McCain's VP Selection

Some Evangelical leaders are warning John McCain not to pick Mitt Romney as his running mate, according to the Washington Times. Novelist Tim LaHaye, Phyllis Schlafly and Rob McCoy, pastor of Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks, California says the move would alienate “the entire evangelical community”. One leader says McCain would lose between 7 and 10% of the evangelical vote. That would be enough to make McCain the loser in a tight race. Another points out that Romney’s selection would bring to the ticket as much enthusiasm from supporters as Mike Huckabee would bring, but “Romney's would be from fiscal conservatives and Huckabee's would be evangelicals.”

ROMNEY & CHRISTIANITY

A series of short videos put out by Focus on the Family (founded by James Dobson) mentions that presidential candidate Mitt Romney has "acknowledged Mormonism is not a Christian faith” - despite the fact Romney has said his church insists it is Christian. The political arm of Focus points out that Romney's campaign has not asked for a retraction. The video is posted on Focus Action Web site (citizenlink.org) which averages nearly a quarter million hits each month.