Vying for the hearts and minds of religious conservatives, Mitt Romney is pulling ahead in the all-important name game. Moral Majority co-founder Paul Weyrich is the latest social conservative A-lister to throw his support behind the former Massachusetts governor. Romney already has won endorsements from Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University, and Jay…

Up two notches in two days? Even God-o-meter is impressed. Campaigning in Decorah, Iowa, Mitt Romney showed just how determined he is to win the hearts of evangelical voters. In a speech at Luther College, reported by the Rocky Mountain News, the former Massachussetts governor cast himself as the only top tier Republican candidate who…

A day after The Brody File reported Gov. Romney’s coup in signing up Bill Wichterman, a former Fred Thompson advisor known for his strong connections in the conservative Christian world, including at groups like Focus on the Family and The Family Research Council, God-o-Meter has learned that Wichterman will strongly encourage the former Massachusetts Governor…

Bloomberg today does Mitt Romney the service of inventorying the various and sundry advice he’s being offered how to handle his Mormonism so as to maximize support from wary evangelical voters. The weightiest quote–and the reason his God-o-Meter rating is slipping–is this jab from Ralph Reed for not yet delivering a Kennedyesque speech about his…

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