Watch Willard try to pander to the Quiverfull loons, and botch it:

Outside, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who is Mormon, waxed biblical on the value of children, attempting to quote the Old Testament.

"As it says in the Book of Psalms, what is it?," he asked. "A hundred and twenty-six. Where did, I think it's the 126 chapter of Psalms, it says effectively this ... I'll be loose ..."

Someone in the crowd corrected him.

"One twenty-seven! I was only one off. A hundred and twenty-seven chapter of Psalms [Psalms 127:5], it says, 'Children are an inheritance of the Lord, happy is he who hath his quiver full of them.' "

Romney quickly moved on.

Jeebus, Willard, I thought a multi-millionare hot-shot consultant would be able to hire staff who'd get the Bible verses right, deep in Christianist territory, but apparently not.

[Sorry, Seamus.]

Never mind that (apparently) it's not illegal to ask somebody to have sex*, even in the airport men's rooms of The Land Of Luther.**

And never mind that Craig apparently thinks--or at least says***--that being gay is like being a Communist or an ACLU member: You can tear up your membership card and regain your standing among the decent people, maybe with a little rehab (see Haggard 6:9).

And never mind that operatives like Craig who make a good living preaching and peddling hate to the gullible and the lost have a curious tendency to practice in private exactly what they excoriate in public. I suppose that adds to the thrill of it all. ("It's the abuse of power, stupid!")

And never mind the glee we all feel--all thinking people must feel--watching the wingers scuttle for cover.

Such, such are the joys of your typical Conservative Himbo eruption. Personally, I don't care about any of it. Vitter can pay to have his diaper put and taken off, Craig can assume his "wide stance," Barney can put his rawther ill-chosen friends up in his home. Who cares? At this point in my life, I can really live without knowing about people's sex lives, and especially the sex lives of politicians.**** Prurience is for bored teens, or bored consumers on line at the supermarket, or bored courtiers in Versailles on the Potomac.

But, touchingly, Willard Mitt Romney does care, and in a way that unfits him for the high office he seeks. After showing his charity by precipitously dumping the extremely not-gay Craig from his campaign, Romney gives us this:  Read more…