By Robin Pennell
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politic on the gop side, if they are all gop, you know, in the first place, but the small segment that has raised this issue up through jeffress, i don t think romney has to go before the the republican party or the american people again on this subject. i think particularly given the comments that have been made over the past week. folks stand squarely with him on this, and i don t think he needs to explain anymore. i ll ask you the last question, michael, one that presumes your ability to know the minds of other men which i recognize is an impossibility, but put on your karnac hat. come on, dylan, i was chairman. respect, respect. i wonder how you believe a gop candidate, whoever it might be, would respond to the efforts represented in the get money out petition to try to separate business and state in a maturing election come next summer? wow. that s a good question.
well, i think that moment is right now, and every moment that he is quiet or voiceless on this thing is another moment that makes this more difficult. if, for example, he does begin to uptick in the polls again, it comes under greater scrutiny and then the pressure to answer becomes unsurmountable, and then, of course, you know in those situations you wind up saying things that make it worse. as i ve said before, you and i have talked about it and you ve written, get this behind you. deal with the issue up front. state very clearly, you know, how you feel about these things. this is not about, you know, the obvious, oh, yeah, we just painted over the rock. it s how you feel about it. it s do you appreciate the sensitivities here? the jeffress thing, you know, the attack on someone s religion, i don t care if it s mormonism or whatever it happens to be, is not something that people want this the body politic, and if you re a leading candidate and certainly one whose supporters are pus
grass roots and a lot of folks say, well, that s not true because they are not picking anybody but that s the point. they are taking their type. they are looking more carefully, and they are putting some things out there that are making these guys and gal, you know, run pretty hard, so i think from that standpoint it s going to be interesting, but having florida move up the calendar that they have, now you ve got iowa going january 3rd, i think the schedule plays much stronger to mitt romney, and if he has another debate performance like he did last night, you can pretty much stick a fork in this thing. what do you think, jonathan? michael, i want to ask you, you know, watching governor perry last night was like watching the incredibly shrinking man the longer that went on. yeah. he s got $17 million in the bank so he s not out of this unless he wants to be out of it. my question is at what point will governor perry have to deal forthrightly with the rock controversy and race a
side is going to emerge as the main competitor to mitt romney and we still don t know who that is. and there s one other drag on the romney candidacy as we saw emerge this weekend. it s something we ve always known about. and it s talked about mostly off camera. but we saw pastor robert jeffress who was on with chris matthews earlier tonight, saying this, creating a big firestorm around romney s religion. i believe mormons are good people. i alluded to that in the introduction. but i don t believe that they are christians. when all other things are equal, we prefer competent christians to competent non-christians who may be good moral people like mitt romney. howard, as we know, no matter what happens to that dialogue in terms of its public presentation, in terms of television, how much more air time it gets, it absolutely is the background noise on the ground in iowa among republican evangelicals and all states among republican evangelicals.