Mitt Romney and Joe Biden - the past and the present

Posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 at 10:06 AM

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We are living in two different Americas.

Last week Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stayed stonily silent through a relentless and bigoted campaign that was waged against his only gay staff member by the hard right.

Isolated, and undefended by Romney's campaign, the staffer resigned. Richard Grenell, Romney's pick to be his campaign’s national security and foreign policy spokesman, said the nonstop drumbeat from social conservatives over his sexuality diminished his ability to do his job.

Romney has in the past indirectly criticized the 'poisonous language' of the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, the notorious hard right homophobe who made the loudest calls for Grenell's firing, but presidential candidate Romney quietly presented Fischer with Grenell's scalp without a word.

The take away is quite clear: we can vote for Romney, a GOP candidate who looks and acts like he was preserved in amber in 1950, kitted out with all the backward, prejudiced social and political outlooks of that faraway time - or we can acknowledge that we live in the 21 century and that Americans, all Americans, deserve the respect and rights that the U. S. Constitution affords us.

In stark contrast yesterday the Vice President of the United States Joe Biden made clear his belief that both heterosexual and gay couples should be treated equally by the law in the Unites States.

The decision makes itself, really. The GOP are marching in lockstep into the past.

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NYCsheridan | May 14, 2012, 12:57 PM EDT

The more I see of Romney, the less I like.

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McNamara31 | May 08, 2012, 12:02 PM EDT

Mitt Romney is a business man first and foremost. He approaches every question and every subject with one question… what is the best answer to give to advance my next career goal...president. Anyone who reads Romney’s past, quickly realizes it’s not an ethical or even a political center within him; it’s a pure business model about what needs to be done to achieve his nest objective. He literally bought the GOP primary and is an example of what we will continually see unless we limit the amount of money these candidates and their super pac’s can spend.

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eiriamach | May 07, 2012, 07:41 PM EDT

Romany has lost Hispanics on immigration reform issues, women on health care reform issues, minorities and the unemployed on the GOP's anti-voter- registration moves, and young voters on Romney's cop-out over Grenell. Who's left to vote for him? White hetero males, aged 56-106. Maybe.

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