Going After Romney's Mormon Faith
June 21, 2007
Did you see this little ditty in the Boston Globe today? It seems like rival campaigns won't lay off the Romney Mormon thing. Read below:
Gathering for their April meeting at the county courthouse, Republican activists from Warren County, Iowa, planned for this summer's county fair and vented about illegal immigration.
And then the county chairman for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, Chad Workman, made an unexpected digression: He took direct aim at Mitt Romney's religion, according to four people at the meeting.
Workman questioned whether Mormons were Christians, discussed an article alleging that the Mormon Church helps fund Hamas, and likened the Mormons' treatment of women to the Taliban's, said participants, who requested anonymity to discuss the meeting freely.
One participant summed up Workman's argument this way: "The fundamental flaw of Mitt Romney... was that he was Mormon, not because he thinks this way or that way on one issue."
Workman did not return calls seeking comment.
Read the whole article here.
It appears more than ever that Romney is going to have to deliver the JFK speech -- where Kennedy tried to calm everybody down about his Catholic faith. The Mormon issue is not going to go away. As a matter of fact, it's going to build even more if Romney continues to build momentum. He may not need to go one by one breaking down each Mormon article of faith, but a generic speech about how a presidential candidate shouldn't be judged on his particular brand of faith won't go far enough. He needs to go farther and tackle this head on. I'll leave the specifics up to the campaign.
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