Comments on: 2012: The Mormon Campaign

By: MCQ

MCQ — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:13:57 +0000

Thanks Michael. Looks like a fascinating film and I would very much like to see it.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:54:41 +0000

I’m the producer of a new film about Mormons and politics: http://youtu.be/4mvShCOHY_c. If interested, please read more about the film at thereligioustest.com and send me a link if you write a post about it. Thanks!

By: annegb

annegb — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:52:34 +0000

This is the deal: Huntsman looks weird. He can’t win.

Mitt Romney has a weird Dudley Do-Right thing going, but he’s got some kind of strength, too, beyond the weirdness.

I don’t know that either of them is up to the bare knuckles aspect of running for president. Although, Romney at least has a clue. Because of his dad.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:29:51 +0000

My guess is that the perception of Mormons will shift slightly away from naive backwards polygamists and towards naive wealthy conservatives. The end result will be a whole new round of stereotypes and Mormon jokes. Yay.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:47:48 +0000

Sarah Palin is a professional political celebrity. She had to give up governing Alaska because the job got in the way of cashing in on her fame. If she runs for president it will be to pump up the Palin brand for another year or two celebritying.

Romney and Huntsman are both a lot richer than most candidates, probably a lot richer than anyone who could run in 2012 except Bloomberg. I wonder how that will play into perceptions of Mormons if both are running simultaneously.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:41:01 +0000

I can’t even come close to imagining that Sarah Palin is the consensus candidate of Tea Party supporters. If she runs, I imagine she will do it to play kingmaker, not out of any serious hope of getting elected. She is far too controversial for that, and I think she knows it.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:28:54 +0000

I don’t think Hillary is running. If the democrat wins, it’s going to be Obama. No way the dems are going to dump a siting president in the primary.

But yeah, if the tea party is powerful enough to get Palin in as the nominee, the general election will be a bloodbath and the dems will win by a landslide. Palin and Huckabee are just not credible candidates in the general election.

By: annegb

annegb — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:05:40 +0000

So, think about it. Say the tea partiers put up Sarah Palin, the Republican vote gets split and we’ll have Hilary Clinton in the White House. I wouldn’t want Huntsman for president.

By: ESO

ESO — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:33:16 +0000

I’m not backtracking at all. I still believe that he will “go nowhere,” defined as not being the Republican nominee.

If the Tea Party hijacks the Republican party this time round, I think it would be an interesting year for a third party candidate, perhaps a relative moderate like Romney would do well there. By “well,” I mean be the nominee–I don’t think a third party candidate would actually win this year.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:42:17 +0000

ESO, you’re backtracking. But you may be right that he won’t win the nomination. I think the most likely thing said so far though, is that Huntsman’s entry into the campaign will split the Romney vote. Romney should probably try to make a deal with Huntsman and keep him out of the race.

I do think, though, that having another credible Mormon in the campaign will remove the novelty from Romney’s religion and make it a moot issue.

Dan, don’t toot your own horn. Nothing you say is ever said beautifully.