Do you care more about your honor, or your party?
Let us assume that any given conservative you hear from sincerely believes that the move by the Obama administration to change the rules of insurance is about freedom of religion, not access to Birth Control. Let us assume that such an individual has spoken up prominently about it.
Rush Limbaugh spoke to it as a matter of birth control. Even if you, as a conservative, do not agree with Limbaugh, if you spoke up about the 'freedom of religion' issue, you have a moral obligation to condemn him with just as much fervor as you spoke in defense of 'religion'...unless you secretly agree with Rush Limbaugh. To me, there is no other assumption I can make.
Rush Limbaugh is the keeper of orthodoxy for the Republican Party. He, like Grover Norquist, forces Republican leaders to shift ever farther to the right. If like that, or secretly like that, this is fine, but there comes a point where you must speak up or lose any honor you may have.
Make no mistake, when a liberal, or a democrat (and I no longer even call myself that because of the abomination that was SOPA) does something wrong, especially THIS wrong, I speak up against it.
I have alluded that Mitt Romney does have core values...that they are the values of the LDS church and that he feels it is his moral and spiritual obligation to increase the prominence of his faith (and in the process increase the righteousness in his view of the nation) by being the first LDS president.
There is a well known story in the LDS church, where Joseph Smith, wrongfully arrested and placed in a jail, was sit to forced to sit and listen to a foul mouthed jailer, who insulted them, their wives, their daughters, and their faith. Finally, Joseph Smith could stand no more, and stood, clothed in radiance and majesty of the victim and said, "SILENCE, ye fiends of the infernal pit. … Cease such talk, or you or I die THIS INSTANT!"
The guard shut up.
A man, a real man, stands up against what is evil. A man, a real man, does not let a woman who wants to testify about the need for birth control pills for her gay room mate for health issues that have nothing to do with birth control, and Rush Limbaugh calls her a slut, saying tax payer funds (not insurance funds) would 'pay her to have sex' he is not only lying, but he is being a right bastard.
So in the one area that he cares about, his real values, Willard says the following: "“I'll just say this which is it’s not the language I would have used," Romney said. "I’m focusing on the issues I think are significant in the country today and that’s why I’m here talking about jobs and Ohio.”
Infernal pit...vs...'not the language I would have used.'
One of my favorite versus in the New Testament is as follows: Joshua 24: 15 "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
If you are going to put yourself up as a moral example, one of the most important duties of the president, and the best you can do to condemn this evil act by Rush is I would have used different language..." is a moral failure at best.
