Mitt Romney's Virginia speech heavy on religion

[rug]

By GINGER GIBSON
9/8/12 4:25 PM EDT Updated: 9/8/12 5:38 PM EDT

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Mitt Romney wants to be clear: He’s not taking “God” off the nation’s money or out of his party’s platform.

In a not-so-veiled attack on President Barack Obama, Romney on Saturday delivered a speech thick with religious overtones and heavy on promises to increase military spending.

While Romney never argued that Obama was trying to remove God from the nation’s currency, he argued that the election is the only way to ensure the words remain.

The Republican presidential nominee recited the Pledge of Allegiance and said he would not remove God from the nation’s conversation.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80947.html

He's campaigning on the Pledge of Allegiance? Desperate asshole.

[cbayer]

1. He's so freaking desperate to make himself look like one of them.

And the really sad part, they do think he is one of them.

[dimbear]

2. Audacious logic. In God We Trust, and because we actually don't, let's spend ungodly

zillions on war.

[longship]

3. Yet another Republican straw man.

Or, to mix metaphors, another windmill to tilt.

Gosh! Do these guys have anything real to discuss? I am beginning to think that the reason they don't talk about their policies is that they have nothing to talk about.

It's why the entire Republican campaign is substantially dog whistles. That's all they have. It is an empty rhetoric made by a campaign that is empty of ideas other than dog whistling to their base.

I don't see any hope for them if they are going to continue in this vein.

Pitiful. Utterly pitiful.

Too bad he didn't invite Pat Robertson to the podium. (He was in the front row right over Mitt's left shoulder.)

[cbayer]

5. He's got to convince him that what he really is is a fundamentalist christian.

But I agree, they seem to have no platform at all... except to return things to just the way they were pre-Obama, but with more religion.

[skepticscott]

6. Well, don't worry too much

If the militant, fundamentalist atheists ever take over, it will be at least as bad. Or so say a lot of your friends here in the room.

[immoderate]

4. The Pledge was written by socialist Francis Bellamy in 1890s. Without "under god."

Romney won't tell you that.

--imm

[2Design]

7. why does the news report these obvious lies - they are part of the problem

[Angry Dragon]

8. Hey Willard, I have a question for you:

Is your god the same god that Michele Bachmann believes in??

[dimbear]

9. Mitt proposes one tiny change. New motto: In God We Trust and in the Greater God Who

Created Him."

[pinto]

10. Caught some snips when I got in. Desperate, pandering and embarrassing to watch.

Romney will save our currency from Obama, the godless Democrats! And there was actually applause for the obvious ploy. They buy the shill.