Could (Mormon) Mitt Romney get elected president?

[Cyrano]

There's currently a DU front page recommended post about the Mormon Church. Mitt Romney is a Mormon.

I know people who think Mormons are a cult. And I know others who don't consider Mormons to be "True Christians."

As an extremely orthodox agnostic, I don't agree or disagree with these opinions. (And if you don't know what an agnostic is, it's someone who thinks that the existence or non-existence of some all-knowing intelligent entity is unknowable.)

So (after Obama's first and second terms) do you think Mitt Romney could be elected president?

[Metta]

1. Not a chance in hell. He's anti-people and pro-greed.

Happy karma on your next life as a non-human, Mitt.

[d_b]

2. Romney/Jindal '12

please oh please.

[MNDemNY]

3. A cult is a cult is a church. Ta-da-de-do.

Must we now argue "degrees" of cultiness?

[onenote]

4. Is the question whether a Mormon can get elected or whether Mitt can get elected?

I wouldn't rule out either possibility. Four years ago I wouldn't have thought an African-American (or someone who is regarded as African-American even if one can argue that is not exactly accurate in the case of Obama) could get elected president. I reversed my view during the primaries, so I'm swearing off making assumptions about elections four years out...

[msongs]

5. not gonna get too many glbt votes....nt

[Johonny]

6. isn't his true religion $$$

Listen to his convention speech where he blames all of Americas problems on liberalism and embraces deregulation, and trickle down economics.

[Marsala]

7. A Mormon? Yes. Mitt Romney? Hell no.

The man is a total phony who will say anything and take any position to be elected.

[Cyrano]

9. Good grief! The man sounds like ... like... dare I say it? A POLITICIAN

[liberalpragmatist]

8. I think so

I think Mitt would have lost this year, but I don't think his religion would have been the decisive factor. For the most part, conservatives and religious voters who were wary of him early on would eventually have swallowed hard and voted for him. And as he got more exposure on the campaign trail, a lot of those people who said they wouldn't vote for a Mormon would have changed their minds.

Honestly, I wonder if Mitt might have lost by less than McCain -- maybe 1-3 points less. He almost certainly would not have picked Palin as his running mate, would almost certainly not have run such an erratic, chaotic campaign, and he almost certainly would have at least projected a more competent image during the financial crisis (i.e. no "rushing back to Washington" stunt). Sure, he'd have been championing the same brain-dead conservative policies, but at least he would have looked like he knew what he was talking about, unlike McCain.

Of course, oddly enough, I think it's possible Romney would have done 1-2 points better than McCain in the popular vote but worse in the electoral college. Romney would have been weaker in the South, which means Obama might have won Missouri (southern Missouri is very "Southern" in character), and without McCain on the Republican ticket, Arizona would have been competitive and might even have flipped to Obama.

[SidneyCarton]

10. No chance in Hell.

And I post this as a Practicing Mormon. The Republicans would nominate Satan before they'd nominate him, and I'd vote for Satan before I'd vote for that two-faced moron.

[camera obscura]

11. I really doubt anyone other than a Christian could get elected.

The Republican party is pretty blind to the prejudices of their own base.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Never underestimate that man.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

[Clio the Leo]

13. He certainly has the hair for it....

.... and really, that's all that matters.

[midnight armadillo]

17. The teeth, too. He's got great teeth.

I really hope the Republicans nominate him and he loses, big time, to the Obama juggernaut in 2012. I will never forgive that gigantic shit-sucking rotten flip-flopping flounder for traveling around the country badmouthing Massachusetts and making the people who voted for him the butt of his jokes when he was the state's governor.

[Jennicut]

14. Mormons, Catholics, black men, women, who cares anymore?

Obama broke the rules on what we can and can't do. But as far as Romney himself goes, he is a slick snakeoil salesman with the personality of a turd. I say no.

[tabbycat31]

15. i hope not

my soon to be brother in law was on the paid Romney campaign staff and if Mitty Boy's views are as corporatist as his campaign staff, then we're in for a dangerous four years.

And I misread the original thread title as "could moron Mitt Romney be elected president"

And after 8 years, I'd have to wonder about age. I am too lazy to look up Romney's age, but that could be a factor. It didn't help McCain, who might have been elected in 2000 if he beat Bush in the primaries.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Those are separate questions.

Could a Mormon be elected? Sure.

Could Mitt Romney be elected? Gawd I hope not.

[SmileyRose]

18. Stupid, soulless, tall, rich - he's the perfect Republican candidate.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. Well, the polygamy loving, dog abusing, corporate raiding, thinks Satan & Jesus are brothers bastard

DID somehow get elected in one of the most Liberal states in the country.

How the Outer Darkness* did that happen? :wtf:







































*Mormonspeak for "Hell"

[PBS Poll-435]

20. Governor of Utah is not beyond his appeal.

NT

[Monk06]

21. Christianity started out as a cult. Specifically a hybrid of Judaism and Greek Paganism.

The early church had to parse the Trinity to
give the appearance of monotheism. God, the Son
and the Holy Ghost are separate but one !!!???
Metaphysical gobble-d-gook.

Even Judaism is crowded with extra deities that
were foreign to Abraham.

[TexasObserver]

22. That will never happen.

Most Christians consider LDS a cult, and they're not far from being right.

[trayfoot]

23. No