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Ever since 1844, the Mormon Church has been waiting for the day when its image would improve so that one of its own priesthood holders could campaign for the office of the President of the United States. This quest began when Joseph Smith JR, the founder of the church, announced his candidacy for President just a few short months before he died in a gun battle at the Carthage, Illinois Jail on June 27, 1844. Smith's quest for the presidency had nothing to do with democracy in America but rather the attempt to fulfill the establishment of the Earthly Theocratic Kingdom of God with himself as Vice Regent for Christ as the world theocratic dictator. Smith's success in deluding several thousands of people mostly from Europe to become his followers and building a city on a bend of the Mississippi called Nauvoo made him heady enough to develop the disease of narcissism by organ- izing a group called the Council of the Fifty to be his presidential campaign organization. At the time, Smith was a fugitive from Justice across the river in Missouri having escaped jail to avoid a trial for sedition His death resulted in Brigham Young succeeding him as the leader of the Mormons who followed him to what would later become the Utah territory. Young attempted to replicate the idea of Joseph as earth King in his kingdom of Deseret. Alas that failed because the US Army invaded Mexico to steal the very land for US expansion that Young had recently squatted on. Young had unwittingly agreed to form a battalion of Mormon elders Known as the Mormon Battalion to help win that war and would thus betray his own objective in securing land for his own kingdom. Despite that set back the Mormon Priesthood led by each successive "prophet" has continued to look forward to the day when it can by deceit and deception take control of the government of the United States and ultimately of the world. Indeed any faithful Melchizedek priesthood holder such as Mitt Romney or John Huntsman who could attain