Mitt Romney's Presidential Plan Has A Problem : His Mormon Religion

Washingtom Monthly ^ | 9/7/2005 | Amy Sullivan

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Republicans dream about a candidate like Romney: a social conservative from the most cerulean of blue states who can please the base while not scaring off moderates.

Oh yes... we're all dreaming of Mitt frickin' Romney. President Mitt. You betcha.

[moog]

He's a guy who can't really get things done.

He's done a lot.

[moog]

I'd spend an hour in a burlap sack with a dozen rabid lemurs before I'd vote for Hillary.

How about Tasmanian devils?

[moog]

we tolerate religious beliefs other than those particular ones we believe for ourselves.

Some do, some don't.

[k2blader]

Well, I've voted for a United Methodist, so..

[moog]

I like Mitt.

He catches stuff.

[moog]

Hopefully it would never become a hold my nose vote. I'd rather have a Rat then a Mormon RINO.

Especially since those Mormons have horns.

[moog]

They believe in a trinity, in fact 3 separate ones I think. The regular one, of course, is the three in one.

[moog]

I think a lot of people would hold Romney's religion against him.

It was an issue against Kennedy.

[Tax-chick]

I don't give a hoot that he's a Mormon. Let him come clean on his 2nd Amendment position, and then I'll decide about him (if it comes to that).

[samadams2000]

Isnt he DUMB as well?

[P-Marlowe]

Mitt Romney's Presidential Plan Has A Problem: HE'S A FLIP-FLOPPING ABORTION-LOVING GUN-GRABBING PANDERING GAY-APPEASING IMAGE-OBSESSED LIBERAL

And for that reason he will not even get the Mormon vote, much less the Evanglical/fundamentalist vote.

[JCEccles]

In the wake of Romney-mania, one prominent evangelical has sung a slightly different public tune. Charles Colson told the Weekly Standard in June that he "could in very good conscience support Romney" as a fellow "social conservative on most of the issues we care about." As recently as late February, however, Colson reminded his radio listeners that "while Mormons share some beliefs with Christians, they are not Christians." "I respect Mormons and work with them," he said, "but we can't gloss over our fundamental differences." Asked about Colson's apparent change of heart, Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) told me, "I think Chuck was probably saying the politically correct thing."

I'm LDS and I respect Colson's (and other evangelical Christians') right to believe that the LDS religion is a non-Christian cult. This causes me to lose no sleep. After all, what matters is not their personal opinions on the matter but God's opinion on the matter. To the extent they purport to speak on behalf of God in judging individual members of the LDS Church to be unsaved and non-Christian, they are presuming to exercise authority that even the Apostle Paul declined to exercise.

Personally I think Romney's bigger obstacle is his reputation among many conservatives for being a RINO of opportunity. Even many LDS members I know would be unwilling to vote for him in light of his previously declared support for allowing openly gay men to serve as scoutmasters.

[BillyBoy]

>> Mitt Romney's Presidential Plan Has A Problem: HE'S A FLIP-FLOPPING ABORTION-LOVING GUN-GRABBING PANDERING GAY-APPEASING IMAGE-OBSESSED LIBERAL <<

Mitt Romney has a problem: he is a white male. If he were a hispanic or black female running with an "R" next to his name, a bunch of freepers would walk over broken glass to vote for him even if he moved left of Hillary on abortion.

[mewzilla]

It has a bigger problem: The guy's a flaming RINO.

[JCEccles]

Mormonism is weird. Google for "Kolob" for starters

Mormonism is fun. Check out Napoleon Dynamite.

There's a song in the LDS hymnal entitled "If You Could Hie to Kolob." It is set to a hauntingly beautiful tune arranged by the incomparable Ralph (pronounced "Rafe" by the cognosceti) Vaughn Williams. But my when my oldest son got back from his mission to Manchester, England, the first thing he did was take my guitar and say, "Dad, did you know you can sing "Hie to Kolob' to the Beverly Hillbillies tune?"

And he did just that.

[Mr. Silverback]

Not only do I agree with post 1, but I would also share something Martin Luther had to say on this subject:

"I would rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian."

And in the case of '08, we're almost certainly going to have a first-class death worshipper at the top of the Dem ticket.

[WhiteGuy]

Since when is the president not allowed to wear "magic underpants"?

[madprof98]

I like Mormons a whole lot. But I despise pro-abortion politicians of every stripe and will not vote for any of them.

[ncountylee]

How about Marx/Lenin worshipers like the beast?