For My Evangelical Christian Friends

Dan Bartlett (photo at left) left the Bush White House only recently. Ryan Lizza comments in his New Yorker piece on some recent statements by Bartlett:

Most explorers searching for the philosophical roots of Mitt Romney begin the journey with his religion. Mormonism is a major factor in the campaign, even if it is rarely mentioned by Romney’s opponents. “I think the Mormon issue is a real problem in the South, and it’s a real problem in other parts of the country, but people are not going to say it,” Dan Bartlett, President Bush’s former counsellor, said in a recent speech. “People are not going to step out and say, ‘I have a problem with Romney because he’s Mormon.’ What they’re going to say is he is a flip-flopper.”

(Emphasis added.)

My dear Evangelical friends: Is that really how you're going to approach this election?