But, ah...that’s verboten. Not to be asked or talked about. It’s off the table. Asking a Mormon President about Mormonism is bigotry. And besides, he more or less said ask the higher ups in Salt Lake. Not that they are involved in anyway. No Sir. Not a bit. Why, he’s his own man, he just can’t answer.
I find it peculiar that evangelicals are anti-Mormon bigots, and their followers are in erroneous beliefs about Mormonism, due to as often stated by Mitt supporters, the money grubbing pastors and priests. And yet any bumpkin questions are answered not with patient answerers by howling screams of bigotry, or hate, or hateful bigotry.
At best people will throw up their hands with Mitt and Mormonism. They’ll capartmetalize a unknown zone, and Mitt will be gut checked as odd. Coming from Massachusetts, a fairly secret and discrete career as a private money guy, even his wealth will be suspicious to the vast majority whom the NYSE seems impenetrable. How much do you read here about ‘Banks this, and Banks that’ here on FR? As if it is the 1860’s? Hedge funds, private capital amongst the great mass of unwashed voters?
And yet Mitt and his supporters are snippy, sensitive, card dropping.
It is all very, odd.
“If elected he will have a lot of Mormons as staff in the White House.”
Great. So did Reagan. Reagan had quite a few Mormons on staff, like Bay Buchanan and others. Romney will hire the best, as he did in private life leading Bain and Co and as Gov.
Nothing new here. Most Republican presidents have had "a lot of Mormons as staff in the White House" -- and holding cabinet and other high-level positions in their administrations...