Wednesday, June 28, 2006
MORMONISM. I'VE HEARD OF IT.
Here's what libertarian New York Post scribe Ryan Sager has to say on the Real Clear Politics blog.
Good:
Mitt Romney is quickly emerging as the only plausible '08 alternative for social conservatives to more socially moderate frontrunners Rudy Giuliani and John McCain...
You bet he is!
Bad:
The elephant in the room, however, to use my new favorite phrase, is Romney's Mormonism. Evangelical conservatives are uncomfortable with it -- not necessarily hostile, but totally in the dark as to what Mormonism even is.
Um, not exactly. Evangelicals are both a bit brighter, and a bit more tolerant, than Ryan seems to think. Just ask John McCain and George Allen. We'll of course have more on this in the days and weeks to come.