Divide and conquer.
They are trying to get the Christians to mix it up with Romney so that they can call them bigots.
Because people think Mormons are weirdos.
Harry Reid is also a Mormon. There's hardly a peep about his religion from the MSM.
I'd rather my President had SOME real faith rather than a faking, teary-eyed dude with a Bible. I would also prefer his middle-name NOT be Hussein.
I'm no Romney fan but it is a good question. Frankly I would love to hear what Harry Reid has to say about it.
Because a Mormom President is something that's never happened before. And little is known about them among the Washington Press Corps.
After Jimmy Carter was elected, there was a silly sitcom called "Carter Country" due to curiousity about southern life during the 1970's. If Romney is elected, will there be a sitcom about Mormon life?
I think part of it has to do with the recent history of the Mormons. Their founder is part of recent US history, claimed an archangel directed him.
Mormons say Indians are a lost tribe of Israelis, DNA results notwithstanding, blacks can make into heaven as slaves and of course there is the holy undies.
But my biggest concern in my travels to Salt Lake City is the lack of a sense of humor in them. They are polite people but there's this weird lack of humor.
Romney sounds like a fine executive and deserves a hearing on his own merits, holy underwear and/or hand grenade notwithstanding.
MSM can say "Will Mormon faith hurt bid for White House?", but they can NOT say "Muslim crazy kills 5 in Salt Lake City".
Somebody explain it to me, please.
Will Hillary's Marxist faith hurt her chances for the White House?
The Democrats have abandoned the Constitution as to resistive and since it prohibits religous tests, they wish to impose the same through fear and prejudice.
A few Question(s) that is somewhat related to this topic:
If memory serves, the candidate that wins the NH primary usually doesn't go on to win the nomination--something of a kiss of death. Anyone have any stats on this, I can't seem to find them?
Further, could the nomination hinge on the South Carolina primary? I don't know how optimistic I would be about Romney or Ms. Guliani winning that primary, so could this leave the door open for guys like Hunter or (God forbid!) McCain?
Personally I don't think many conservative evangelical christians resent or are nervous about Romney's Mormon faith. I think for the most part it's the drive by media trying to brow-beat conservatives with the mormon thing. According to an article I read in National Review Romney invited alot of the evangelical christian leaders up to MAssachusetts to chat with him and most of the leaders came away with a very favorable opinion of him. There are of course exceptions and conservatives christians like myself have serious theological disagreements with Mormon theology but I would vote for him if he gets the nomination. Given his poll numbers he really needs to pick it up a bit escpacially when they start having debates in the spring.
The smart thing for Romney to do right now is to issue a 'no comment' to any questions about his religion.
Indeed, notice that all the media reporting about potential GOP candidates is designed to disqualify him -- McCain's temper, Romney's faith, Rudy's personal stance on abortion and gay marriage, Hunter's unelectability.
They're trying to make it impossible for the GOP voters to get behind any one candidate.
Because the libs hate religious people.
While I think Mormon theology has some really strange aspects, I personally don't have a 'problem' with Mormons.
Having said that, there are a lot of conservative Christians who more or less view Mormonism as a non-Christian cult, so I would guess more than a few GOP primary voters in key states, like SC, might hold it against Romney.
My own problem with Mitt Romney so far isn't his faith, but his name. I'm not sure I want a president named "Mitt". George, James, Thomas, John, Andrew, William....Mitt. It just doesn't fit. "Mitt" sounds like "Biff" or "Skippy".
Ok, perhaps this is the way it goes. It does not have to do with Mitt's faith, because if it did, the media would be all over Harry Reid whose been a Mormon for a long time. So apparantly its ok to be a Democratic Mormon, just not a Republican one.
Because it's a really weird "faith". If I were opposing him in an election I would just buy airtime and run the hilarious South Park episode which savages Mormonism and its charlatan founder, Smith. Then at the end say "By the way, Mitt Romney believes all this". That would be about all Hillary would need to torpedo him.
Romney has no chance of being President. Nor Giuliani. Nor Hunter or Tancredo. Nor Senator BrownEye. Looking pretty grim unless Chuck Norris is ready to give it a go.
Part of the Dem/MSM whack-a-mole strategy of destroying Rep hopefuls for the Presidency until none are left unsullied. The sooner you do it, the better.