{"id":487,"date":"2008-04-04T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/the-antimitt-for-vp-campaign.html"},"modified":"2008-04-04T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:33:52","slug":"the-antimitt-for-vp-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/the-antimitt-for-vp-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Mitt for VP Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"romney.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/romney.jpg\" width=\"125\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2008\/04\/the_religious_right_still_putt.html\">TIME&#8217;s Swampland <\/a>reports on an online petition aimed at dissuading John McCain from picking Mitt Romney as his running mate. The effort is reportedly run by a fringe Christian Right group. But God-o-Meter would guess that McCain would improve his standing among the Christian Right leadership by selecting Romney, who courted those leaders so assiduously as a presidential candidate.<br \/>\nAmong too many rank-and-file evangelicals, though Romney never truly connected, and the so-called &#8220;Mormon issue&#8221; was only part of the reason. One more reason McCain is unlikely to enlist Romney as veep. That, and they seemed to hate each other&#8217;s guts as on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME&#8217;s Swampland reports on an online petition aimed at dissuading John McCain from picking Mitt Romney as his running mate. The effort is reportedly run by a fringe Christian Right group. 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