Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) took a shot at Mitt Romney’s Mormonism on Thursday, saying the Republican presidential candidate will have distress appealing to the national electorate since his father was “born on a polygamy commune in Mexico.”The Daily Beast’s Ben Jacobs reports:While discussing swing states, Schweitzer said Romney would have a “tall order to position Hispanics to ballot for him,” and I answered that was mildly ironic since Mitt’s father was born in Mexico, giving the clan a nominal claim to being Hispanic. Schweitzer answered that it is “kinda ironic given that his family came from a polygamy commune in Mexico, however then he’d have to talk about his family coming from a polygamy commune in Mexico, given the gender discrepancy.” Women, he said, are “not fantastic fans of polygamy, 86 percent were not fantastic fans of polygamy. I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, however his father was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico.”Glance at More…
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