Posted by
Jason on Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:52:37 PM
As an Iowan, I had a front-row seat to the underhanded suggestions by Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign that evangelicals were supporting Gov. Mike Huckabee because we're too bigoted to support a Mormon. It's true that the evangelical vote did power Huckabee to a win in Iowa, but I have a different explanation for why we did it. Values...
There's another side of this story though that is not being told by Romney, or virtually anybody else for that matter. Romney won the Nevada Caucuses based largely on his support from Mormons in the state, who made up one out of every four Caucus attendees, and who "almost unanimously supported Mitt Romney," and accounted for "about half" of Romney's overall vote total. Were they too bigoted to vote for evangelical or protestant candidates?
Or should we prefer the way of the Democrats? Get a little diversity in the pool and then vote for the candidate whose immutable traits most resemble our own. Sen. Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary by garnering nearly half of the female vote to Barack Obama's 34% and John Edwards' 15%. Were they too bigoted to vote for male candidates?
Sen. Barack Obama will most likely win the South Carolina primary because he is currently getting support from nearly seven out of ten African-American voters to Hillary's anemic 16% and Edwards' 6%. Are they too bigoted to vote for white candidates?
All this apparenly has lead black women to quite a quandry... Do they trust the prejudice telling them to vote against a man or against a white?
I hope you're picking up on my sarcasm. This is not bigotry, but a natural human tendency. Though the Democrats are increasinly voting by race and gender, at least Republicans are still judging candidates by character and values rather than immutable genetic traits.
Huckabee earned my vote because he was the only candidate that is trustworthy on right-to-life and traditional-family issues, not because of some anti-Mormon "bigotry." And any "analyst" who thinks he or she knows my thoughts and motivations better than I do is simply full of crap...
For this and other commentaries, please go to www.BoldColorConservative.com