But wouldn’t it sell better as a conversion story if they kept the Hindu part? “I used to be heathen who worshiped cows! But then I Saw The Light™! And you can too, for the low, low price of your dignity!”
He’s not, though, right? He hasn’t converted. He just doesn’t want the Hinduism part widely publicized. If that means some people just naturally assume he’s “one of us”, he doesn’t mind at all and won’t go out of his way to correct them.
It’s incredibly slimy but it’s yet another confirmation these grifters totally understand the despicable nature of their support base and are willing to take full advantage of folks they clearly look down upon.
Well, that just opens up more questions, like why hasn’t he (at least pretended to) convert? It’s pretty clear he doesn’t actually take much pride in his current faith, and ostentatiously converting can only help him with his target voters. And it’s not even like it has to be sincere. Go though the motions, fake a few rousing prayers, and they’ll lap it up. Hell, get in with those Prosperity Gospel assholes, and he could probably end up on stage, on the receiving end of the grift, instead of the paying end.
Maybe because Hindus also vote, and apostates are hated much more than converts are loved.
Do you think today’s far right actually recognize (accept it happened) a conversion?
It seems to have worked for Nikki Haley.
He has just about the same chance as Haley. Slim, fat, and no.
And she was Sikh not Hindu
Not that anybody who cares about one could/would differentiate between those religions
And she married a Methodist. And converted to his religion. Converting to one’s husbands religion is much more acceptable (and kind of expected in that part of the country if you aren’t Christian to start with). Acceptable enough to make governor. As opposed to Ramaswamy who married a fellow Hindu and has his sights set much higher.
One might note that to some Christians that’s less Christian than if she was a Sikh or a Hindu!
Honestly, I think that what matters to certain Christians (and the far rightists) is how white they consider the person doing the conversion to be. For example, Obama was never Muslim, but he’s Black (although one parent is white), so those certain Cs firmly hold to the idea that he’s not Christian even though he was baptized.
Nah - the Methodists are okay. It’s the Papists who are suspect.
Who says the Republicans don’t believe in freedom?
…
Famously, [Franklin Roosevelt’s four] freedoms were the “freedom of speech and expression,” the “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” the “freedom from want” and the “freedom from fear.
…There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program.
There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles.
There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit.
There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class.
And there is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people.
…
I wonder how Norman Rockwell would immortalize those in oils.
By setting them on fire?
One clarification/addendum to the fourth: if one is a member of the elite; carrying — or being suspected of carrying — a weapon by a non-elite is a capital offense. (I know that elite membership is implicit for all four, but in this case it seems it should be explicit.)
And now this:
Republican city councilman. 
Lawyer having sex with clients.
Passed out in his car.
Crack pipe in his hand-- priceless.
Nominate that guy for President!
I am offended. The GQP would never sink that low. How dare you!!!
I suppose the next bit of slander from you would have them nominating fake doctors, quack doctors, alcoholic drug abusing doctors, CTE addled ex-football players, plumbers, GED failures, marginally intelligent ex-football coaches for Representatives and Senators. Of all the load of bull from you!!!
Uh Emily, they did all that and more.
“Never mind.”
The Republican Congressional candidate in a special election in Rhode Island appears to not actually be a person who exists.