How Diet Could Cost Romney His Mojo
The Romney sons travel around in a large bus, the same sort used by touring rock bands. It turns out on the Five Brothers bus, the Romney sons fill up on potato chips and sugary cereals. Yes, when you can’t have alcohol or caffeine, which are verboten for Mormons, it turns out you just binge on junk food. Just as a vegetarian is Constitutionally barred from being President...or, anyway, they ought to be...you have to wonder if someone who has no contact with alcohol or caffeine is fit to lead a nation whose revolution was sparked by a conflict between coffee and tea, and which revolution was led by a small group including at least one brewer. Ask most Americans what they would call someone who wants to take away their coffee and their beer and there can be only one answer: Terrorists.
The Mormon religion’s bizarre dietary laws may be part of the reason why the largest Protestant denomination in the South, the Southern Baptist church, teaches that Mormonism is a cult, which may be a bit of a problem when Mitt Romney has to campaign in the South. Despite being the only candidate up on the air with advertisements in South Carolina , the earliest Southern primary, Romney is consistently mired in fourth place, and risks dropping further, with his polling declining from 8% in June to 7% in July.
