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Romney’s Mormonism
So. On Thursday, Mitt Romney is going to give his John F. Kennedy speech, the one intended to calm fears about his religion.
The problem for Romney seems to me to be that the audience he most has to convince, the Christian right (so-called evangelicals), are the least likely to be convinced.
Kennedy basically had to convince liberals and liberals are, well, liberal on these questions. Not so, I think, the social conservatives.
To quote the Bible Belt Blogger:
Here’s my prediction. The speech will be carefully prepared and carefully focus-grouped and the New York Times will praise it lavishly. Unfortunately, for Gov. Romney, it’s pretty much irrelevant whether or not the New York Times likes it. Gov. Romney doesn’t need to sway a Manhattan editorial board [especially in the Republican primaries...] He needs to sway evangelical and born again Christians. They’re the ones who need convincing right now.
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2 Comments
1. Sam L. Martin replies at 4th December 2007, 1:22 am :
We should remember that Kennedy’s proving ground was West Virginia, which is about 3% Catholic. Humphrey was a Protestant, but he lost the West Virginia primary to Kennedy. Then it was full steam ahead for the man whose family fortune was gotten from illegal liquor and from screwing people in the stock market. Now, Romney is making a bid. This January I will be staying at a Marriot, and I understand that the Gideon bibles have been removed and condoms and other goodies will be the replacement. The Mormon church owns the Marriot chain. So, it’s the same old story of which scum we’ll vote for. And Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the morals to rid herself of a husband who can’t keep his pants zipped. So it goes.
2. sherry replies at 4th December 2007, 8:10 am :
Here’s the relevant passage, Sam, from the Newsweek article that seems to have started all this Gideons for condoms kerfluffle:
The founder of the Marriott chain, John Willard Marriott was a Mormon, which I don’t think is exactly the same as the Mormon Church. The chains are now conglomerates and who knows who owns them. As I read the article however, it is not the Marriott hotels but some future “boutique” hotel (read for the very rich, I’d think) that may or may not have Gideon Bibles.
It isn’t a one-for-one switch—Oh! Let’s take out Bibles and put in condoms—but a connection made by the Newsweek article. The hotels in question seem to be somewhat cosmopolitan and let’s face it, the rich are not religious. And they are not religious in many different faiths. They do like their sex games, as do Republican and Democratic politicians.
As for the Clinton marriage, that’s their business and has always been their business. If we held in contempt every woman who ever stuck by a philandering husband, for whatever reason, we’d have contempt for a lot of women. And vice versa.
I will not vote for Mitt Romney but his Mormonism is way, way low on my list of reasons. I might start with the fact that he won’t define waterboarding as torture. Or that he’s flip-flopped the wrong way on abortion rights.
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