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...They distrust the governor, and for good reason. The press prints him as the flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts. Pundits deem his political discipline robotic: he’s incapable of emotion, they warn, and driven by self-interest. When Romney has shown otherwise, he’s pulled a fast one on us—ever the salesman, always shifting his stances...
Speaking at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas Thursday morning, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney countered questions about his Mormon faith by throwing down an implicit question of his own to religious conservatives: Who are you more afraid of - Mormons or secularists...
...about what exactly he believes. The candidate promised at the beginning of his address that "I will offer perspectives on how my own faith would inform my Presidency," and asserted throughout that he was shaped by his religious beliefs, but he left the details vague. He mentioned the word "Mormon" only once, in a passage forcefully refusing to distance himself from his faith, and referred instead to "my faith" or "my church" on ten other occasions...
...that the shared political and social concerns of religious conservatives across faith traditions require them to join forces in the public square. But that argument only holds so long as evangelical Republicans have no other candidates to choose from. The question isn't whether evangelical voters could support a Mormon, but whether they would back a Mormon over an equally appealing Catholic or Protestant. Like, say, Mike Huckabee...
...Like Kennedy and his Catholics, Romney presumably has a lock on the Mormon vote. But that bloc is much smaller, perhaps five or six million strong. And instead of being concentrated in swing states, Mormons reside largely in intermountain states that for the most part are already solidly Republican. In the key states where Romney faces an early test, he isn't likely to find many Mormons, no matter what he says on Thursday...