While the right-wing nutjobs in this forum rend their garments and rip at their hair, I thought I'd sit back and ponder this election a bit.
Like the election 4 years ago, the Republicans have pushed the whole "family values" (code for christian rule) so hard that it has to have alienated a number of voters. But it isn't like Obama isn't religious, and he's certainly tried playing the god card a few times.
So why is it that romney, and the republicans are so frightening to "moderates" (and yes, the concept of strongly religious people dictating the policy of a country IS frightening when it isn't your religion)? I still don't know why it is that Obama gets a pass (even from me) when he goes off mentioning god, but it sets my nerves on edge when a republican politician does it. Possibly not a logical response.
But that got me thinking about my work, and about my coworkers, I mean president of the USA is a job right? I go to work every day and I've only on rare occasions had co-workers feel the need to mention their god, or any god. And it has NEVER been required in the course of work. When we discuss the commissioning plan, or validation activities for some pharma processes, no one says "well, god willing, we can succeed" or "I'm going to validate this the way god would want it validated" or any other bs like that.
I don't know why the political candidates feel like they need to invoke some god in everything they do in their job.
