(Slick) Dancing Around The Issue

Does Romney really not understand how big of a problem his Mormonism is with a sizeable chunk of the electorate?  As Roger Simon notes in Politico that “poll after poll shows [Mormonism] is a significant problem for him.”  Is his campaign staff so oblivious or so, shall we say, brainwashed by the multiculti lie that voters don’t care about these sorts of things (even when they say that they do care) that they aren’t even considering how it would affect his candidacy?  His not-so-secret top-secret battle plan suggests that they are aware of the problem, but I don’t think they have even attempted to understand just how serious of a problem it is for their candidate.  His public remarks to date indicate that he has no idea what he’s about to run into in the next year.  If he weren’t such a pandering opportunist, I would even feel sorry for him.

Update: Leaving aside the Mormonism business for a moment, just consider the shift in Romney’s fav/unfav rating in the Post poll.  He went from 22/24 (not great, but not disastrous) to an even worse rating of 26/34.  Simon concludes:

But something very troubling has happened to Romney over the last 10 weeks:

The more voters learn about him, the less they seem to like him.

That basically obliterates the happy-talk in the memo from Romney’s senior strategist Alex Gage (is every top level staffer for Romney named Alex?) in which he declared, among other vain attempts to put lipstick on a pig, that the more people know about Romney the more they like him.