Posted on 06/21/2011 8:09:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, it’s more than that. There is something fishy in this man. He is a high priest in this non-Christian religion, yet he doesn’t follow a narrow conservative path (kind of like Reid). He wants his religious affiliation to be off limits in the ballot box, yet he wants to ban what you as an individual can buy in weaponry while having taxpayers pay for the abortions of your fellow Americans. No, I think Romney’s religion and his seeming connect then disconnect then connect then ... well, you get the picture. Romney is proving himself the more of a duplicitous scoundrel through his religion and his fli flopping on his chosen priestly position.
I like your perspective. :)
Excellent points, thanks.
Preach it, Brother!
Nor do I hate Mormons. In fact, all things considered, I think that is a plus because they vote more conservatively than any other major religious group. It is just that Mitt thinks more like a northeast liberal and less like a Rocky Mountain conservative. IOW, I have a problem with this particular Mormon just as I have a problem with the particular fake black man named Obama.
And, no, the LDS church didn't violate their tax exempt status by opposing the pink mafia's attempt to redefine marriage. It is a moral issue. A lot of us Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox Jews feel the same way. If you want to go after churches for engaging in politics, why not start with the more blatant ones who push socialism from the pulpit and tell their parishoners which candidates to vote for rather than limiting their involvement to strictly moral issues.
I don't care that he is a Mormon. I know and like a bunch of Mormons, so that bit of Mitt doesn't bother me a whit.
I don't like him b/c he is a RINO! Got it?? Romneycare!! That's his baby, that's Mitt and that's NOT for me!
Still not clear enough? Just so you understand Independents like me, here's the pattern we gotta stop:
Ford, Bush the Elder, Dole, Bush the younger, McCain...RINO brethren all.
NO MORE RINOS!!! We have a Constitution and a Republic to save!
Sure are desperately seeking when you have to go to a gay newspaper
to knock Mormons!
...it figures any port in a storm
That might be because Romney was (is?) such a high ranking leader and teacher within the religion, and that his family line is so famed within the church.
Remember that Romney is the man that would not stop using the Guatemalan illegal aliens, even when the national story broke, the media went back a year later, and Romney had rehired the same company and it’s Guatemalan illegals, again.
The rest of us know Romney's Biggest Problems are policy and past performance.
Equally, next to no one cares Huntsman is (or was—he can't seem to answer clearly) a Mormon. They care about his service in the Obama regime, his approval of same-sex unions, his prior Cap-and-Trade support, etc.
Remember Bush's half-hearted attempt to introduce some tiny steps toward making social security solvent? The AARP sent some of their plants to disrupt the initial hearings and he packed up the tents and retreated to the tall grass, never to bring up the topic again.
Compare and contrast that to the congressional smack-down he got on amnesty and recall the first words out of Karl Rove after the 2006 mid-term shellacking a wonderful opportunity to reintroduce comprehensive immigration reform. Which, if you recall, they promptly did.
That is the same way I feel about Mormons. I don’t care if that is their choice but I see it as false and them blind or stupid.
Romney does not have a conservative bone in his body, and as is typical for him, he was always uninterested in any form of border control until he had that stroke during the primaries, when he became the opposite of who he was his first 60 years.
Romney was every bit lenient on immigration until the ‘new Mitt’.
Why, how "tolerant" of you.
I do not hate Romney, I don’t even know him personally. I do however, loath his liberalism and I want him to just go away.
Whatever, Dude.
There are a million reasons to reject Willard.
There is no need to resort to religious bigotry.
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Finding a candidate shifty, loopy and untrustworthy because he is in a cult
is not bigotry. Each of us has the right to vote. The Constitution places
no restriction on how we are to evaluate candidates. To suggest the reverse
is Mittgotry... a slippery slope.
In addition, as you said, there are a million reasons to reject Willardo.
Great.
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