Saturday, September 02, 2006

Mitt Romney How many people know who Mitt Romney is?  I have no idea, but my brother, the Republican, didn't know when I asked him a couple of weeks ago.  In no particular order, then, this is Mitt Romney: current governor of the State of Massachusetts a Republican Rescued the Salt Lake Olympics from bankruptcy a Mormon Mitt is a lot of other things, of course, but one other very important thing about him is that he is seriously considering a run for the United States Presidency. Yep, you heard me right.  A Mormon wants to be President.  Cue laugh track. I wish I had time to pontificate on this, but I don't.  One thing of importance is, however, how will Mitt fare with "born again" Christian Evangelicals?  Mormons are not even considered to be Christians by these people.  Some extremists in the Ev movement are even openly hostile to Mormons, especially Mormon missionaries.  The father-in-law of one of my sons is a evangelical minister, and he told my son that when he passes Mormon missionaries walking on the street he has a powerful urge to swerve his car to run them over.  So how could a Mormon win in the deep South, in the Bible Belt? Just in case you don't know this, I am also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so be aware this issue of a Mormon running for President is an issue of great interest to me.  I would definitely vote for Mitt. Keep in mind, however, that if the current US Senate majority leader, also a Mormon, were to run for President, there is no way on earth I would vote for him.  He's a Democrat (not an automatic disqualification in my view), but most importantly he is a liberal nutcase.  In my not so humble opinion, at least. Anyway, here are some links related to Mitt Romney's candidacy: An "unofficial" (I guess) pro-Mitt website: http://www.runmittrun.org An Evangelical Christian pro-Mitt website: http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/ Maybe things aren't hopeless after all... An American Spectator article on the subject: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10274 Politics 9/2/2006 4:38:34 AM UTC      Comments [0]Trackback

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