Harry Reid: Mitt Romney 'Sullied' Mormonism, Isn't The Face Of The Religion
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the highest-ranking Mormon in Congress, told reporters this week that he agreed with a blogger who accused GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney of having "sullied" Mormonism and misrepresenting the faith with comments made in a recently released hidden camera video.
Footage of Romney speaking at a high-priced fundraiser earlier this year was released last week, sending reverberations across the presidential race and other congressional races. In the most controversial clip, Romney is heard telling wealthy donors that "47 percent" of people who support President Barack Obama are "dependent on government," and that it isn't his job to worry about those Americans.
In a blog for the Huffington Post, Gregory A. Prince, a Mormon author and former Romney supporter, wrote that the presidential candidate had damaged the religion with his remarks.
"His arrogant and out-of-hand dismissal of half the population of this country struck me at a visceral level, for it sullied the religion that he and I share -- the religion for which five generations of my ancestry have lived and sacrificed, the religion whose official mantra is 'to take care of the poor and needy throughout the world,'" Prince wrote. "My first impulse was to rent an airplane towing a banner: 'Mitt Romney is Not the Face of Mormonism!'"
That speech was the end of his campaign... Whether you like it or not, the 47% that he dismissed out-of-hand, will remember at the polls. When this race is over, everyone is going to look back and say THAT was the "moment" of his doom.
