BECAUSE HE ALWAYS PLAYS THE MORMON CARD.
Meanwhile:
Posted on 06/21/2011 8:09:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney is on track to get the Republican nomination for president the same way his 2008 rival John McCain did. The former Massachusetts governor was the runner-up in the last open primary and is not facing anyone strong enough to knock him out of his place in line. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 30 percent of likely GOP voters would back Romney. Second, at 14 percent, was Sarah Palin, who is: a) not yet running, and b) not yet literate.
This is in spite of party purists' fury over Romney's record of helping people and running a sensible government in Massachusetts. He, most notoriously, implemented a universal health care program, but also signed an assault weapons ban, supported stem cell research and conceded the right to an abortion.
If conservatives walk away from Romney's campaign, it's hard to see him charming over supporters from elsewhere. A born blue-blood with a pre-politics career in the corporate/finance world, the always-chipper Romney acts like an android programmed to seem human enough to be elected to office. He's 90-percent passable, but kinks in his programming keep cropping up. He holds economic stump speeches at places like Staples (where you apply after being laid off from your real job). He jokingly told a group of jobless voters, “I'm also unemployed,” as he runs for president on his $200 million bank account. As a cute, everyday-life incident for a Boston Globe profile, he recounted putting the family dog in a cage, tying it to a car roof and driving 12 hours until it sprayed poop down a window. He's clueless in ways that make you uncomfortable.
But the factor lying in wait to sink Romney is this: He's a Mormon.
Since its founding in the 1820s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has survived persecution by everyone from angry mobs to President James Buchanan. It became mainstream by, firstly, giving up polygamy and, secondly, creating its own mainstream, out in the remote Southwest, where it's a domineering cultural force. Its smiley followers eschew drugs, alcohol, coffee and even tea but are fond of abundant procreating, so the church is now 14 million strong.
Evangelicals, who makeup an unavoidable force in the GOP and are not known for their tolerance for religious plurality, still have a frosty view of Mormons, who have made some interesting add-ons to the tenets of Christianity.
The Obama-is-a-Muslim hoax shows the deep-seated paranoia of Americans, especially Republicans, that the president might have strange and exotic religious beliefs. Romney actually does! His church baptizes famous dead people, mandates long underwear and thinks the Second Coming will happen in Missouri.
Romney will try to deflect any mention of his religion as a personal attack, but you can choose to join or leave a church.
The LDS leadership orchestrated, in violation of the church's tax-exempt status, a massive donation drive for groups supporting Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that overturned same-sex marriage in California. The two main Prop. 8 groups got most of their out-of-state funding from Utah. If the few times Obama was in the same room as Bill Ayers amounts to a scandal, so does Romney's membership — and not-insignificant tithe — to a group with a homophobic agenda.
But the Mormon issue will probably get so mangled by Tea Party yokels in the primaries it will be toxic by the general election. And, of course, Romney will handle it awkwardly. In 2008, he ran into a grizzled old diner patron who declared, “I am one person who will not vote for a Mormon!” Proving he was on autopilot, Romney tried to shake his hand anyway.
A nation with serious religious hang ups, the United States is not ready for a Mormon president, even through Mormonism is different from mainline Christianity only in its impossibly wholesome image and a tally of small, weird things that make you go, “Huh?” Sort of like the difference between Mitt Romney and actual human beings.
And the MSM keep pushing Romney on us. If that doesn’t work, then it will be Huntsman or some other Rino loser.
Funny how every third paragraph about Romney mentions Mormon.
But you don’t see that for Harry Reid or Jon Huntsman.
What’s with two Mormon RINOs? Then they have Tim Pawlenty and Jeb Bush and Rick Perry and....
I don’t hate him, just his policies and political history. As for the Mormon thing, makes no difference to me. Although I will admit, if he still falls for their BS after all these years, I would suspect his intelligence and his ability to think logically.
I don’t hate him. I don’t know him personally. I do however loath his liberalism. It’s that simple.
BECAUSE HE ALWAYS PLAYS THE MORMON CARD.
Meanwhile:
His bigger problem is Romneycare
This guy is getting more Epstein notes than than were produced in the series.
I don’t give a flip about his religion.
I care more about his considerable shortcomings.
Like Barrt, Mitt has a record.
The anger welling up in me is so great that I would absolutely break my own principle of violence being the last refuge of a scoundrel.
How dare - HOW DARE — this child wag his finger at his betters just because they are adults!!
>>Sarah Palin, who is: a) not yet running, and b) not yet literate.<<
How DARE THIS semi-literate semi-sapient challenge Gov. Palin’s understanding of the English language. That he cannot understand her ability to communicate with the common person is an indictment on the author himself. “I can’t understand her so it must be her” — this is called the “receptor problem” in science.
>>But the factor lying in wait to sink Romney is this: He’s a Mormon.<<
Yes, and every indictment against barry the zero is because he is 1/2 black.
How DARE this little child suggest that opposition to Romney is not based on Romney’s long history of short conservatism?
There is a very fundamental and legal term called “fighting words.” Purposely bringing out and saying ad hominem and insulting words with the express desire to provoke can be met with violence.
This article is one that meets that standard. If someone was to say these words in a bar, I would punch him in the nose and spend the night in jail.
If Ramstein gets the nomination,freepers might as well as well lock and load. It ain’t gonna get any better.
Don’t hate anyone. His biggest problem is: he’s Willard Romney, with all the baggage and track record that implies.
Really Nick? McLame wandered around with no polls all through this period in '08 election cycle. Rudy was the front runner until he collapsed under the weight of his Liberalism. Now Romney is the one wandering around with high polls by default. As things progress, Romney will collapse as well from his Liberalism as the softness in his polling shows. Get your facts straight you loathsome POS hack journalist.
Makes me wonder if such people can be literate?
There is no need to resort to religious bigotry.
As a Christian I am praying God will give us a Christian who walks the walk. Someone who God has given wisdom, knowledge and understanding. There are many Christians who are extremely ready to be president. I know we might not get what I pray for, but I will continue to pray. Look at Reagan, who was liberal democrat, but God changed his heart and he walked the walk. I believe that is why the media hated him, just like they hate Sarah and other Christians. Some give lip service to God, but many don't want God telling them how to live.
Sorry if I offended anyone. I'm just in a mood. I had a Mormon at the door trying to convert a loved one.
Yeah? and Obama sat in whack nut Reverend Wright’s church for twenty years and still got elected POTUS.
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