awkward robots don't become presidents. millions of americans are voting by their gut, and their guts don't like romney.

It doesn't matter.

Nobody is beating Obama in this election and the GOP knows it.

They are just going to use this election to position themselves for next time.

so many Americans think that Mormons are cultists that there is no way he'll be elected.

 

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Romney can win if he can spin not releasing his tax returns. He pays less than 15% income tax and writes off donations to the Mormon church. Each of those will alienate a subset of the Republicans.


There's also the matter of his father being Mexican.


None of these are dealbreakers, but it will make for an interesting campaign.

 

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I don't think many people are going to care that his father was Mexican, might get him a few more Mexican votes, but in my experience they are generally strict Catholics that feel very strongly about Mormons.

 

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Didn't people say something similar about JFK?

It was something like he would never be elected because, as a Catholic, people would be too afraid that he would just listen to whatever the Pope said and not make his own decisions, etc.

Lo and behold, first Catholic president ever.

 

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Romney is a rich elite socialist championed by Fox News. Ron Paul is much more electable than him.

 

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it's not as though your votes count

 

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lol, that proves what? JFK =\= romney.

could romney pull off this speech?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16920600

Transcript: JFK's Speech on His Religion

"........But let me stress again that these are my views. For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.

Whatever issue may come before me as president — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.

But if the time should ever come — and I do not concede any conflict to be even remotely possible — when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election.

If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser — in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people."


lol

Mormons are pretty damn crazy.

 

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