A nutty outfit I’d never heard of before is described in a headline as “a conservative group“:
Conservative Group Launches “Dump Romney” Campaign
A group called “Jews and Christians Together,” which backed Rick Santorum in the Republican primary, is sending a memo to Republican National Convention delegates urging them not to vote for Mitt Romney at the convention, even if they’re bound to him.
The nine-page memo casts Romney’s nomination in the direst terms.
It certainly does. What disturbs me about this “conservative group” is that if it is in fact part of the conservative movement, I think it’s a sign that conservatism is either going off the rails, or is completely unable to distance itself from its wackos. Some of the people connected with this outfit actually seem to have solid conservative bona fides. I have heard of Steve Baldwin, for example:
[The memo is] a brainchild of Steve Baldwin, the former chief of the Council for National Policy, a low-profile, well-connected conservative group. Baldwin said the memo was sent out to 20,000 people in politics in media, as well as RNC delegates.
“We’re just saying that Romney has so many liabilities that will be exploited by Obama,” Baldwin said in a phone interview. “I don’t have a problems with Mormons personally, but it is a liability issue” among evangelical voters, Baldwin said.
Baldwin said that the people who put together the memo are supporters of different primary candidates, including Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich (Baldwin is a Bachmann supporter).
Jews and Christians Together briefly made the news in March for putting out robocalls in Ohio on behalf of Rick Santorum, then still a presidential candidate. The call accused Romney of supporting “open homosexuality in the military, the appointment of homosexual judges, and the ENDA law, making it illegal to fire a man who wears a dress and high heels to work, even if he’s your kid’s teacher.”
Actually, that’s the least of it. I went to this “conservative group’s” website, and what I found was way more exciting. Here’s just a smidgen from their “Dump Romney” self proclaimed “Manifesto”:
Hostile to hetero-monogamy, it’s as if Mitt’s the Manchurian Candidate from GOProud, the Log Cabiner from some rustic den of sodomy in the Utah backwoods: Romney has been grinding hard to deliver on state-sanctioned SSM/SSS (Same-Sex Marriage/Same-Sex-as-Sandusky37) in domestic, military or foreign policy from way back when Obama was all talk.
Who seriously imagines that Romney’s creeper roots – naked temple rites38 and all – won’t soon be subject to blistering heat? In his embrace of an enduring Mormon subculture of pedophilia, polyamory and homoeroticism – plus a childlike faith in the left’s demonstrably anti-scientific premise that some people are born gay39 (like being born black-skinned, blue-eyed or female) – Romney has even ripped the Boy Scouts for their prudent good sense on homo/bisex Scoutmasters. 40
It goes on and on in like vein.
I think that if Romney has to even think about such lunatics, much less appease them, then the GOP is in worse trouble than I thought.
And if they are in fact conservatives, I don’t want to be associated with that word.
MORE: Here’s the group’s “clincher” — a picture of what is purported to be Brigham Young’s son dressed as a female opera singer juxtapositioned with Mitt Romney, captioned “SEXUAL PIONEERING”:
Sorry, but I’ve been around for nearly six decades, many of them decadent ones. And try as I might, I am unable to see Mitt Romney as anything resembling a “sexual pioneer.” He strikes me as about as square as they come.
This is worse than Bush Derangement Syndrome.
And unless we are being bamboozled, this stuff is not coming from the left.
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15 responses to “Does “conservatism” have to include outright lunacy? (I remember when it didn’t….)”
Ah. Sodomy. A truly vile habit – being unkind to strangers. But isn’t all of politics like that?
I was looking for naked temple rites and all I found was: 39 See page 59.
OK. I get it. A secret Kabbalistic Ritual.
Time to look into the gematria of it all. There may be a message there. For the Jews.
Don’t ignore the possibility that this is indeed some kind of false-flag group, like the “concerned conservatives” who routinely troll blog comment sections.
I hope it is a false flag op. That’s one of the reasons I put the word “conservative” in quotes.
A reprise of comments I just left here (the Christa I refer to is Christa Landon):
http://classicalvalues.com/2011/08/freedom-of-religion-applies-only-to-christians/
So Deists and Unitarians – both active in the Founding need not apply? I guess the Unitarians are especially problematic because they believe there is merit in ALL religions. A very good friend of mine is an ordained Unitarian Witch. Will the AFA be organizing a burning?
I guess a few people will have to be written out of our history:
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_unitarian.html
John Adams – Founding Father, 2nd U.S. President
John Quincy Adams – 6th U.S. President
Millard Fillmore – 13th U.S. President
William Howard Taft – 27th U.S. President
BTW I helped Christa get ordained by driving her around to give sermons at various Unitarian meetings in the Chicago area. I guess I’m up for burning too.
Here is a bit I wrote about Christa with some links:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-sale.html
She and I both studied in the school of Thelema. Her officially, me unofficially.
http://www.paganinstitute.org/PI/Fellows_biographies.shtml
Dr. Christa Heiden Landon, has practiced Paganism since 1969, was ordained a high priestess in the Pagan Way tradition in 1972, and studied Neo-Thelemic Magick with Gerry Ahrens. She earned a master’s degree in comparative religion at the University of Chicago. She studied Ritual and Spiritual direction under Robert Moore, (Jungian psychologist and one of the founders of the Men’s Movement). Christa earned her doctorate in ministry at Meadville/Lombard Theological School, the Unitarian Universalist seminary affiliated with the University of Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, SACRED COSMOS: The Implications of Ancient Pagan Traditions for Modern Liberal Theology of Nature.
Dr. Landon was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 1995 and is one of the co-founders and past board member of CUUPS, Inc. She has lectured on Paganism at Theosophical Societies, universities, academic conferences and cultural centers, and appears in a segment of “Beliefs and Believers,” a course in comparative religions often aired on public television.
-About the only thing that could sink Romney is finding out he has 6 extra wives stashed in a motel outside Provo.
-Where were the “dump McCain” and “dump Dole” conservatives when the Republicans were running these losers? I’m actually starting to like Romney.
-I have even more contempt for Unitarians than I have for committed Christians. Believing everything is the same as believing nothing. No principles, just feelgoodism. It’s a social club for leftist droolbags.
“How do you know the Unitarians are mad at you?
They burn a question mark on your lawn…”
That said, the ONLY church I will attend for anything other than weddings or funerals is the UU. (Not a Unitarian, but I like the local church.)
Not being certain about certain uncertainties is not the same as not believing.
As for that group, yes, AFAIK, they are for real. They are, in fact, part of the “base” of the GOP (as far as the media are concerned). And as far as they are concerned. They are, in fact, in some ways right that Romney’s not RIGHT enough. They are just wrong in that they are focusing on the social, not the fiscal.
Seriously, that gang are totally right-wing-nutcases. And the RNC owns them, just like the DNC owns the Occupiers. And both sides really should do some SERIOUS disowning if they want to keep the hated independents happy…
Eric – I hope it is a false flag op.
It assuredly is. The left will stoop to any level to undermine the Republican Party. They even have at least one popular right of center blog in their pay.
A little over a year ago you were kind enough to publish my rebuttal to Andrew Sullivan’s attack on certain libertarians within the Republican Party. As Romney is about to pick Paul Ryan for his VP running mate, Sullivan’s essay makes perfect sense – from his jaundiced perspective. This is what I wrote:
…The reason for taking on Ayn Rand is politically motivated, to drive a wedge of discord between the religious right, and those few libertarian/Randian influenced Republicans like Congressman Ryan and Senator Rand Paul, both of whom, by the way, are Christian. His [Sullivan’s] immediate purpose is a narrow political one – to have Ryan, Paul, and Sen. Johnson put on the defensive and booted from leadership positions. The wider goal is to drive libertarians back out of the Republican Party.
With Ryan’s pick, the party has chosen to go after Obama on philosophical grounds. It’s about time.
And ef u Andrew.
Sullivan Derangement Syndrome, SDS, is at work here. He’s right in line with this group. (Probably arranged from dirty digs in Provincetown.) GOP=Sodom & Gomorrah.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/the-gop-is-the-party-of-sodom.html
Kathy,
I have expressed similar thoughts at Libertarian Republican. – That being a cheer leader for Republicans (esp of the Pam Bondi ilk who is getting a featured spot at the convention) is ill advised. Especially so for libertarians. So far Dondero has not taken my message to heart.
If we do not call out their faults how can we extol their virtues and be believed? People do notice – from time to time.
Frank,
Sully is right for the wrong reason. The sin of Sodom was unkindness to strangers. And are we not ALL Strangers In A Strange Land?
Sully’s error is in thinking that redistribution by government can make up for hard hearts. That theft can substitute for a willingness to give.
But it is not a one sided deal – the left and right play the same game. It is not that they lack a purity of heart. It is that they are not even trying to get it.
Just to be clear –
The left thinks it can substitute government for charity.
The right thinks it can substitute government for the Head Office’s INDIVIDUAL plan for each of us.
The abrogation of Love in favor of force.
M.Simon, I turned off to politics months ago. Paul Ryan on the Romney ticket has got me interested again. I don’t hold out much hope since he would occupy a powerless position, but at least a voice of sanity and reason would be at Romney’s elbow, should that particular lying SOB get elected.