Mormon's, I'm going to hate to be the one to tell you this, well, not really, but Mitt Romney has no chance in heaven or hell of ever being President of this United States. It just isn't going to happen.
Outside of Utah, and believe me, I've spent plenty of time outside of Utah, no one takes Mormon's seriously. The rest of the country sees you as a cult of crazy people who believe in Golden Plates no one has ever seen, that, "God" lives on Planet Kolob, and you wear, "Magic" under ware. I say this as a man who married a Mormon, who loves her side of the family who is ALL Mormon, but I'm just telling you the truth here because living in Utah, you don't really get the big picture. If you only listen to the local media? You'd think you're perceived just like Catholics in the South or Baptists in the Northeast. A little different, but not too different. Not true. The rest of the country sees you more like, "Moonies" or, "Scientologists".
If you think I'm making this up, watch ANY THING done by, Bill Maher in the last five years.
So that's why Mitt will never be President Mitt. He's going to be more like Walter Mondale.
If you're not a political nut like me, you might not remember, "Fritz" Mondale. He was Vice President under, Jimmy Carter. And, no, I'm not going to defend the Carter Administration. He was a pretty ineffective President. But I will say this. He might have been the last decent, honest, truly, "Christian" person we elected President in this country. He did a lousy job at being President, but he was a good person.
If you remember this joke, you do pay attention to politics. What do Hamilton Jordan and Roselin Carter have in common? They both, "blow a little dope" in the White House.
Fritz was the sacrificial lamb for the Democrats in the 1984 Presidential Election running against Ronald Reagan. An incumbent and, in some quarters, popular President. Just like Mitt is going to be this time.
Even Republicans will have to admit that Obama is popular in some quarters. Like the smart, Liberal, well educated, minority, tolerant, quarters.
Fritz won his home state of Minnesota's electoral votes. That was it. Just Minnesota. He was a popular guy, well liked. But just couldn't get the votes.
Mitt will be the same way. But it won't be his HOME state of Michigan. It won't be the state where he lives and was Governor, Massachusetts. It will be Utah. Mitt will win all five electoral votes from Utah, and none from anywhere else.
What used to be the Democratic, and now is the Conservative, Bible Belt South won't vote for him because he's a Mormon. The Northeast won't vote for him because he's repudiating all the good things he did in Massachusetts to try to win the Conservative vote. He won't get the votes in the Midwest because he doesn't want government to spend any money, and government money is the driving force behind economic recovery. And even though he signed into effect a law mandating it in Massachusetts, he's opposed to a national health care plan. Folks in Michigan and Ohio know that's the only way we can keep making cars there. He won't win the west coast because there are more people in California and West of the mountains in Oregon and Washington than east of them, who are Liberal!
That gives him Utah. Maybe Idaho, Arizona and Montana. Bo Gritz was from Montana. He was popular with the White Supremacists.
And a Mormon.
So please feel free to put your, "MITT" bumper stickers on your Dodge mini van, next to your, B "heart" U sticker. On the opposite side of the back window from your stickers of all your family members, to show that you are just THAT much more Mormon than the family who DOESN'T have five kid stickers. But it's an exercise in futility.
Being a Mitt supporter in Utah, in the big picture, is kind of like pissing your pants in a hockey uniform. It gives you a warm feeling, but nobody, on a national level, notices.
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