I think Mitt Romney’s campaign has raised that issue high enough so that thinking Americans now recognize the bias for what it is. I am seeing more real attempts at understanding us. Maybe it is just because there are so many people watching as the Church fills the earth they have to decide if we really are a threat. Maybe raising the specter of a challenge to 2000 years of conventional Christian thought and practice has intrigued enough legitimate researchers that we see a re-thinking of who Mormons really are. We still remain a threat to the status quo, but a disinterested third party in-depth study over time may dislodge some of the knee-jerk anti-Mormons from positions of broad influence. If so, maybe the next Mormon who runs for president will be judged on his bona fides not his religion.

In fact, we are so fractured that we will loose the election in the fall. Too many people are looking to get even with the guys they think caused it all. There are ramifications to disunity and we are seeing it now. There is a price to pay for running up this monstrous debt. There is a price to pay for butchering the prosecution of the war. There is a price to pay for over-stretching our military. There is a price to pay for bridges to nowhere, Jack Abramoff, corrupt congressmen and a president who can’t run, shoot and communicate. We want to be behind a uniting leader so we look for somebody who can fix things but there isn’t one. McCain is not the guy. Romney isn’t the guy and neither is Huckabee.

I don’t know that Romney could ever have won. There is still too much anti-Mormonism in the country. For that you can thank the religious right and their “let’s demonize the threat” mentality. The deep south has always been a hot bed of anti everybody who doesn’t look like, sound like, pray like and think like they do. That may be slowly changing but they aren’t there yet. Like the fellow said, “There ain’t nothing worse than a northerner unless it is a northerner who is a Mormon.”

During these serious times, people of all faiths should remember these
four religious truths:

1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s chosen people.

2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the
Christian world.

4. Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.

Face it: The GOP now has hung a huge “Mormons Need Not Apply” sign on the window of the Presidential nomination.

That’s what has happened, and the GOP is going to have to deal with the consequences.

“But before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround in the second round, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee.

McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.”

at: http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/paul-eliminated-wva-gop-convention-voting-ends-without-winner/

2 against 1. Now that is the kind of thing I’d expect out of the Democrats.