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on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:38:00 PM
I was going to post on this subject a few days ago but I'm glad I waited. KLo at NRO did a
better job.Still, here's my take:
There's a fly in the ointment for the folks who discount the possibility of republicans (especially
conservative evangelical christian republicans) voting for the Mormon governor of Massachusetts. The problem is 'Mormon' will not be on the ballot in '08. 'Mitt Romney' just might be.
But "Hillary Clinton" might be on the ballot as well although that no longer seems quite the lead-pipe cinch. But that's a whole raft of posts by itself.
Whoever the dems nominate, answer me this: If the republicans nominate a socially conservative Mormon, does the notion that conservative christians (or those who would normally vote republican) would, in a fit of theological outrage, either a) stay home or (don't laugh) b) vote for the (most likely) liberal/leftist democrat nominee ring true to you? Maybe in KOStopia.
Hopefully this will not dissuade the dems from attacking Romney as a socially conservative man of faith because I agree with KLo that that such a move could very well give us President Mitt Romney. From the column:
The media, naturally, will continue to miss the real story: the fact
that Romney’s convictions, as they are translated into politics, might
make him more, rather than less, appealing to evangelicals. This isn’t
just conservative grousing, either: CNN political analyst Bill
Schneider recently remarked, to the L.A. Times, that “the
press is one of the most secular institutions in American society. It
just doesn’t get religion or any idea that flows from religious
conviction.”
The above also applies to the democrats and I think it will be their undoing in '08 if they find themselves facing Mitt Romney.