ShoutyBear: Politics. Foreign Affairs. Zarf.

Remember M.C. Rove? He’s now an analyst at FNC. I am traveling all week and just got around to watching the Sunday shows today. ICYMI, what with all the deserved coverage of Tim Russert’s too-soon death, Rove delivered a humdinger of a quote while talking about possible GOP veep pick Mitt Romney on “FOX News Sunday.”

And there’s also the Mormon problem, which was really sort of astonishing to me.

When his father ran for president in 1967, there was not a single story on the front page of the Washington Post, New York Times, or a cover article in any of the major news magazines about George Romney’s Mormonism.

And yet we’ve been subjected to a lot of that kind of coverage this time around, and as a result, there is — and particularly in sort of evangelical and Baptist communities — a problem with his Mormonism.

You know, Karl Rove is onto something. Why was religion such a big deal during the Republican primary campaign? I mean, what’s changed between 1967 and now? Hmmm. Thinking about it… thinking about it….

Huh.

(And in case you didn’t get the Steinbeck ref: click here.)