Posted on 07/05/2011 6:31:38 PM PDT by delacoert
MITT ROMNEY has said he plans to see “The Book of Mormon,’’ the hilarious Broadway musical from the creators of “South Park’’ and “Avenue Q.’’ And there’s a moment in the show when you can practically imagine him onstage.
It comes in the second act, when a group of Ugandan converts puts on a pageant for visiting Mormon leaders: a bawdy, profane, and very incorrect retelling of the story of the Mormon faith. (It involves appearances from certain “Star Wars’’ characters, plus a song-and-dance depiction of how dysentery happens.) As the Mormon leaders watch in shock and disbelief, it’s hard not to notice that they all have very Mitt-like hair.
Which makes one wonder what Romney himself would think of the show. In public, he’s been good-humored. In private, would he fume?
Or would he realize that “The Book of Mormon,’’ blasphemy and all, is precisely the kind of public relations tool that Mormon candidates could use?
Mormonism looms over Romney’s presidential prospects, just as it did in 2008, except that instead of one major Mormon candidate, now there are two. For both Romney and Jon Huntsman, the path to the presidency is the same: appease evangelical Christians to win the GOP nomination, then assuage social liberals in a general election. (In a recent Gallup poll, notes Southern Methodist University political scientist Matthew Wilson, more Democrats than Republicans said they’d never vote for a Mormon.)
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Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are the two greatest statesmen to ever come out of Mormonism.
I wasn’t aware they had come out.
Let’s just say they are the best that Mormonism could have produced.
For “inclusive” souls, Liberals sure like to find ways to divide people up.
Could be, but is it Mitt planting this or Hussein? I'm inclined to believe the latter since it's in his interest to:
a) have another McCain to run against
b) keep the focus OFF the economy and his record.
The MSM has become the propaganda arm of the DNC, so anything's possible.
I suspect it is a combination f both. The Mittiac wants to squelch opposition to his cultish beliefs, and barry bassturd’s people want the easy kill as the pubby opposition. Of course, Mittiac is so patriotic and loves the country so much that he is not gonna let THIS crisis go to waste don’tchaknow. Time to raise the anti in the LDS war on Christianity as the Bible conveys it, for how else can the heresies in Mormonism become instituionalized in the American psyche? The aversion method works wonders when you’re trying to lend credulity to the religious belief that the god of Momronism was once a man and had to earn the attributes of godhoos so he could be appointed by a panel of gods to be The god over the Earth.
The bigotry and ignorance.. Oh never mind.
Harsh words you use to describe those two presidential candidates, I don’t know Huntsman that well, but it does definitely fit Romney.
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