| It is possible - but not incredibly likely - that the NJGOP could put up a candidate that was worth taking a look at. I decided I would take a look at Chris Myers and see if he might be such a candidate.
One of the first things I did was check the FEC database to see where Myers puts his money. After all, he has donated to Frank Lautenberg - who else gets his money? Well, other than the NJGOP and National GOP, he's given to Frank LoBiondo, Thomas Kean, Jr., Doug Forrester, George W. Bush, and Jim Saxton. Oh, and Mitt Romney.
What was it about Mitt Romney that earned Myers' admiration? It couldn't be his lack of military service - or that of his five sons - because Myers' contempt for any non-veteran is plain to see. What would make Myers - who claims he is not a "career politician" even while holding one office and running for another one - max out his donation to a career politician?
Well, he gave to the Romney campaign on September 30, 2007. Simply logic says that Romney must have done something around that time to convince Myers that this was the man who should be President. Jump with me and try to figure out what it might be. |
| Option number one: Romney notes that his wife is prettier than Bill Clinton. Not that his wife is prettier than Bill Clinton's wife, but that his wife is prettier than a middle-aged man whose body is beginning that long decline into oblivion. Presumably, this means that, given the choice, Mitt Romney would rather have sex with his own wife than with Bill Clinton.
Option number two: Mitt Romney supports a federal amendment defining marriage: "There are different kinds of families, many doing a heroic job under difficult circumstances. The ideal setting for raising a child is and will always be where there is a mother and a father. Some liberal judges don't see it that way. That is why it is time for a federal amendment that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman!
Can Myers point out a single federal judge who has said that a child is ill-served by having two parents? I'm pretty sure he can't. What liberals have argued is that a child is better off with two loving parents than with one, regardless of whether or not those two parents are a mixed-sex couple or same-sex couple.
Option number three Mitt Romney isn't afraid to impose religion on people (same source as above): "Republicans for Change aren't afraid to talk about faith. We recognize the hand of the Creator in the founding of our nation. We will fight to keep the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. Have you seen the new dollar coin? 'In God We Trust' has been moved. It's not on the face of the coin anymore, it's on the edge ? virtually invisible, just like the ACLU wants Him to be. I will go to work to get God back on the front of our coin!
Of course, organized religion - especially Romney's own Mormon faith - has had no stronger ally than the ACLU. I honestly don't know of any liberal who is afraid to talk about their faith, though most of them won't talk about it unless you ask. Even then, they generally are not going to ram it down your throat by using their personal faith as a basis for secular law. Jewish liberals who keep kosher, for example, are not trying to ban the sale of pork products to the rest of us. Muslim liberals aren't trying to ban God, they just want to take their oath of office with their hand on their own book of scriptures - which conservative Republicans walked out on. Christian liberals, such as myself, would appreciate being able to talk about how our faith informs our private and public lives without being told by people like Romney that we aren't really Christian - but we aren't trying to pass a law banning his right to be stupid.
Option number four: Mitt Romney won't be questioned by black people.
Option number five: Mitt Romney is not afraid to ignore polling data.
Option number six: Mitt Romney loves him some communists. Or at least he isn't afraid to help buy companies that sell secret communications systems to Iraq and work nearly exclusively with the Chinese government.
This isn't just academic. This is the man Chris Myers decided, with no pressure from anyone, had the right vision of America. Of course, Mitt Romney was soundly rejected by the Republican Party.
So who the hell is Chris Myers to talk about someone else being "out of the mainstream"? Chris Myers wouldn't know the mainstream if he was waterboarded with it.
Ah, well, I guess the GOP just can't find someone that is, you know, a decent human being. |
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