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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 01:55 PM Apr 2012

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Mormonism off limits

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74831.html

By DARIUS DIXON | 4/4/12 11:42 AM EDT

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired back Wednesday at Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s claim that Democrats would attack Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith in the fall election, saying the charge was “nonsense” and that the issue of religion was off-limits.

“That is just preposterous,” the Florida Democrat, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing when asked about Hatch’s comments at a campaign stop in Utah.

“That suggestion is utter nonsense. Let’s remember that President Obama has had so many things hurled at him – birth certificate questions, whether he is or is not a Christian,” Wasserman said. “For them to suggest that religion will be injected [into the election] by President Obama and the Democratic Party, I mean, I think they need to take a look inward at the accusations that their party and their supporters have hurled before they take that step.”

On Tuesday, Hatch, a six-term Utah Republican and a Mormon, told a group of GOP delegates: “You watch, they’re going to throw the Mormon church at him like you can’t believe.”


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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Mormonism off limits (Original Post) cbayer Apr 2012 OP
It's not off limits to me CanonRay Apr 2012 #1
I would appreciate if they stick to the issues though. Lost-in-FL Apr 2012 #11
I agree get the red out Apr 2012 #12
They should. GodlessBiker Apr 2012 #2
Once he brings up religion Angry Dragon Apr 2012 #3
We won't have to throw the sharp_stick Apr 2012 #4
I think President Obama has many things to use against Romney, and religion certainly won't be teddy51 Apr 2012 #5
Agree. I am glad that the DNC and Obama will take the high road here and cbayer Apr 2012 #9
Confirmed today by Obama cbayer Apr 2012 #6
Hay Debbie, rawtribe Apr 2012 #7
I don't think that this would mean that Obama could not or would not take cbayer Apr 2012 #10
Yet Ann Creature says the prez daughters are fair game? Rambis Apr 2012 #8
Ann Coulter isn't the head of the RNC RZM Apr 2012 #14
Democrats aren't allowed to mention Religion get the red out Apr 2012 #13
Wold it be OK to just mention that safeinOhio Apr 2012 #15
how much mormon money is going be laundered into Mitt's campaign...like with Prop H8 nt msongs Apr 2012 #16
I read that as "moron money"... Lost-in-FL Apr 2012 #18
Once again the Democrats bring a knife to a gun fight tularetom Apr 2012 #17
I find it unlikely that Howard Dean would have taken a different stance here RZM Apr 2012 #19
Absolutely right. Does anybody here remember Bill Clinton? onager Apr 2012 #24
I heartedly endorse Hatch bringing up Mormonism again and again and again. theaocp Apr 2012 #20
I'm with you. trotsky Apr 2012 #26
We always manage to hold ourselves to a higher standard. aaaaaa5a Apr 2012 #21
Me, too. I don't want to use their tactics. cbayer Apr 2012 #22
And until we are willing to recognize the successes in their tactics, and counter them properly, darkstar3 Apr 2012 #25
In the same statement, Hatch swore that the republicans would not use Obama's Muslim religion ... Jim__ Apr 2012 #23
yes we should completely avoid talking about the ridiculous beliefs held Warren Stupidity Apr 2012 #27

CanonRay

(14,111 posts)
1. It's not off limits to me
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 01:58 PM
Apr 2012

when Mitt has 100,000 Mormons out it Utah making calls and getting donations, she'll be sorry. Remember what they did with Prop 8. This will be a religious crusade.

Lost-in-FL

(7,093 posts)
11. I would appreciate if they stick to the issues though.
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:14 PM
Apr 2012


I know the feeling but, Democrats ought to show who's the adult person in the race.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
12. I agree
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:14 PM
Apr 2012

Democrats get hog tied by Republicans demanding and getting it both ways when it comes to religion. They used certain churches as untaxable PACs, openly plan to push their religious views on all of us through laws and THEIR very activist judges in the courts, but those nasty Democrats be warned; you heathens must never touch a Republican's religion.

I'm disgusted by the entire sick marriage of extremist denominations and the Republican Party; yes they are a minority overall, but YES the fuckers nearly always get their way.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
4. We won't have to throw the
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:03 PM
Apr 2012

magic underwear gang back at Rmoney, the pukes are already doing a fine job of that themselves.

 

teddy51

(3,491 posts)
5. I think President Obama has many things to use against Romney, and religion certainly won't be
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:05 PM
Apr 2012

one of them. First of all, that is far below the President to use something like that. The Repugs. would not think twice, however.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
9. Agree. I am glad that the DNC and Obama will take the high road here and
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:11 PM
Apr 2012

I expected nothing less.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
10. I don't think that this would mean that Obama could not or would not take
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:14 PM
Apr 2012

a strong stance against egregious positions held by any particular institutions or individuals, but I share your anger over the Mormon church's role in the Prop 8 debacle.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
8. Yet Ann Creature says the prez daughters are fair game?
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:08 PM
Apr 2012

I think a religion with magic underwear, hand signals, seeing stones in hats, the garden of eden being in Missouri is relevant because it goes to the question of your sanity. I don't see what the Obama children have to do with anything?

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
14. Ann Coulter isn't the head of the RNC
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:21 PM
Apr 2012

I highly doubt the Prince of Preibus would dream of saying that the Obama daughters are fair game.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
13. Democrats aren't allowed to mention Religion
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:16 PM
Apr 2012

Republicans discuss nothing but religion and how their discussion of it makes them better than Democrats.

We have a totally screwed up political system, but it works for our corporate rulers very well.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
17. Once again the Democrats bring a knife to a gun fight
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:29 PM
Apr 2012

Wasserman Schultz IMO is a lousy DNC chair. She is the same individual who threw the unfortunately named Anthony Weiner overboard before he even confessed. She wants to prevent the president from speaking the truth, knowing that the Mormon Church has no intention of keeping religion out of this election.

We can expect an army of creepy looking young kids riding bicycles in every corner of the US dressed in white shirts, black pants and a black tie passing out Romney propaganda while Obama spends the entire campaign on the defensive against all the bullshit they throw at him.

Jesus, where the fuck is Howard Dean when you need him? If I had the $ I'd start a PAC to do everything that Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the party wasn't gonna do. And the best part is they couldn't stop me.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
19. I find it unlikely that Howard Dean would have taken a different stance here
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:39 PM
Apr 2012

Do you really think he would criticize Romney over his Mormonism? I doubt that very much. He probably won't do so now and he's not even DNC chair anymore.

onager

(9,356 posts)
24. Absolutely right. Does anybody here remember Bill Clinton?
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 08:00 PM
Apr 2012

Democrats always "take the high road," and that's exactly why we keep getting our asses handed to us.

Screw the high road. At some point, you need people willing to get down to the same level as the GOP guttersnipes and kick the shit out of 'em.

Trust me, the element of surprise would be on our side. Since the Dems have rolled over more often than Snooki at a Jersey beach party.

Way back in 1998, when "Monica-gate" was at its most frenzied, Bob Mulholland was an advisor to the California Democrats.

Mulholland came up with a great strategy - he was going to start digging into Repubs' personal lives with the same microscopic intensity they were applying to Clinton.

He was immediate attacked by the DNC. With the usual "high road" bushwah. And the DNC demanded that Mulholland apologize to any sensitive souls he might have offended...in the frigging GOP!!!

Mulholland refused to apologize.

Then he said this, which should be carved above the doors of every Democratic headquarters in the nation:

"As one who served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne and was wounded during the Tet Offensive, I learned that if someone is shooting at you, you shoot back."

theaocp

(4,243 posts)
20. I heartedly endorse Hatch bringing up Mormonism again and again and again.
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 03:00 PM
Apr 2012

Obama can just say nothing and the country can decide if they support Mormonism or not. Clowns.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
26. I'm with you.
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 07:19 AM
Apr 2012

Let Hatch and the GOP keep bringing it up. Mormonism is still viewed as a strange religion, even a cult, by much of the country - including the huge portion of Republican supporters known as evangelicals and fundamentalists. We don't have to say a thing - their minds are already made up.

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
21. We always manage to hold ourselves to a higher standard.
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 04:56 PM
Apr 2012

I guess for better or worse this why I'm on THIS SIDE.

darkstar3

(8,763 posts)
25. And until we are willing to recognize the successes in their tactics, and counter them properly,
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 10:14 PM
Apr 2012

we'll keep seeing the center move to the right.

Jim__

(14,082 posts)
23. In the same statement, Hatch swore that the republicans would not use Obama's Muslim religion ...
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 07:40 PM
Apr 2012

... against him.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
27. yes we should completely avoid talking about the ridiculous beliefs held
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 09:49 AM
Apr 2012

by people claiming the right to rule the planet.

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