Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, perhaps trying to tamp down what has become feverish speculation about his upcoming speech on religion, said yesterday in New Hampshire that “I’m not going to be giving a JFK speech.”
After seeing his support slip in Iowa, particularly among Christian conservatives, a crucial caucus constituency, Romney agreed to make a speech on his Mormonism, which some Christians labeled “cultish” and “not Christian.”
Read the Wall Street Journal’s report on Romney’s new comments here.