How important is a candidate's 'faith' when you vote? [View All]

[Philosoraptor]

I remember when John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was an issue, I can still hear the adults discussing it with fear, 'a Catholic president? America's never had one!".

reagan's handlers started this crap with their association with the Morale Majority assholes, bush the second blatantly sought out the guaranteed Christian Conservative vote by PRETENDING to be a man of deep faith, and it worked swimmingly. The repubs COUNTED on those votes, and got them, many times. And it was so easy to do, a mere mention of Jesus is all it took, plus lying about praying regularly. The suckers ate it up like free ice cream.

Now I hear certain Christian Conservatives are alarmed at the prospect of a Mormon president, some even calling mitt romney a member of a weird cult. joe lieberman would've loved to have been our first Jewish president, thank God that didn't happen.

I doubt that a candidate expressing NO faith or atheism would have a chance in hell of winning, or an avowed Wiccan or Muslim or Santa Ria follower, but who knows?

Personally I never even considered a candidates religion, but millions do, and I might even at some point. All I know is most repubs FAKE their faith for votes, and wouldn't know a true Christian if they tripped over one, but they never fail to hoax and bamboozle the faithful.