Race2008.com praises McCain for his apology to Romney over anti-Mormon comments made by a McCain Iowa county chairman
LJ from Race2008.com had high words of praise for Senator McCain’s apology to Mitt Romney, over anti-Mormon comments made by a McCain Iowa county chairman. As LJ put it:
Good on McCain for apologizing for this. As I said last week, these types of attacks would not be tolerated if they were directed towards Catholics or Protestants, so why should they be for Mormons? Although Romney supporters like to claim that McCain is secretly orchestrating some vast anti-Mormon whisper campaign, it would make no sense to publicly apologize like this if that were the case. McCain is very well regarded by Arizona Mormons and one of his biggest supporters, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah is also a Mormon. Why would he seek to alienate those supporters in such a dubious and ham-handed way, especially in light of McCain’s first hand knowledge of what a real whisper campaign is all about…
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The McCain campaign had apologized to the Romney campaign, for the anti-Mormon comments made by Charles Workman, the chair of the McCain campaign in Warren County, Iowa. According to the AP article:
“DES MOINES, Iowa - John McCain’s presidential campaign has apologized to Republican rival Mitt Romney for comments about the Mormon church allegedly made by a volunteer earlier this year.
The incident dates to a meeting of Iowa Republican activists in April, where McCain’s Warren County chairman, Chad Workman, is alleged to have made negative comments about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Mormon faith. Romney is a Mormon.
A participant at the meeting said Workman questioned whether Mormons were Christians, and he referenced an article alleging that the Mormon church supports the Islamic militant group Hamas. The participant talked to The Associated Press on Friday on condition of anonymity because he is involved in Iowa politics and wanted to protect his identity…
McCain spokesman Danny Diaz said, “we apologize for any comment made concerning Governor Romney’s religion. … Such comments are inappropriate and unacceptable.”
Romney’s Iowa campaign manager Gentry Collins said the campaign has accepted the apology from McCain’s campaign, and “it’s our expectation that he’ll make sure that these kinds of things don’t happen again.
“It’s our view that attacks of religious bigotry have no place in politics today,” he said…”
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