Allow me to reiterate: I never said Mitt was currently mounting any such campaign. Secondly, I've never indicated Mitt (or his handlers) would do so if he gained the White House (doncha love it when posters put words in other folks' mouth and then apologize for misstating their views?)
What I have said is that I believe LDS HQ Central (for the record, LDS HQ IS NOT Mitt) would consider such a cultural and political eclipse as the pivotal and optimal time to shift into its highest-ever PR gear. (And could you blame them?)
I'm not portraying this as some sort of deep, dark conspiracy arising in the vaults of SLC. Look at the 70 or so LDS general authorities. Most of them are highly respected business leaders. Business leaders have it ingrained in them to be public relations' minded. The LDS track record in recent decades shows a church to be so highly minded.
By all means disagree with me. You apparently don't have any or much respect for the LDS public relations and missionary program. It just so happens I do. I highly respect the organizational and administrative abilities of this church. It's a genuine compliment. All I'm saying it, "Don't underestimate their abilities."
You say don’t underestimate their abilities, I say, don’t overestimate them.
If Mitt was President for 8 years it would mean, for one thing, that Mormonism correctly took a back seat in his administration in at least the first 4, or he wouldn’t get reelected.
And if Mitt was President for 8 years, I’m pretty sure that the total number of Mormons in the US at the end of those 8 years wouldn’t be much different than if he hadn’t been president for those 8 years. That’s what I believe. Can’t prove it, of course. But it’s what I think.
There are reasons to be against Mitt, but Mormonism isn’t one of them (even though I see Mormonism as a cross between Scientology and Christianity and don’t have any intellectual respect for it at all).