“I’m not suggesting you should not be allowed to discuss anything about Mormonism. But not on the ‘front page’ of our ‘newspaper’. It belongs in the ‘letters to the editor’, at best. And that’s the Smoky Backroom.”
Clever, censorship by declaring some speech to not be germane. So whether Romney believes himself a budding God or not is not germane.
Let’s see, Harry Reid has demonstrated a decided tendency to hold himself morally superior to others - in some part because of Mormon theological hubris. But it is off limits to ask whether Romney is susceptible to similar delusions.
And it is off limits to ask whether admittedly rather strange beliefs (like that American Indians are the offspring of a lost tribe of Jews who came here in 600 BC) might not subject a future president to ridicule on the world stage.
I would think you’d want Romney to address these questions now rather than when he is in the middle of the war in the middle east.