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“A thoughtful and fair examination of the difficulties Romney’s Mormonism may pose for some voters.”
Scripted by the Klintoon attack machine several years ago while they were preparing for the Princess of Darkness to ascend the Throne of the Styxx.
“Romney Can’t Ignore Questions About Mormonism”
I believe that he ought to hire a couple of burly guys to carry gigantic bags of the Book of Mormon and follow him about. Then, when some jackass that is more concerned about his religion than his ability or lack thereof asks yet another jackassed question about it, one of the henchmen can hand them a book.
Wonder why no one seems interested in Obama’s muslimism.
Mormonism is a huge problem with Evangelical Christians.
They have an opinion about Mormonism that cannot be changed.
Many people do not know very much about Mormonism, but what they do know is not positive.
It is not a significant factor for me, personally, but I think it brings into question the electability of a Mormon, regardless of his abilitiues and qualifications.
OTOH, it doesn’t seem to hurt Harry Reid, and it didn’t hurt Mitt’s father, successful, longtime Michigan Governor, George Romney. But times were very different.
From the article: Let's just say he didn't accept my invitation down that path. "I really don't think it's productive for me to say 'let me tell you about this doctrine or that doctrine,'" he explained. "I'm not a spokesman for my church."
OK. Every LDS is told to give a testimony of His church & prophet. Yet what does Romney give as his testimony?
"If anyone wants to know what I believe," he told me, "they can look at my family and me and our kids and make an assessment of that. But you know, if they want to learn more about doctrine, they can always contact the church."
(Ya hear that, LDS? From now on, when folks ask about your faith, just refer them to the church for the oficial, pure clarification).
But most Americans have not examined what Mormons believe, and when they do, some of them are going to recoil. It is a lot to swallow...There are a number of beliefs in Mormonism which directly contradict mainstream Christianity, and which challenge objective history. The question is: how many people will learn of these things and run in the direction of other candidates? If the answer is not many, Romney can survive. If it is more than a few, he is cooked. But one thing is for certain: he can not duck the nuts and bolts of his faith forever...I tiptoed into Mormonism and whether he needs to start talking more about it...what Mormons believe and how those beliefs might strike those considering his candidacy. I could not have been more mistaken. In a spirit of genuine admiration and even support, I ventured into my thesis that LDS beliefs are going to strike some voters as fairly peculiar, and that only he can make them comfortable. Through a clenched smile that I could hear over the phone, I learned in no uncertain terms that he has no intention of following my suggestion. That gives me enormous doubt as to his viability...
So, a "recoil" to come followed by a "boil?" Bottom-line: Candidate "viability" suffers.
But in the spirit of Mitt's latest comments that the pro-life "issue" needs to be tossed back to the states to determine a pre-born child's "viability," I guess we'll have to conclude the same status about Mitt: He's no more more "viable" to a given state until such states say He is...and if more say He's not, then the "pro-choice" states win out.
Is it a coincidence that HBO is running “Big Love” and the next new thing in the theatres will be the story of Brigham Young?