#2. Democrats Embrace Religion and Mitt Romney Channels JFK
After what seems like decades of "not getting it," someone programmed a
Bible concordance into Democrats' teleprompters. Suddenly it feels typical,
rather than odd, that Senator Hillary Clinton would attend an AIDS
conference at an evangelical megapastor's church and talk about her prayer
practice. The rubber will hit the road if one of the Dems gets elected, and
has to make some decisions about the many faith-based initiatives
established by his or her predecessor, or deal with whatever rulings his
hand-picked Court doles out. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Mitt Romney
tried to recreate John F. Kennedy's successful 1960 speech about his
Catholic faith by announcing that if elected he would not be taking orders
from the Mormon elders in Salt Lake City. That assurance may have alleviated
any worries on the part of the general public, but perhaps not those of
Iowa's evangelicals.