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Meet Mitt Romney’s cousin (Uh-oh!)
The Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2012 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 02/03/2012 6:05:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Park Romney says some pretty wild things.

Mormonism, he writes on the Web site parkromney.com, “is an insidious contemporary fraud.”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “an American cult,” he professes.

Mitt Romney, he claims, would be conflicted in office because “obedience to the leadership of the Mormon Church is part of the covenant of the temple ordinances to which Mitt Romney is absolutely a party.”

Were you to come across a man articulating such views on a street corner, you probably would give him a wide berth and look over your shoulder to make sure he wasn’t following you.

But Park Romney, apostate Mormon, is no street-corner eccentric. He is Mitt Romney’s second cousin. Church documents and archival research done by The Post’s Lucy Shackelford trace Park’s lineage to Miles Park Romney, who is also Mitt’s great-grandfather.

The two men have never met. (Miles Park Romney had 30 children, which means Mitt Romney has scores of cousins.) And, based on what Park has been writing, he’s not likely to get a dinner invitation from Mitt anytime soon. “Gov. Romney has never heard of this person, and he doesn’t know him,” campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said....

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Other Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: inman; lds; mexico; mitt; mormonism; mormons; parkromney; polls; polygamy; romney; talkradio; wehatemormons
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To: DJ MacWoW
According to NPR via NYT
NEWT leads Mitt 39-32!!

Pass the word!


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41 posted on 02/03/2012 7:05:24 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God: Newt, and Sarah will be right next to you.)
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To: ansel12

ansel12, I feel so sorry for you. You can say what you will but it is still a cult.

Romney is no bishop in my eyes. He is just a lost soul that needs saving.


42 posted on 02/03/2012 7:06:26 PM PST by mardi59
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To: txhurl; Mountain Mary; trisham

If you really want to change that give your name to MM or Trisham


43 posted on 02/03/2012 7:08:01 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God: Newt, and Sarah will be right next to you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s the one who ‘swore off’ mentioning Sarah for a month last Feb.

So why would team zero want this out now?..... Are they really thinking brokered convention?


44 posted on 02/03/2012 7:08:15 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: mardi59

I hope I’m never judged by some of my cousins!


45 posted on 02/03/2012 7:13:34 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: txhurl

What was the deal with the head fake of Trump endorsing Milt instead of Newt? That smells fishy to me.


46 posted on 02/03/2012 7:16:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: ansel12
The Bishop is anything but an apostate, he is among the most devoted and special of all the Mormons

I can only assume that the word 'special' here is being used...well, nevermind.

47 posted on 02/03/2012 7:18:00 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: hoosiermama
Go Newt!!!

48 posted on 02/03/2012 7:19:55 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only thing I can think of is zero’s internals started showing mittens beating him in November, hence mittens ceased to be a laughing matter.


49 posted on 02/03/2012 7:21:20 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is the “special” bishop Romney!!! Pro-choice and proud of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4&feature=email

This is not a man that deserves the presidency much less anything else! My sister sent me this link. Thanks!


50 posted on 02/03/2012 7:23:16 PM PST by mardi59
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To: JimSEA
They wont need much with Mitts handing them sound bites on silver platters every few days.

He's throwing the election, even before he's the nom!

51 posted on 02/03/2012 7:28:57 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; DJ MacWoW

I have a couple of mutual friends with Park, although I have never met him personally.

What he says about conflict is true, loyalty is always first to the LDS church (not God, not Christ, the “Church”) and ‘the brethren’.

IMO, Park is rapidly moving into the atheist camp (if he isn’t fully there already) and needs prayer and some good Christian friends.


52 posted on 02/03/2012 7:41:52 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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To: txhurl

Coulter’s next article = “THREE CHEERS FOR MORMONISM!”


53 posted on 02/03/2012 7:43:59 PM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: reaganaut

That’s a shame.


54 posted on 02/03/2012 7:50:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: mardi59; ansel12

The prophet himself told Bishop Romney to run? Really?

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Yes, really.


55 posted on 02/03/2012 7:50:37 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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To: mardi59; steve86

Maybe this post from another thread will clear up any confusion. Exposing the powerful Mormon high status of Bishop Romney, is not good for him. Most of the public think that he is just a guy who happens to have been born into a casual Mormon family, and is just a regular Mormon (whatever that is)


See post 52, also tell me how someone religious enough to idiotically choose a Mormon Bishop over a Christian divorcee could at the same time, choose to make him president over this Christian nation.
The Bishop, and Cardinal (Stake President in Mormon terms), is among the most devout and devoted Mormons, a Temple Mormon, Romney is a part of the elite, most holy 15% of the Mormon religion. You know those glorious Mormon Temples? Bishop Romney was not only one who decided which Mormons qualified for the most pure, but only that 15% of the most pure Mormons are allowed into those temples, about 85% of Mormons are forbidden to enter those secret temples. Romney is thought by many Mormons to be the fulfillment of Mormon Prophecy.

54 posted on 01/31/2012 2:48:06 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)


56 posted on 02/03/2012 7:53:03 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: reaganaut

That means nothing. Get back to me when Jesus Christ tells me He told him to run.


57 posted on 02/03/2012 7:53:41 PM PST by mardi59
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To: JimSEA

It was a good thing we didn’t get suckered into voting for Reagan, what with that Ronnnie Reagan guy around to embarrass him and all. We dodged a bullet on that one.. :-)

Every family has family that aren’t going to be helpful. Cain’s wife voted for Obama. Gingrich had ex-wife problems. Romney probably has more than a few relatives who won’t be on his endorsement list.

Heck, a couple of weeks ago, some Gingrich supporter was explaining to us the skeleton in Rick Santorum’s closet — the boyfriend his wife had when she was in her early 20s. Because that was all Rick’s fault.


58 posted on 02/03/2012 8:02:17 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mardi59; reaganaut

Knock it off with the rudeness. reaganaut is very knowledgeable and was confirming what was said. Either you want facts or you don’t.


59 posted on 02/03/2012 8:03:14 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: mardi59

It shows the level of control the LDS puts on its members, especially those in politics.

The fact that he felt that he had to get permission to run and get support for POTUS from his prophet is very telling about how much control SLC would have if he were POTUS (a lot).

Mormonism is lie from the pit of Hell and a high demand group (cult). Been there, done that (see tagline).


60 posted on 02/03/2012 8:04:18 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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