A quick question -- have the candidates for president for the 2012 election announced yet? If not, why not? I mean, these elections are getting worse than the "mew model year" car sales and commercials starting earlier and earlier. Folks, if you're running for president for 2012, you better get started now, because you'll be behind! Can we finish one presidency before we start the next one?

But of course, with 24-hour news and blogs, everyone has to talk about something, so the 2008 presidential election is it.

So, Mark Joseph, of the Associated (with terrorists) Press has an analysis that claims that Mitt Romney doesn't stand a chance to get the GOP nod for 08 because of his religion. This will never be an issue with Democrat politicians, because to loyal Democrats, government IS their religion.

However, Mr. Joseph makes the same error (perhaps intentionally) that many "analysts" make -- he associates conservatives with Republicans. The National Republican Party, George Bush included, has nothing to do with conservatives. If you think President Bush is a conservative, you're misinformed. There is almost nothing that Bush has done that could be considered conservative. The same goes for the previous Republican Congress.

Now, do conservatives vote for Republicans? Sometimes simply because they feel that they don't have any other choice. One of the biggest tenents of conservatives that simply has no home in today's national politics is smaller government. If you want smaller government, there is NO home for you at all in national politics today.

But then Mr. Joseph goes on to insult Evangelical Christians by declaring that none of them will vote for Romney because he's a Morman. I'm sorry, but I haven't seen that poll. I know a lot of Evangelicals that vote, and I don't know a single on that would base their decision primarily on membership in the Mormon religion. Instead, Mr. Joseph tries to muddy the waters by mentioning a poll in which 35% of Americans claim they wouldn't vote for a Mormon -- not mentioning how many, if ANY, of that 35% were these evangelical Christian voters.

Perhaps that entire 35% were atheists. There are no links or data for the actual poll, so no one knows.

Mitt Romney's going to have a harder time overcoming the idea that he's from super-liberal Massachusetts than he's going to have convincing people to vote for him because of his religion. But that wouldn't help the AP's agenda of attacking and insulting evangelicals, so that's not going to make the reports, is it?

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