I enjoy listening to and reading commentary by Mark Steyn. He manages to put into perspective the woes of the day and give us a grin along with the facts. The Democrats started the 'war on dogs' when they bashed Romney for letting his dog ride on a carrier on the roof of their car. Soon, it was discovered that the president had eaten dog as a child. The Democrats soon realized the conservatives were getting more laughs over this then they could appreciate. It hardly seemed the stuff of politics given the mess the United States is in right now but, as we often hear on the playground, "They started it!"
Now they are taking jabs at Romney being a Mormon. Mark Steyn, as usual, puts it all together for us in a recent column and leaves us chuckling.
Brian Schweitzer, the Democrat governor of Montana, remarked that Romney was unlikely to appeal to women because his father was "born on a polygamy commune." Eighty-six percent of women, noted Gov. Schweitzer with a keenly forensic demographic eye, are "not great fans of polygamy." You can understand the 86 percent's ickiness at the whole freaky-weirdy idea of a president descended from someone who had multiple wives. Eww.
Just for the record, Romney's father was not a polygamist; Romney's grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist. Miles Park Romney died in 1904, so one can see why this would weigh heavy on 86 percent of female voters 108 years later.
Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama's father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney's great-grandfather. It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist. So, given the "gender gap," maybe those 86 percent of American women are way cooler with polygamy than Gov. Schweitzer thinks. Maybe these liberal chicks really dig it.
I guess you could say (again!), "They started it!"
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