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Analysis: How a Mormon can be U.S. President
Mormon Times ^ | 01 February 2011 | Jamshid Ghazi Askar

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.


TOPICS: Massachusetts; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: huntsman; lds; mormon; rino; risingrino; romney; romneyclone; utah
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1 posted on 02/02/2011 12:53:48 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four

They’ll fail because they’re RINOs.


2 posted on 02/02/2011 12:55:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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And both are back-stabbers to conservatives. One worked for 0 and the other is a big socialist.

I’m almost certain Huntsman will be getting money from China, where he was ambassador after all. I wouldn’t be surprised. Be too odd if the commie Chinese didn’t have a stake in his “success”.


3 posted on 02/02/2011 12:58:14 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (Fire all the damn rino!)
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To: T Minus Four

No more Rinos.


4 posted on 02/02/2011 12:58:47 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: T Minus Four
How a Mormon can be U.S. President

A moron is currently the U.S. President. What's that?


5 posted on 02/02/2011 12:58:47 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Obamacare: Not just dreck. Unconstitutional dreck.)
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To: T Minus Four

Mitt and Reid are the only two “Mormons” that I’m aware of (with any notoriety anyway) and I’m completely unimpressed.


6 posted on 02/02/2011 1:00:02 PM PST by albie
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To: T Minus Four
Let's see... Length of time for campaign to be sunk by mainstream media once it is launched? 76 seconds to google Wikileaks, find some damaging cable, and then plaster it on the front page.

Someone from Foggy Bottom should think before contemplating going against the liberals in the media.

7 posted on 02/02/2011 1:01:10 PM PST by kingu (Legislators should read what they write!)
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To: albie

Stand by to be unimpressed with Jon Huntsman, Jr.


8 posted on 02/02/2011 1:02:28 PM PST by T Minus Four ("If Mormonism were a cult, I would know it and I would not be in it")
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Hahaha!


9 posted on 02/02/2011 1:02:58 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: T Minus Four

I am sure they would prefer open borders, since that would be future potential converts, ie forced 10% tithers for LDS Inc.


10 posted on 02/02/2011 1:04:03 PM PST by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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How a Mormon can be U.S. President

Get the Majority of the Electoral Vote.

What did I win?

11 posted on 02/02/2011 1:08:24 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (When all you have is bolt cutters & vodka everything looks like the lock on Wolf Blitzer's boathouse)
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Analysis: How a Mormon can be U.S. President

Easy, by not being a socialist RINO.

For mcromney, this is an impossibility.

Don't bother mitt. It's already over for you.

12 posted on 02/02/2011 1:08:24 PM PST by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: T Minus Four

I would think twice before voting for an individual with the “goofy” beliefs held by LDS.


13 posted on 02/02/2011 1:14:57 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Yes, I think it would be a hard thing for many Christians to actually vote for a Mormon presidential candidate. Many see LDS as cult-like or just strange, non-Christian.


14 posted on 02/02/2011 1:24:58 PM PST by NEMDF
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They have some weird beliefs originating with an obviously false prophet. Those beliefs give one pause.


15 posted on 02/02/2011 1:29:08 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: T Minus Four

You think they ridicule Palin, wait til the media start on Kolob, undergarments, peepstones, Indian jews, and a ton of other stuff. How does Mitt square these views?


16 posted on 02/02/2011 1:39:00 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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You think they ridicule Palin, wait til the media start on Kolob, undergarments, peepstones, Indian jews, and a ton of other stuff.

Will they?

17 posted on 02/02/2011 1:40:52 PM PST by T Minus Four ("If Mormonism were a cult, I would know it and I would not be in it")
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To: T Minus Four

Both men are liberals, they should run as democrats.


18 posted on 02/02/2011 1:48:21 PM PST by svcw (God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
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To: T Minus Four

Must also be too cold up there west of Ogden to go out shopping or to the grocery store.

I thought only Elsie did the Freep a thons.

LOL


19 posted on 02/02/2011 1:49:15 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: T Minus Four

“You think they ridicule Palin, wait til the media start on Kolob, undergarments, peepstones, Indian jews, and a ton of other stuff.”

[Will they?]

The day after he wins the primary. A sizeable fraction of protestants and catholics won’t vote Mormon. That number is likely north of 3% of the electorate, the Dems won’t miss that opportunity.


20 posted on 02/02/2011 1:49:26 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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