Religion may hobble Romney campaign

[Judi Lynn]

10/10/2006 11:05:00 AM -0400
NewsTrack - Top News
Religion may hobble Romney campaign

BOSTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. political analysts say Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's hope to run as a Republican presidential candidate will be hobbled by the fact he is a Mormon.

In December, Romney announced he will not seek a second term and has been campaigning to drum up support around the country.

But the religion issue is an impediment, analysts told The Los Angeles Times.

"He starts out with a deck stacked against him," Emory University political science Professor Merle Black. "Obviously he overcame this in Massachusetts. But he is going to be dealing with a different voting group on the national level."
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[sallyseven]

1. He is just as stupid as bush.

The repuks need a better candidate than he is. He is such an awful person. The US is better off with him away from the halls of government.

[President Jesus]

18. You may be thinking of George Allen, who clearly is...

...Bush-stupid.

Mitt (whose first name is Willard) may be many things, but I'm pretty sure "stupid" is not one of them.

[AlCzervik]

2. well it's no secret the fundies don't like Mormons or catholics.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Fundies don't like religions other than their own, period. -nt

[VegasWolf]

3. Gee, bickering about imaginary beings. A'int religion wonderful? nt

[davidinalameda]

4. yes it is

thanks for asking

[VegasWolf]

5. So, why is one imaginary being any better than any other? Especially,

to fight wars over?

[davidinalameda]

9. there are those of us who believe that God exists

so it isn't imaginary to us

[VegasWolf]

13. If God isn't imaginary to you, then what is he? Belief is a state of

mind. If he is real, how is he real?

[Occulus]

22. Religion is not now, was not ever, and will never be a requirement

for belief in God.

Period.

[Tesha]

6. Romney is absolutely a non-starter. But he doesn't believe it.

Mormons? That's some kind a cult, ain't it?

Seriously, America is still only electing "Christians", and
that means your basic fundagelical Protestants, so Romney
need not apply. But he doesn't believe this; he thinks hauling
water for Bush will get him a pass. It won't.

They'll let him work in Massa Bush's kitchen, but they ain't
evah making him de chief cook.

Tesha

[greeneyedboy]

8. of all the reasons not to vote for him, this one's low on the list n/t

[ovidsen]

10. Very true.

Not that I'd ever vote for Romney, BUT...

Given the choice (having lived in Utah and living now in South Carolina) between a mainstream Mormon and a fundie, I'll pick the Mormon.

No contest.

[CatholicEdHead]

19. Tell that to the primary voters

The GOP canidiates WILL have to pass the mandatory "born-again" fundie test. It will still be a battle about who can "out-holy" the rest in the primary.

[bamacrat]

11. Anyone who bases their political views on their religion should not run.

And no offense to any here, but a Mormon, thats as bad as a baptist in office. Oh wait.

[hatrack]

12. If only he would run as as atheist - you KNOW he'd have it in the bag!!

:eyes:

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Mormons. They'll take your votes...

but they still think that you're going to Hell.

[edbermac]

15. Romney: Just a smile and a haircut...

x(

[dmallind]

16. Why the sympathy for Mormons?

We have at least 3 high profile nationally elected Mormons - probably more.

79% of respondents in the most recent Pew voter attitudes survey would vote for a Mormon who agreed with them on the issues.

Only 51% would even CONSIDER voting for an atheist with whom they agreed completely.

Intuitively there is not one single nationally elected open atheist.

That of course is never reported, even though atheists outnumber Mormons at least four to one. Cry me a river, godbotherers.

[dsc]

24. Mormons benefit from gerrymandering

Since so many live in Utah and Nevada they have managed to get the ability to elect people to the Senate. If all the athiests moved to some fairly small state or a couple of really small states they could do the same thing.

[Placebo]

17. Evangelicals and Fundies HATE Mormons!

Why?

Because they're moving in on their turf.

How sad.

[robertarctor]

21. Nah. That's not why.

Evangelicals aren't down with Mormons because the Mormons, in their view, are a polytheistic cult that masquerades as "Christian." LDS doctrine teaches that there are many gods, and it also teaches the doctrine of "eternal progression," which in a nutshell states that good Mormon men will grow up to be Mr. God, and their wives will become Mrs. God, on their own paradise planet after death. Eternal progression is the reason many Mormon men, like US Representative John Doolittle (R-California) are arrogant pricks. The other thing that fundies (and people from other religions, like Jews) find repugnant about Mormons are their temple rites, specifically the baptizing of the dead by proxy into the LDS church especially when it's their dead relative who's been converted to Mormonism after they died.

[kestrel91316]

23. Didn't the Mormons get into some trouble a while back for

baptizing JEWS into the Mormon church after their deaths? And Jews were REALLY up in arms about it (who can blame them??).

[JerseygirlCT]

20. I'm still puzzled at how he was ever elected in MA, to be honest...