Book Review: 'The Real Romney' adds fuller picture of candidate

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 1/18/2012 | Richard Rayner

[Cato in PA]

Let's face it, Mitt Romney seems more than a little opaque. On the one hand he's über-rich, incredibly smart and nakedly ambitious; on the other he seems somehow robotic, shut-down and so happy to embrace the pragmatic option that the core of his character remains elusive. There's a sense of a man who will eagerly deny even his own best achievements if doing so will help him seize the brass ring.

[Cato in PA]

"Uglier stories also emerge. Kranish and Helman relate how, in 1983, when Romney was a Mormon bishop in Boston, he threatened a pregnant woman with excommunication unless she gave up her baby for adoption. He allegedly told her, "This is not like, 'You don't get to take Communion.' This is like, 'You will not be saved. You will not see the face of God.'"

[Earthdweller]

"He allegedly told her, "This is not like, 'You don't get to take Communion.' This is like, 'You will not be saved. You will not see the face of God.'" "

Sick..just sick. Messiah did not teach this kind of stuff.

Everything about Romney just oozes out that he is a complete egomaniac, arrogant-to-the-max, control freak who has been told he is a up and coming G-d. It probably gave him a tingle to scare the "little woman" to death. You can't believe in an omnipotent universal creator master G-d if you think you are a G-d..and you can't serve two masters.

I CAN NOT BELIEVE ANY PART OF MY PARTY IS CONSIDERING THIS SLEAZEBALL!

[freespirited]

For an even bigger shock, check out his numbers on Intrade. Well into the 90s at this point!

[gunner03]

I have received a phone call every day from Mittens campaign, every day I hang up. What other candidate has that kind of money to buy an election?

[Venturer]

The worst thing that could happen to the republican Party this year would be to have Romney for a Candidate.

Even Paul is better.

WTH is wrong with the Republican leadership?

[T. P. Pole]

Messiah did not teach this kind of stuff.

Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.