Care to talk about the candidate debate last night? I wish some of these guys would step down. There are too many of them. In short, we need a conservative leader, not another Reagan so much as a skilled leader who will cut back government’s reach and defend our country at home and abroad.
Yesterday, a co-worker told me he would not vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstance because of his Mormonism. This week, World Magazine’s cover story is a feature on Romney, and it starts with this anti-Mormon sentiment from a reader. “It bothers me a whole lot that someone that bright could fall for the stories about where Mormonism came from, and all that blather about the golden tablets,” the man says. That isn’t the theme of World’s article, but it does pertain to Romney’s challenges in the race for The White House.
What do you think? Will you vote for Romney in the primary or general election?
I’d vote for Romney against any Democrat in the field. Yet I have to admit if a Muslim were nominated by the Republicans, I’d have serious trouble with that. So I guess I’m not entirely consistent. But these things are paramount in my mind:
1. I want a candidate who can win.
2. I want a candidate who will win the war on Terror.
3. I want a candidate who will appoint originalist judges.
I don’t much care about the religion of that candidate, assuming he’s not planning a theocratic coup.
Yes, that’s part of it. A Muslim candidate would have to demonstrate his allegiance to the country and our Judeo-Christian social norms over the word of any Imam. That struggle to prove himself would probably keep him from being nominated by the GOP.