Obligatory post about Romney's horrible speech

The transcript of Romney's speech isn't all that long, and I think people who want to talk about it should read the whole thing. ( A few excerpts for those who want them )

You can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me.

The first horrible thing here is the implied equivalence between "a believer in religious freedom" and "any person who has knelt in prayer". I view those things as basically unrelated: a person can be either without the other, both, or neither.

Whoever they are, those people get their friend and ally. And the rest of us? Plausibly not mentioned, we're left to decide what the silence means:

• "Fuck off and die"?
• "The three or four nonbelievers in the country probably can't swing this vote anyway"?
• "Right now I'm calming down the religious right, so with all due respect, I'll talk to you guys later"?

I'm getting pretty tempted to register Republican for this election, so I can vote in the primaries.