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Do you think they'd portray a Muslim as "weird"?
I hope they bring out the ever-tolerant Reverend Jerimiah Wright to do this "weird" Mormon bit. That'll be fun. Why doesn't Comrade Obama just run on his record and his "accomplishments" and leave the religious attacks out? His record is so outstanding that people will vote for him based on that anyway, right? http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...ndits-say.html President Obama's purported 'weird'-Mormon strategy against Mitt Romney will backfire, pundits say By Hal Boyd, Deseret News In reaction to yesterday's Politico article claiming that President Obama's re-election campaign will cast Mitt Romney as "weird," writers like the Atlantic Wire's Elspeth Reeve wrote stories with headlines like "Calling Romney 'Weird' Sounds Like Code for 'Mormon.'" Reeve's roundup of reaction to Politico's initial story included The Raw Story's Megan Carpentier, who had tweeted that "efforts by Obama to portray Romney as "weird" are dog-whistles to anti-Mormon sentiment." New York Times columnist Ross Douthat published a piece titled, "Mormonism and Mitt Romney's 'Weirdness,'" arguing that while indeed Romney's Mormonism might be considered "weird" by some voters in the general election — focusing on it will be a poor strategy. "The crucial thing to understand here is that Romney's Latter Day Saint affiliation isn't just a potential liability among evangelical voters in Republican primaries," wrote Douthat. "It's a potential general election liability as well." He cited Gallup poll results which show that the number of persons who said they would not vote for a Mormon is lower when just surveying Republicans (18 percent) but increases among Democrats (27 percent) and independents (19 percent). Douthat points out that if Obama decides to focus on casting Mormonism as "weird" and appealing to people "who know Mormonism primarily through pop culture … and who have a vague sense of the L.D.S. church as little bit cultish, a little bit outside-the-mainstream, and a little bit, well, weird ...(The Obama camp) will just make the Democrats look out of touch" during a campaign that will likely be focused on the economy and jobs. |
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All these religious attacks are going to make tolerant Liberals appear to be anything but tolerant. They're going to look Intolerant. Which is what they really are. They only tolerate other Lefties. They never have "tolerated" differing viewpoints.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily...n-39--20110809 Calling Romney 'Weird' Sounds Like Code for 'Mormon' By Elspeth Reeve Updated: August 11, 2011 | 9:11 a.m. August 9, 2011 | 1:33 p.m. If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for 2012, President Obama will reportedly have two things to say about him: he's greedy and he's weird. The greed part is based on Romney's work at Bain Capital, which frequently bought struggling companies and laid off workers. The weird part is based on his bad fashion and bad jokes, Politico reports. But Megan Carpentier thinks maybe it's really about Romney being Mormon. Carpentier notes that more than a third of Americans are "somewhat uncomfortable" or "entirely uncomfortable" with voting for Mormons, according to a Quinnipiac poll released in June. Further, Mormonism seems alien to many--the poll found just 25 percent think the religion is very or somewhat similar to their own. Politico's Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin report that Obama's campaign says it's not going after Romney's faith: None of the Obama advisers interviewed made any suggestion that Romney's personal qualities would be connected to his minority Mormon faith, but the step from casting Romney as a bit off to raising questions about religion may not be a large step for some of the incumbent's supporters. And instead, the Obama campaign is taking a page from George W. Bush's 2004 campaign against John Kerry, portraying his opponent as just generally disconnected from the way regular people live: The character attacks on Romney will focus on what critics view as a makeover, both personal (skinny jeans) and political (abortion). Democrats also plan to amplify what Obama strategists described as the "weirdness" quotient, the sum of awkward public encounters and famous off-kilter anecdotes, first among them the tale of Romney having strapped his dog to the roof of his car. |
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I've actually met some Evangelicals who are Romney supporters in the last month or so, which surprised me. I hadn't heard of anyone but other Mormons supporting him until recently. Smear tactics don't normally work, because people see through them. I do see having two Mormons as running for president as being a step forward for the LDS faith. People will be more willing to learn about the Church.
Kennedy was smeared because he was Catholic. |
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