Romney: "Like Ronald Reagan and Henry Hyde, I’m a..."

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Romney scores with religious right
By Sam Youngman
October 19, 2007

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney didn’t deliver his much-anticipated speech about his Mormon faith at Friday night’s meeting of the Values Voters Summit.

But he did make a couple of jokes about it.

“By the way, I imagine that one or two of you may have heard that I’m Mormon,” Romney said.

With the crowd laughing, Romney added that he understands some people won’t vote for a Mormon, but that’s because they’ve been listening to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). The Senate majority leader is also a Mormon.

Despite that 800-pound gorilla in the packed ballroom, Romney was well received by the socially conservative Evangelical crowd.

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1. Vacuous political opportunist?