Senator Orrin Hatch says Axelrod and Plouffe will attack Romney's Mormonism

One day after Ron Paul supporter Bret Hatch initiated an awkward exchange with Mitt Romney over the latter's religion, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R) asserted that Obama smear merchants - David Axelrod and David Plouffe - are about to attack Romney over his religion as well.

Via POLITICO:

Sen. Orrin Hatch predicted President Obama's campaign team would use Mitt Romney's Mormon faith against him in the general election.

Speaking to a group of GOP delegates at a campaign stop Tuesday, the six-term Republican incumbent warned, "You watch, they're going to throw the Mormon church at him like you can't believe."

Asked to elaborate in an interview later, Hatch fingered campaign adviser David Axelrod and White House aide David Plouffe as the masterminds who would insert the issue into the campaign.

"Let me tell you something.  The Obama people have some of the best political consultants in the country and they don't get there because they're always wonderful people.  They're very tough.  I have respect for them.  They're very tough.  I've met with Axelrod, he's the best there is in the business.  Plouffe, you've got to say he's one of the best.  And there is nothing they won't do," Hatch asserted.

Hatch went even as far to say he thought the duo had already played the religion card against the likely GOP nominee, but failed to point to any evidence of it.

Oh, evidence? How about when Axelrod appeared to inadvertently send out a tweet that linked to a story about how Mormons prevent menstruating women from participating in proxy baptisms, a practice whereby deceased non-Mormons are baptized during the baptisms of living Mormons.

Axelrod's tweet was quickly deleted.

Like so many members of the Republican establishment, however, Hatch seems to think that Romney is deft enough to overcome the attacks.

"You can find some pretty outlandish statements by some of our early leaders that we've all had to live with from time to time, but he handles it very well and I think he's going to do a good job," Hatch told the gathering of delegates in this town about 20 minutes north of Salt Lake City.

Hatch, who frequently mentions Romney in his stump speeches, also asserted that attempting to assail Romney for his Mormon faith would only backfire.

"It's a mistake, because the one thing most people conclude if they have Mormon neighbors is that these people go to church.  These people love their families.  These are good people," Hatch said.  "That's going to be an advantage in the end because even people who don't like the Mormon church will say, but the Mormons are good people."

It might backfire among the Republican base but doesn't Romney need at least 10% of the black vote as well as a significant portion of the Jewish vote at a time when Obama as demonstrated a strong anti-Israel bias? How about women? Axelrod's tweet indicated that he is likely willing to portray the Mormon religion as sexist too.

Two Black men Arrested for nearly beating White man to death with a Hammer... in same community where Trayvon was Killed

Two black men slightly older than Trayvon Martin pulled a 50-year-old white man from his vehicle near Sanford, FL - the same community where Trayvon was killed one month ago - and repeatedly beat him with a hammer, nearly killing him. Hate crime anyone?

Via Orlando Sentinel:

A tip to Crimeline has led to the arrests of two men in a brutal beating that occurred a week ago in the Midway community east of Sanford.

Julius Ricardo Bender, 18, and Yahaziel Isaac Israel, 19, face charges of attempted first-degree murder, burglary with assault or battery and armed burglary.

The victim, a 50-year-old Winter Springs man whose name has not been released, is on life-support at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Deputies were called to the area of Lincoln Street and Beardall Avenue about 6:30 p.m. March 26 to investigate a report of a man being beaten, Seminole County Sheriff's spokeswoman Heather Smith said.

As Weasel Zippers points out, the Orlando Sentinel article does not make any reference to the race of either the assailants or the victim but does include mugshots of the two arrested men, who are clearly black.

A local news report on WFTV 9 does mention the race of the victim; he's white.

Ok, so at about the same time that the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) was putting a bounty on George Zimmerman's head; the same time that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were throwing gas on an enflaming racially tense situation in Sanford, FL; these two black men - in the same community - allegedly beat an innocent white man within an inch of his life.

Flashback to the days after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Within hours, the New York Times' Paul Krugman alleged that Giffords' shooting was likely a right-wing attack:

We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was.

He also blamed talk radio:

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

As it turned out, the shooter - Jared Loughner - if he was political at all, leaned left (the Communist manifesto was listed as one of his favorite books); he also didn't listen to talk radio.

Applying Paul Krugman's standard, Sharpton and Jackson should be in handcuffs right now.

Paging Paul Krugman...

Shoebat Exclusive: Egyptian Presidential candidate practicing Muruna

Former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat has done it again. This time, he has unearthed video evidence that Egyptian presidential candidate Abol Futuh is practicing Muruna, a very deceptive practice sanctioned by Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi that allows Muslims to engage in any and all prohibitions - if doing so furthers a larger agenda.

Remember, the Muslim Brotherhood promised not to field a presidential candidate. Futuh was allegedly "expelled" from the Brotherhood and is now running for president of Egypt.

Via Shoebat:

Interestingly, Muruna would theoretically allow Futuh to be jettisoned from the Brotherhood for a higher calling, namely, running for president.

It would also allow a woman named Huma Abedin to marry a Jew (Anthony Weiner) and become the Deputy Chief of Staff for Hillary Clinton (Huma's mother is a member of the Brotherhood's Muslim Sisterhood arm).