Dredging Up The Question: “Romney’s Mormon faith remains a political question mark . . . .”
John’s still floating on a boat somewhere and I’m off to the East Coast Wednesday morning. We’ll share this one bit from a pretty decent CBS News article on Romney’s chances to be selected as McCain’s veep nominee:
Romney’s Mormon faith remains a political question mark as the vice presidential guessing game rages on. Though he has always espoused his conviction that voters have gotten beyond what he calls “the politics of identity,” Romney seemed to acknowledge for the first time in his interview with CBSNews.com that his religion was indeed a handicap in the Iowa caucuses, when evangelical Christians turned out in droves to vote for Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister.
“In the big primaries like California and Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, I don’t think faith played a particular role in those events,” he said. “And perhaps in some small segment or in a caucus or two, that may play a larger role because there are much smaller numbers of people.”
That’s not the first time Romney has commented on the Iowa phenomenon, but I guess CBS . . . or, who knows why they write stuff that is simply wrong and that anyone who has been watching knows is wrong? Anyway, I’m glad this long story devotes only a couple of (obligatory?) paragraphs to The Question.
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Lori on 16 Jul 2008 at 8:46 am #
While everyone knows that there is a segment of Evangelicals who cannot separate their disdain for Mormonism from politics and cannot show an appreciation for religious freedom for all, it was pretty obvious that Huckabee was trying to appeal to that very segment.
However, Romney was much more gracious than to state the obvious. He really made the point that rather than Evangelicals turning away from him, they were just turning to a fellow Evangelical. That they wanted one of their own to be the nominee is the very definition of identity politics. “Vote for me, I am one of you”. While there was some “Don’t vote for the other guy, he is not like us” and most of it was ugly and unAmerican, Mitt is ever the gentleman giving the Mormon-haters the benefit of the doubt.
Still he recognizes that identity politics, voting for someone who shares your identity, is not good for America. It only sustains the divisions in our country and keeps us from being one nation indivisible.