[T Minus Four]

[cripplecreek]

They’ll fail because they’re RINOs.

[ConservativeWarrior]

No more Rinos.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

How a Mormon can be U.S. President

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

[albie]

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

[kingu]

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.

[blasater1960]

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

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

How a Mormon can be U.S. President

Get the Majority of the Electoral Vote.

What did I win?

[Caipirabob]

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.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

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

[DaxtonBrown]

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?

[svcw]

Both men are liberals, they should run as democrats.

[Colofornian]

I don’t think things change all that fast. ‘Twas only 50 months ago that a Rasmussen report was headlined:
Election 2008: 43% Would Never Vote for Mormon Candidate: Romney’s Faith May Be Hindrance

Delacoert sized up that report last year

From Delacoert as follows:

• Forty-three percent (43%) of American voters say they would never even consider voting for a Mormon Presidential candidate.
• Half (53%) of all Evangelical Christians say that they would not consider voting for a Mormon candidate.
• The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 35% say that a candidate’s faith and religious beliefs are very important in their voting decision.
• Another 27% say faith and religious beliefs are somewhat important .
• Ninety-two percent (92%) of Evangelical Christian voters consider a candidate’s faith and beliefs important.
• 78% of Republicans say that a candidate’s faith is an important consideration, a view shared by 55% of Democrats .
• Among minority Democrats, 71% consider faith and religious beliefs an important consideration for voting.
• 44% of white Democrats agree.

From the article: 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.

Journalist Jamshid Ghazi Askar writing for this Mormon church-owned newspaper apparently doesn't know democracy works in this country -- even his version of "de facto" democracy. No Mormon gets "disqualified" because he's Mormon. (Otherwise, we wouldn't have Harry Reid in the Senate now, would we?)

Point 1- RELIGION: Religion IS NOT a qualification or disqualification for public office; but it's certainly one quality of voter discernment among many others...namely, voting record, present position statements & rampant inconsistency of past position statements, social issues' stances, character, viability, scandal-free past, etc.

POINT 2 – ELIGIBILITY: Newsflash!! Every person on the ballot, & even most write-in candidates, have proper "qualifications" to not be excluded from office consideration (based upon religious grounds). Of course, millions of us have the "qualifications" to be considered a potential POTUS & shouldn't be excluded outright from a ballot because of the religion we hold! Nobody has a "Religious Ineligibility" tattoo on their forehead!

POINT 3- BOTTOM LINE: Too many people confuse ”disqualifications” and "qualifications" (the latter language within the Constitution) with "qualities." (language that’s NOT in the Constitution). I focus on what voters base their votes on in the "real world": Qualities

Otherwise, who’s telling voters how they are to weigh--or not weigh--the "qualities" of a candidate?
Who’s claiming that we voters MUST 100% disregard character, beliefs, other-dimensionly commitments, and spiritual discernment in weighing candidates?

"Qualifications" have to do with what gets a man on a ballot.
"Qualities" has to do with who gets elected.

[Vendome]

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

[big'ol_freeper]

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.

[eclecticEel]

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?