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Time To Talk Mormon, Mitt
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Posted on 11/29/2006 11:28:09 AM PST by Omega Man II

Time To Talk Mormon, Mitt

Romney needs to get past the faith issue, fast.

By John Dickerson

Posted Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, at 7:11 PM ET

Mitt Romney. Click image to expand.Mitt Romney Mitt Romney has said that if his Mormon faith becomes an issue in his race for the presidency, he will address it at length in a speech. Does he have space on his calendar tomorrow?

The press is writing about his religion. Pollsters are asking about it, and GOP voters inevitably bring it up in any discussion of the 2008 candidates. Will his faith affect how he governs? Will it hurt his chances at winning the nomination? A debate in the blogosphere rages over Andrew Sullivan's posting of a picture of the undergarment worn by some Mormons, an act that some of the faithful have found offensive.

When they're talking about your bloomers, it's time to clear a few things up. It's not that Romney should come clean about his clean laundry—he should please stay quiet about that—but now is the time to improve on his current approach, which has largely been to make fun of misconceptions about Mormonism. ("Take my wives, please" kinds of jokes.) If he doesn't define what his religion means to him, others will do it for him—focusing on the most loopy aspects. Constant questions and endless press coverage will get in the way of his larger task of pitching himself as the only "true conservative" in the GOP race.

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To: Reaganesque
"But what really irritates most Mormons is the total ignorance and intellectual dishonesty of the majority of those who make the criticisms."

Really?

Do tell about the dishonesty!

Joseph Smith found tablets, reburied them had witnesses who later recanted about the veracity of what they attested to ....blah bah blah

It has been a long time since I did any reading on the 'doctrines and covenants" aspect of mormonism, and other stuff. Still, it is in my view, nothing less than a cult that has somehow among its members the most loyal, trustworthy, honest, hardworking, patriotic, and intelligent Americans of any group that I can think of.

I simply do not get the Mormonism thing, but I for one will never hold it against any one of them.

Mormons are generally among the most decent of people in this country.

It is a conundrum for me, but I am long past dwelling on it.

I've seen Romney up close, and he has been I am certain the very best Governor of my state (Massachusetts) in my lifetime. He dealt with incredible opposition, and I wish him well now and in the future.

I'd vote for him before I'd vote for any of the other current leading candidates even though I disagree with him on a lot. Not the least matter is the health care thingy that he signed into Law here.

61 posted on 11/30/2006 5:42:00 PM PST by Radix (Everyone loves a parade.)
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To: Delphinium
What? Try being a Rebublican Governor is such a liberal state and tell me one doesn't have to throw a bone or two to the wolves. He is much more conservative than McCain or the other competition, and he is electable my the moderates... IF he can get past the LDS issue.
62 posted on 12/23/2006 7:15:44 AM PST by sevenbak
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To: sevenbak
doesn't have to throw a bone or two to the wolves

Its the bones that he threw that will kill him.

Not the Mormon thing.
63 posted on 12/23/2006 8:41:57 AM PST by Delphinium
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