Conversely, Harry Reid is largely hated in Utah.
How do you reconcile this info in your “theory”?
Good question, 7.
I guess my first question back to you would be: How do you reconcile the following October 2007 headlines posted on Freepublic:
Oct. 21, 2007: The Las Vegas newspaper ran an article…headline in FReep thread? (Nevada) Not so Wild about Harry Reid. [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914425/posts ]
Oct. 10, 2007: The LDS church owned Deseret News in Utah ran an article…headline in FReep thread: Reid gets WARM reception at BYU [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909140/posts ]
So, ya wanna ‘xplain how it is that Reid is apparently more popular @ BYU—rated by the Princeton folks as being the third most conservative campus in the country—than he is in a state beholden to the gambling mecca, legalized prostitution?
How “warm” was the BYU response to Reid’s message by 4,000 of BYU faculty and students?
At the end of his speech, Reid earned a standing ovation from a small percentage of the crowd and applause from the rest. "I was impressed with him," said Stacie Borneman, a 22-year-old political science major from Farmington who said she is a Republican. "I thought he did a good job expressing his feelings and our responsibility to serve in our communities. It's good to hear differing opinions and to be respectful, even if you don't agree politically, and he gave both sides of the issues he raised."
I also found interesting this comment from the D.N. article: The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians...Reid first spent 40 minutes delivering a well-received and sometimes tender BYU forum speech in the Marriott Center to 4,091 students, faculty, staff and visitors...Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. "They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right."
Ah, so one of the real reasons BYU gave Reid such a platform was just the latest flame that LDS leaders could toss out to publicly ridicule and attack Evangelical Christians, a tradition started by Joseph Smith, and now enshrined in LDS “scripture” in the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith – History, vv. 18-20 (where ALL our creeds, along with all of Protestantism and all of Catholicism, are called an “abomination” and we are labeled as “corrupt” believers).
Reid also told the BYU crowd: "I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it," he said.
I guess that says it all, eh?