Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Florida Panhandle Conservatives Slowly Warm To Romney

All Things Considered:
"We have a responsibility if we want to keep God as Lord in America to go to the polls and do that dirty word: vote," said speaker Frank Lay, a retired principal.
Lay says he will be voting for Romney, if not enthusiastically. "There was some stronger candidates, if you will," Lay says. "He wasn't mine. But he is now."
It's a common sentiment.
"Well, he was not my first choice," says Chrys Holley, 82. She voted for Santorum in the primary, but she says she will support Romney now and hope for the best. "He professes to be a Christian, and Christians are supposed to put God first no matter what."
Romney's Mormon faith has been a sticking point for some evangelical voters, but Holley says not for her.
Not for Lonnie Hawkins, either. He's an accountant in the Pensacola public defenders' office. Hawkins still prefers Gingrich, but he says he has no choice but to vote for Romney. He believes, incorrectly, that President Obama is Muslim.
"Would you prefer a Mormon or a Muslim?" he says. "You've got two M's to choose from."
You have to be kidding me.  Muslim?  Even if it were remotely near the truth, what would be the big deal?  It just floors me how crazy people are.  There's plenty more lunacy expressed in that link.  So we've got six more months of this stuff to hear?  I don't know that I'm going to make it.

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