while Christianity is trinitarian (one G_d in three persons). Mormonism, by contrast, is radically polytheistic......."
As if. Can't their fucking God read between the lines, or do they think they can fool him?
NAME IN VAIN. NOT GUILTLESS.
As if. Can't their fucking God read between the lines, or do they think they can fool him?
NAME IN VAIN. NOT GUILTLESS.
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#26
My neighbor has a Kenyan flag sticker on his SUV in the complex parking lot.
(My bid for Kenyan Presidency taught me to recognize the famed spear and shield).
My neighbor has a Kenyan flag sticker on his SUV in the complex parking lot.
(My bid for Kenyan Presidency taught me to recognize the famed spear and shield).
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Troll darling, JC Penney had been having difficulties long before Dan had anything to say about it. It's like K-Mart or Sears - old line retailers who didn't take into consideration the dumbing down of America, and now they are trying to reinvent themselves.
Promise me you won't try to tell any more stories, won't you?
Promise me you won't try to tell any more stories, won't you?
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@28 - ah, a misenterpretation - my apologies. You were talking religious cartoons and such by Mr. Chick and his minions. I was talking crude political broadsides, usually with some combination of racist and sexist undertones, just before Election Day, typically.
Nowadays the venue for what you allude to is bathrooms - strangely enough, especially those at very conservative churches, with the tone changing towards reassurance of those in the fold instead of outreach/accusation of "the great unwashed". It's a very odd thing, and personally a bit of a surprise to discover (I would not have found out myself , had I not had a conversation with someone on an architecture tour that included a very beautiful but extremely conservative church).
Nowadays the venue for what you allude to is bathrooms - strangely enough, especially those at very conservative churches, with the tone changing towards reassurance of those in the fold instead of outreach/accusation of "the great unwashed". It's a very odd thing, and personally a bit of a surprise to discover (I would not have found out myself , had I not had a conversation with someone on an architecture tour that included a very beautiful but extremely conservative church).
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I'm curious. Who do these mutineering Repubs plan to nominate instead of Romney? Santorum? Isn't Romney the best the Repubs could come up with?
Why is there so much homophobia here in the US? Why have other western democracies (such as Canada, Scandinavian countries, etc.) accepted equal rights for gays with little or no fanfare?
So the Wingnuts are hanging their hat on a losing issue (gay rights) when the country as a whole is moving forward? Interesting.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/art…
Why is there so much homophobia here in the US? Why have other western democracies (such as Canada, Scandinavian countries, etc.) accepted equal rights for gays with little or no fanfare?
So the Wingnuts are hanging their hat on a losing issue (gay rights) when the country as a whole is moving forward? Interesting.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/art…
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I JUST FINISHED READING THE WHOLE [too many expletives] THING.
Apart from the rambling, trying to tar Rmoney as the Father of Gay Marriage in Mass. (no ... seriously) as a precurser to moving toward country-wide recognition of polygamy, there was this at the top of Page 62:
Is it too much to ask for selective amnesia while I sleep tonight? Well, it's a valid goal.
Apart from the rambling, trying to tar Rmoney as the Father of Gay Marriage in Mass. (no ... seriously) as a precurser to moving toward country-wide recognition of polygamy, there was this at the top of Page 62:
If we are indeed “endowed by our Creator” with rights, breasts, wombs, vaginas, penises, hearts and brains… then not quite everything can be fifty shades of gray.They had to throw in a reference to one of the stupidest books ever published! But why would they do that when they are attempting to show how moral they are? They shouldn't even know what's IN the book, let alone make a sly reference to it.
Is it too much to ask for selective amnesia while I sleep tonight? Well, it's a valid goal.
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I just tried to download it, and got a page saying I "could access this file because it violates Google's Terms Of Service."
Anyone else get that?
Anyone else get that?
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