Obama campaign: We won't talk about Romney's Mormonism

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

May 20, 2012

Obama campaign: We won't talk about Romney's Mormonism

By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY
Updated 1h 39m ago

Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod says the president won't consider raising questions about Mitt Romney's Mormonism.

But Axelrod questioned the sincerity of Romney's repudiation last week of a proposal considered by a conservative super PAC to remind voters of President Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"We've said that's not fair game," Axelrod said in an interview on CNN's State of the Union. "And we wish that Gov. Romney would stand up as strongly and as resolutely consistently to refute these kinds of things on his side. Instead he's amplified them in the past. And he's put logs on that fire. And that's not leadership."

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[NeverEnuff]

1. Rmoney's Leadership

Leadership to Romney is like Calculus to a hamster.

[Permanut]

2. Axelrod is 100% correct....

to leave religion out of the campaign. There is no way to bring it in without creating a monster. The right wing wackjobs will harp on it night and day, of course. Everyone knows that President Obama is either a proselyte of that evil Reverend Wright, or a Muslin born in Kenya; probably both.


They will bait any Democrat who will listen; I hope none bite.

[and-justice-for-all]

3. They can, I will not..

If that fucker Rmoney starts that "Obama is a Muslim" bullshit, they better let his Mormonism have it!!

[Vryus]

4. and-justice-for-all (Original Post)

I have never been someone who endorses this kind of stuff but I have to agree. If they start with that fictional crap then it's time to let loose on Romney and his Mormon beliefs. Guess we could say they will "endanger America" or some such BS just like the Right likes to do.

[protect our future]

5. Okay, the campaign won't touch it.

But I will. There's a lot to consider when you know religion will greatly influence policy.

[Swede Atlanta]

6. I applaud Obama for once again taking the moral high ground......

however...not raising issues around the religious or other beliefs of a candidate when those beliefs will directly inform, guide and control their policy decisions is folly.

I was raised in the inter-mountain west in a community that was 50% Mormon. While, as a traditional Protestant Christian, their beliefs are suspect of cultish behavior, I respect them for their beliefs.

But, as we saw in California with Proposition 8, the Mormon Church interjected itself into the political issue of gay marriage. The Catholic Church, while refusing to address their complicity in pedophilia for decades around the world, continue to inject themselves in discussions about the proper role of women, a woman's right to access to birth control and a woman's right to make decisions regarding her own body.

That is where I see raising religion as fair game. As other posters have noted, if a Super-PAC supporting RMoney alleges Jeremiah Wright or that Obama is a Muslim, etc. then it is only fair game for Super-PACs and others with an interest in re-electing Obama can certainly raise the question of RMoney's religion - his magic underwear, his church's and his own family history's love of polygamy, etc.