Comments on: Big Surprise: Romney is a bigot

By: Ex-drone

Ex-drone — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:58:00 +0000

Appointing cabinet and administration positions by proportional representation in the US population. What is that employment approach called? Non-affirmative inaction? It’s going to blow his mind when someone tells him that he can also consider intelligence, ability and job qualification when determining his appointments … or maybe he’ll just look puzzled.

By: greg laden

greg laden — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:10:55 +0000

Jeff: Exactly. Romney is right, assuming he feels the same way about all delusional prospects for cabinet positions!

By: jeffk

jeffk — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:34:42 +0000

While Romney is certainly a jackass – something about stones and glass houses here – I take issue to some extent with mixing “religion” and “bigotry”. It dissolves religion from its true definition: a set of beliefs about the world. I, for one, would like to maintain my right to judge someone for their beliefs without being a “bigot”. An example: if I think someone’s a quack for being a Scientologist, am I a “bigot”? Does Islam or Christianity have any more emprical backing?

By: MemeGene

MemeGene — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:39:22 +0000

It is such delicious irony that his main obstacle is the religious bigotry of evangelicals, the majority of the GOP.Going by the numbers then, he’d have to appoint mostly non-college educated poor people to his cabinet. On second thought…