Harry Reid: Classy Guy

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Mitt Romney’s on the verge of giving the speech of his life.  Even more importantly, a speech which will lay the foundation for Mormons’ place in the public square for a good long time. When asked about The Big Speech, Senator Harry Reid refused to offer any advice and had to add:

“Well,” Mr. Reid said, “I believe Mitt Romney, who’s a man I’ve never met — don’t particularly want to — a man I’ve never met, that I would hope that his running for president would be determined on his politics and not his religion.”

An aide had to add what Reid couldn’t come to say himself, “An aide to Mr. Reid confirmed later that the majority leader had no reservations whatsoever about a Mormon in the White House, but that it is Republican beliefs that he finds suspicious and in conflict with his values.”

Is Sen. Reid trying to show that Mormons don’t put religion over politics?  Maybe he’s under a lot of pressure to reassure his base that he’s not in cahoots with his conservative fellow believers.  It may good to break some of the stereotypes about the Church but do we need to show that we can be jerks too?