This is why Republicans are grateful Mitt Romney's not the nominee
Posted 1 week 3 days ago byIn May 2007, National Review's Mark Hemingway wrote, with annoyance, about the questions directed at Mitt Romney's Mormon faith:
He’s not running for president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he’s running for president of the country.
And here is National Review's Mark Hemingway writing, in May 2008, about Barack Obama's membership in the (unacceptably liberal) United Church of Christ:
The problem here is that trying to separate Wright from the UCC — a church body with a long history of radical politics — is near impossible. ... Now that he's disowned his pastor, I'm looking forward to Obama initiating a national conversation on religion to explain his church.
Right. Challenging a candidate with questions about his religion is bad, un-American and distracting from the real issues. Except, of course, when it isn't.
Thoughts
Thanks John D
Submitted on May 6th, 2008 by John 2000you cut to the chase. Keep it simple.
Romney
Submitted on May 6th, 2008 by AnonymousI could care less about a candidates religious beliefs. What Mitt brought to the table was the most financial savvy among the Republicans.
Forget about the tax & spend Democrats; their socialist giveaways will dig us deeper in debt.
John D.
Very early on I recognized
Submitted on May 6th, 2008 by John 2000Very early on I recognized the fact that Mitt Romney's conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would make him highly unlikely to become successful in his bid for the republican nomination. All things considered, I believe he did quite well as it was. It was not the McCain 'machine' that blew him away; rather it was the McCain / Huckabee tag team, and more specifically the Evangelical component of Huckabee's base. And this was despite that fact that McCain had crossed the Senate aisle on several highly visible pieces of legislation.
Some historic aspects along with the latter-day nature of his church combined to make it an impossible to hill to climb.
My first thought upon hearing of the Texas compound was reflexed upon how deeply this would have hurt Romney, absolutely finished him, had he been the nominee. It was almost as if a trap had been lying dormant in wait. I won't say that I ascribe to this thought fully, but the notion did cross my mind and still lingers.
It is not as though Romney attended services of the breakaway sect or cult or whatever you want to call it for twenty years and lied by saying "I didn't know". And it is not as though he was mentored by Warren Jeffs or anyone of his ilk and then joked "but uh, this is not the man I MET 20 years ago and NOW I see the wrongness of SOME of his mantra." No, it would have been a guilt by 2nd or 3rd degree association. But even that level of weak connectedness would have been a catastrophic, game-ending association. As much as I might have liked Mitt, I felt a sense of relief when he abandoned his quest.
Hell, even Oprah had the good sense to perceive a long time ago that it made sense to leave that 'church' lest it hurt her with her voting population. But so be it, run Obama. He is your best chance of losing.