The Mormon's Miscalculation

I think this is about right:

Blame Christians. By significant margins, in poll after poll, in vote after vote a solid block of evangelical Christians said they would never vote for a Mormon. Since evangelicals made up nearly half of the Republican primary vote in some states, Romney was up against a deep well of distrust of a religion that many evangelicals still label a cult.
It showed again Tuesday, in exit polls in the bellwether state of Missouri. Among the small group of Republican voters who say they never go to church, Romney got his highest vote total – 39 percent. Among people who attend services more than once a week, he received his lowest, 21 percent.

Put another way, those dreaded secularists – whom Romney himself criticized in his off-tune and hugely miscalculated speech on religion in December – were far more likely to vote for him than were the most devout Christians.

It’s tempting to call these voters anti-Mormon bigots. Polls show evangelicals are three times as likely to vote for a black candidate as a Mormon. In the late 1960s, the percentage of Americans who said they would not vote for a Jew was in the teens. By 2000, that number was down to the low single digits. A similar tolerance opened up for Catholics.

After years of stoking the Christianist, End Times fires, the GOP is finally reaping what it has sown; it's thrown away it's best possible presidential candidate in favor of nominating someone who will lose, so a significant part of the base can "show them" how important this Christianists are.

I also largely suspect the leaders of the GOP really want to elect Hillary Clinton. They were never so powerful, or felt as needed, as when they were battling the Clintons, and a rematch probably seems very tempting. A number of articles I read over the weekend suggests the evangelicals want to elect a democrat for 4 years in a repeat of the Carter administration. The idea is that 4 years after that, they'll get a Reagan-like figure.

Of course, history doesn't work that way, but who am I to deny the destiny, power and plan of sky-father?