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I’ve been witness to plenty of Mormon bashers here on FR, and they sould be ashamed of themselves.

As a fundamentalist church-raised Baptist, I give a hearty AMEN to the above statement.

Ohhhh, many Freepers won't admit it .... but then how do you explain the fact that many (Republicans) supported "liberal flip-flopper" McCain (open borders amnesty, no on Bush tax cuts, close Guantanamo, America's criminal torture vote, Global Warming psychobabble, carbon tax, blames corporations) yet were over the top hateful toward Romney the Mormon.

Romney SUPPORTED and PROMOTED conservatism with dignity and enthusiasm..... yet many were obsessed with some stupid 3-second comment about homo's Romney made 20 years ago.... or because Romney's conversion to ProLife didn't meet their perfect approval.

McCain was absolutely the worst possible candidate for the Republicans in 2008 --- geeky, irritating, vindictive, frumpy, Washington insider for 35 years, hates religious conservatives, etc etc.

Romney supporters like myself did not back Romney because we thought Romney was 100% perfect about everything.

Far from it.

But he was the only candidate who stood a chance due to his relative youth, poise, grace, articulation, intellect, and he LOOKED and SOUNDED presidential.....

Which after all, is a largely why Obama won.

Even I, a staunch conservative, born again GOP committeeman could not stomach the thought of hearing a lackluster word-fumbler like McCain the next four years.

Hey, flame away. It doesn't matter now.

There was a reason that almost every thinking conservative in America (Hannity, Limbaugh, Hewitt, Coulter, Weyrich, Rich Lowrey, Rick Santorum, Tom Tancredo, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham) endorsed and begged people to nominate Romney.... and not McCain.

And it had nothing to do with Mormon. It was because people could actually envision Romney as President.

Me and many others (obviously) could not envision McCain stutter-stepping and fumbling around Air Force One or the White House even as his health got worse due to the pressure of being POTUS.

Tough words? Yes, but an honest assessment.

[Elsie]

Tough words? Yes, but an honest assessment.

But us Mormon-Bashers are Christians FIRST, and Conservatives SECOND.

[Syncro]

McCain stutter-stepping and fumbling around Air Force One

Imagine if he was in a wheelchair! No one could lead this country in that condition.

There were enough reasons not to elect McCain without using his physical condition as a reason.

[svcw]

First, tell me one time that Limbaugh begged people to vote MR?
I did not support MR because of his policies which were backed up by how he governed.
MR was until he declared for the presidency pro-choice.
When JM won the primary who else was there to support, accept a third party candidate.
I did not vote JM I voted for Gov Palin.
I get soooo tired of being accuse of the lds bashing thing...it is old old old.
MR governed as a liberal and tried to change his political past when he decided to run for president.

[Marysecretary]

I voted for Romney in the primaries. I liked him better than I did McCain. And it didn’t bother me that he was Mormon, just like I voted for Kennedy and it didn’t bother me he was Catholic.