[FastCoyote]

"Newt, Mitt or Duncan is the way the GOP needs to go if they want my vote.
If conservatives don't unite behind the most electable of those three -- Mitt -- then it seems probable that we will end up with McCain or Rudy."

Except Mitt is just as unelectable because of the Mormon thing.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Except Mitt is just as unelectable because of the Mormon thing.

Yeah, that's what they said about JFK and Catholicism. Massachusetts elected Mitt Romney and Michigan elected George Romney 3 times.

Seems like plenty of Mormons are getting elected. Mormons account for 1.6% of the U.S. population, but more than 5% of elected representatives in congress.

Just a few examples:

In the House of Representatives there is Jeff Flake (AZ), John Doolittle (CA), Wally Herger (CA), Howard McKeon (CA), Ernest Istook (OK), Mike Simpson (ID), Thomas Udall (NM), Rob Bishop (UT), and Chris Cannon (UT). All, except Udall, are Republican. There are 21 Mormon members in the House of Representatives all together and 5 senators.

I would hope that our country has moved on beyond the religious bigotry that plagued JFK's run.

[George W. Bush]

Except Mitt is just as unelectable because of the Mormon thing.

I've thought about this a lot. If you aren't going to apply the same standard to all the loopy and apostate liberal churches, then why only to Mormons? Their theology is wacky but Utah is a clean state that has the most conservative legislature in the country. More defiant of the feds than almost anyone.

I'm as tough a Calvinistic Baptist as you'd find. But I'm not voting for pope. And from the standpoint of most evangelicals, Baptist and Protestant conservatives, Giuliani's liberal flavor of Catholicism is at least as distant and alien.

I'd probably be a little more comfortable with someone with an orthodox Christian background. But that won't decide my vote. I don't like Giuliani's liberal flavor of Catholicism either but that isn't why I will refuse to vote for him.