Things looking up for Romney

About 8 months after The Weekly Standard published a fair profile of him, the Boston Globe does a hatchet job on Mitt Romney's faith. They must think he's got a good shot, if they'll work this hard to block it. Like Democrat's going back twenty years to find something to attack Judge Alito for, this piece goes back to 1979 to bring up the fact that blacks once could not hold the priesthood of the church, playing up an old quote from Apostle Bruce R. McConkie.

But Romney has a problem. He is a Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which, as Washington Monthly's editor Amy Sullivan points out, makes him unacceptable to evangelical voters who make up 30 percent of the Republican electorate. Their hostility to Mormonism is not some vague prejudice that some Americans have. It's a ''doctrinal thing," based on their conviction that Mormonism ''isn't just another religion," but a ''cult" that they claim is ''false," ''blasphemous," and a threat to the Christian religion.

But Romney has an additional and perhaps even more serious problem. As taught by Mormon prophets from Brigham Young's day to the late 1970s, blacks have been regarded as ''not equal with other races,"

It would be nice if they'd quote Bruce R. McConkie about his experience when the revelation was given that the time had come to grant all worthy men the priesthood.

Romney won't let that bother him. The religion card has been played against him before, and he knows that you just have to let your actions and character speak for themselves and be positive. If people let religious prejudice turn them against him, it'll be America's loss, not his, because he's enormously talented would make a very very good president.

I wonder if they'd write an article like this about Harry Reid.