The GOP base and “the cult of Mormon”

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Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 7:58 AM 09:39:39 CST

The GOP base and “the cult of Mormon”

A Gingrich aide is fired for an ugly remark that may also help explain the candidate's sudden lead over his rival

By Steve Kornacki

Newt Gingrich, whose presidential candidacy lived without a real campaign organization for much of 2011, is now scrambling to build a team worthy of his surging poll numbers. Which helps explain how something like this can happen:

Less than a week after being tapped as Newt Gingrich’s political director in Iowa, Craig Bergman resigned on Tuesday for suggesting evangelicals are ready to help God “expose the cult of Mormon.”

On the surface, this is simply an embarrassment for Gingrich, who is loudly pledging to run an exclusively positive campaign. But as I wrote yesterday, when you look at Romney’s struggles — particularly in the South and other areas where fundamentalist Christians hold disproportionate sway — it’s fair to wonder how prevalent Bergman’s attitude is among the Republican electorate.

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