Romney officially joins the religious right
by digby
This is sickening:
He’s going all in with the crackpot Christian right. I guess we should have expected it. These guys don’t do this for nothing:
Mitt Romney took time on Thursday during a trip to Denver to meet with a group of well-known social conservatives, including Gary Bauer, James Dobson and others, POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin reports.
The group assured Romney they are firmly behind him, according to a source familiar with the conservation.
The meeting took place roughly two weeks after a group of social conservatives, including Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, urged Romney to pick a running mate who’s staunchly anti-abortion.
That’s really revealing considering Romney’s own reversals on the issue. It just proves what whores for power they really are.
There is another motive which, for some reason, is only being reported by one intrepid journalist, Adele Stan at Alternet:
The boyish contours of his face now marked with the occasional line, Reed, at 51, still conveys a youthful vigor, fit and trim in a well-tailored dark suit, his full head of hair brushed neatly back to display a smooth forehead. Taking no small measure of credit for the triumph of Walker and Kleefisch, Reed boasts of the 600,000 voter contacts he says his organization made to get conservative Wisconsinites to the polls on June 5. Later that evening, Reed will present to Kleefisch, who is billed as Wisconsin’s answer to Sarah Palin, FFC’s Courage in Leadership Award. (Kleefisch will also accept the same award for Walker, who did not attend.)
If you like what happened in Wisconsin, Reed implies, you’re going to love the 2012 presidential race, when FFC reaches out to 27.1 million conservative voters; he promises that FFC will contact each of them between seven to 12 times to either get them to the polls, or better yet, vote early in states that permit it. Consider it payback, if you will, for the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
Maybe this is hype. But I wouldn’t bet on it. These people have been developing their network for decades and if they put some real money behind it, which they will — politics is swimming in millions of dollars of the one percent’s tip money — and with the validation of the Dobsons’ and Perkins’ they can probably activate these voters. Politics for these people (most people) is tribal. They’ll do it out of loyalty and hate, even if they don’t love the candidate.
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