My point was that it wasn't just fellow evangelicals that I heard expressing anti-Mormon sentiment, it was also middle-of-the-roaders and garden variety Dems who normally aren't so nasty. If it was a surprise to me, I bet it was something the party hierarchy didn't take into account. Even Barry Soetero felt compelled to explain his Muslim roots because he knew it was an issue for voters. Maybe if Romney had done more outreach with the base he might have gotten enough of those missing 3 million votes to win.
It reminds me of an old saying about marriage, that it isn’t the marriage that isn’t working. It’s the two people involved in it. It isn’t the Party that’s at fault—it’s the divisiveness and competition and overanalysis.
Remember the word “bandwagon.” It’s a silly word but it says it all. Forget your oh-so-intelligent objections and reenergize yourself with a look at the alternative. And to repeat myself, stop working yourselves and the Party into a tattered fabric with endless recriminations. It’s really just so simple: Work as hard as you can to get the candidate you want and then get behind the candidate who wins the nomination, whether it was your first choice or not.