Romney's Surrender, Part Deux

In a marvelously crafted story in today's Los Angeles Times, Tim Rutten writes that Mitt Romney's speech to a hand-picked crowd in College Station on Thursday should not be compared to President Kennedy's speech to a hostile audience in Houston in 1960.

Rutten also wonders why the media didn't question why former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wasn't held to the same standard as Romney:

"One of the suspicions Romney was forced to address was the notion that, as a Mormon chief executive, he would be compelled to accept direction from his church's leaders, even if it means acting in ways contrary to the nation's interest. In other words, some ancient Mormon elder in Salt Lake City is going to pick up the telephone and order President Romney to do something kooky. Huckabee, by contrast, already believes kooky things for religious reasons -- in things like creationism, which he thinks should be taught in the public schools. Doesn't anybody thing it's worth asking whether a nation fighting to remain technologically competitive can afford a president who -- for religious reasons -- wants to encourage as many children as possible to join him in scientific illiteracy?"

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