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Montana's Governor Schweitzer(D): "Romney’s father from ‘polygamy commune’ in Mexico"
Helena Independent Record ^ | 4.21.12 | Mike Dennison

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at helenair.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: inman; mexico; obama; polygamy; romney; romneygenealogy; romneymormon; schweitzer
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To: ansel12

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?


141 posted on 04/21/2012 9:55:29 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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To: 1010RD

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.


142 posted on 04/21/2012 9:56:56 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I’d venture to say you’ve done a lot more research on Romney’s history than I have.

As far as I can tell, he doesn't know many facts about the family. And he obviously doesn't know much about me. ;-)
143 posted on 04/21/2012 9:58:41 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer
What part of that do you not understand?

The part about the great grandfather and before.

144 posted on 04/21/2012 9:58:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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.


To: Cringing Negativism Network
Seriously, you never knew that the Romneys were polygamists? What do you think helping to create and build, and lead the Mormon cult for an unbroken 180 years meant?
WIKIPEDIA:
Romney’s grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States with their children owing to the federal government’s prosecution of polygamy.
43 posted on Sat Apr 21 2012 18:23:40 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by ansel12


145 posted on 04/21/2012 10:03:32 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: ansel12
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?

I hate to be the one to break the news to you kid (not really), but most of the Romney's in the U.S. are close cousins of Mittens.
146 posted on 04/21/2012 10:03:47 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: ansel12
( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)

What does his uncle have to do with him?
147 posted on 04/21/2012 10:09:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

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?


148 posted on 04/21/2012 10:09:07 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: Brown Deer

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.


149 posted on 04/21/2012 10:13:01 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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To: ansel12
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.

No, you've already shown that what you know is next to nothing.
150 posted on 04/21/2012 10:14:37 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: usacon

I am a part of the faction that is ABO or R. How about them apples!


151 posted on 04/21/2012 10:14:51 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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To: Brown Deer

Great, that was very deep and meaningful, thanks.


152 posted on 04/21/2012 10:17:58 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: W. W. SMITH
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.

Really? like Mitt's Uncle, 1LT Charles Wilcken Romney, brother of George, Army Serial #01-844-464 4/2/1942-4/27/1946. or his 1st cousin: Lt. Col. Miles Conrad Romney (1913-1999), US ARMY WORLD WAR II, KOREA, VIETNAM
153 posted on 04/21/2012 10:19:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: W. W. SMITH
Where those Romneys you listed related to Mitt Romney?

these? that's his Romney family.
154 posted on 04/21/2012 10:24:34 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer; W. W. SMITH
In other words, since they arrived in America to serve Mormonism , no man in Romney's direct line has served the United States in uniform.

We have said that for five years, and we are correct, as your strange effort shows.

Here is the face of an anti-conservative, anti-American family.
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155 posted on 04/21/2012 10:41:36 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: tuckrdout

Didn’t see this one coming /s


156 posted on 04/21/2012 10:41:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Jim Robinson
Nor is ansel12!! Thanks!!

Thanks Jim, I needed that, this thread is a downer.

157 posted on 04/21/2012 10:42:50 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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To: Brown Deer

Roma——Romney——Gypsy

Many surviving Roma refer to themselves as “the Romney” Probably meaning the people. Many of them adopted the term Romney as a surname. So yes the Romneys are all related, in some cases going back more than a thousand years. That would be what 50th cousins, not exactly close.


158 posted on 04/21/2012 10:53:44 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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To: ScreamingFist

lol. You tell him.


159 posted on 04/21/2012 11:56:35 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: GOP Poet

Tell whom? Where is my ping? GOP Poet.

That is tacky. What do you want to tell us about Romney?


160 posted on 04/22/2012 12:09:35 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Romney is a Mormon Bishop, as was his father, his uncle was in line to be the Mormon Prophet/Pope)
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