Huckabee’s Mormon education

Mike Huckabee apologized for asking a New York Times reporter whether Mormons believed Jesus and the devil were brothers, said Katherine Seelye in The New York Times, but the damage to rival presidential contender Mitt Romney was done. Romney has nothing

What happened

Political analysts said Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee is staying out front in Iowa polls in part because he has successfully used rival Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith as a “wedge issue.” Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, aired a TV ad touting himself as a “Christian leader,” and asked in a New York Times Magazine article being published Sunday, “Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" (The Salt Lake Tribune) Huckabee apologized. Romney said Thursday the "smear" was familiar but that he accepted the apology. (National Review Online)

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