Via David Freddoso of The Corner, comes some odd statements from Mitt Romney.
First:
he says he’s going to move “In God We Trust” to the front of the new dollar coins instead of the side.
Yes, nothing screams “presidential” like micro-managing the layout of the national currency!
And then this applause line (I guess):
“I’ll make sure that our future is defined not by the letters ACLU, but by the letters USA.”
Is that, like, supposed to actually mean something?
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September 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I guess it’s supposed to mean he doesn’t want America associated with civil liberties.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
It means that Romney does not want the country to be plunged into an abyss of economic ruin, self-hate, victimization, and moral-bancruptcy that the ACLU agenda would lead to. Romney recognizes the good of the American people. Romney’s optimistic approach self accountability, reduced government, reduced taxes, strong military, strong families, etc., smacks at the “can-do” approach Americans have made famous for over 200 years. We are lucky to have a candidate of his caliber.
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Way to go! Take one sentense out of context, and say that it doesn’t make any sense!
“Republicans for Change aren’t afraid to talk about faith. We recognize the hand of the Creator in the founding of our nation. We will fight to keep the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance. Have you seen the new dollar coin? ‘In God We Trust’ has been moved. It’s not on the face of the coin anymore, it’s on the edge – virtually invisible, just like the ACLU wants Him to be. I will go to work to get God back on the front of our coin!
“I will fight to make sure our future is not defined by the letters ‘ACLU,’ but by the letters ‘USA.’
For the rest of the speech go here, to read it in context:
http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Mackinac+Republican+Leadership+Conference
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:30 am
Classic Mitt. This sort of thing is part of the reason we’ve been saying all along that he has no real chance at it.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:34 am
I often define our future. I’ll just be sitting around and decide to do some future definin’. Sometimes I define it with words, but usually with letters. Letters that stand for something. Acronyms, if you will. Nothing strange about that.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
I fear that even with the additional sentences, the whole thing makes only a tad more sense–but only a tad (it was obvious when I read the coin quote, and that was all they had at The Corner, that it was an attempt at a cheap applause line on religion).
I was unaware, btw, that the ACLU was locked in on creating economic ruin for the US. I am not sure how protecting civil liberties accomplished that feat. I have my differences with the ACLU, but please, they aren’t some bogeyman that will destroy the US. Indeed, I have more concern over politicians who ignore civil liberties than those who over-emphasize them.
I still find this to be rather “huh?!”-worthy. Beyond that, the full quote is still quite vacuous.
Sorry, but so it is.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Before reading the comments I was going to say that the Romney quote is dog whistle politics. That ‘ACLU’ equals “godless communism/socialism” and that ‘USA’ equals the Religious Right’s exclusionary vision of a “Christian America”
Then I read the comments and saw the fuller quote. I would say that it supports my assertion.
Romney is playing to the persuction complex of the R.R. and my good pal O’Reilly.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:46 am
At least we can say with confidence that the future will be defined by the letters A and U.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Sounds like an episode of Sesame Street!
September 24th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Interesting. I thought we were already going down that path.
“It means that Romney does not want the country to be plunged into an abyss of economic ruin,” see Debt, National. “self-hate,” okay, you got me there. “victimization,” see Right, Religious. “and moral-bancruptcy” see Torture.
So the concern then is about adding self-hate to the mix. If that happened then we’d REALLY be screwed.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Doh! I forgot about the Larry Craig/Mark Foley/Ted Haggard crew. We already have self-hate as well.