Thursday, February 10, 2005

MORE ON THE ABBOTT FIRING. Susan Ryan-Vollmar, writing in Bay Windows, observes that Katherine Abbott is the second lesbian to be fired by Governor Mitt Romney after getting married. Ryan-Vollmar wants to know: was this about snow, or about Romney's ongoing campaign to suck up to the religious right in advance of the 2008 presidential campaign?

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Anonymous said...

Why can't it be both? Isn't that every politican's dream?

While I know nothing of the man himself, I would imagine that he personally dislikes homosexuality but no so much that he broods on it daily and it's a driving force in his decisions or anything. I suspect his public denouncement of it is about 95% politics. For example, notice how quiet Dick Cheney gets whenever Dubya starts talking about a Constitutional amendment? I suspect he hates that amendment and would love to say so, but his silence is 95% politics.

And what's all this talk about Romney running for President? It's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Okay, sure, Romney's ego - like any political figure - loves the idea. But look at history: Swift was deemed so awful by her party she wasn't even allowed to run. Weld and Celucci had to squeak like mice just to go after near-worthless ambassadorships. Not exactly a stirring precedent. Plus we're 0 for 2 in Massachusetts presidential candidates in the last 40 years, and Romney, sir, is no Jack Kennedy. :-)

If Romney ever runs he will (rightly or wrongly) never get past the label of the governor of that ultra-liberal state that saw gay marriage start on his watch. He just doesn't have the Jesusland street cred.

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