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January 8th, 2008 By: Jason, Managing Editor | Tags:
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After much fanfare, the next great “swift-boat” campaign has revealed itself and turn out to be just another embittered anti-Mormon playing on a distant past link with Mitt Romney to get some ink and sell a few books. This Ed Decker wannabe claims to expose the true danger of a Mormon in the White House, but all he does is recycle some very old lies about what Mormons actually believe. (I won’t cover that here — if you want to know what Mormons really believe, ask one. You will find them persistently and at times even annoyingly eager to share.)

As reflected by Captain Ed’s dismissive post on this wackadoodle, this is nothing new. Al Smith faced exactly the same accusations about his Catholic faith in 1928 and John F. Kennedy overcame them in 1960. The continuing anti-Mormon offensive against Romney only appeals to people who already hated Mormons and already hated Romney for being one of them. All they serve to do when they highlight it is to drive people away from their own candidates.

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  1. mish
    January 9th, 2008 at 10:35
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    admin: Anti-Mormon bigotry = ban

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