Political Punch

Al Sharpton's comments on the LDS faith are a direct reflection of who he is. He will try and make a dollar off of anybody expense at anytime. To say that Mormons don’t believe in God is like saying Al Sharpton is sincerely concerned about people’s rights! hhhmmmm....right.

Romney's response was increadibly eloquent and dignified stating that he didn't believe that Sharpton was such a thing as a bigot, but that statement was bigotous. That is class and presidential.

So Sharpton responds to the man who eloquently refrained from calling him a bigot (after he proved himself to be by definition) by saying I'm sorry to all the Mormons that I may have offended (reaching out to the voting population) and then turned on Romney for using this to promote himself. So is he sorry or not; a true apology wouldn't include another jab at the opponent. Not exactly classy and not presidential.

I think that these stories are all stemmed at attacking Mitt to keep him from getting a nomination. As a republican I'll admit that I wanted Howard Dean to get the bid for the Dems a few years back. There are a lot of bigots, that's for sure. But there are even more idiots that can't see fabricated and coordinate attacks for what they are.

Of course he was, but consider the source. Whenever Al Sharpton is quoted on anything, I think of two words: Tawanna Brawley. And then I disregard anything that publicity hound has to say.

What the Mormon church thought of blacks before the 1960s is irrelevant. Before the 1960s much of America as a whole thought that blacks were less than whites. That time period was a wake-up call for the entire nation, including the LDS church.

Clearly Sharpton's comment can be interpreted as Momons not really believing in God, and my bet is that is how he meant it as well.

But yeah, Romney is attacking Sharpton for the publicity, of course. And why not? He is running for president!

Does Sharpton have any credibility at all? All he does is incite people to hate other people? Sharpton comments and opinion are not newsworthy.

Here we go again. Two of the country's elties arguing over who has the better "imaginary" friend.

I don't always agree with Al Sharpton,but he is correct about the history of the Mormon Church concerning blacks and people of color. They believe that blacks were "cursed" with their skin color and very inferior Mr. Romney needs to pay attention to the doctrines and history of Mormonism, which by the way, is polytheistic,and does not hold much in common with traditional Christianity.
Yes, they do believe in God,but a very
different concept. This is not to negate the many wonderful Mormon Americans who are of the finest character,and demonstrate highest moral values. But I think that the truth needs to be known !

As I have said in the message boards, it is funny that everyone (who is white) is taking aim at Al Sharpton and not at the white aetheist who made Romney the topic of conversation. The truth is (do your research) that Mormons for years (until the late 1960's) viewed blacks in a negative light. What the Morons did for a longtime was make a perfect loving man a hateful bigot.

So the bigot is not Al Sharpton, but possibly could be Romney, for two reasons. 1) He did not attack the messanger, a white aetheist and 2)he is apart of a christian sect that once believed blacks was less than whites

For someone who advocates equality for minority groups, and as a "man of God", Al Sharpton's comments are exactly what he is advocating against. His words are bigotrous in nature. How ironic that he, who fought for Don Imus' firing because of bigotry, is now taking part in the same sort of bigotry. Oh how sweet the irony.

How is it that the Republican party is not sharply rebuking Al Sharpton's comments on Romney's Mormonism?
It took the Dems about 3 seconds to get on the Imus bandwagon and frankly, he deserved a rebuke. But this one is just wrong.
While we are at it... How is it that the Democratic candidates jumped on the pc bandwagon when a white comedy talk show commentator takes a liberty w/ a pop culture racial slur (which one can safely expect) and a civil rights "so called" social justice activist and leader can take liberty with a Republican candidates religious beliefs and we get nothing but stoned silence. Why the disparity? Is this not a greater offense?
How is this fair play? How is this even constitutional? Can it be more blatantly, ridiculously imbalanced?

Obviously, what's morraly correct is not the factor.I feel some basic constitutional rights are being publicly trampled upon with this one comment by this one man and where is the defense? where is the rebuke by the media? by anybody?
More importantly, who is going to step up for, Mitt Romney, perhaps, the most qualified and likely candidate for the GOP in 2008? or is this fact where the fear specifically lies?
That he is in fact, the most qualified Republican candidate on the right that could give the Democratic camp a real run for the money.Thought provoking..

Mitt probably should not dignify this with a personal response but I hope somebody else will, if nothing else, because the duplicitous Reverend Al Sharpton deserves it squarely and publicly.