We don’t know where they went. But the absence of archeological evidence doesn’t prove they didn’t exist.
My own conviction that the Book of Mormon is what Joseph Smith says it was rests on spiritual experiences, mostly, and — as one who makes a living writing — on my certainty that a twenty-something, partially educated, farm boy couldn’t have written it.
We don’t know where they went. But the absence of archeological evidence doesn’t prove they didn’t exist.Hmmm. Pardon me, lady lawyer, but that's pretty lame. But I guess you have to have some way of getting past that obstacle, in order to fit in with your society and hang out with your friends. I'm cool with that. Just be aware, that is an extremely uneducated answer. That doesn't mean you are uneducated. You could have a Phd in rocket science and still choose to take on a very uneducated point of view on a particular subject.
Anyway, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. If I didn't respect your intelligence I wouldn't have brought it up at all.
And as for Romney, if he beats Fred in the primary (which I find an unlikely scenario, I think Fred is going to sweep the nomination) I will definitely be voting for him and maybe even campaigning for him in the general election.
I think Romney is turning out to be an excellent campaigner with great wit and courage against the RAT media slander machine.
Here is an interesting story of how Mormons are traveling south of the border, to Mexico, to search for evidence of the Book of Mormon.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/190030.php