I really don't know why so much of the GOP hates Romney.

[arbusto_baboso]

After all, he absolutely exemplifies and embodies everything they've stood for, for the last 80 years.

[Scuba]

1. Magic underpants.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Which is any less weird than an infallible book of fairy tales?

[yardwork]

3. You're asking irrational, misinformed, greedy, selfish people to use logic?

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Yeah, I know. My bad.

[Scuba]

4. Ah, but which book of fairy tales do you believe?

[arbusto_baboso]

7. None of them. Not literally, that's for sure.

Yeah, I can get stuff out of Bible, Torah, Koran, even the obviously plagiarized Book of Mormon, and it can be good advice and applied to my life.

But I can also do that with any good self-help book. Actually, BETTER with the self-help book.

And the self-help book won't necessarily require me to hate any particular groups of people.

[snooper2]

36. No, it's which book of fairy tales were you brainwashed to believe?

[baldguy]

6. But, is a Catholic any better for those people?

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Thank you! Evangelicals also regard Catholics as cultists.

Having been both Catholic and Mormon in my lifetime, I have pretty much always borne the brunt of the fundies' hatred. Especially now that I'm agnostic.

[southernyankeebelle]

12. How in the world did you end up with both those religion? LOL They are opposite that is for sure.

I was born a catholic and I will die a catholic (well a cafeteria one). I just don't go to organized church.

[eridani]

24. I know what you mean. You can take the kid out of the Catholic school--

--but you can never take the Catholic school out of the kid. Instead of giving up candy for Lent, now I give up fast food hamburger to save the rainforests. When a leader of Catholics for Choice was threatened with excommunication, she said something like "the Pope can't tell me I'm not Catholic any more than he can tell me I'm not Italian." Protestant upbringing of whatever form doesn't seem to leave the same sense of identification among those who no longer actively participate. I call myself spiritual but not religious these days.

[southernyankeebelle]

25. Boy you said it. Am Italian american and I feel the same way. I sure don't like the pope telling

me how many children I should have. I think a majority of catholics women are on birth control of some type believe the same way. Just think if Santorum wins be prepared to lose birth control of any time. But your right being born a catholic is like a jew being born a jew. Protestants don't take communion as serious as catholics do. To catholics when we receive communion to us it is the body and blood of christ. To others it's just a symbol.

[arbusto_baboso]

26. Converted to mormonism for Mrs. Arbusto.

Fortunately, she got fed-up with it years ago and we both left.

And mormonism is a LOT more like Catholicism than you think...

[southernyankeebelle]

27. Well I don't think so. The catholic church is the oldest church. It has history unlike the mormon

church which many think as a cult.

[arbusto_baboso]

28. Most evangelicals consider Catholicism a cult, too.

Frankly, the only difference between a "cult" and a "church" is about 400 years.

You might wanna take those blinders off.

[southernyankeebelle]

35. Well the majority of Mainstream religions think Evangelicals are nuts. I consider them hypocrites.

Nothing but hypocrites. I don't care what they think I know better. With Evangelicals ignorance is bliss. I have always known they hate catholics. I live in the south. I have worked in military chapels with all types of religions because my husband had to set up for their services. I would sometimes go over and listen to the bullshit they preach. Your not telling me something I didn't already know. You see it in the republican party. The bishops, cardinals and the pope are to stupid to see they are being used. The catholic church I grew up in does no longer preach to me. I stay home and say my prayers and my rosaries. I get more out of it then going to any organized church.

[Hugabear]

29. They don't like Catholics, but they don't like Mormons even more

There is definitely a pecking order when it comes to evangelicals.

Them>other Protestants>Catholics>Most other religions>Satanism>Islam

[valerief]

11. Exactly. Can't sell Jesus as well as a Baptist can.

And if you can't sell Jesus, you can't sell magic.

[orpupilofnature57]

15. In a nutshell.

[zbdent]

22. No, the post is about Romney, not what Newt tells the women he's cheating with ...

[JI7]

9. no, many of the lower class religious types were fooled with the estate Tax

and other things.

the wingnuts make them think if they pay taxes it's because minorities are getting foodstamps.

Romney is actually being revealed as the true type that benefits from that republican stand on economic issues.

[riverwalker]

10. Bingo!

you said it perfectly.

[Sheepshank]

13. he exemplifies it all too well

most of his traits they are trying to establish/portray/pretend is no longer really part of the GOP...and he keeps reminding everyone that it is.

[spanone]

14. he's not mean enough to attack the black guy in the white house.

[JBoy]

23. True, this time around they're looking for a remorseless hitman.

[Ecumenist]

16. He's Mormon.. nt

[Snarkoleptic]

17. Mebbe this is part of it....

[Raine]

18. He's totally PHONEY

and it comes thru.

[Tx4obama]

19. I think most of it is because the media has been saying that they don't like him ....

After a person hears that 1000 times they begin to believe it is true

[jimlup]

20. Yeah - It is the magic underpants stuff...

They are freaked out. I didn't know this until I talked to my dad who is a Southern "Christian" (at least he's a left Christian). He's freaked out about Romney and he's not even a Republican.

He says stuff like "Mormonism is a 4th Abrahamic Religion" and "Mormons are not Christian" and "I fear a Mormon in the Presidency".

I personally figure my dad is actually being somewhat irrational about this but I think that same level of irrational thinking is pretty strong in the South. I certainly agree with him that Mormonism is a scary sect - I also am an atheist so I don't really get too excited either way. To me almost all of them are religious nutcases.

[siligut]

21. Schisms in Freemasonry

Romney with his Mormon heritage is part of the wrong faction. Is saying Freemasonry going to get my post hidden? I believe it is only when it is mentioned as a part of a conspiracy theory that it is a ToS violation.

[gkhouston]

30. Rank and file 'pubs? He's a rich phony.

The "party elite" types? He's too rich to buy and too dull to blackmail.

[Odin2005]

31. Because he's a Yankee AND a Mormon.

Southern Evangelicals hate Yankees and they hate Mormons.

[Ganja Ninja]

34. Exactly.

It's as if Jesus spoke with a southern drawl.

[ItNerd4life]

32. Do you want an actual answer? If so, here are some reasons

Most Democrats think all Republicans are idiots, but that is not the case.

They just believe in smaller government. However, smaller government doesn't mean
letting the big boys get away with anything they want.

They believe in a framework that is fair and equitable, that allows all people to succeed. They don't like
that the framework isn't fair and equitable and that some people & businesses are more fair than others.

Romney exemplifies the type of person who has the government help him & his friends. That's not fair and equitable.

It is NOT the social issues and such as many people believe. Yes, there are some hard core Republicans who only vote
on a single issue. But I know many who just don't trust him to do the right thing.

They didn't like Bush, and they don't like Romney. Also, they don't like Gingrich, Santorum, or Obama either because they all
help their friends instead of making things fair.

[arbusto_baboso]

33. "smaller government doesn't mean letting the big boys get away wioth anything they want."

Except that's the way it always works out, isn't it? ALWAYS. I defy you to find me any significant exception.

[Ganja Ninja]

38. I don't know what Republican party you're talking about.

That's not them at all.

The main driving force in their political lives is to piss off the Democrats and piss on people of color. Everything else is a distant second. The reason for that is basically two fold, racism & stupidity.

First off they wouldn't know economic fairness if it came up and bit them on the ass.

"Small Government" is nothing more than code for ending welfare because in their mind blacks are the only people on welfare.

And as far as not liking Bush, hell they were all for him until everything went into the crapper in 2008. Then they denied he was ever a conservative.

Don't like Romney, Gingrich or Santorum? They will gladly eat a pile of steaming shit if FOX News or Rush tells them it will ruin a Democrat's day.

[Proud Public Servant]

37. There are 2 GOPs

And one of them LOVES Romney. High-ranking elected officials, Wall Street types, serious pundits -- hell, even the occasional non-serious pundit (Anne Coulter, FFS) -- they all love Romney. They are The Establishment.

But this GOP can only win with the help of the Other GOP, the one Nixon brought into the party with his Southern strategy. That GOP is not realistic, serious, and sober, like the Establishment GOP imagines itself to be. That GOP demands ideological purity, rejection of all compromise, and violent self-destruction if need be. They hate Romney because Romney has no core beliefs, is all too willing to compromise, and knows is his heart of hearts that the GOP can fail and the world will keep turning. They are The Base.

I like gangster movies, so I use this analogy:

The Establishment is Don Corleone, maybe even Michael Corleone (ok, and often Fredo Corleone, too). But the Base? Tony Montana, all the way.

[kctim]

39. Those people 'hate' Romney

for the same reason people here 'hate' Skelton, Lincoln and Nelson: he does not represent the fringe view of the Republican Party so therefore he is not a "true" Republican.

[TwilightGardener]

40. He doesn't relate well to the redneck/fundie/teabag crowd (the GOP rabble).