I stopped reading right there.
That statement typifies so much of the misreading of the politics of the present. IMHO, Mitt, like most Mormons I know, would do a pretty fair job of steering the ship of state. His style would be neither too far left or right.
On the other hand, many folks who oppose Mitt Romney, myself included, KNOW for a fact that if he ever gets the nomination, the KOLOB FACTOR would immediately be invoked by the lamestreams. They're laying in the weeds and salivating at the chance.
The question on MTV would no longer be "boxers or briefs?"; there would be a third option.
But, while underwear is what most people think is a harmless, yet amusing, idiosyncracy of Mormonism, the lamestreams would soon get around to a question to the effect of "Mr. Romney, one of your prophets said 'As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man can become'. Mr. Romney, are you striving to become a god?"
Now, while he would say that's not a proper question, it would then be the ONLY question until Mormon doctrines, the ones most Americans have NO IDEA about, would be opened up to hostile and embarassing scrutiny. There are dozens of such doctrines that, despite all the Mormon success, good citizenship, good neighbor, upstanding family images we have come to know and appreciate, would be very off-putting. And there will be no time to undo the bad impressions. And, as we know, with the lamestreams, they don't even have to include truth, as long as what they are doing favors the cause of their boy.
The touchy part of this dilemma is that Republicans MUST NOT broach these subjects; it is just too cruel and unseemly. Still, we must be knowledgeable enough to know that this is coming.
Newt is the answer. And a pretty darn good one. And I love the way he is carrying the cause along at this time.
On paper, LDS has a pretty stiff set of family friendly morals. In practice, much less so, and Mitt as a bishop had a lot of say in that. Note that he carried on “gay marriages” and enabled state paid abortions. This is deeply worrisome.
Mitt would be correct of course to say that he’s not campaigning here for eternity. He’s campaigning for president. Is magic underwear sitting in the Oval Office worse than a Kenyan-in-all-but-technicality doing so? Probably not. But the guy wearing them is a nonstellar choice. Newt, even Santorum would be almost infinitely better.