KLo does the numbers and decides this blog should take a rest for a while:

So can a Mormon be president? Save that question until Romney announces.

That’s no fun, but the reaction to her piece over at The Corner really was. These are jokes and please take them that way. Rick Brookhiser sets it up and then bumperstickers it.

Meanwhile, MSM declared “leading candidate” McCain is not polling all that well among the base.

Speaking of McCain, he has picked up a most interesting endorsement. (HT: Holy Coast) Now, since The Corner has set levity as the tone of the day, I am forced to comment that this is obviously part of a Mormon plot to gain mainstream acceptance on a national level. By making it appear that they are not lock-step united politically, they want to fool us into thinking that Romney’s run is not part of an effort to bring polygamy back into fashion. Please indulge me in this bit of hysterical sarcastic ranting as the fears of some of my Evangelical brethren are starting to make me nuts. Think about it people - KLo was right when she said in the piece linked above:

So as the discussion moves from an anonymous Mormon candidate to the real, live Mitt Romney, and from abstract speculation to actual primaries and caucuses, polling will become more meaningful. Those opposed to a generic Mormon candidate may reveal that their opposition is prompted much more by political ideology than by sectarian concerns about religion.

Lowell: I really wish John would not use this blog to expose Mormon plots. We had an agreement to keep that stuff secret, remember? We are looking into this, but for now a little background should be interesting and useful to the uneducated observer. First, the news is surprising only to people who are not familiar with Mormons and Utah. As a post below noted, it’s just not normal Mormon behavior to support a candidate just because he/she is a Mormon. To suggest otherwise is to assume a level of Mormon clannishness and provinciality that simply is not reality. Second, this is not very important news, except perhaps as a symbolic feather in McCain’s cap. Utah is not an important state in presidential politics. If nothing else, Huntsman’s endorsement of McCain demonstrates that Mormons are not a monolithic voting bloc. There goes another myth!

Finally, one of the “campaigner blogs” (a term I have just coined for unabashedly pro-Romney blogs) has a look at some interesting polling out of South Carolina from a story we linked to earlier. Apparently 44% of those polled think Mormons still practice polygamy. Blame the MSM and its inability to distinguish the CJCLDS from Warren Jeffs and his FLDS sect, among others. Given how little attention most people give to what they see as “internecine squabbling” I think this is a real problem.
Sphere: Related Content

Posted in Reading List | No Comments yet » |  Print this post |  Email This Post

Recently:

• “Meeting the Challenges of Today:” Neal Maxwell, Secularism, and The Separation of Church and Politics
• Wednesday Quick Links
• Prop 8 - Problem or Solution?
• Legality, Religiousity, Post-Prop 8 Ugliness and the Case Against Huckabee
• Prop 8 and religion: A moral or political issue, or both?
• RED MEAT! Hewitt, Huckabee and Anti-Mormonism
• Say What?!
• In The Wake Of Prop 8
• A Catholic Defense of Mormon Support (and other religions’ support) for Prop 8
• Being The Target