Mitt Romney's "Three-Card Monte"

Christopher Hitchens sinks his recently overhauled British choppers into the Mayor of Stepford, a.k.a. Mitt Romney:

Mitt Romney appears to think that, in respect of the bizarre beliefs of his church, he has come up with a twofer response. Not only can he decline to answer questions about these beliefs, he can also reap additional benefit from complaining that people keep asking him about them. In a video response of revolting sanctimony and self-pity last week, he responded to some allegedly anti-Mormon "push poll" calls in Iowa and New Hampshire by saying that it was "un-American" to bring up his "faith," especially "at a time when we are preparing for Thanksgiving," whatever that had to do with it. Additional interest is lent to this evasive tactic by the very well-argued case, made by Mark Hemingway in National Review Online, that it was actually the Romney campaign that had initiated the anti-Mormon push-poll calls in the first place! What's that? A threefer? Let me count the ways: You encourage the raising of an awkward question in such a way as to make it seem illegitimate. You then strike a hurt attitude and say that you are being persecuted for your faith. This, in turn, discourages other reporters from raising the question. Yes, that's the three-card monte.

So the question whether Romney wears the special Mormon undergarments propagated by his kooky cult has yet to be answered. Or asked. We wouldn't want to be seen as insufficiently respectful of religion, now would we?

Whole thing here.

Comments

[RWW]

As a card-carrying, undergarment-wearing member of the "kooky cult," I'd just like to say that I despise Mitt Romney for his blatant rejection of the principles of freedom upon which our (supposedly) mutual religion stands.