Americans, help me understand!

What your problem? Harry Reid is Mormon too. You got a problem with that? There are about 20 other Mormon Senators and Representatves. This is bigotry! What you have posted is not very nice!

I don't believe they are thought of as 'magic' underware. They are worn as a symbol of modesty. YOu do understand symbolism, right? It amazes me that under the guise of tolerance and acceptance, People will judge another without actually understanding what it is they are judging. EVERYONE of the American presidents has been a person who (at least claimed to) believed in God. Not a one of them has tried to impose their beliefs on the American people, EXCEPT ONE- Obama. His belief is (from Rev. Wright's sermons) that America is damned and that America invented AIDS to kill black people. And HE IS DOING what you fear the Chrisitian right may do, imposing his beliefs (taken from Rev. Wright's sermons) that America is NOT exceptional, that America is to be apologized for, and that we have no right to feel our Constitution is any better than say, Kenya's? or Egypt's? It is also juvenille to make fun of someone's beliefs. I am a Christian, I read some of these responses and see the subtle and not so subtle digs at people of faith. BUT I am the one who is suppose to be 'intolerant' and 'hateful' because of MY FAITH? It's fine with me if you do not believe as I do. I can approach a conversation with you as an adult and at least try to understand where you are coming from. I may not agree, but I do not think automatically, because you do not agree with me, that you are ignorant. Until...you make fun of (isn't that bullying?) a person's religion. It is the same as making fun of their appearance or their race or their country of origin.

I'm glad that you're comfortable sharing your ignorance and bigotry towards the Mormon religion here. Fortunately, in THIS country, we are far more tolerant of various belief systems and generally do not use religion as a way to disqualify politicians. People that attack a candidate's religion, often do it because they lack the knowledge or intelligence to attack the candidate on valid issues. If you care to learn about them I encourage you to do a little research. Many religions have various tokens, symbols, and garments that serve the same purpose. Many Christians carry a cross or scapular, Jewish people often wear yarmulke, sikh wear a saber, Muslims women wear a hijab, etc. Do you regularly mock all religions for the symbols they carry, or is the Mormon face the only recipient of your bigotry?

He has money, power, and pull - plus he's not Obama. I don't see where his tighty-whities factor into this. Not that I support him, but I can vaguely see why people do. Many people want Obama out, and they're betting on the horse they think has the best chance of winning.

As far as I'm aware, every Presidential candidate out there to choose from is religious. And on a personal level, since my family and friends are also religious, I won't tear into someone's religion unless they want to make claims like it's already proven, or that their system is inherently moral, or that America is under a specific god, etc. If a religious person just keeps their beliefs personal, I have no beef with them whatsoever. So unless Romney is trying to explicitly convince me and others that Jesus was an American and that I can wear magic underwear to protect me, I'm okay with him believing that. Having that belief does not necessarily mean it will shape your policy. Many religious people are able to separate these things and not have them control their lives. It wasn't always like that, but once secularism was afforded a place in government systems instead of every leader leading from a divine seat, things started to change slightly. For me, the belief in magic underwear isn't any more outlandish than a belief that people lived to be 900 years old, the earth is only 6,000 years old, a virgin gave birth to god, scientific evidence is a result of Satan's tricks, ironically vain commandments were magically etched in stone, etc, etc etc... What I'm waiting for is people who do not subscribe to fantastical beliefs bereft of any supporting evidence to actually come together and seek positions in government. It's a sad and outright terrifying sight to watch a grown, supposedly educated man in Congress give a statement that we don't need to worry about climate change because a book told him his god will never flood the earth again. This is a man collecting taxpayers' money to live; this a man responsible for influencing American law. And he's far from the only person to believe that. So I can't beat up on Mitt unless I'm gonna beat up on everyone. As long as Mitt's not trying to convert people, and as long as he's not out there saying his god is telling him to do things, I'm okay that he holds this belief. The guy in the White House now believes in zombies and 6-day creation of everything and that a god sacrificed himself to himself in order to create a loophole instead of just reformatting the rules he supposedly created in the first place. So if the implication here is that magic underwear is more nonsensical than that, I'd have to say it's really not. It's just newer.

You do understand that all he had to do to become the Republican nominee is appear to be less of a whack job than Michelle Bachmann, "Goodhair" Perry, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty, and Herman Cain; but more of a whack job than Jon Huntsman, right?

the presidential candidates, even the president, are still humans like us. they are not superhumans that do not have any peculiarities in their own way. i like to follow the american politics because whatever happens there affects the whole world. what i do not like in the american politics is the incredible spending and less choice for the voters.