Agreed. Admittedly, Mitt’s in an uncomfortable board position on this issue. On the one hand, Wright should have been a major focus during the 2008 election. His “theology” is reprehensible and Obama’s association with Marxism and Black Liberation should have been fully explored then.
On the other hand, Mitt’s Mormonism WILL be a major focus during this election cycle, and every skeleton in the LDS closet, every questionable tenet of the religion, everything and anything that the MSM can use to stir up controversy will be splashed everywhere as luridly and as contemptibly as they can possibly get it to stick.
That being the case, he seems to feel he can’t come out in the open and start taking potshots at Wright because that would just give the MSM an opening to start stirring up anti-Mormon sentiment.
However the PAC can do it, even if Mitt tells them he doesn’t want them to. After all, they are not under his “control.”
This is the same sneaky trick he used against Perry during the primaries. He gets his cake, eats it too, and there’s not a damn thing the MSM or Obama can do about it.
How effective it’s going to be as a tactic, is another question.
No doubt he’s going to be doing some very careful polling on this issue. He’s prepared to take some hits on his Mormonism because he knows he’s going to get those regardless of what he does, so it may be worth it if it inflicts some substantial damage on Obama.
Overall, I’d have to say I don’t like it, and I don’t think Conservatives are going to like being reminded of how dirty Mitt fights this early in the game. Their support for his candidacy is still reluctant and tentative.
He should be going after the Wright/Obama connection in a forthright, unequivocal and no-holds-barred manner. Wright’s anti-Americanism makes him a legitimate target.
Mormons, on the other hand, are generally well respected as honest, patriotic, hardworking, family-oriented men and women with good business sense — who happen to have some weird beliefs. So what? Every religion seems weird to members of other religions.
It would be better to fight this battle openly and honestly.
“He should be going after the Wright/Obama connection in a forthright, unequivocal and no-holds-barred manner. Wright’s anti-Americanism makes him a legitimate target.”
But Obama already turned away SUCCESSFULLY from Wright.
Obama is personally well liked.
For Romney to get personal with a well liked person, over a settled topic, is politically stupid.
We got people here saying they won’t vote for Romney, but full of advice for how to win elections.
What a crock. Mormonism is known as a sick, perverted cult founded in the mid 1800s by guys who threw out the bible and "marriage as one man, one woman, for thousands of years" and started marrying women and 14 year old girls by the dozens, who hated Christianity and America, and then went into deep cover after gaining an entire state as their base.
The more elite men such as GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney are expected to become a God, in the future, Romney joins the countless Mormon Gods who will rule over all Americans, all humans, all the Catholic Popes and Christian preachers will be born again as Mormons and will worship Mitt Romney or one of his fellow Mormon Gods, because all Americans will be baptized into Mormonism after death instead of joining our Christian God in heaven, at least, according to the teachings of the Mormon leader and Bishop, who is the republican presidential nominee.
When Obama reveals that Mitt got approval from a holy Prophet to run for president, and that his campaign and the Mormon cult are teamed together, as the people can see as they watch the coordinated Mormon recruiting efforts on their TVs, right next to Bishop Romney's presidential campaign ads.
More people may find that much more intriguing, and enduringly fascinating than a political story that ended back in 2008, and is a years outdated association between a black guy sitting in a pew, and a rabid Protestant, black, Christian preacher.
Just like almost every other conservative issue, Romney cannot really speak out effectively or with moral authroity.