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Some choice quotes from Mitt Romney's 'resignation' speech that you didn't get on CNN:
"The threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1960s, there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country." (Welfare is responsible for poverty? Really? Because, after all, poor people really enjoy being poor...)
"The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless. And tolerance for pornography, even celebration of it, and sexual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare, have led to today's grim realities: 68 percent of African- American kids born out of wedlock, 45 percent of Hispanic kids, 25 percent of white kids." (Pornography is the reason why kids (especially non-white ones) are born out of wedlock? Why, I never realized that! I'm going to have to burn my copy of 'The Story of O.' Quick, get me a lighter!)
"The development of a child is enhanced by having a mother and a father. Such a family is the ideal for the future of the child and for the strength of the nation. I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It's time for the people of America to fortify marriage through a constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it." (Those damned liberal judges! It's their fault that kids don't have moms and dads. I'm surprised he didn't call here for a constitutional amendment to outlaw divorce. Huckabee would have.)
"Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator: failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality." (If you don't believe in God, society falls apart. And you'd better believe in my version of God, too, damn it. And what is 'demographic disaster' code for? Not enough white people?)
"It is high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed whacker... (APPLAUSE) Get out -- get out that weed whacker and take it to regulations and reform entitlements and, by the way, stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our government." ('Cause you know damn well that it's the working stiffs and not management that causes all the problems in Corporate America.)
"I've given this a lot of thought -- I'd forestall the launch of a national campaign and, frankly, I'd make it easier for Senator Clinton or Obama to win. Frankly, in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror." (Because if we put that black guy or that woman in the White House, the terrorists will have already won. Heaven help us if we actually start talking to those who disagree with us rather than threatening them...)
Bye, Mitt. I'd say thank you for leaving, but I suspect you'd have been the easiest one to beat...
"The threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1960s, there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country." (Welfare is responsible for poverty? Really? Because, after all, poor people really enjoy being poor...)
"The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless. And tolerance for pornography, even celebration of it, and sexual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare, have led to today's grim realities: 68 percent of African- American kids born out of wedlock, 45 percent of Hispanic kids, 25 percent of white kids." (Pornography is the reason why kids (especially non-white ones) are born out of wedlock? Why, I never realized that! I'm going to have to burn my copy of 'The Story of O.' Quick, get me a lighter!)
"The development of a child is enhanced by having a mother and a father. Such a family is the ideal for the future of the child and for the strength of the nation. I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It's time for the people of America to fortify marriage through a constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it." (Those damned liberal judges! It's their fault that kids don't have moms and dads. I'm surprised he didn't call here for a constitutional amendment to outlaw divorce. Huckabee would have.)
"Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator: failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality." (If you don't believe in God, society falls apart. And you'd better believe in my version of God, too, damn it. And what is 'demographic disaster' code for? Not enough white people?)
"It is high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed whacker... (APPLAUSE) Get out -- get out that weed whacker and take it to regulations and reform entitlements and, by the way, stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our government." ('Cause you know damn well that it's the working stiffs and not management that causes all the problems in Corporate America.)
"I've given this a lot of thought -- I'd forestall the launch of a national campaign and, frankly, I'd make it easier for Senator Clinton or Obama to win. Frankly, in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror." (Because if we put that black guy or that woman in the White House, the terrorists will have already won. Heaven help us if we actually start talking to those who disagree with us rather than threatening them...)
Bye, Mitt. I'd say thank you for leaving, but I suspect you'd have been the easiest one to beat...