Religious Right Tries to "Stick a Shiv" into Der Mittenfuhrer's Campaign

Religious Right Tries to "Stick a Shiv" into Willard's Campaign
by: Bob
Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 00:17:55 AM EDT

The Nation gives a little lesson in how the MSM -- assuming anyone considers The Nation part of the MSM -- can offer informed reporting on the Wild West of the political blogosphere.

With onetime Republican presidential frontrunner Senator John McCain in meltdown, Mitt Romney suddenly finds himself under fire from some of the Christian right's most influential activists. Romney's evangelical critics claim the former Massachusetts governor and devout Mormon was complicit in the Marriott hotel chain's sale of pay-per-view porn on its in-room television sets when he served on the corporation's board of directors from 1992 to 2001. Two Christian-right operatives involved in orchestrating the charges have enlisted as Internet organizers for former Senator Fred Thompson, who is preparing to enter the race formally. The tactics of these religious-right players, targeted below the radar against Romney, are calculated to alter decisively the outcome of the Republican primary contest.

The assault was launched on July 5 with an opening shot in the form of a breathless press release issued through the mega-ministry Focus on the Family. In it, veteran antiporn crusader Phil Burress called Romney's failure to take action against pay-per-view hotel porn during his tenure on Marriott's board "extremely disturbing." That same day, a Focus on the Family spokesman took to the radio airwaves to ask whether Romney would "turn a blind eye" to pornography if elected President. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, which functions as Focus's Washington lobbying arm, immediately joined the pile-on. He briefed the Associated Press on the record, explaining that Romney must "take some responsibility" for his supposed connection to Marriott's porn profiteering. The AP report on the accusation against Romney was subsequently reprinted in the pages of major outlets from the Boston Globe to the Washington Post. It only took a full six years after Romney resigned from Marriott's board for the Christian right's leading lights to profess their outrage--and only hours for the press to echo it.

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I lived among them in Utah--they are good people. That's a shame. Of course, if Mittens ends up out of the running, that's NOT a shame.

then the Baptists and Focus On The Family conventioneers wouldn't have anything to watch in their hotel rooms! :rofl:

Keep on bloviating, you superstitious nincompoops, you're getting more and more irrelevant by the day.

Then again, a Religious Right circular firing squad has to be beneficial to us...they can pick each other off while we eat popcorn. :)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

Are the right-wing Evangelicals continuing their anti-LDS jihad? That's what it looks like to me.

I'd like to think that if I were a Latter Day Saint, I'd be extremely wary of becoming political bed-fellows with the sorts of right-wing "Christians" who seem to devote air time to trashing my religious beliefs on many of the "Christian" radio stations.

I should think that most LDSers would know better than to trust the so-called Christian Right, considering the LDS-ers persecution at the hands of so much of protestant America during the 19th century.