Hey DUMBO, they are his direct line. Guess what? It doesn't matter how many polygamous ancestors a person has because they still have the same number of ancestors as a person with zero polygamous ancestors!
Posted on 04/21/2012 4:44:33 PM PDT by tuckrdout
.Gov. Brian Schweitzer, talking Friday to a national news website, said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney might shy from talking about his family’s Mexican roots because they came from a “polygamy commune” in Mexico.
Schweitzer made the remark in an interview with The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website, after being asked whether Montana might be a swing state during this year’s 2012 election.
According to The Daily Beast, Schweitzer said Montana likely would vote for Romney, but that Romney, a Mormon, might have trouble nationally because his father, George Romney, was “born on a polygamy commune in Mexico.”
Schweitzer, a Democrat, said later that he wasn’t misquoted, and that his comments had nothing to do with Romney’s faith or his church, which does not condone polygamy.
Schweitzer said he was describing the dilemma facing Romney, who is in trouble with Hispanic voters because “he took an ultra-right-wing position on immigration during the (Republican) primary.”
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LOL.
See this is why FR is so outstanding. :D
Yea, yea. Last I checked, I live in the most conservative state in America. We have Mormons, Methodist, Baptist, Evangicals, Episcopals......we are conservative. We voted for Santorum. So piss off, noob, and go back to DU with your anti-Morman BS......
You think that those are males in Romney’s direct line?
You really think that for five years at freerepublic we have been posting that nobody has ever been in the military who has ever had the name Romney? Or that we were saying that none of the Mitt Romney line of males has served out nation in uniform?
Look at post 73 and 84, we have been dealing with you romneybots for more than five years.
Says the romneybot who advertises that he is socially liberal, as he posts on an anti-Romney, social conservative site dedicated to stopping Romney.
Romneybots, they never change, never tire.
neither my dad, nor either grandpa nor, as far as I can figure out, either great grandpa served in the military. Exactly how does that disqualify me from seeking public office????? pathetic!
What do you two mean when you say that the Romney family was not polygamist?
Have you considered a hobby?
Stamp collecting is fun, I hear.
Your direct line has a perfect, unbroken record of non service for 170 years?
I find that hard to believe, and since you have only searched your dad and grandpa, you don’t know.
Your service to Romney is graded as fail.
I can do this all night A@@hole. My state voted for Santorum...... You're a sleazy, anti-Morman bigot. Try again.
Have you considered a site that is not fighting against Romney?
Your state?
You post here on an anti-Romney, social conservative site, as a pro-Romney, anti-social conservative poster, and you keep telling us how your state voted in a primary?
Weird, very Romtilian.
I respect and consider the heartfelt opinion of this site’s owner.
Yet, the name of this site does, ironically start with the word “free”.
Let’s not fall into the liberal trap of groupthink. Sharing a common goal is a good thing, but we’re not simply followers here.
Obama is the real problem.
Obama is the real problem.
Obama is the real problem.
Are you smoking crack? I said I voted for Santorum.....as did the entire state of Oklahoma. You come on here and belittle all Mormons because you don't like Romney. You're pitiful, and dense.....go roll on the floor and speak in tongues.....idiot.
I am 73 years old and I'd venture to say that my great grandparents go back 170 years (my dad goes back over 100 years)
the question is still valid, what does their service in the U.S. military have to do with my qualifications to run for office????
If you are going to keep directly challenging the owner of this site, then why don’t you ping him?
Then you can tell him that he doesn’t understand the meaning of the name he chose for his site, that the word “free” means that he is trumped, that he has to accept pro-Romney campaign efforts.
Democrats are that stupid...but I wonder if the attack on Ann Romney has a purpose. Obama came out strongly and said that attacks on spouses are “off limits”? Is he being gentlemanly or is it because Michelle had a no-work six figure job that doesn’t exist any more? What else is hidden in Michelle’s closet?
It is very common for Illinois politicians to be paid off through a spouse or children. I suspect this is the case with Michelle and why Obama and Co. want to take it off the radar.
This very well might be an attempt to take Obama’S freaky family off the docket as well. Polygamy, Islam, Rev. Wright and who knows what else is in there back in Kenya. How many jobless college age women could afford all the air travel Ms. .
With all due respect, I’m sure Mr. Thompson can keep an eye on things here just fine, without me bothering him every post.
If you think you need to report me, I suppose perhaps you should.
I’m well aware of JR’s position, and put some thought into staying on the right side of that line.
Besides the obvious, of Mitt’s father trying to be a war time president while his son is avoiding the draft in France, and then that son, trying to become a war time president, while his five military age sons avoid military service.
There is the fact that conservatives started looking at this odd situation and then discovered that the family has always avoided military service, not that they had physical problems, or skipped a generation or two, but that it was a firm, dedicated family tradition, since the Romneys are dedicated anti-conservatives, it is a disturbing revelation to learn about this record.
Also you don’t know much about your family and it’s military service, so you can hardly show that it has a perfect, uninterrupted record of non service since they arrived in America, as the Romneys have, unless of course, your grandfather was the first one here.
There is an "abuse" button right below every post. Slap it any time you feel frisky little guy.....
Why would you call me a name? You got spanked when you said, “no Romney man has ever served the United States as a military man”. Don’t take it out on me. Learn to post a complete thought. Shorthand kills.
Threading the needle as you push Romney, kind of a liberal troll, well I know that.
Romneybots, always the same.
LOL, romneybot insults you while you post for Romney?
So you want to avoid him, I understand, pushing Romney can be a problem, the important thing is to try and keep it low key, under the radar.
See post 51.
On this thread you are pushing Romney, Santorum is gone.
Do you believe you’re actually convincing anyone of your points, by namecalling?
There’s no way for me to know if there are ‘Romneybots’ on this thread.
But if you think Romney is the guy I’ve supported, you’re just wrong.
Sure as heck though, I’ll not vote for Obama.
That’s not happening.
If you’ve got a better candidate than Romney, then please get out there and nominate him or her.
Quick.
Avoid who? Jim is anti Romney, but he is not an anti-Morman bigot.
“Neither Romney’s dad nor his grandfather were polygamists.”
Romney doesn’t -practice- polygamy but it is illegal so of course he doesn’t. That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t SUPPORT it if he was faced with pro-polygamy legislation in this time where homosexual “marriage” is being legislated on a monthly basis.
It could be advanced in a matter of time, on the same grounds as sodomite “marriage”. What would Romney do if faced with legislation championing polygamy as he once was faced with gay marriage as Mass Governor? Where would his sympathy lie? Well, he’s a high Mormon Elder, so let’s see what Brigham Young had to say on the matter around the time the Supreme Court struck it down:
“Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.”
-Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
I would not be surprised to see a President Romney appoint court judges sympathetic to the LDS beliefs (pro-gay and hence pro-polygamy and liberal, anything goes judges).
He said in this campaign that he “would be “true to his faith”. His FAITH is pro-polygamy. Just because the courts forced his forefathers out of the nation to practice their abominations - and forced those here to CEASE the practice - doesn’t make them any more anti-polygamy than they were then.
Romney is and would be a traitor. I will not vote for a proven liberal traitor. I will vote for a conservative, little known though that conservative may be.
The establishment hijackers can kiss my ass.
Nor is ansel12!! Thanks!!
Do you have any concept of how many “relatives” a polygamous Mormon family that traces itself back to the beginning of the cult has?
This is about MITT ROMNEYS direct line, you signed up in 1999 and this is the first Romney thread that you have been on? You missed the last five or six years of Romney here at freerepublic?
Are you stoned, drunk? what do these people have to do with Mitt Romney?
Sweet! I'll go down and try to hunt up a few more wives. I mean if one can make your life a living hell, 8 should should just be...errr....better.
You got me, what do you mean?
What do you two mean when you say that the Romney family was not polygamist?
Which Romneybot insulted me? You insulted me by calling me a “Romneybot” which I am not. I was curiously reading the thread when you made your post and foolhardily stated: “no Romney man has ever served the United States as a military man”.
He smashed you with a great reply. Deal with it. Plus, what’s with this “we” stuff. We’re all FReepers and we all want what’s best for the country. Each of us has a right to conscience and that should be respected. Name calling just diminishes you.
Now I hadn’t known about Romey’s lack of military service. So I did a quick search after reading your post on it. Here’s what I found: http://www.biography.com/people/mitt-romney-241055
It states that Mitt Romney was married in 1969. I don’t know all the ins and outs of the draft, but IIRC married men weren’t drafted. So I looked up his Dad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney He would have been 34 when WW2 started. It says he was chief spokesman for the Amer. Automobile Mfg. Assoc. during this time. A lot of people didn’t go to war and IIRC the average age of a US soldier during WW2 was 26. It sounds like he did something for the war effort, although he sounds like a crummy governor. It also says that he was “born in Mexico to American parents”.
If that’s true then Mitt Romney’s male line didn’t have many chances to fight in an American war. Your implication is that either they’re “cowards” or “draft dodgers” or something. I don’t have enough information to conclude you’re right, but I do know many people who love America and have never served in the military. So what are you getting at?
I’d venture to say you’ve done a lot more research on Romney’s history than I have.
I heard Blenn Beck last week explaining, that on the “polygamist commune” the Romney’s were an monogamous couple.
That’s what I understood him to say anyway, wasn’t paying close attention since I didn’t know at the time, we’d end up in a, er ... posting contest on the matter.
Anyway I don’t think I can really clarify anything I’ve said, without simply repeating myself.
Nice chatting with you. FReegards.
When did George Romney become a US citizen, he was born in Mexico and came to the US at age seven? was George a citizen before Mits birth?
Good lord, on a Mitt Romney thread after five years of this you think that someone playing games with “no Romney man has ever served the United States as a military man” by pretending that it means any human with the name Romney, is some kind of a big homerun smash of a Romney rebuttal?
Then you want to defend 170 years of his family’s military avoidance (their entire history in America) by telling us that Mitt married in 1969 and his dad was 34 when WWII started, do you know how tired we conservatives are of having to repeat our exposure of Romney to you people over and over, year after year?
Besides the obvious, of Mitt’s father trying to be a war time president while his son is avoiding the draft in France, and then that son, trying to become a war time president, while his five military age sons avoid military service.
There is the fact that conservatives started looking at this odd situation and then discovered that the family has always avoided military service, not that they had physical problems, or skipped a generation or two, but that it was a firm, dedicated family tradition, since the Romneys are dedicated anti-conservatives, it is a disturbing revelation to learn about this record.
The part about the great grandfather and before.
Why did you ignore this post? I know why, because it is what Romney supporters do, they have a single minded, relentless agenda of pushing the man, and avoiding challenges.
Actually me and many other freepers here have been blowing the doors off the lying Mitt Romney for many years, we do know his history and his family’s history, we are experts on them.
We post in a more sparse way now because after a half decade of this, we are tired of the long detailed posts, the meticulous sourcing and links, and details, we save that energy for when we meet romneybots that are of a grade that the big guns need to come out.
You have an old sign up date, did you miss the last five years of us exposing Romney, especially 2007 and 2008?
My understanding is that, of the descendants of the Romney who converted to Mormon while still living in England, none of them has served in uniform. Where those Romneys you listed related to Mitt Romney? probably, where they Mormons? I don’t know.
When the families of those who married Romneys are included I am sure you will find some who served in uniform.
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