Posted on 04/06/2009 12:41:04 PM PDT by mnehring
OREM, Utah -- Kirk Jowers has an answer for whether Mitt Romney's presidential bid was lost because of Mormonism:
"I can unequivocally tell you that the answer is 'yes, no and maybe.'"
owers' comment elicited laughter at the "Mormonism in the Public Mind" conference on Friday, April 3, at Utah Valley University. He is director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah and associate director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs.
According to Jowers, in October 2007 many pundits were saying Romney was on his way to winning. He had focused on the early primaries and was overcoming the deficit of name recognition between him and John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. "It looked like he might actually run the table," Jowers said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Fine. I'm still curious about the Mormon view on individual Muslims vis-a-vis their view on Islam.
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There was a time your were selling Mitt as the aspects” you now seem to want to acknowledge to bolter your “it's the anti Mormons fault” argument...
I think I can figure out non sequitur. Can you break down the rest of what you wrote in standard English?
Yes, exactly. And it didn’t help Fred that he actually got in fairly early according to historic campaigns, right after Labor Day, but that since clinton started stretching campaigns out back in the 90s, they now go on much longer than they ever did before.
Obama and hillary started things off very early, and that distorted the whole process.
I honestly don’t think Hunter ever stood much of a chance, so the press united in burying Fred and establishing the meme that he was “lazy,” even though he was doing much more than McCain that fall.
Now we have a president who, like bill clinton, will be campaigning and fundraising for the next four—or eight—years, pretty much nonstop.
Here is your own criticism that you have posted among others "They didn’t make much of it because it isn’t true. It is McCain and Huckabee who are members of a church that has been racist until very recently."
How is that drawing the opposite conclusion?
“Plus the so called Huckster did not help Mitt and gave us the Mummy McQueeg.”
Lay off that tired Romney line, if anything a failed one term governor that couldn’t win reelection had no business trying to buy the presidency.
active members are more like 4 million.
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And another 9 Million with no teeth who just aint worthy...
There was a follow up post a few down. Smart phone blues...
Sadly they are well aware of the difference, but to acknowledge such would be a sin against the tremendous investment and effort of the PR Department in SLC...
That is in effect what you saw with the Mitt support here, ignore/overlook his record and when challenged with fact immediately scream Bigot and whip out the victim card.
SOP...
Thars gold in dem thar mouths, build me mah temple...
Know what? You are right the whole thing was the Nightmare of my life.
Why... they are GENTILES!
Just like ANYone who isn't MORMON!
--MormonDude(Well... except for those vile EX-Mormons - who are known as APOSTATES.)
Of course. And it will again, if he chooses to run.
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