Chris Kelly: Mitt Romney's Jesus is Just as Good as the Leading Brand

[marmar]

from HuffPost:




Chris Kelly
Mitt Romney's Jesus is Just as Good as the Leading Brand
Posted December 6, 2007 | 07:32 PM (EST)



A lot of people think Mitt Romney chose to give his religion speech this week because he's afraid of the Rev. Mike Huckabee. (A man whose main qualifications for the Oval Office are a personal relationship with Jesus and the ability to lose weight.) Mike is breathing down Mitt's neck in Iowa, which can't be pleasant, because bulimics have terrible breath.

I think there's a simpler explanation and, touchingly, it has to do with faith. Mitt Romney made his religion speech during Hanukkah because he's the only candidate oily enough to burn for eight days.

If you missed the speech, it can be summed up pretty simply: He proclaimed the right of every American to freely and openly practice any religion, including his own, about which he won't divulge a single detail, even if you killed his children right in front of him, one after another.

And he doesn't care which of you atheist bastards and Islamic jihadists know it.

Now just give me your vote, and stop bothering me with all these questions. I've spent a lot of money. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/mitt-romneys-jesus-is-ju_b_75719.html

[Patsy Stone]

1. Simply brilliant!

"The Gospel Jesus lived in Galilee. The Mormon Jesus lived in Albany. (Where he fought the Indians. Because he wasn't just the Lamb of God, he was also the Last of the Mohicans.) Mormon Jesus? Three wives, a planetful of kids. Gospel Jesus? Living alone and loving it."

K&R

[kurth]

2. Is/Was Jesus' mom Mary or The Heavenly Mother?

[Richard Steele]

3. K&R

[Hekate]

4. Wow. Not bad for Arianna's ("John-Roger is my guru") HuffPost.

Arianna has had her own spiritual explorations.... Nonetheless, under her aegis Chris Kelly really skewers Mitt pretty good.

If Mitt Romney had been Kennedyesque he would have insisted on the separation of church and state rather than pandering to one constituency, as he did. Romney could have -- but did not -- insisted on the privacy of his religious beliefs and the primacy of the Constitution.

Kennedy's speech is a gem -- Romney's just panders in pretty words.

Too bad for all of us.

Hekate

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. How about us Americans who don't practice any religion, Mittens?

I am sick of religion! I am sick of this crap being thrown in my face by these politicians who don't practice what they "preach"! :wtf: Keep your so called "faith" too yourself!