The view from Mississippi.  I am afraid this kind of piece is becoming increasingly common - "Another visit by another candidate, what's the angle?  I know! - 'the Mormon thing.'" And then they talk about it without really examining it.  Call it - "The Question Lite."  Lazy journalism at its best.

While we are in the South - a "political insider" column from Atlanta.  Most evangelical political leaders are pretty savvy and this demonstrates it.

Because he'd get his butt handed to him, that's why.

The hiring continues, from Hotline and WaPo.

When you mix religion and politics too closely, you get stuff like this.  Put bluntly, politics is about the possible, religion the ideal.  Sometimes, dealing with the possible means alliances and actions that are less than ideal.  They should never be wrong, or evil, but that is a far cry from less than ideal.

Anybody who would smirk this much has got to be in it for ego-gratification, despite protests to the contrary.  It's from the personal blog of the guy at The Moderate Voice (it is a group blog) who, along with Andrew Sullivan, posted the now infamous underwear pictures.  The incredulous nature of his post defies believability.  Of course he knew the pictures would be problematic.  We've been had people - he got what he wanted, traffic.  (Note his reference to being a tabloid writer, he was definitely tabloid here) Lowell:  And boy, is he happy with himself, or what?  Ironically, a "Moderate Voice" co-blogger linked to us. Welcome!

More anti-religious left-rant that cannot really distinguish creedal Christian and Mormon Christian.  He does; however, coin the phrase "evangelical Mormon" which could be quite useful politically - although I see evangelical theologians everywhere panicing at the mere suggestion. 

A leftie rant from Utah, of all places.  Lowell:  My home town Salt Lake City is a very blue island in a very red state.  The liberals there suffer from San Francisco envy.

I ran into this "Romney is really responsible for gay marriage in Massachusetts" rhetoric at Liberty Sunday.  This is the extreme right and they scare me almost as badly as the left.  The law of the land is the law of the land, and a governor is constrained by it; the kind of civil disobedience they would like to see is actually where "theocracy" comes from.

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