I think you missed the point: I don’t care what Mormons believe (they could believe that the Sugar Plum Fairy rules from her throne on Jupiter for all I care.) My point is that Huckabee is trying to play on the soft bigotry of his base to tar another man for political points, something that we’d, of course, expect from the MSM/Dems/bigots of all stripes but not something I, as a primary voter (in NH), am willing to tolerate from *anyone* let alone a man like Mike Huckabee that lives in a gigantic glass house, and plays a “Baptist minister” on TV (for someone that loves to go around playing the good Christian, he certainly sounds and acts an awful lot like the other man from Hope.)
The fact of the matter is, it’s not OK for Huckabee to do this, period. It’s not OK for *anyone* on our side to attack a man (overtly or in nasty asides) on something that has, quite literally, no bearing on whether he’s fit or not to be president of this country.
(note: I am in no way a Romney fan, but if Huckabee wants to sling mud or at least score some points, he would better served if it at least had a tangental connection to the issues at hand.)
So, do you think it was OK for Romney to make a huge deal of his "religion" speech from the library of George H.W. Bush and enjoy the resulting publicity for days afterward?
Let us all not forget just WHO opened this particular door in hopes of shoring up his sinking poll numbers in Iowa and Huck's rising poll numbers there.
Would you honestly vote for a candidate who believes that the Sugar Plum fairy rules the world from her throne in Never Never land? If not then you have a reliious test, or at least a test of rationality.
It is not reasonable, for me, to vote for a Mormon any more than I could vote for a Muslim, a Scientologist, a Wiccan or an atheist.
What people believe informs their actions, attitudes, values and sentiments. A world view is the foundation of thought. It matters what one believes.
I could vote for a Jew, a Buddhist, an Eastern mystic or a native animist but never a Mormon. Their ideas are far too bizarre.