Obama’s campaign says that they will not play the Mormon card. Romney will not bring up Jeremiah Wright (despite what Axelrod says in the video below). Here is a taste from CNN:
Washington (CNN)– A political truce may be brewing between the Obama and Romney campaigns on the issue of the candidates’ faith and religious practice. An all-out war over such issues nearly erupted last week, but neither campaign would take up arms.
The controversy began after word got out of a Republican Super PAC’s proposal to try to put a spotlight on President Barack Obama’s fiery former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., just like in 2008. But Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, slapped the effort down before it even got off the ground (and the Super PAC’s leaders insisted the Wright campaign was just one of several ideas).
“I repudiate that effort,” Romney told reporters on Thursday. “I think it’s the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign. I hope that our campaigns can respectfully be about the future and about issues and about a vision for America.”
Romney’s lifelong membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seen by some as a major liability, especially among evangelical voters and voters who don’t know much about Mormonism.
After word of the proposed Wright campaign, Democratic pundits argued that if Obama’s old pastor was back on the table, Romney’s Mormonism should be, too, including the church’s checkered history on the issue of race.
Read the rest here. Let’s see how long this so-called “truce” lasts.
A nice idea, but Obama has his surrogates in the press to do his dirty work.
Why look, a NYT article on Mormons and race! What were the odds?
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-mormons-and-politics-of-identity.html
If this weren't all so obvious it would be interesting, John.