Speaking, as we were in the previous post, of nitwit questions as opposed to important ones. The trickle of stories urging Romney to give a Kennedy-style speech about his Mormonism is becoming a deluge. Honestly, does anyone know anyone who knows anyone who knows anyone who gives a fig that Romney is a Mormon --outside the pundits & reporters handicapping the race? That somewhere, someone does I don't doubt, but my strong sense is the number is negligible. I don't think anyone much cared that Kennedy was a Catholic, either --and back in March Tom Sowell
agreed with me (and if Tom Sowell says it, it must be so).
The religious issue was supposed to have been put to rest back in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was elected as the first Catholic president. Actually, it wasn't that big an issue in 1960, and some cynics said that the only one talking about it was JFK himself.
It's one of those false narratives folks who don't think too much of religious Americans believe. If evangelicals end up going for Huckabee instead, it will be as a favorite son, not to "git" the Mormon.
Update: I
stand corrected. Prof. K. drew out a few folks troubled by Romney qua Mormon (see comments).
