Does Anyone Think This Was a Fair Question?

Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes asks Mitt Romney a Mormon, whether or not they engaged in premarital sex.  I think Romney is getting picked on because he's a Mormon, EVERY announced candidate professes to be a member of some religious tradition and all of their religious traditions oppose premarital sex.  But I don't think Obama, Edwards or Clinton would be asked that question.  So should the personal questions be asked?  I can't say the Romney's answer, "No," affected my judgment of him as a presidential candidate.  I must say I'm viscerally opposed to creating a checklist of all the grave sins and ask a candidate to check them off.

Comments

[Publius]

Just think how much worse it'd have been were Romney a polygamist: Wallace would have asked the question five or six times, once for each wife.

[PeterTerp]

Even if he had said "yes," what difference would it really make? Who hasn't done something that they believed was wrong? Oh...wait...people who don't believe anything is wrong...

There are sins that would seriously call into question a man's ability to lead a nation...whether or not he made a home run with his wife before they got married doesn't seem to be one of them.

Now, if he were a philanderer who could have dozens of women crawling out of the woodwork to blackmail him or accuse him of harassment...that would be something else.

[Al T]

lol