You don’t have to hang out around FR very long to realize that for many of the posters, it IS his being Mormon.
No doubt many of them would not vote for Romney were he a Baptist. But I also suspect a good many would not have voted for Reagan had he been Mormon.
Reagan could not be Reagan had he been Mormon.
But...but...voting for Romney just because he is mormon and so is the voter...that's perfectly OK, right?
Reagan has nothing to do with Romney OR mormonism.
Isn't SUSPICION wonderful!!
You can say all KINDS of things under it's protective mantra.
No doubt many of them would not vote for Romney were he a Baptist. But I also suspect a good many would not have voted for Reagan had he been Mormon.It depends on how Reagan's Mormonism (had he been one) manifested itself. If it was like Beck's Mormonism, I would have voted for Reagan, even had he been Mormon.
I will not vote for Romney under any circumstances and though it has NOTHING to do with his Mormonism I will say this:
The Mormon religion is so freaking weird that it is an election killer on the national scale. We will see that if Willard gets the Republican nomination and we would have seen that in 1980 if a nominated Ronald Reagan had been Mormon.
I and others might be able to "get past" a good conservative (like Beck) being Mormon, but the American public won't be able to, especially once the press starts detailing the weirdness of Mormonism if Romney (not a conservative of any kind, a liberal leftist, in fact) gets the nomination.
You wait.
During the primary season the media will be all sweetness and light to Romney. Once he's nominated, you wait... you wait to see the things that will "surface" about Mormonism.
Irrefutable things, by the way.
Since you imply that you have some unique discernment abilities, the distinction that I'm about to make should be easy for you to grasp.
My point was that many freepers REALLY despise Mormonism and Mormons.
To suggest that those who regularly post on the Mormon threads hate Mormons is a false accusation. We don't hate MormonS, we hate MormonISM. The difference is an institution as opposed to the people. Most of the regular posters in these threads are ex-Mormons and/or have many friends and family who are Mormon. Are you suggesting that they hate their own family and friends? What sense does it make to hate people who are deceived by an evil institution? Hating the victim is irrational.
Your teammate, sand lake bar, should read Proverbs 26:17. I know that he considers this nothing but the words of men but the wisdom is evident:
Whoever enters a quarrel not his own is like one who grabs a passing dog by the ears.