I Feel SICK

[wolvenone]

GAH~! Stupid, stupid, STUPID Republican Primary in Iowa. Romney may not have been the best of candidates, but he was one of the few that were, "acceptable," to me. And he lost, he lost big, not because of his track record, not because of his stance on the major issues, oh no, he lost because he was a Mormon, and Huckabee was not. Huckabee's been

Comments

[mavikfelna]

It's ok. From the time Romney announced his candidacy, all we've heard about is his being LDS and the speculation about what that means. I like Mitt, I worked for him at the Olympics and I thought he did a good job and was a nice guy.

I know alot of folks from Boston that feel he's an idiot because he was a bad governor. And some of his decisions there were pretty stupid, though I think he learned from that. The fact that the media and the other candidates are not attacking him on those points, but only on the fact that he's LDS show a very unfortunate bias. But, some, perhaps even alot, of the coverage has been positive and we can hope that the NEXT LDS candicate has things a little easier.

As long as it isn't Orren Hatch.

--Mav

[wolvenone]

I'll agree with you on the entire Orren Hatch thing. And certainly there has been some good coverage, I merely feel it's been trumped by, well, ill sentiments.

[fdsf]

If it's anything, the whole electoral college system in the US makes no sense to me.

[wolvenone]

This isn't the electoral college, this is the party system in action. Basically, each party deciding who their candidate will be. I will agree that the party system doesn't really make sense though.

[slysquirrel]

Religion always has been and will probably always be a consideration in elections in this country. It's not fair, and frankly it's detrimental to the real driving issues of this country, but the truth is that a smart candidate with strong positions on issues will almost always lose out to a lunatic carrying a "message from God."

As for a portion of the country hating you, it could definitely be worse. For example, you could be gay, or black, or an empowered woman, or even a furry. ;)

[wolvenone]

I know what you're saying, but, well, the black guy won, and the empowered woman didn't lose by nearly ten percent.

[slysquirrel]

There's still a lot of primary left, mind you. Huckabee is going to have to withstand the full force of the media now.

[wolvenone]

That's true, Romney or McCain could still pull it off. *I don't like McCain, but he's at least acceptable enough that I could vote for him if I felt I needed to.*

anyhow, I am feeling a lot better than last night. Staying up till four AM and venting with my politically minded younger sister probably helped.

[xodiac]

I'm less upset at how Huckabee was making Romney's Mormonism an issue than I am about how they both made religion an issue in the first place. I can understand faith as a kind of tiebreaker - I don't know who I really like better, so I choose the one whose beliefs are closest to mine. I can understand that concept. But what religion a candidate belongs to shouldn't be one of the first things I think about when considering a vote, and it shouldn't be brought up as anything more than character background. Someone who actually runs on a religious platform worries me; I don't want America to become a theocracy. Any more than it already is, anyway.

So, Romney, who emphasized hard his Mormon faith, is hurting. As far as I'm concerned, that's good. Now if only the same happens to Huckabee, I'll be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

[wolvenone]

can't really think of a point where he emphasized it, in fact I remember a lot of instances where he outright said it shouldn't matter. Though, granted, there's no way I've heard everything he's said.