The religious fringe-groups confuse me

[jhetley]

Okay, Mitt has dropped out of the race.  Much weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, sack-cloth and ashes, you name it, on the far right.

Thing is, a fair chunk of the Christian Conservative movement regards Mormons as heretics.  Not even Christians at all...

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

The people who regard Mormons as heretics are backing Huckabee; they don't care about Romney at all. The people who are howling over Romney are the non-Christianist right-wingers who saw him as their only alternative to McCain. Better a Mormon than a (pardon the expression) Spic-lover.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Well, one segment of the conservative/Republican movement is Neo-conservatives. Who are not religious-right.

The original neocons were anti-Stalinist Marxists. They moved farther and farther right. Religiously, they were likely to be Jewish, mainstream Protestant, or not-fervent Catholic. They approved of religion because it was a defense against Communism.

Another segment are economic conservatives.

Both groups tend to get annoyed at Christian Conservatives because they insist on injecting religion where it doesn't belong -- wasting money on charity, for example.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

True, but that's also the same chunk that declare with authority that Catholics aren't Christians, either. Something about how they aren't held down long enough during baptisms.