Posted on 02/02/2011 12:53:42 PM PST by T Minus Four
Now that it's official Jon Huntsman is resigning the U.S. ambassadorship to China effective April 30 (presumably to make a run for the White House), the question du jour becomes whether a candidate's Mormon faith precludes a viable candidacy for the U.S. presidency.
Mounting evidence is increasingly pointing to a brave new world where the perceived biases that potentially derailed Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign are dissolving and, lo and behold, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could realistically be elected president of the United States in 2012.
The Washington Post currently has two articles up examining the issue — a poll-based analysis and an op-ed piece.The article relying on polling culls its data from the 2008 election cycle, when the percentage of respondents saying they'd be less likely to vote for a Mormon presidential candidate dropped over a one-year period from 36 percent to 21. The opinion piece asks whether 2012 could be the Year of the Mormons
Over at Christianity Today, Tobin Grant examines which candidate Evangelicals like now that Huntsman is apparently entering the fray — and of course Mitt Romney is a big part of that discussion. An interesting snip:
"In an open memo to 'conservative and evangelical leaders,' Mark DeMoss, of the Christian public relations firm The DeMoss Group, said that all of the potential candidates for the Republican nomination pass the traditional litmus tests on abortion and marriage. DeMoss offered a new litmust test: 'A candidate for president of the United States should be capable of becoming president, and then competent to be the president.' For DeMoss, the candidate that passes that test is Mitt Romney."
Finally, as we mentioned last week, Time Magazine recently rolled out a big profile on Mitt that makes almost no mention of his LDS affiliation.
Add it all up, and what do you have? While no one knows how Huntsman and Romney will fare in the Republican presidential primaries, it's now looking more and more like their Mormon affiliation won't amount to a de facto disqualification.
Oh man, it sounds like fun. It’s not the same now, even S&E. My husband lo-oooved poking around the Army surplus stuff and the big yard.
Seems to me it is more important to the church to have one of their own in power despite any objective analysis of where a potential candidte stands on the issues and their vision and, their plan to get there.
In the sense the church clearly backs one of their own for it’s own sake, that could be a factor
So why don’t they raise up a viable conservative candidate? Or just have their men be Democrats?
Your hubby still loves S$E...and it’s really cold here in Dugway, too:-).
Hi Hon :-)
Mitt Romney? You have to be kidding. Mitt is a gay-loving, gun-grabbing, culture of death-supporting, big-government-loving statist who in no way represents conservatism. Let’s not do McCain part deux.
The abortion-supporting part is covered under “culture-of-death”, right?
mmmhmmm
LOL. i’m not surprised.
Yeah, Hi Hon :)
How can a Mormon be pro-abortion? Whether his change of heart was ever sincere or just a political calculation is beyond the point, at one point in his career he was as full-throated an exponent of fetal genocide as any. Was there ever a reprimand? Did anyone call him out on this?
What was the cost to install all of that?
Gee!
Oh I wish I had thermal (underwear)!
--MormonDude(If they comes with them fancy markings from ZCMI)
It was 18 here this dawn, but after the sun had illuminated the remote thermometer for just a 30 minute period, it had risen to 23.
Now it’s all cloudy, so I suspect the temp will be dropping back...
As long as your ELECTRICITY is reliable!
Central unit was about 20,000. Excavating etc another 5,000.
Saves about 500 per month in summer. 1000 per during these cold winters.
So in a jillion years we’ll have it paid for.
You are most correct sir. We've had it go out for up to three hours a couple of times. Warm blankets and propane in the kitchen for coffee is all that is needed.
It is about 9 degrees right now so we’re having a heat wave.
I guess the same way a Catholic can. I'm sick of these RINO politicians who pay lip service to their religions. They sacrifice a certain percentage of their fellow denominational members in order to lean far enough left to gather up the libs. It's all a calculated game.
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