We have mentioned previously analysis of the LATime/Bloomberg 37% number saying that most of the objections came from the left because they know Mormons are more likely to stick closely to their religious convictions than Evangelicals.  But is there a similar affect, regardless of religious particulars, with the old-school conservatives?  Time to keep an eye on Ohio.  Lowell adds:  This is a big subject.  One might say it’s the inevitable and uncomfortable friction that arises between Republicans who happen to be religious people, and religious people who happen to be Republicans.

This is funny.  It is so gossip column, but cannot resist the slam that Romney is leaving the state during the Big Dig disaster, and obviously attempts to paint Romney with the dastardly “Cheney Brush.”  What’s funny is there is a not a single substantitive issue anywhere, it sounds like high school politics.  Lowell adds:  “Seasonal berries and fish– colonial-themed fare.”  Yum.

Speaking of judges.  Who said we were speaking of judges? - see below.

Make sense of this:

Quote 1:

“I don’t think it does anybody any good to see it through a religious prism,” Huntsman said. “This is much broader than that.”

Quote 2:

Romney, Huntsman said, “is one of the most impressive human beings I’ve ever run across and I think he’d make a great president. However, being politically monochromatic as a state isn’t always in our long-term interests.” [Emphasis added.]

What in the world makes Romney “politically monochromatic” with Utah other than religion?  Methinks Huntsman speaketh with forked tongue.   Lowell adds:  I actually think Gov. Huntsman has done some damage to his national standing by endorsing McCain at this point, which is frankly so bizarre on so many levels that it has left everyone wondering what Huntsman is up to.  He ends up looking like a deeply calculating politician with McCain-like unpredictability.  Not a good combination.  As one of my old law professors liked to say, Huntsman may be “too clever by half.”
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