WHY WON'T MITT ROMNEY DISAVOW ANN COULTER'S HATEFUL, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC BLATHERING?

Yesterday John McCain questioned if Mitt Romney's Mormon faith makes him a Christian-- and, remember, McCain says that only Christians are allowed to be president. Today Robert Novak points out that it isn't only McCain questioning Romney's adherence to what many Republicans-- and virtually all hard-core religionist loons-- think of as a satanic cult.

Romney is asked about Mormonism wherever he goes. In my travels, I find his religious preference cited everywhere as the source of opposition to his candidacy. His response that only reporters care about this issue sounded like a tired evasion. Romney was indicating that either he was too obtuse to appreciate his problem or was stalling because he hadn't determined how to deal with it. Contact with his advisers indicates the latter.

Disagreement remains within the Romney camp, but the consensus is that he must address the Mormon question with a speech deploring bias. Campaign sources say a speech has been written, though 90 percent of it could still be changed. It's not yet determined exactly what he will say or when he'll deliver a speech that could determine the political outcome of 2008.

Novak thinks he's the perfect GOP candidate, which he defines as rich, handsome, hypocritical, tricky, and anti-gay, "But last year I began to hear from loyal Republicans that they could never vote for Romney because of his religion... A Newsweek poll shows 28 percent of Americans wouldn't vote for any member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-- demonstrating much greater hostility than to a Jewish or African-American candidate. Mormonism is the only minority category where bias in America has deepened." That's one percentage point lower than far right bigots who say they will vote for a third party if Giuliani gets the Republican nomination, as is likely.

So with a problem like this you would think Romney would have already jumped up and denounced one of his supporter's call for the vote to be taken away from the majority of Americans. But from Camp Full O'Mitt: silence. Silence even after it has been reported that Romney's pal Ann Coulter, trying to get some headlines to sell her latest tirade against reason, told George Gurley of the NY Observer:

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

Well, at least Romney has his old allies, the Log Cabin Republicans, running ads (on Fox-- for two weeks) for him. Take a look, please:




UPDATE: I HOPE THE LOG CABINETTES AREN'T WAITING FOR FULL O'MITT TO FLIP FLOP HIS WAY BACK IN THEIR DIRECTION!

Oh, the Log Cabin boys and girls are running this because they hate and distrust Flip Flop Mitt. The ad above will be on Fox nationally and all over the air in Iowa.