Mitt’s Mightiest Fan, K-Lo, on the speech:
I think a non-talking-head American watching the speech might be embarrassed at the thought that any American might be asked to prove he’s qualified to be president despite his religion.
Really? What if the candidate were a Scientologist? Or a Jehovah’s Witness? Or, shudder, a Muslim? I think most Americans would demand to know more about that candidate’s religious views in those circumstances. I think Kathryn would too. Equally, it seems entirely proper that Huckabee’s belief in Creationism be weighed when assessing his candidacy.
If you believe religious faith is a necessary condition for the Presidency – and clearly many people, including K-Lo and Romney, do – then that faith must be a matter for discussion. Otherwise it’s rather like demanding that the GOP nominee be a conservative but then ruling off-limits any discussion of his type of conservatism.
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