Dump Rominee

DUMP ROMinee: Why Tampa's Republican Delegates must Dump Romney to Defeat Obama, is based on a memo going to GOP delegates and officials of the August, 2012 Republican National Convention. Given a weak incumbent and economy, it argues that Romney ought to be ahead in the race for the White House, yet he's losing to President Obama by a projected 332-206 votes in the Electoral College, according to RealClearPolitics.com. Meanwhile, New York Times political analyst Nate Silver rates Romney's odds of victory at around 23%. The book contends that no delegates are actually "bound" to vote for Romney, that all are free to "conscientiously abstain" on the all-important first ballot and that to win the White House and toss-up Senate seats, Tampa's conventioneers must exercise their "small-r" republican rights to dump the frontrunner for a better GOP ticket leader. "DUMP ROMinee," also argues that conventioneers must avoid Romney because much worse is ahead: If Romney heads the GOP ticket, crucial swing state voters will almost certainly reject him as they come to learn about his Mormon dogmas and personal history - and what they mean for explosive issues of race, religion and sexuality. Citing a June Gallup poll which indicates 18% of Americans won't vote for a Mormon, the book says, "No mere adherent, Romney presided as the LDS equivalent of Boston's Cardinal Law. In 2008, Obama had his Jeremiah Wright problem; in 2012, Mormon Bishop Romney is Jeremiah Wright." More excerpts: -"Few Tampa delegates have had any disclosure on the racially-toxic [Book of Mormon] texts to which Willard M. Romney is tied - and which he has yet to repudiate; same with the anti-Semitic writings." -"Can there be any real doubt that the fascinating metaphysics of Mitt's Mormonism - which belligerently declares all other faiths to be "ABOMINATIONS" - will soon find wide distribution in Bible Belt areas of FL, VA, IA and MO?" - "Who seriously harbors any doubt that Romney's exotic beliefs - e.g., that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, that Jesus is Satan's brother, that God the Father physically and sexually penetrated the Virgin Mary, that each of us can become gods - will get spun this fall as those of a religious whack-o?" - "Who seriously imagines that Romney's creeper roots - naked temple rites and all - won't soon be subject to blistering heat?" -Romney is " 'America's Founding Father of Gay Marriage, ' the reason Obama could safely come out" for same-sex marriage along with, it is expected, the Democratic National Platform at the DNC convention in Raleigh, NC. The book claims that Romney - supporting gays in the military, gay adoption and gay youth pride proclamations for years - brought about the USA's first same-sex weddings as governor of Massachusetts in 2004. That act, the book contends, was likely with an eye to a U.S. Supreme Court dissent by Justice Scalia shortly beforehand which argued that if laws impeding homosexuality should fall, so too must those against bigamy/polygamy. The book argues that "Historic Mormon doctrines and practices of systemic adultery, 'spiritual wifery, ' polygamous 'plural marriage, ' [and] child brides" help explain Romney's "hostility to hetero-monogamy." The book says "Romney has even ripped the Boy Scouts for their prudent good sense on homo/bisex Scoutmasters." Researched and written by a subcommittee of the group Jews and Christians Together, edited by Sara and David Bethel, the book aims "to provide thoughtful, responsible and dutiful GOP delegates with a pathway out of their and our nation's current, fatal problem, that the Republican Party is on the brink of nominating sure loser," said Steve Baldwin, a substantial contributor to the book, a former Republican Whip of the California State Assembly and former Executive Director of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerhouse Washington-based conservative organization.