Being a politician is, by itself, sufficient reason to trash anyone, and today it’s Lucky Mitt’s turn to be round-filed on IslamaNazi. One a week until I get tired of it.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t start off with a persons religion unless they were Islamic, but, sorry, Mormonism is wierd. The stuff adherents of this faith are expected to swallow whole are so far beyond reasonable that Mormons might as well believe that God is a green space monkey. I know that’s going to upset Mormons, but come on, there’s limits. Every religion is based on the supernatural, which in turn is entirely a mix of superstition and blind faith, but the Book of Mormon distorts history and reality so badly that it leaves the atmosphere and keeps right on soaring outward past Saturn.

All that said, Mitt Romney is a devout Mormon. I mean, HE BELIEVES! Here we have someone who wants to be our president at the same time he wants to convert the world to Mormonism. He spent two and a half years in France trying to convert the French! How’s that for balls? Remind you of Jehovahs Witnesses, who come banging on your door to tell you that your religion is crap and only theirs is any good, the rude, arrogant, thoughtless, intrusive jerks?

He confronted concerns about his Mormon faith by declaring that Jesus is his savior and that he wants to nourish the role of religion in public life. Mitt might not be able to handle the Separation of Church and State that is required by our Constitution and we need a return to our Constitution, not a continued move away from it. We need religious freedom. We don’t need one particular religion crammed down our throats.

Religious faith or the lack of it has nothing to do with being qualified for the Presidency. The level at which it dominates a persons life, does.

Mitt Romney is a highly qualified and capable business executive who graduated in the top 5% of his class. He’s made a huge fortune for himself by reorganizing companies and making them more efficient including laying off employees, cutting wages and slashing benefits.

He’s an odd mix of rich, sheltered and aloof combined with moments of true compassion, such as when he and his sons used jet skis to pull a family and their dog out of Lake Winnipesaukee, or when a business partner called to say his teenage daughter had gone missing in New York City after a concert and Romney shut down the company, gathered as many partners and employees as he could and raced to join the search.

On the other hand, when a State Police trooper on his protective detail shortsheeted Romney’s bed in a Florida hotel, as a joke, Mitt grabbed a piece of hotel stationery, typed a note to himself from a fake hotel manager and said the room’s maid had been fired for the linen mishap. Then the governor made sure the note leaked to the trooper.

The trooper found out the note was fake, but what if he hadn’t and carried that guilt for life? For a joke pay-back, it was a cruel one. A small thing perhaps, but telling of Mitts personality. While governor of Massachusetts, he showed a relentless focus on control. His staff even put up velvet ropes wherever he went, separating him from reporters and the public. This is not a man of the people. This is an aloof man with a powerful belief in his own superiority.

As a politician, “on everything from guns and the NRA, abortion rights and emergency contraceptives to gay rights and pardons, this man has flip-flopped so much in recent years that he makes John Kerry look like the model of consistency. No other presidential candidate in recent times from any political party has reversed or backtracked on issue after issue as much as he has.”

This is the behavior of a politician, not a leader. Mitt Romney has told the people not what he believed or felt was right, but what he thought would get him elected. We’re going to need a leader who will stand up for America and make choices to protect America that will upset a lot of powerful people. Can a flip-flopper like Mitt be trusted to do this or stand firm on commitments?

Mitt has fine suits, a handome face and nice greying temples. The picture of success.

“He’s a well respected man about town, doing the best things so conservedly.” The Kinks, 1965.

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