More on the Mormon angle, this time from The Weekly Standard, though its more of "The Romney Angle" and the Mormon issue by proxy. It makes a strong case for Romney as a pragmatic social conservative with strong fiscal conservative credentials, but the primary campaign is pretty much summed up with this:
One evangelical leader offered this succinct take on whether Romney's faith would hurt him in the primaries: "Against Giuliani, no. Against Frist, yes. Against [Rick] Santorum, yes. Against Arnold [Schwarzenegger, who is ineligible], no.
Now that Brownback is looking to make a legitimate bid, and with Frist still floating in the wings, it remains to be seen what sort of middle ground Romney can carve out with one of the "true believer" candidates taking the right and the moderate heavyweights staking out most everyone else.
For more on the LDS angle, this Time piece has been making the rounds: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562941-1,00.html
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