December 06, 2007

The Mormon Thing: A Challenge to Mike Huckabee

I never considered it until today, but judging from some of the reaction out there spawning from today's speech, I might just vote for Mitt Romney.

Why? Spite.

There really are some assholes out there deserving of it. And I've heard of worse reasons for voting for someone. Certainly a better reason to vote for him than all these "legitimate questions" about his faith turning Republican voters away from him.

Yesterday the Astute Blogger sent me a link suggesting that all G.O.P. candidates should fly to Salt Lake and attend a Mormon church to show solidarity with Mitt.

I don't know if every G.O.P candidate needs to do this, but---and I'm being serious here-- Mike Huckabee does.

If Huckabee goes to a Mormon church and still wins the nomination, then maybe I'll consider getting on board. Better another stupid compassionate conservative in the Bush mold than a dangerous compassionate liberal in the Carter/Clinton mold.

But spite is a powerful thing. And if Huckabee keeps climbing in the polls because he's the Christian alternative to that Mormon guy, then there's little chance I'll vote for him. He and the bigots who nominate him can go to hell. And so can the Republican party.

Huckabee: go to a Mormon church. Prove to me that you aren't a narrow-minded bigot like so many of your supporters seem to be.

Mike Huckabee showing up at a Mormon church to worship--any Mormon church--would take the "Mormon question" out of the race. It would distance Huckabee from the fear that he is only climbing in the polls because he is a "Christian".

And it would certainly delegitimize some of the current rhetoric about faith and the White House which I find repulsive. So repulsive, in fact, that I would fathom staying home on election day.