Posted on 01/21/2012 9:55:58 AM PST by greyfoxx39
GREENVILLE, South Carolina--Outside Tommy's Ham House here this morning--where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich scheduled back-to-back visits--a boisterous crowd of young, fresh-faced supporters was waving Romney signs and chanting, "MITT! MITT! MITT!"
But this wasn't a grassroots youth movement rooted at the University of South Carolina. No, many of the students cheering on the candidate told BuzzFeed they were actually BYU students and young Mormons from D.C. and Virginia who traveled to the Palmetto State to give their coreligionist's presidential effort a much-needed jolt of energy.
Kat Wardle, a 23-year-old BYU student who is spending the semester in Washington, D.C., said she and several young Latter-Day Saints have been following Romney around the state, playing the role of cheerleaders at various campaign stops.
"I was all over the place at the Lexington rally!" said Wardle, referring to a rainy outdoor event that the campaign has been spinning as an example of growing momentum. Despite the weather, a crowd of several hundred remained for the event and, Romney surrogates like Nikki Haley have pointed out, they were loud and proud.
"We were the girls dancing by the band and definitely the loudest ones there," Wardle said. "There is a group of 12 BYU Washington Seminary students, and several other random groups and some kids from [University of Utah]."
Another BYU student, who asked not to be named, said he traveled to South Carolina on a bus with several other Mormons and non-Mormons from Virginia, home to the small Mormon liberal arts school, Southern Virginia University. He said as far as he knew, the Romney campaign would be reimbursing the cost of the charter bus, and that volunteer coordinators suggested the out-of-towners show up at Tommy's.
Their presence certainly contributed to the momentum theme the campaign has been pushing. Supporters lined the street leading up to the restaurant, cheering on Romney with the sort of enthusiasm typically reserved this cycle for Ron Paul supporters. But while the majority of attendees at recent campaign stops still appear to be from South Carolina, if Romney loses Saturday despite the apparent energy, it might be because his most ardent fans can't vote here.
UPDATE: Andrea Saul, a spokesperson for Romney, told BuzzFeed it was "not true" that the campaign would be paying for the charter bus students took to South Carolina
Mitt can't win and if he did, he chose liberal judges in MA.
Nice Dragon, are you making those ?
YOU know nothing about the mormon church and the history of believing a mormon will "save the constitution" when they take over the government.
"They tolerate everything that's bad, and they're intolerant of everything that's good. Religious freedom is going to go down the drain, too," Hatch said. "I've never seen it worse than this, where the Constitution literally is hanging by a thread."
This popular prophecy of Smith's is explained in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism:
LDS attachment to the Constitution has been further encouraged by an important oral tradition deriving from a statement attributed to Joseph Smith, according to which the Constitution would "hang by a thread" and be rescued, if at all, only with the help of the Saints. Church President John Taylor seemed to go further when he prophesied, "When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States the Elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men" (JD 21:8). To defend the principles of the Constitution under circumstances where the "iniquity," or moral decay, of the people has torn it to shreds might well require wisdom at least equal to that of the men raised up to found it. In particular, it would require great insight into the relationship between freedom and virtue in a political embodiment of moral agency. (Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.1, 1992)
Due to Senator Hatch's statements a number of people have contacted us for background information on Joseph Smith's prophecy.
Interest in this prophecy has surfaced once again as it seems to have been a part of the motivation behind "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame. On June 2, 2005 the Salt Lake Tribune reported that W. Mark Felt, Associate Deputy Director of the FBI during the 1970's, admitted to being the informant:
In October 1956, W. Mark Felt, now confirmed as The Washington Post's source "Deep Throat," rolled into Salt Lake City to take charge of the FBI office.
Felt, who in the early 1970s helped guide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's investigation of President Nixon and the Watergate scandal, spent 15 months in the Beehive State supervising some 40 agents who worked throughout Utah and Nevada. . . .
Salt Lake City was just one of many assignments the agent — who joined the FBI on Jan. 26, 1942 — would accept as he ascended the ranks of the bureau. . . .
Felt's admission to being Deep Throat came as no surprise to Salt Lake attorney Pat Shea.
Shea, a former U.S. Senate staffer, recalled Felt's desire to get to the bottom of things during a congressional investigation of the U.S. intelligence community, including assassination plots against foreign leaders.
After an interview session with witnesses, Felt would suggest to investigators, "This is something you might want to ask when you guys go back in there," recounts Shea, assistant staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975-76.
The information was usually excellent, leading investigators into areas of inquiry that might otherwise have been overlooked.
Shea, a longtime Democratic Party activist and Bureau of Land Management director during the Clinton administration, believes Felt was motivated by anger over not being named FBI director and by long-standing animosity between the FBI and CIA.
"But," added Shea, "he also was a kid from Idaho." Felt retained a lot of small-town idealism from the culture in which he had been raised, including the LDS notion that in the latter days the U.S. Constitution would be hanging by a thread.
"Mark Felt saw himself as that thread sometimes," says Shea.
Felt, now 91, is a 1931 graduate of Twin Falls High School and 1935 graduate of the University of Idaho. (‘Deep Throat' Lived in SLC, Supervising 40 FBI Agents, by Lisa Rosetta, Salt Lake Tribune, June 2, 2005)
I find it very interesting that Felt, a mormon, was greatly instrumental in bringing down a President of the United States. It is especially interesting that George Romney, Mitt's father was a failed candidate in the exact Presidential election in which Richard Nixon, the President that Felt betrayed, was the winner.
I was on the other side just last cycle. Got ticked one day at the quote GreyFoxx39 posted where Joe Smith claimed to be greater than Christ and went to go prove her a liar.
everything she said turned out to be true. Like Romney, I was an LDS sect high priest and bishopric member. Unlike Romney, I refused orders to lie and cover it up. I resigned and then was saved by Christ.
There was an article here on FR a couple of days ago wherein the author( a mormon)was claiming that mormons didn’t want rumnuts to run for prez or win. I figured that he was lyin’ through his teeth.
My wife and I already voted for Gingrich. Screw you mittens.
Who has to bus in people to events? Romney and democrats.
..looks like the Republic will never see an end to Identity Politics...
“I resigned and then was saved by Christ. “
I never tire of those words that bring glory to God!
i didn’t say anything about the Morman church. However what you provided is pretty unbelieable. I am not even near finished reading it.
I would have preferred that they had been bused into Nevada to oppose Harry Reid!
That won’t happen. Harry Reid is one of them. They won’t oppose him .
Wheres that statue of Joey Smith and the 3 Nephites ???
Was SD driving one of the buses?
“MITT! MITT! MITT!”
“CULT! CULT! CULT!”
Romney is so fake, just what we do not need is another pre packaged politician. Newt's, Rick's (and Paul) supporters are out working the ground, not having cheerleaders just for show. (Oh look on TV, people love Mitt---maybe I should vote for him)
Romney is so fake, just what we do not need is another pre packaged politician. Newt's, Rick's (and Paul) supporters are out working the ground, not having cheerleaders just for show. (Oh look on TV, people love Mitt---maybe I should vote for him)
Romney is so fake, just what we do not need is another pre packaged politician. Newt's, Rick's (and Paul) supporters are out working the ground, not having cheerleaders just for show. (Oh look on TV, people love Mitt---maybe I should vote for him)
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