In today’s Post, I argue that Mitt’s Mormon speech will be of little to no use. The real problem is his flip-flopping:

ON Thursday, at the George H.W. Bush presidential library in College Station, Texas, Mitt Romney will deliver what’s being called his “JFK speech.”

Unfortunately for Romney, he’s trying to deal with a John F. Kennedy problem - a nation uneasy with the religion of a serious presidential candidate - when his real weakness is a John F. Kerry-type woe. Like the presidential candidate who “voted for it before I voted against it,” Romney is seen as a flip-flopper whose only guiding principle is personal ambition.

Romney & Co. seem to have panicked quite thoroughly over Mike Huckabee’s rise in the polls. Instead of a well-funded campaign of attack ads to take down the so-far unscrutinized Huckabee, the Romney campaign has decided they’d be better off putting the Mormon issue front and center for at least a week (it’ll probably be more like two) in the home stretch before Iowa votes on January 3.

There’s a phrase that describes that: political suicide.