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In reply to the discussion: Documentary reveals Clueless, Delusional Romney unfit for high office [View all]tblue37
(68,453 posts)whereby an LDS "messiah" would usher in theocratic governance with the LDS faithful in charge. Frankly, I don't think he really even wanted the job all that much, but he is a true believer, and if that was his destiny, he was going to step up to "serve."
Because religious faith is just that--faith, detached from, not dependent on, empirical evidence--the real world poll numbers would have seemed irrelevant, perhaps even illusions deliberately produced by the "Father of Lies" to lull the nonbelievers into foolish complacency.
I suspect that Ann did really want to be FLOTUS, which is why she was so upset, though their reported comments, in which they fretted over what would become of the country with Obama rather than Mitt in charge, do suggest that they both believed that Mitt's ascendancy to the presidency was truly necessary to save the US from some dire fate.