You believe Mitt Romney has a chance of becoming President of the United States of America? Really? You must be kidding! Or myopic. The first time a Mormon announced his candidacy for President, he got martyred. The next venture by a Mormon was Mitt's dad. That too was a very short-lived campaign. Seriously, Mitt Romney has but a snowball's chance of garnering the Republican Party presidential nomination -- and even less of being elected President. The only religion more feared by American voters is Islam. (A Muslim would be rejected, without second thought, by 54 percent of voters.) Realistically, 37 percent of Americans have no idea what a Mormon is. They have never met a Mormon. They don't even know anybody who personally knows a Mormon. They have no idea what Mormons believe, what Mormons think or how Mormons behave. They don't even know if Mormons dress weirdly or if Mormons don't eat fish. In fact they don't even care. They already have their minds made up about Mormons and they refuse to listen to, or be swayed by, any facts.

Stereotyping others, and reacting to what one believes he has learned on the TV, is rampant in our country. Prejudice rules the day. Few care to seek truth or reason. Argument is feared because he with whom we could argue just might teach us something that is not what we want to believe. Tolerance is merely given lip service and, even then, extends only to sexual orientation and deviant or destructive behavior.

Today, most voters refuse to get involved in political issues or with political individuals and their guiding values beyond the most pedestrian level.

Most Americans have no real desire for liberty, sterling moral values, the truth or any standard which would oblige them to expend any personal effort to participate. They are fully content with having a benevolent master who tells them what they want to hear . . . . regardless of the truth.

As long as such prejudices and lack of personal responsibility prevail in America, there is no chance that any Mormon will ever become President.

Mitt Romney might have saved the Olympics, but fear and intolerance won't give him a shot at saving the United States from liberal lunacy.