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“Does it simply boil down to anti-Mormon sentiment or is it class-envy?”

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, for the most part, the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mitt comments are the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mormon comments on the religion threads.

I think during the campaign there was class envy. McCain, especially, hated Mitt. That couldn’t have been because Mitt is supposedly a RINO (I say “supposedly” because I think the posturing took place when Mitt was running in Massachusetts. I think his positions now more accurately reflect what he believes), because McCain is a bigger RINO. But Mitt is also everything that McCain is not. He made a fortune on his own merits, while McCain married money. Mitt has an impeccable record of personal probity, while McCain does not.

While I didn't vote for Romney, he would have made a much better candidate than McCain. McCain almost acts like he wants to lose this election. And, most of the backbiting against Palin can be attributed to McCain's staff NOT Romney.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, for the most part, the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mitt comments are the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mormon comments on the religion threads.

As true as your observation may be (and I would agree with it), it is still possible to dislike Romney while being neutral or even supportive of Mormonism. I have a couple of Mormon friends who dislike Romney (one of them intensely). They obviously don't dislike him because of his Mormonism.

But Mitt is also everything that McCain is not.

If Mitt Romney conveys in attitude what you just wrote, it is no wonder he is disliked for being arrogant. Class envy has two ugly components: the "have nots" being jeolous of the "haves" and the "haves" being contemptuous of the "have nots." Given the widely reported dislike of all the Republican candidates towards Romney, it is very possible that the second component is the reality rather than the first.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, for the most part, the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mitt comments are the ones who always make the most virulent anti-Mormon comments on the religion threads.

I just HATE when that happens!

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/19#19
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”