Axelrod says Romney's Mormon religion off-limits

[cbayer]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-axelrod-says-romneys-mormon-religion-off-limits-20120520,0,4516888.story

By Lisa Mascaro
May 20, 2012, 11:24 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner dismissed as "nonsense" a proposed GOP campaign attack on President Obama's past association with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., as well as a Democratic fundraising effort that followed.

"This kind of nonsense shouldn't happen," said Boehner on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "The election is going to be about the economy and getting Americans back to work. And I think Gov. Romney's prescriptions are much better."

The role of the harsh attack ads -- this one over the delicate topic of religion -- reared this week after the New York Times disclosed a proposal from conservative strategists to wage an ad blitz against Obama, linking him to the controversial remarks from Wright, his former pastor in Chicago.

At the same time, Obama campaign senior advisor David Axelrod said Sunday that Mitt Romney's Mormon religion was off-limits in Democratic strategies for the campaign.

"We've said that's not fair game," Axelrod said onCNN's"State of the Union with Candy Crowley." "And we wish that Gov. Romney would stand up as strongly and as resolutely consistently to refute these kinds of things on his side. Instead he's amplified them in the past. And he's put logs on that fire. And that's not leadership."

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[Bluenorthwest]

1. Axelrod can do what he needs for the money....

I'm not paid to sell soft soap. So I'll not be peddling it for Mitt. The Republican Party is the same Party that pull all that Rev Wright shit followed by 'he's a Muslim'. Axelrod likes to offer then professional courtesy for they are his professional peers. They are no my peers, and I owe them no courtesy. I owe them defeat.

[cbayer]

2. I think it's good that the WH is taking the high road on this and

I think they will benefit from it.

What other groups do is a different matter altogether. I'm am sure there will be a lot of focus on Romney's religion. There already is, actually.

[polichick]

3. imo it's stupid to say religion is out of bounds when...

...you have a Republican party that's hell-bent on making this a theocracy - and a nominee who is little more than a tool.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. The Obama team should disavow

Any attacks on Rmoney's weird religion, on it's recent racist doctrines, on it's very peculiar beliefs that are way outside of standard Christianity, on it's polygamous past and present, etc frequently, at every opportunity, whenever the topic comes up, and even when it hasnt come up, just in case there is any doubt that the campaign will not be using this against Rmoney.

[braddy]

5. This will be the first candidate to believe that he will literally become a God, an actual deity

How does this not become an issue?

[daaron]

6. Sensible.

But doesn't mean we should necessarily follow suit. The campaign is one thing - we the people are something else.

[backscatter712]

7. Off limits for the Obama campaign, but not for us...

I don't work for Obama. I'm just a private citizen, and I think that Mitt Romney's batshit religion is fair game!