Right. So what did Romney himself do before 1978 and what happened after 1978? I mean that was 34 years ago.
And it doesn’t matter which Republican gets the nomination. The Democrats are going to paint them, and us, as racists no matter what.
I fail to see how carrying Sharpton’s water on calling Republican racists combats that.
There's two aspects to this...what he did do (what the MSM will focus especially focus on)...
...and what he didn't do...(what I am stressing)
So let's take the MSM first: What he did do?
Well...what did Perry do?
He went hunting. On a certain ground. Where apparently a negative word. Was painted on a rock.
That was enough for Perry's ratings to begin to fall like...well, like rocks.
Romney's guilt-by-association in this way is MUCH MUCH steeper. Not just guilt-by-geographical association, but guilt by membership where he ACTIVELY gave 10% of his income to such an openly racist organization! Every Mormon at every general conference where a new "prophet" is announced also verbally sustains that new "prophet." And when "prophets" leave racist positions and policies in place, and the entire Mormondom "sustains" such a "prophet," then they are acting in lockstep.
What Romney failed to do:
He failed to take on the racist system in any open way; and failed to leave any record of attempting race reformation within Mormondom behind closed doors.
Simply put, he acquiesced to this openly racist organization by not recording any objections between 1965 and 1978 to Mormonism's racist actions and policies and "scriptures."
Surely, you've heard the phrase: "If you're not part of the (attempted) solution, then you're part of the problem."
The Democrats are going to paint them, and us, as racists no matter what.
True. But why should the GOP give them and the MSM all the ammo and firing range and such an easy wide-open, inviting target?
...what happened after 1978?
Well aside from their race-based priesthood policy changes & temple access policy changes, the Mormons, after promoting the Book of Mormon as the purely delivered "word of the Mormon god" for 148 years...started making minor editing changes...like in 2 Nephi 30:6.
In 1981, the Mormon church changed the phrase "white and delightsome" in that verse to "fair and delightsome" -- with nary an explanation for the change.
The verse in pre-1981 Book of Mormon versions read:
"...many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and delightsome people." (2 Nephi 30:6)
The Mormons, though, couldn't start erasing ALL Book of Mormon skin-based racist passages, lest it become even more obvious that they were trying to hide the evidence.
STILL on the Mormon books -- what true-believing Mormons adhere to to this day...are verses like:
* "And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." (2 Nephi 5:21)
* "And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against the their brethren..." (Alma 3:6)
* "Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins..." (Jacob 3:5) [Note: The "Lamanites" per Mormonism are Native Americans...so their skin color, says Mormon "scripture" is based upon a supposed curse]
* "And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites." (3 Nephi 2:15) [Note: So...to be "uncursed" is to have your skin turn white...per Romney's Mormonism, that is!]
Another one of their "scriptural" books includes this:
The Book of Abraham verses are 1:24-27..."and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land." (v. 24)...Pharaoh was then supposedly "cursed...as pertaining to the Priesthood. Now, Pharaoh, being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood..." (v. 26-27)
Some Mormons talk as if a darker skin color as-a-supposed-curse was just ONLY some talk in the past. Uh, no! Look at the verses above -- Alma 3:6 and Jacob 3:5, for example. They also talk as if the "curse of Ham" being a darker skin color was also just some teaching that's been jettisoned. Well, then why is the Book of Abraham phrasing still there in their Mormon "scripture" -- the Pearl of Great Price?
I can just imagine the MSM asking Mitt Romney questions like: "Mitt, do you believe verses like 2 Nephi 5:21, Alma 3:6, Jacob 3:5, 3 Nephi 2:15 are all literal depictions of truth for Mormons to adhere to?"