Will religious conservatives rally to Mitt Romney?

[cbayer]

This is the enemy. If they organize, will they be harder or easier to target?

http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-04/will-religious-conservatives-rally-mitt-romney


Apr 10, 2012 by David Gibson

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Even before Mitt Romney swept the first three primaries in April, effectively ending Rick Santorum's presidential bid in the eyes of the pundits if not Santorum himself, Mark DeMoss was fielding calls from religious conservatives who sensed the end was nigh and were eager to set up meetings with Romney.

DeMoss, an evangelical public relations executive and a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, also said that immediately after Romney's latest victories he got a call from a prominent evangelical who wanted to organize a summit with other Christian conservatives to start rallying support for Romney for the fall campaign.

If the meeting comes off, it would represent a marked counterpoint to conservative conclaves earlier this year that strongly backed Santorum.

Also that week, on April 1, Richard Land, the top public policy official for the Southern Baptist Convention and no fan of Romney, penned an Op-Ed in USA Today saying Romney's nomination was inevitable and explaining why evangelicals would rally behind him.

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[wandy]

1. Republicans will head their master's voice and support who ever they are told to...

Be the giver of truth Rush Limbaugh or their paster they will do what they are told. Think what it is acceptable to think.
What would you expect from herd animals.

[atreides1]

2. We know why they would support him

Because like the true prostitutes that they are, the evangelicals will sell themselves just to get a share in the power of the White House!

Weren't these the same evangelicals who in the past have labeled the Mormon church as a cult, and now they want to climb in bed for a share of the pie?

I was mistaken, these evangelicals aren't prostitutes, because even prostitutes have standards...

[cbayer]

3. I think it will be interesting to see this unfold.

He is really not one of them at all and many evangelicals are angry. They feel they were used in the past to get conservaitves elected. They were promised that abortion would be totally banned and GLBT people would be pushed back. Neither of these things happened.

Hopefully some of them have woken up and either won't vote at all or see that Obama is their better choice.

[MADem]

4. Not the ones who think what Rick Warren has to say matters.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/rick-warren-fundamental-differences-between-mormons-and-christians/

WARREN: Well, the key sticking point for evangelicals and actually for many is the issue of the Trinity. Orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians, Protestant Christians, evangelical Christians and Pentecostal Christians all believe in the Trinity; that’s the historic doctrine of the church, that God is three-in-one. Not three gods; one God in Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
WARREN: Mormonism denies that. That’s a sticking point for a lot of Catholic Christians, evangelical Christians, Pentecostal Christians, because they don’t — they don’t believe that. Now they’ll use the same terminology, but they don’t believe in the historic doctrine of the Trinity. And people have tried to make it other issues. But that’s really one of the fundamental differences.

[cbayer]

5. Exactly. This puts them in a really tough place.

I am just hoping they all stay home.

[eqfan592]

13. All of them staying home would be awesome, but is unlikely...

...but I'd be shocked if a solid percentage of them decided to do just that. They have to be feeling disenfranchised.

[madrchsod]

7. i`d say the christian right would rather have a united church of christ president

even if he is black and a democrat than a white mormon.

[madrchsod]

6. i can`t see the religious right backing a mormon

these two have been fighting each other since the early 1800`s and i have`t seen any peace treaty between them.

[PassingFair]

8. Well, their other choice is a black muslim.

So yes.

Mormons ho!

<-----If this is necessary.

[Goblinmonger]

9. I really don't think they will

but I certainly don't see them voting for Obama.

Which leads me to think there may be a 3rd party run this time around, but I don't think these people are that stupid--but I could be wrong. It will certainly be entertaining to watch. I just really don't believe they will hold their nose and vote for a Mormon.

[Silent3]

14. I do keep hoping, even if it's unlikely...

...that there will be a separate Tea Party candidate put out there for the Republicans who don't think Romney is conservative or Christian enough. Split the vote up that way, and I'm pretty sure the economy could collapse over the summer and Obama would still be a shoe-in.

Huckabee? Chuck Norris?

Ray Comfort (with Kirk Cameron for VP) on the Banana Republican ticket?

[pinto]

10. Begrudgingly, perhaps. I think their main focus will be Congressional / state races.

They want the House as rigidly right wing as possible and want to keep the numbers to gridlock the Senate.

[Goblinmonger]

11. I think the Repub party as a whole has decided to do this.

I don't think Mitt has a shot.

[2ndAmForComputers]

12. Let's tell them prolonged Democratic control of the WH and Congress will hasten the End Times.

And then they'll get raptured and go to Heaven where they can watch us be boiled in lava forever and ever and ever.

Hey, a vote is a vote.

[longship]

15. That is an excellent, but tough, question

I am sure that some evangelicals will not vote for Romney, but how can you know if it would be significant without polling. And there would be issues with any such poll because it may be unlikely that people would self-report that they're not voting for him because of his LDS membership.

Has there been any polling?

[cbayer]

16. I think the polling data, as it comes in, is going to be really interesting.

They are really in a bind here and my bet is that they will stay home in droves or only vote down ticket.