“And the “legitimacy” question is a real one that Evangelicals & other Christians need to weigh carefully”
I don’t want Mormon missionaries to go overseas and use “President Romney” as an evangelism tool. Just say NO to the Mormon Romney. The “only” thing he could say about Mormonism that might get my attention in a favorable way would be for him to denounce it as a false belief as it is. Then to publically turn his back on Mormonism. Of course, that just isn’t going to happen.
Amen.
And that's what I advocate: Say "no" to both Romney and Obama.
If you're a FREEPER and you don't live in a genuine swing state, you have no business voting for Romney.
Romney will lose ALL the liberal blue states, anyway;
And if you subtracted ALL FREEPERs (100%) from the red states -- and gave those votes to either Virgil Goode or Tom Hoefling -- Romney would still win those states.
So no Obama "risk" there.
What that really means is that the people pushing Romney in the 41 states or so (beyond the 9 swing states) are NOT doing conservativism any favors. They are pushing a statist big govt socialist healthcare pioneer pro-abort liberal not only on us, but they are permanently RINOizing the GoP.
(There won't be any place left to go for a conservative "home"...and you can thank the Romneyautomatons for that)