The same Bloomberg article points out the problem that Romney faces with "Values Voters":
Yet for conference-goers [to an Evangelical summit] such as Noah Crowe, a Southern Baptist pastor from Robbinsville, North Carolina, there's nothing Romney can do to overcome their distrust of Mormonism. "His faith is not the faith I believe in, teach and preach," said Crowe, who added that he studied Mormonism at his Bible college in a course called "Cults and False Religions."
A CBS News poll taken last June showed that 43% of voters wouldn't vote for a Mormon. Wrote Bloomberg, " Republican strategists argue that time is wasting for a Kennedyesque speech to explain the role religion will play in a Romney White House."
Now, news has come out that Romney will make that speech.
CBS News:
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will deliver a much-anticipated speech on religious faith at the George H. W. Bush library on Thursday, CBS News has confirmed. Romney's Mormon faith has been an underlying theme of his presidential candidacy but, until today, it has been an area he and his campaign have shied away from addressing directly.
"This speech is an opportunity for Governor Romney to share his views on religious liberty, the grand tradition religious tolerance has played in the progress of our nation and how the governor's own faith would inform his Presidency if he were elected," said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden in a statement released Sunday evening.
"I probably could never do something that would compare to what John F. Kennedy did -- his was a masterpiece in American political history," says Romney. There's another reason why he couldn't give Kennedy's speech -- the pricks he's reaching out to would hate him for it...
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