i m joined by the hardball round table. let s start with john. i don t know much about the seventh day adventist, but i knew they weren t thrilled with john kennedy s nomination back in 1960 because a couple of people stopped at my mom s door and raised alarms about it, from that religion. i hope they weren t representative. that s all i know. is that a bad religion to be in if you re an evangelical? why did he raise that issue politically? maybe he s down in the polls in iowa. he knows it s an overwhelmingly evangelical audience in iowa. remember when ted kennedy raised the question of mitt romney s mormonism in the senate race. this is not fair play but it s a device used to try to get an advantage when you re down. ted kennedy was down.
mormonism in the senate race. this is not fair play but it s a device used to try to get an advantage when you re down. ted kennedy was down. i think donald trump is panicking in iowa. maybe he should be panicking. it was joe kennedy who raised the issue for his uncle ted. you ve i got the facts straight there. i remember everything. religion out or in, you can argue all you want, but it helps to be an evangelical or conservative catholic in iowa. we know that. pat robinson almost won out there, huckabee won there. santorum. people who can t win anywhere else win in iowa. perry? i think trump is talking about making the wrong case here. i don t think people are for carson because of the sort of tenets seven-day adventist. they want someone devout in
the voters made up their minds. you saw one media promoted figure fall after they couldn t stand the scrutiny that came upon a front-runner. jon: obama campaign made clear attempts of trying to demonize mitt romney. they settled on him as eventual challenger. media, as well. there was a newsweek cover poking fun at mitt romney s mormonism for example. media is a target rich environment. they are trying define us as something as we are not. mormonism issue was front and center early on. think the romney campaign did a good job of trying to downplay that. certain members were nervous about bringing it up but the social media types and bloggers were constantly trying to make an issue and picked up by some.
the voters made up their minds. you saw one media promoted figure fall after they couldn t stand the scrutiny that came upon a front-runner. jon: obama campaign made clear attempts of trying to demonize mitt romney. they settled on him as eventual challenger. media, as well. there was a newsweek cover poking fun at mitt romney s mormonism for example. media is a target rich environment. they are trying define us as something as we are not. mormonism issue was front and center early on. think the romney campaign did a good job of trying to downplay that. certain members were nervous about bringing it up but the social media types and bloggers were constantly trying to make an issue and picked up by some.
the voters made up their minds. you saw one media promoted figure fall after they couldn t stand the scrutiny that came upon a front-runner. jon: obama campaign made clear attempts of trying to demonize mitt romney. they settled on him as eventual challenger. media, as well. there was a newsweek cover poking fun at mitt romney s mormonism for example. media is a target rich environment. they are trying define us as something as we are not. mormonism issue was front and center early on. think the romney campaign did a good job of trying to downplay that. certain members were nervous about bringing it up but the social media types and bloggers were constantly trying to make an issue and picked up by some.