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Mitt Romney Is Driving Others Away, Too
The Scratching Post ^ | February 3, 2012 | K T Cat

Posted on 02/03/2012 4:23:43 PM PST by greyfoxx39

Over at Hot Air, Wolf Howling penned a comment that perfectly sums up my feelings about the Florida primary.

I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time anything like this occurred in the Republican Party, it was the cannibalization of Goldwater in 1964.

For the past two decades in which I have been politically informed and active, I have always believed that the single starkest difference between the left and the right was intellectual honesty. We on the right had it while those on the left dealt mostly in demagoguery and demonization. We on the right were ever willing to debate the facts, those on the left were ever willing to cherry pick the facts, distort the facts, and then use the race card or its many variants to end debate. To use the words of Bookworm Room: “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.” That illusion is now shattered.

At this point, I wouldn’t vote for Romney for dog catcher even if he was running in a three way race against Lenin and Marx. I will support Republican candidates for Congress and the Senate. But I could not, at this point, vote for any man as scurrilous and underhanded as Romney for President.


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To: greyfoxx39

BookMark


101 posted on 02/04/2012 12:37:18 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Mountain Mary
Will you be keeper of the list and ask freepers the material you pointed out. Your strenth seems to be organization/communication....So do it girl. Will help when I can by pointing people your way. Watch the threads for good writers.

Contact info re RNC is now under the t-shirt.

Spamming it today and will keep my eye out for people to add to list. Many people having list, simply put name of list in their tagline.

According to NPR via NYT
NEWT leads Mitt 39-32
when FL vote divided per RNC rules!

Pass the word!


Click to Donate to Newt Gingrich

CONTACT FOR RNC: website@nrcc.org

102 posted on 02/04/2012 2:57:15 AM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God: Newt, and Sarah will be right next to you.)
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To: MestaMachine
Got it:

According to NPR via NYT
NEWT leads Mitt 39-32
when FL vote divided per RNC rules!

Pass the word!


Click to Donate to Newt Gingrich

CONTACT FOR RNC: website@nrcc.org

310 First Street
Washington DC 20003

Encourage them to do the RIGHT thing. Play by the rules.NOW!

103 posted on 02/04/2012 3:25:32 AM PST by hoosiermama (FR Unite... Get active contacting MSM, RNC. etc... freepmail : Mountain Mary.)
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To: TrueConstitutionalPrinciples; onyx
Hey Buddy...you wanna fight? Meet me in the parking lot after school! *just kidding*

My point is this...good products, true products only need to be explained. Weak products have to be pushed with a spiel. Any business manager knows the difference.

Spreading the True Gospel is only telling the Truth.

Mormonism isn't explained, it is hyped, argued about, lied about, and pushed.

Mormonism is a lie and a cult! And Joseph Smith was an adulterer. Sorry.

104 posted on 02/04/2012 4:57:05 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Newt: "Why vote for the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?")
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To: FastCoyote
And it will get worse because you aren’t just exposing a candidate but a whole religious worldview.

Excellent and precise.

I don't think Romney was aware that running for president would put his faith under the microscope.

I would imagine that he and his family have just accepted what they were told by the LDS authorities and his parents. All that is about to be exposed to the white hot light of reality.

Romney, if he continues down this road, will have a REAL come to Jesus moment!

105 posted on 02/04/2012 5:03:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Newt: "Why vote for the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?")
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To: hoosiermama

Go Newt!!! Go Newt!!! Go Newt!!!


106 posted on 02/04/2012 5:05:41 AM PST by StPaulRevert (Go Newt!!! 2012 The battle for America's Souls)
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To: greyfoxx39
I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time anything like this occurred in the Republican Party, it was the cannibalization of Goldwater in 1964.

Considering what MORMONism has done to CHRISTIANITY; why would ANYONE be SHOCKED at this behavior???



Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).
Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).
 
 
 
Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses
, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).
 
 
President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).
 
 
 
James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).
 
 
 
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).
 
 
 
More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).
 
 
 
President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).
 
 
President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

107 posted on 02/04/2012 5:46:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: MestaMachine

That’s good!


108 posted on 02/04/2012 5:50:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Marcella

You will wear that Nerf gun OUT!


109 posted on 02/04/2012 6:02:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: RoosterRedux; TrueConstitutionalPrinciples; onyx
Acts 17:2
As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.
110 posted on 02/04/2012 6:06:04 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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Romans 15:4
 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
 
 
Romans 16:17
   I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
 
 
1 Corinthians 4:17
   For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
 
 
1 Corinthians 11:2
 2.  I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings,  just as I passed them on to you.
 
 
Ephesians 4:14-15
 14.  Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
 15.  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
 
 
2 Thessalonians 2:15
   So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings  we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
 
 
2 Thessalonians 3:6
  In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching  you received from us.
 
 
1 Timothy 1:3-4
 3.  As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
 4.  nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith.
 
 
1 Timothy 1:7
  They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
 
 
1 Timothy 2:7
   And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle--I am telling the truth, I am not lying--and a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.
 
 
1 Timothy 4:1-2
 1.  The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
 2.  Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
 
 
1 Timothy 4:6
   If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
 
 
1 Timothy 4:11
  Command and teach these things.
 
 
1 Timothy 6:3-5
 3.  If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
 4.  he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 
 5.  and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
 
 
2 Timothy 1:13
  What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
 
 
 2 Timothy 2:15-17
 15.  Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
 16.  Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.
 17.  Their teaching will spread like gangrene.
 
 
2 Timothy 3:16-17
 16.  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
 17.  so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
 
 
 2 Timothy 4:3-4
  3.  For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
  4.  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
 
 
Titus 1:11
   They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
 
 
Titus 2:1
  You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
 
 
Titus 2:15
  These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
 
 
 Hebrews 13:9
 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.
 
 
 2 Peter 2:1-3
 1.  But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
 2.  Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
 3.  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
 
 
2 John 1:10
  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.



111 posted on 02/04/2012 6:06:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: JoeGar

Nothing good to say about your own candidate?? Narcissists win by tearing others down. You win.


112 posted on 02/04/2012 6:08:03 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: RoosterRedux
...will have a REAL come to Jesus moment!

But he'll STILL be a RINO!

113 posted on 02/04/2012 6:08:28 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
Paul...reasoned with them from the Scriptures.

So simple, but so beautiful!

114 posted on 02/04/2012 6:10:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Newt: "Why vote for the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?")
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To: StPaulRevert; Mountain Mary

Want to help get messages out or in any way you have talent freepmail Mary.


115 posted on 02/04/2012 6:36:22 AM PST by hoosiermama (FR Unite... Get active contacting MSM, RNC. etc... freepmail : Mountain Mary.)
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To: greyfoxx39
Nothing has changed.

FUMR!


116 posted on 02/04/2012 7:13:33 AM PST by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: onyx; Jim Robinson
SNICKER, SNICKER = ZOT!<

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117 posted on 02/04/2012 7:32:47 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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To: Mountain Mary
I’m even in touch with my favorite author’s son on the Internet. Don’t ask me how I found his email but I love to “discuss” the crime novels with him, ask when his dad is coming out with a new book, etc! It’s fun. :-)

Good for you! I'm always looking for new authors to read. If you'd like to share, please FReepmail me with the name. Thanks.

118 posted on 02/04/2012 7:41:01 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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To: Finny

Since you said ‘please’ :)

It’s ridiculous because people who care about their country more than about their great insights and purity know that Obama has made great inroads into destroying the US as we know and love it in less than three years.

He could complete the job in four more years. He could nominate uber liberals to the supreme cout. He could get Obamacare entrenched to the point that it would be almost impossible to get out of it.

He could take the side of Iran against Israel and perhaps even cause the demise of Israel. He could cut the military to a dangerous level. He could continue to thwart the use of our own natural resources and increase our dependence on dangerous and evil people.

He could appoint more clueless liars like Eric Holder. He could increase the already frightening number of illegals by refusing to close the border.

Romney might be a status quo president. I don’t like him. But if it came to a choice ... THERE IS NO CHOICE.


119 posted on 02/04/2012 7:44:46 AM PST by altura
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To: onyx; TrueConstitutionalPrinciples
I think you’re trying to pick a fight with RoosterRedux.

TrueConstitutionalPrinciples is obviously mormon and judging from his posting history anti-Trinitarian.

You have FReepmail.

120 posted on 02/04/2012 8:04:08 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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