I considered Romney full of it and inauthentic in his conversions and there were some like me who were cautious about him. However, there was a good amount of old fashioned anti-mormon bigotry that did him in, evidenced in the Mike Hucksterbee campaign.
KC_Conspirator: “...there was a good amount of old fashioned anti-mormon bigotry that did him in, evidenced in the Mike Hucksterbee campaign.”
This is where we get into opinion. You believe bigotry did in Romney. Personally, I don’t think Huck’s support was anti-Romney so much as pro-Huck. What I mean is, Huck is a gifted speaker who shares his supporter’s Christian values (or, at least, they believe he shares their values). Huck appeals to his voters on their level, not as some political elite. Say what you will about his compassionate conservative past, but don’t deny he’s an appealing candidate to some voters.
It’s plain as day, Mike Huckabee waged a religious war and won. Period.
But not the end of the story.