Thursday, December 6, 2007

Romney's speech ***UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES***



Bloomberg:

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Republican candidate Mitt Romney told an audience in Texas today that there should be no religious test for the presidency and those who question his beliefs violate the spirit of the country's founding. Romney, in a speech at the George Bush Presidential Library, is seeking to confront skeptics among some evangelical Christian groups about his Mormon faith.

PowerLine has the text of the speech. Ed Morrissey: "The speech probably did serve to make evangelicals more comfortable with Mitt's approach." AFP here.

UPDATE 9:59: Left-wingers at KOS are unhappy. From this report, Romney connected with the people in the audience. Stephen Hayes detected some emotion from Romney.

UPDATE 11:36: Mona Charen was impressed: "perhaps the best political speech of the year." She also noticed the emotion.