Rubio and Media Double Standards
BuzzFeed wins the prize for one of the most unexpected political revelations of the campaign season: [Sen. Marco] Rubio was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his family...
View ArticleBad Advice for Romney on Mormon Issue
A common feature of the competitive political news industry is the high volume of overpromising headlines. A good example is today’s Politico feature, headlined “GOP to Mitt: Own your Mormonism.” The...
View ArticleMormon Church Shifting on Gay Rights?
This CNN story seems a little too perfectly-timed, like it’s part of some sort of Mormon church rebranding campaign. The church’s image is still heavily associated with the 2008 Prop. 8 campaign in...
View ArticleHere We Go Again: Romney’s New Slogan is “Racist”
Last time, the complaint was that Mitt Romney’s slogan was formerly used by the Ku Klux Klan – a claim that turned out to be complete fiction. Now Romney’s latest slogan is being criticized for...
View ArticleAcademia’s Bigoted Feedback Loop
Yesterday, James Taranto discussed the left’s cultural contempt for middle America. He quotes the American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord, who argued that the Democratic Party’s elite around John F. Kennedy...
View Article4 in 10 Liberals Hold Anti-Mormon Bias
Pundits have speculated that Mitt Romney’s Mormonism may hurt him with some Christian conservatives, but it appears that anti-Mormon prejudice is actually on the rise among liberals more than any other...
View ArticleMormon Issue Not New for Romney Adviser
Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski has unearthed a fascinating old C-SPAN clip from 1994, after Ted Kennedy defeated Mitt Romney in that year’s Massachusetts Senate race. The clip shows Stu Stevens, a GOP...
View ArticleVoters and Romney’s Mormon Faith
There’s been some concern that Republican-leaning evangelical voters might be hesitant to vote for Mitt Romney because of his religion. But the latest Pew Research Center survey found little...
View ArticleNew Liberal Attack Meme: Romney 3.0 a ‘Mission From God’
So far the reviews about the rollout of a campaign to elect Mitt Romney president in 2016 haven’t been raves. Many Republicans and conservatives see no reason to give their 2012 nominee another shot at...
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