All about the money

28 August 2007

Should Mitt Romney be the GOP nominee for president, I just might vote for him. Christianists foam at the mouth at the thought of a Mormon president, but he could be good for the country. Joseph P. Smith Jr. founded his church on a quest for money, aka buried treasure (he didn't lead parties of gold-seekers into the New England wilderness for his health). His extra wives were widows (in the 1830s, a widow needed a replacement husband to handle her inheritance; women were owned, not owners), a tradition that the other early Mormon polygamists followed religiously.

When Brigham Young and his troupe settled Deseret, later-arriving immigrants were required to turn all their money over to the church leadership, which used it to build a worldwide billion-dollar empire.

If Mitt can prove he's added to the Romney family fortune, he might be OK as president. GWB is throwing U.S. money into bonfires by the Hummvee-ful, but a Mormon won't burn wealth. He'll hoard it.

Can't be worse than GWB.