According to the London Times, Romney has been the subject of a nasty telemarketing campaign similar to the one that Bush used against McCain in the 2000 Republican primary race. The telemarketers have been making outrageous claims about Romney’s religious beliefs.

Media Orchard has exclusively obtained the transcript of one of these slanderous phone calls.

Anti-Romney telemarketer: Sir, as you consider your vote in the upcoming primary, I would like to remind you that one candidate, Mitt Romney, believes that, in 1827, an angel named Moroni gave a New York man a set of engraved golden plates, bound into a book and buried in a magic box. And that this magic box was found on a hill in Manchester, New York. And that the golden plates were engraved by a pre-Columbian prophet-historian named Mormon and his son Moroni (the angel), circa 400 AD. And that these plates represent the foundation of Romney’s belief system. And that this man, with these beliefs, wants to be your president.

Prospective primary voter: That’s outrageous!

Oh, wait — that IS what Mormons believe.

And we’re worried about Kucinich seeing a UFO?