When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came in first place in Nevada earlier this month, it was largely due to the huge percentage of Mormons who populate the former Deseret Territory. No surprise, polls in Utah show Romney way out in the lead, and he will without a doubt muster most of the votes in the Beehive State. The majority of Mitt's support is coming from the millions of Mormons scattered across the United States. They're the perfect people to proselytize for the wealthy self-financier.
Considering that Mormonism was founded by libertarian-leaning, constitutionalist free-agents, I find it odd that so many modern-day Latter-day Saints (LDS) have aligned themselves with Romney, and climbed on his big government, big war, bandwagon. Knowing that Mormon founder/prophet Joseph Smith made a run for president back in 1844, I was curious who he would vote for if he were here today. Here is a sample of his own presidential platform:
“I will adopt in part the language of Mr. Madison’s inaugural address, ‘To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations, having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality towards belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries, and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender their own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves, and too elevated not to look down upon them in others.’”
It sounds like Joseph Smith and James Madison both endorse Ron Paul
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