Dem Drives Anti-Mormon Card

National Review ^ | 1/11/2012 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[americanophile]

On MSNBC just now, South Carolina Democratic chair Dick Harpootlian painted Republican voters there as potentially refusing to vote for a Mormon, while trying to make it so. From memory: It does not bother me that he may believe the Garden of Eden is in Missouri, but it may bother them.

This is an ugly card and I hope...

[ejonesie22]

Then why are you still associating with FR?

[Timaeus]

A “weirdo”, huh? Newbies using the Axelrod lexicon are not allowed an opinion. Back to DU, loser.

Yes, weirdo, as Willard is not so much a man as a mannikin with a blow-dried bouffant-pompadour hair-cut circa 1958, but I'm OK with weird. What I steadfastly oppose is Willard's only accomplishment as an unremarkable single-term governor, RomneyCare, with all its new rules, new taxes, its assumptions about state power in the service of progressive goals, its exchanges, and its mandates. It is a program functionally identical to ObamaCare and Romney himself argues that he is "proud" of it. I will never support, nor will I vote for, Willard Romney.

[stuartcr]

You must not have been on FR for the last year or so.

[apillar]

South Carolina Democratic chair Dick Harpootlian painted Republican voters there as potentially refusing to vote for a Mormon

Obviously he hasn't looked at the results of the first two primaries and the polls in other states.... It looks to me like the Republican voters are falling all over themselves to vote for a Mormon.

[muawiyah]

I've seen a number of people hollering before they were hurt ~ I assumed they were doing that to later on use it an excuse for something.

I've been here since 1996 ~ which is a long time by internet standards. It would appear you'd never noticed that phenomenon.

[muawiyah]

Let's see, after two elections ~ one of them a landslide, where were those Evangelicals who didn't vote for Bush?

Name a couple of million first ~

I think they voted for him.

[bert]

Because I have been here for years and know what it can be sans bigots

[muawiyah]

Not all those folks are bigots. For the most part they seem to be ex-Mormons, or members of OTHER Mormon organizations, or the children of Mormons who were screwy (FLDS for example), or people with a fairly good knowledge of OTHER non-Mormon groups that are into polygamy.

All of us know that MOST Mormons are converts these days and really have no feeling of ownership for Mormon history. That is a problem for them in that they appear to have little sympathy for those who claim their brush with Mormonism HURT THEM.

Just the way life is. BTW, few people ever imagine Mormons as victims.

[Pining_4_TX]

“How does one drive a card?”

Turn the little wheel. (nyuck, nyuck, nyuck)

[MHGinTN]

For the same reason they fell all over themselves to vote for an affirmative action liar with zero experience and a long list of socialist credentials.

[Pining_4_TX]

Just wait until the MSM starts revealing the screwy tenets of Mormonism. Do Americans really want a president who believes he will be a god some day on his own planet? Might as well say he believes in the tooth fairy.

[bert]

That is likely true, I don’t zealously follow the threads and cant’t classify the posters in such detail.

All you said might be true but it is still no excuse for the vicious attacks and slander.

[nhwingut]

I don’t think the Dems want to get in a battle on Mormonism vs Black Liberation Theology.

[stuartcr]

Sorry, don’t follow what you mean.

[dragonblustar]

The anti Mormon bigots are in full hue and cry on Free Republic and have been for months. Free Republic is probably where he came to learn about the anti Mormon bigotry. it’s embarassing

What's embarrassing are people who defend that cult.

[dragonblustar]

[MHGinTN]

Since the media is the propaganda armo fot he DNC, how would that ‘mythical battle’ be seen by the public?

[MHGinTN]

Since the media is the propaganda arm of the DNC, how would that ‘mythical battle’ even be seen by the public? Magic thinking is a hallmark of MormonISM don’tchaknow.

[maryz]

This is the firt open shot that I've seen.

A month or so ago, Joe Biden gave a speech at some university in PA (I don't remember which), but I guess some question about religion came up in the Q&A. Biden brought in that it was shameful that some people wouldn't vote for Romney because of his religion.

I just heard that little bite on a local (Boston) radio station during the hourly news break -- I guess they chose that one because of the MA connection.

It made me figure that the Dems would play the Mormon card -- not that Obama would do it himself, but I could see the lapdog networks all bringing out "documentaries" (read: "hit pieces") on Mormonism if Romney is the nominee -- all "in the public interest," of course.

I figure something like that is in the works and Biden made his remarks because he knows about it and never can quite keep his mouth shut. ;-)

[Zakeet]

The anti Mormon bigots are in full hue and cry on Free Republic and have been for months.

Almost all of what is passed off as anti-Mormon bigotry on Free Republic is in reality nothing more than people providing annotated facts concerning Mormonism ... and the vast majority of that data is taken directly from LDS sources and historical records. Saints are offered an opportunity to rebut the replies and apologies are offered along with retractions if the information provided is not correct.

Alternatively, it is common to resort to ad hominem responses (i.e. attack an opponent's character rather than answer the contentions made) when unable to make a credible and reasoned response. Blanket use of the term anti-Mormon is one of the most blatant examples of that practice.