It already is happening, tune into Medved and Hewitt, Rush and the others will follow after the primary, as they are flooded with calls from the the conservative Christian base, if you think they are simply going to agree with those callers, or lead the Mormon exposing conversation themselves, then think again.
EXAMPLE 1:
“According to author and radio personality Hewitt, Mitt Romney-billionaire venture capitalist, consummate family man, gifted and media-savvy politician-would be unstoppable in the coming presidential race were it not for one niggling line on his resumé: he’s a Mormon. In this unashamedly partisan volume, Hewitt attempts to refute the claim that no Mormon could get elected President (along with any other claim that might be made against Romney) while analyzing the former Massachusetts governor’s biography and burnishing his conservative and leadership credentials. Hewitt is an agreeable, if inelegant, writer, wise enough to take detours (such as an edifying primer on Mormon history and thought) that stave off tedium. He spends far more time extolling Romney than excoriating his Republican and Democratic opponents. This is an efficient and effective exercise in political hagiography.”
Number one, I don't listen to Medved and Hewitt. Although it's been obvious from reports that both of them have been carrying Mitt's water.
That said...I don't agree with you.
Sorry.
Well, Medved & Hewitt have LONG already been in the tank for Romney...Hewitt was back in '07.
But you're right, Ansel...even talk show host Dennis Prager wrote a recent appeal to Evangelicals/Christians asking them to not consider Mitt's Mormonism.
Prager hasn't endorsed Romney. He says he realizes Evangelicals consider Mormonism to be a "cult." And he sides with Evangelicals being annoyed over the Mormon claim that they are "Christians," too. He understands that because he doesn't like it when Messianic Jews say, "We're Jews, too." (He thinks they should "id" themselves as Christians...I just wish Mormons would understand this as well...they don't like it when fundamentalist mormons are id'd as Lds)
But Prager is one of those "electability" voters I referenced in a post (I think on another thread this a.m.) -- where their #1 criteria is anti-Obama.