The Holy Cow! Candidate - © Copyright 2005 The Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200509/pappu
This article from the Atlantic Monthly I believe is very good. I know from reading that some people are uncomfortable about the temple garments question, but I believe that Mr. Romney took that question in stride, and moved on. For me as a member who has been through the temple, it really didn’t bother me all that much. It wasn’t asked in a disrespectful way. Besides that one controversial question, the rest really is good. It really shows him as Presidential.
Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He’s also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the “two Ms”—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president?
by Sridhar Pappu
July 30th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
I read the article, Gurl, and I agree that it is very good. Questions like those about the garments WILL be asked, and geting them out of the way early, and in a manner which flatters the Governor, are a bonus.
I honestly think that the punditocracy is overestimating the hostility of evangelicals to Mormons. What they want is a moral PERSON, and Romney is that.
Don’t forget, Gore was the Baptist, and Bush is a Methodist. The person is bigger than the denomination.