Not to offend his fans, but America is not ready for this honestly.
Its Thompson or bust. I really hope he has it in him or...nevermind...too horrifying to contemplate.
If Romney personality as a phony politician that people don’t care for. It has nothing to do with his Mormonism. People don’t trust him.
Any evangelical that allows “Abortion on Demand” democrats to be elected in the next election loses their right to say they are pro-life.
He doesn’t speak for me. I’m not voting for Romney because I don’t trust a word he says.
I will not vote for the man, but I’m not voting on his religion, I am voting on (against) HIM and his candidacy for the Presidency. I just don’t believe him. His religion has nothing to do with it.
Mormon faith is just about the last reason not to vote for ol’ Mitt the flipper.
We are talking about a group of people who think that T-Rex was walking around the holy land at the same time as Jesus. Of course they are not going to vote for someone who says that Joseph Smith stuck his head in a hat and read some gold plates, coming up with a story that contradicts the old and new testaments in hundreds of ways.
Just statin’ the obvious.
Any factual discussion of the life of the “Prophet Joseph Smith” will hang Romney’s religious faith in less than an hour. Anyone with any intellectual honesty that is curious about the Mormons can do an easy Google search on Joseph Smith and Brigham Young to figure the truth out.
I could vote for a Mormon. I can’t vote for Mitt. He makes John Kerry look intellectually consistent. Either he was lying about some of his core positions to further his ambition in Mass or he is lying about some of his core positions to further his national ambitions. Either way I don’t trust him.
Looks like a lot of people on this thread think Hillary, Obama and Edwards have higher principles than Romney. Very interesting.
I’m looking at the list of leading Republican candidates, and Romney is better than all of them possibly except one.
I don’t like Mormon ideology, but I would definitely consider voting for him. I won’t vote for Giuliani, McCain.
If Mormonism is the only “problem” that Mitt has ,then he would be a stellar candidate.
Mitt lacks credibility to me.
People keep trying to tell me that I won’t vote for a mormon. I guess thats all they’ve got.
He’s not the most outspokenly conservative of the lot, so my preference is going to be Hunter/Thompson. So if he wants my vote, thats his target. He’s got to be more Hunter than Hunter, and more Thompson than Thompson.
Of course, Hunter was Hunter when being Hunter wasn’t cool. Er, or something like that. So Romney will always have that problem, after running for office in a state where he had to downplay or over-explain or over-nuance his conservative beliefs, to now have to speak boldly or be lost in Thompson’s wake. Or, Hunter, if lightning strikes and he should ever get enough momentum to ever have a wake.
Thats his problem with evangelicals, which is to say, with conservatives in general. But if he overcomes it, and is the nominee, I’d pull the lever for him gladly. I’ll be more glad if its Hunter/Thompson, but if its Romney I’m still there. Next to anyone on the Dem side of the line, Romney is a giant.
The Baptists get it wrong again. Go figure. Maybe someday they will become “real” Christians...la
Well then I guess that we can’t vote for Fred. Church of Christ think that they are the true church.
Then there are the Catholic’s, they think that they are the true church.
McCain thinks that he is God, so he is out.
Huckabee is the only Baptist, so I guess we Baptist) are expected to vote for him.
Not necessarily. Romney is running for President, not Preacher. Evangelicals are smart enough to know the difference.
Before we jump on this, riddle me this:
Is America ready for a Mormon Senate majority leader?
Is America ready for a Mormon chairman of the judiciary committee?
Did you notice that we already have been there?
The theological differences will matter only to that segment of the evangelical community that confuses a vote for President for a vote for pastor. Most evangelicals are thankfully over that paarticular hump and are looking at the more important and fundamental question: Will this candidate share our values and advance the pro-family, pro-freedom, pro-life and pro-national security vision that we as patriotic Americans share?
I am convinced that Christian convictions, while always helpful, are neither necessary nor sufficient for good leadership.
So I close with a final question for the “evagnelicals who won’t vote for Mitt”. ... The race gets down to 2 candidates, one an evangelical Christian the other a Mormon.
You ignore all other considerations because their religious label is a primary decider. Who ho do you vote for,
(a) the evangelical Christian
(b) the Mormon?
If you picked (a), congrats - you just selected Jimmy Carter.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "stop! don't do it!"
"Why shouldn't I?" he said.
I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
He said, "Like what?"
I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?"
He said, "Religious."
I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?"
He said, "Christian."
I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
He said, "Protestant."
I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"
He said, "Baptist!"
I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"
He said, "Baptist Church of God!"
I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"
He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!"
I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?"
He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!"
I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
-Emo Phillips