The Reality, Not the Image Crafted Carefully by His Critics
The thing that’s keeping Barack Obama in the race despite his miserable performance on both economic policy and foreign policy, despite Obamacare, despite his attempts to control the means of production, despite his contempt for religious liberty, and despite his disdain for ordinary Americans, is Governor Romney’s entirely unwarranted negative public image as a person.
It is wholly false and unjustified, and those who want to defeat Barack Obama in November had better do everything they can to change it.
The social media offer a painless and inexpensive way to do that, if enough people will get involved.
This is hardly the first time a Mormon has argued that Mitt is a good person simply because he is a father. Dan Peterson is using this tactic the same way he tried to vindicate Schryver of all charges against him, simply because he saw no evidence that Schryver was a horrible father/husband. I've made a case against Romney numerous times on Facebook, at which point various Mormons would interject with the common retort, "but he has such a beautiful family."
This response is troubling for the simple fact that it implies that President Obama's family is somehow inferior to Romney's.
Could it be an underlying racist mindset that drives these kinds of responses? I mean why point to Romney's family all the time as a good reason to think he is a good person, when President Obama has a beautiful family just the same? Unless of course you think Obama's family is in some way inferior, the same way the second Mormon prophet believed that black families were , "black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, sad, low in their habits, wild, and seemingly without the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind."
Of course the huge difference between the evil images of Romney and Obama is that the former is derived straight from Romney's own hideous and idiotic statements that were properly understood in their full contexts. The latter, the evil image of Obama as a man who cares nothing for Americans, is derived strictly from baseless psycho-analyses offered by the Right Wing blogosphere, talk radio, etc. Opinion/propaganda forums that rank in quality the same way Walter Martin and Ed Decker would rank as informed spokespersons on Mormonism.
Of course, as it is with virtually all matters dear to Dan's heart, he is completely incapable of making an intelligent argument. So as it is with his apologetics, he feels the best move here is to just lie about all this and hope people will just follow along and take for granted what he says. After all, he's done nothing but assert here. He doesn't debate the points. He is too much of a coward for that. His delusions of grandeur leave him to commenting in venues where he is above reproach. Comments are not permitted. Feedback is unwelcome.