Values Voters Summit -- The Real Deal

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Eric Cantor, speaking at the Values Voters Summit in DC:
Cantor said he is concerned by the "growing mobs occupying wall street and other cities across our country," and criticized "some in this town have condoned pitting Americans against Americans."
http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-cantor-calls-occupy-wall-street-protesters-a-mob-2011-10

Eric Kantor, at a previous Values Voters Summit, on the Tea Party protesters in Washington:
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) praised the protesters from the stage for “fighting on the fighting lines of what we know is a battle for our democracy.” After his speech, he told TWI that the protests represented an “awakening in America.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/60052/mcconnell-pence-cantor-praise-tea-party-protests

Meanwhile Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress, who introduced Governor Perry spoke on religious values:
The pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffress, a senior pastor of the First Baptist Dallas megachurch, said that Mr. Romney was suspect on abortion and marriage, a conservative of convenience. Then he went on to say that it is the official view of the Southern Baptist Convention that Mormonism is a cult and that this was a factor in his decision to endorse Mr. Perry.

“Mormonism is a cult,” Dr. Jeffress said. “Mitt Romney is not a Christian. . .”

. . .He predicted that many evangelicals will tell pollsters that they don’t care about Mr. Romney’s religion, because they don’t want to appear bigoted, but in the privacy of the voting booth they will not vote for a Mormon.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/blunt-talk-about-mormonism-at-the-values-voter-summit/

On that last part I happen to agree with the pastor, for the first and probably only time.
 

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But of course the Tea Party protests were not the same thing at all. For one thing, they often waved guns about -- much more civilized.
 

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I live to serve.

It does give the thread a certain symmetry. I'm resisting, however, the urge to link to Iowa Representative Steve King's recent musings on the floor of Congress about how great things were when only male property owners could vote.