Romney’s Consideration of Candidacy Is Closely Tied to His Faith, Allies Say

The New York Times ^ | January 25, 2015 | Ashley Parker and Alex Thompson

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prominent Republican delivered a direct request to Mitt Romney not long ago: He should make a third run for the presidency, not for vanity or redemption, but to answer a higher calling from his faith.

Believing that Mr. Romney, a former Mormon pastor, would be most receptive on these grounds, the Republican made the case that Mr. Romney had a duty to serve, and said Mr. Romney seemed to take his appeal under consideration.

Three years ago, Mr. Romney’s tortured approach to his religion — a strategy of awkward reluctance and studied avoidance that all but walled off a free-flowing discussion of his biography — helped doom his campaign. (The subject is still so sensitive that many, including the prominent Republican, would only discuss it on condition that they not be identified.)

But now as Mr. Romney mulls a new run for the White House, friends and allies said, his abiding Mormon faith is inextricably tied to his sense of service and patriotism, and a facet of his life that he is determined to embrace more openly in a possible third campaign.

Kirk Jowers, a Mormon family friend who lives in Utah and chaired Mr. Romney’s leadership PAC, said that Mr. Romney’s contemplation of a third bid is motivated by an “almost devout belief that he needs to do something for this country.”(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Translation: The first presidency are on him hot & heavy to run.

[drypowder]

I guess today one can say politics is a religion

[hlmencken3]

The White Horse Prophecy lives!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

In other news, NYT makes fun of Mormons.

[txrefugee]

Liberals consider politics their religion. Conservatives have better sense.

[fishtank]

You beat me to it...

Do you mind a white unicorn in honor of your post?

hahha

[knarf]

What ... stockpiling presidential runs are part of emergency supplies now ?

I am SO screwed !

[fishtank]

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[LegendHasIt]

I tell ya what;
I’d much prefer to have Mittens knocking on my door as a missionary to try to convert me into his religion than I would to have him as President.

[Da Coyote]

I respect Romney.

I loathe RINOs.

RINO trumps the person.

Ergo.....

[RFEngineer]

“So Mr. Romney, while polygamy is no longer officially sanctioned by your religion, should God command you in heaven to take a few additional wives in the afterlife, you’d be down with that, right?”

[ansel12]

People need to know that the Mormons own him lock, stock, and barrel.

He is a true member of the cult, and his family is Mormon royalty, he will do whatever he is instructed to do.

Bishop Romney asked permission of his Prophet, before he would even run for president, and if they tell him that it serves recruitment if he runs again, then he will.

[Tennessee Nana]

Its a mormon thing for sure..

The guy who invented Mormonism, Joey Smith, thought he was entitled to be president..

He ran in 1844 but got himself killed in a gunfight in June that year..

he had already crowned himself “king of the world”

and then there is Smith’s so called “white horse prophecy” that George Romney thought was about him so he ran 2 times for POTUS unsuccessfully and now Willard Mitt Romney thinks it refers to himself..

[MasterGunner01]

Ah, no, it is not tied to his faith. It is tied to Romney’s ego and need to succeed where is father, George Romney, lost out in his presidential bid. Besides, the GOP Establishment elites think it is Mittens’ time at bat (again).