Haha!  You ethnic types crack me up!!  (Why did I get an earlier message that I was blocked from commenting when I visited this page?  I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!)  

the closer heXX ROMNEY gets to actually being the nominee, the more seriously voters will have to ask themselves, “ROMNEY?  REALLY? WTF?” 

There, fixed it for you.  

Yeah, my dog, Dago, pricked up his ears as soon as I opened this article!
Besides, the most attentive readers will have discerned that one particular all American, gonzo, Southern, journalist predicted the impending Santorum surge around Decomber 5th, presaging all the others by almost two months

They aren’t anti-Italian.  It’s that they hate the Papists.

You need to look at the subtext, now.

Adjoran, can you please remind us who you’re for? Because that might help to contextualize your attitudes.

 I think he’s for trash talking and attitude copping without offering any genuine alternative.

MSNBC should be calling him any day now.

Hey!  You stole my suck-up!

…Or maybe Da Tech Guy is onto something here, despite his being just another stupid dago.

This is some in-a-side-a base-a-ball-a, but: Pete is Sicilian, therefore, he is NOT Italian.

Oh please, have you ever in your life heard “I’m not voting for that guy because he’s an Italian.”?

I’ve heard it PLENTY of times for the Mormon example.
It was DRILLED into me by my Southern Baptist upbringing that Mormons are cult members.  I’m not surprised in the least that Romney performs well everywhere but the South.

Outside of Dixie and small caucses that are almost exclusively Evangelicals, Santorum gets slaughtered. 

I’m sorry but Santorum still has to prove he should be taken seriously. He has 12 weeks.

http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2012/03/should-we-start-taking-rick-santorum.html

I’m kinda digging this.  Always wanted to play identity politics (let’s face it, Ferraro was not conducive to doing this — although I probably would have picked her over ORD).  As a person who had to suffer through numerous, mind numbing Fonzi impersonations by my (non-paisan) classmates (and even a couple of teachers, even then the handwriting was on the wall with education) I have awaited the day when I could wreak some subtle, nuanced, and probably ineffectual revenge…so, cry havoc! and let slip those puppies!

 I’m resigned to Romney, and have been for a while.  You may recall I was an early Pawlenty guy, before he fizzled.  Early.  Then I had high hopes for Perry.  They didn’t have time to get very high, though. 

Cain had the resume, although I was never a fan of “999″ or any consumption tax without repeal of the 16th first, but he never really acted like a serious candidate – he’d cancel campaign events but stuck to his book tour dates in later states.  When he tried to lie his way out of the scandals, he was scratched as well.

That left Romney as the last viable candidate with some minimal qualification.  Awful campaigner, but he does know how to cut costs and lay off unneeded employees.  I see that as a useful skill for the Executive.

 If he’d let it go at that, he’d have been recognized as genius.  But when you’re breaking the Pulitzer story on Jonestown, you have to remember NOT to drink the Kool Aid.

 When I was sales manager for a small twice-weekly rural paper with a strong printing business, the owner decided to spend a bunch of money upgrading the press to get more jobs, so he hired a paper salesman to pitch our services in the region.  The guy was Italian, dressed far sharper than any of the rest of us, smooth operator but a nice guy.  After coming on board, he spent a couple weeks learning what our presses could do, then he struck out selling.

On his first day out, I was in the outer office late that afternoon when he returned.  I called out to him, “Hey, how’d your day go?”

He shot back, “Who you calling a dago?”

Ace, is that you?

We must travel in different circles. I’m LDS and on the road trip to here in Western Taxachusetts Massachusetts (a temporary relocation), I found that in general the people in various Wards were less likely to vote for Romney.

The specific reasons were varied, but boiled down to a perception that he was of a strongly statist bent. I’m not saying he does, but his actions seem to support this view.

Many older members I’ve talked with feel Romney’s statist views don’t reflect well on the Church, but the younger members don’t have that view. This is especially common among converts and their children, b/c the Church isn’t allowed to run the study groups on The Constitution, The Founding, Civics & Citizenship it developed in the late 1950s.

An example of what I’m getting at is illustrated by a pair of Missionaries who were working in our area. They thought Communism was a secular equivalent of something the Church did called “The United Order”. They thought this because they’ve not had the opportunity to read the many writings detailing the vast differences – b/c any such discussion will necessarily involve a discussion of the nature of Freedom.

In the late 1950s the Church ordered prepared, and in the 1960s using its Stakes and Wards in the U.S. ran seminars & home study on The Constitution, Civics & Citizenship. You didn’t have to be a member to attend. This was done b/c the Church states that Good Citizenship is a obligation placed on us by Heavenly Father and The Lord.

Near the end of the 1960s the Church was forced to stop these classes in American History, Civics and Citizenship by the IRS.

You have to remember, a president of our Church wrote books called “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, “An Enemy Hath Done This” (Ezra Taft Benson). His speeches and written works are replete with warnings about statism, making the point that only by teaching (and learning) about the Founding could we reverse the slide we’re in. This was in the 1960s & ’70s. One of the last General Conferences that President Benson spoke to (shortly before passing on) he gave a talk stating we (members of the Church specifically, but all Americans generally…) were in a race against time to reverse the damage done to our culture and institutions – or we would lose that most precious gift from God: our Liberty.

Another example is Skousen, a prominent member and BYU professor who chaired the creation of the study course I spoke of, doing the bulk of the research and writing himself. The book Five Thousand Year Leap (you know, the one Beck’s always referring to…) came from the condensation of the study materials after the IRS shut the study groups down.

So, my thought us that while you might have judged the situation correctly – Mormons for a Mormon – I’m not as sure the voting will break that way. I keep recalling the arguments I had w/a group of women members who were determined to vote for Prez!Stinky™ (and perhaps they did…).

Sometime, if OT, I’ll explain the “reasoning” they gave for that.