Salt Jones
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Why pro-Obama forces on the campaign trail, in the media, in backroom strategy meetings, etc. can't afford to dissect Romney's religion as a way to discredit him:
A. Harry Reid
I'd say it should be off-limits since Jeremiah Wright's sermons were. That wouldn't be enough to stop Democratic strategists two-facedness though.
But Harry Reid being Mormon will.
They can't afford to undermine the leader of the Senate.
Are you REALLY this stupid? When was the last time anyone in the Democratic party made a comment that Romney's religion is an issue? If you recall during the campaign leading up to the 2008 election, it was the GOP who made it an issue. So much so, that Romeny felt the need to dedicate a whole speech to it.
I don't listen to all that many people in the Democrat party. Democrats on the grass roots / forum level seem to have a problem with some Christian denominations. And Maddow made it a point to ask Carter if Romney's religion would be a problem. Why was she talking about it? Not saying she or any one on the left posed it as something objectionable. Edit to add: I forgot - I have seen people on the left saying they would never vote for a Mormon because of how Mormons treated blacks.
But whatever they are saying in the venues I don't listen to, I don't understand why you ask if I'm stupid. I know what people are saying on my side. I'm mostly addressing them. My point is the powers that be won't make a deal about Romney's religion. Perhaps you haven't been reading the posts by people who say they will. Some on the right are suggesting the left will make a big deal out of it. Some on the right are doing this to try to convince Romney supporters that Romney will be another McCain.
McCain whom the New York Times endorsed for the Republican nomination and then went into overdrive to discredit after he won the nomination.
I'm sure that a lot of liberals who are now talking about Romney as the Republican who has the best chance against Obama will indeed start trash talking him after he wins the nomination. I'm just saying that contrary to what some on the right (and in the middle?) are saying, I don't think they will use his religion to do that.
If people on the editorial staff at MSNBC start talking about doing exposes on Mormonism - as some on the right are saying they will - I'd expect someone in the room to say, um, wait, that could backfire on us.
Businessman and presidential candidate Herman Cain is nothing if not outspoken. In a candid interview with the Washington Times published Monday, Cain said GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney would be a "good choice" but will have problems winning the Southern primaries, just as he had in 2008. Cain's reasoning? The former Massachusetts governor's ties to Romneycare and being a Mormon.
Cain was making a case for why he would be the better Republican for the 2012 nomination when he made an issue of Romney's religion. In conjunction with the Massachusetts state health care system supported by and made law by Romney when he was governor, Cain contended that Romney could not and would not win primaries in the South.
He said Romney's religion did not bother him but "I do know that it's an issue with a lot of Southerners."
"I know the South," the Atlanta radio talk show host and CEO of Godfather's Pizza told the Times, "and you have to win the South. Mitt Romney didn't win the South when John McCain won the South and Mike Huckabee won the South. And I think that the reason he will have a difficult time winning the South is when he ran the first time he did not do a good job of communicating his religion."
Herman Cain Says Romney Can't Win Because He's Mormon - Yahoo! News
Is Herman Cain lying?