Mitt Romney is now the putative nominee for President of the Republican Party. It was a bitter primary leaving hard feelings among Republicans. Santorum has yet to endorse Romney even though he dropped out of the race. Notwithstanding, Romney is holding a slim two point lead among likely voters in the latest Fox News poll, with over 10% of the electorate still undecided. According to Dick Morris, the undecided vote will go to the challenger, and that means a solid victory for Romney in November.
However, and this is a big however, Romney has an Achilles heel. He is a Mormon, and thus far it has not been raised as an issue. But Obama and crew is a slimy bunch; and they play dirty. These are hard core folks with no conscience or morality. Their trumped up, non-existent “war on women” just blew up in their face as Hilary Rosen exposed their hypocrisy. George Stephanopoulos should be ashamed of himself acquiescing to Democrat operatives in asking about contraception in that infamous debate.
So what’s left? I pondered the dirtiest thing they could come up with, and my conclusion is religion. Republicans compare Romney to John Kennedy’s Catholicism. They are two different things. The press had concerns that Kennedy would cow tow to the Pope, but Catholicism is a main stream Christian religion with basic shared beliefs with mainstream Protestantism. Mormonism is different. Although it believes in Christ, the underpinnings of the religion are anything but mainstream, and I am concerned that it will give fodder to so called “non-affiliated” Obama operatives such as late night comedians, bloggers, and some of the whack jobs on MSNBC. The mainstream media will willingly chime in. These folks have no shame when it comes to Obama.
I did some reading on Mormonism. It is surrounded by allegations of racism. It has attempted to do after death baptisms of holocaust survivors. That obviously will not play well with the Jews notwithstanding Obama’s pathetic support for Israel. It believed in polygamy. It denies access to the interior of its temple to non Mormons. It has interesting rituals.
Then there is the theology. It does not believe in the Trinity as understood by mainline Catholics and Protestants, or original sin. It believes the Garden of Eden was in Missouri and that the New Jerusalem will be established in North America from which Christ will rule his kingdom on earth. Mormons are heavy duty evangelists. They don’t drink alcohol, tea or coffee. They don’t believe in hell, but rather in several levels of heaven. And that is just the beginning.
While I am not put off personally by a person’s religious beliefs, I have my own “ify” theology, there is no doubt in my mind that Mormonism is a great big target, and one that people with evil intent can exploit to suppress the Republican vote in the fall, namely among the Evangelicals. Obama is shrewd and the dirtiest politician I ever seen in my life. He can look into the camera and lie better than any president in my lifetime, and that includes Richard Nixon. This is just too big of a target for a person like Obama and his campaign to ignore. I can just see the skits on Saturday Night Live.
Even PBS will get into the act. They ran a multi-part history of Mormonism a year or so ago. Look for it to be run again this October. I can see vividly the black Mormon woman, previously banned from the church, looking into the camera giving her take on the religion: Some white guy finding golden tablets in a corn field in New York talking to some angel named Moroni. “Really?” she said.
Whether we like it or not, whether it is right or not, Mitt Romney and the Angel Moroni will rear its ugly head in this “year of the nasty’s” presidential election. Republicans and Mitt Romney need to be prepared. This is a down and dirty year.
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