Melissa Harris-Lacewell, an associate professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University, admits she misses Mitt Romney. Had he stayed in the race, Harris-Lacewell believes Romney — and the FLDS raid — would have diverted attention from Barack Obama and his religious nightmare, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Instead of us Obama supporters sweating, Romney and his supporters would be fielding calls all day to explain Mormonism, polygamy and the relationship of Romney’s faith to the cult compound in Texas. Does Mr. Romney believe that 14 year-old girls should marry? Does Mr. Romney plan to take additional wives in order to fulfill the moral requirements of his religion? If not why has Mr. Romney stayed affiliated and raised his children in a church with whom he so vehemently disagrees?

Yeah, Yeah, we know he gave some big speech about this issue earlier in the campaign, but how does he respond to what those women with the long skirts and weird hairdos said on the Today Show this morning?

Would Romney have thrown the [LDS President] Thomas Monson under the bus and even more provocative, would Monson have tossed Mr. Romney there?

You know that would have been great to witness! Maybe a little black liberation theology would have looked tame next to the FLDS.

Obviously, Mitt's LDS faith is not the same as the FLDS in the news, but Harris-Lacewell, like a lot of Americans, doesn't see, or want to see, the difference. But it would have been interesting to have watched how the Mitt image machine tackled the FLDS fiasco.

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