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Double Standards In An AP Article About The Polygamous History Of Mitt Romney's Family
NEWSBUSTERS ^ | 26 FEBRUARY 2007 | LYNN DAVIDSON

Posted on 02/26/2007 7:31:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

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1 posted on 02/26/2007 7:31:10 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Funny how taboo the press makes of a man having more than one wife. However it is quite alright for two men two marry or two women. Sheesh!
2 posted on 02/26/2007 7:34:15 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Joseph Smith Jr. ran for President too.

Didn't get very far.


3 posted on 02/26/2007 7:34:22 PM PST by donmeaker (The speed of light is 186,234 miles per second. Not just a good idea, its the LAW!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I know I'm ultra paranoid, but I think these attacks are not aimed at Mitt. I think the purpose is to put religious background on the table. If it's out there and can be talked about, then Obama becomes more vulnerable. Hillary benefits.


4 posted on 02/26/2007 7:36:17 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

So that's it? That's all the dirt they can dig on
Mitt? Sounds like good Presidential material to me.

If the drive by media are against it, them I'm for it.


5 posted on 02/26/2007 7:40:30 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I disagree. I think the libs see Romney as a real threat to them in a general election. They see him as taking middle voters in a tight election in a way that Giuliani can't and someone like Duncan Hunter or Gingrich will never be able to.


6 posted on 02/26/2007 7:43:39 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Polygamy amongst your ancestors = bad

A Lewinsky in the Oval Office = Good!

And what about Senate Mormon Leader Harry Reid's family tree? How many Great Grandma's did Harry have?

7 posted on 02/26/2007 7:44:15 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Jo Nuvark
If the drive by media are against it, them I'm for it.

Funny how that works.
8 posted on 02/26/2007 7:44:49 PM PST by msnimje (The Pro-Life movement is about winning Converts to the cause. Why attack the converted?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Romney is clearly a multi-generational flip flopper. :~)


9 posted on 02/26/2007 7:46:00 PM PST by msnimje (The Pro-Life movement is about winning Converts to the cause. Why attack the converted?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I remember reading that after Obama's father went back to Africa he had multiple wives.


Bingo! From the Senator's own website...

http://obama.senate.gov/news/060828-obama_visits_notorious_nairobi_slum/index.html

"His father died in a car crash in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter."


10 posted on 02/26/2007 7:48:16 PM PST by kalee (Tthe offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: DTogo; cardinal4

Rush addressed this subject today. He noted that fat slob Ted Kennedy's FATHER was a Nazi sympathizer and that FDR had to recall him from his post as ambassador to the Court of St. James. Not much reaction from the DBM for this little gem.


11 posted on 02/26/2007 7:49:12 PM PST by Ax (The Congress of the United States is now in enemy hands.)
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I think the libs see Romney as a real threat to them in a general election.

You're right. Talking about past polygamy is an effort to hurt Mitt, and I overspoke when I said it was not. However, attacking a candidate for the actions of his great-great-grandfather is an exceptionally weak attack. But, since we're on the subject ... let's talk about the wisdom of voting for Barack Hussein Obama.

I continue to believe that the polygamy attack does double duty.

12 posted on 02/26/2007 7:49:47 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Dingy Harry, leader of the Demonrats and a pro-life Mormon, is never exposed to the the polygamy innuendo from the rabid Marxists in the so-called "corporate" media newsrooms.

Gee, I wonder why.


13 posted on 02/26/2007 7:50:21 PM PST by JHBowden (President Giuliani in 2008! Law and Order. Solid Judges. Free Markets. Killing Terrorists.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

hehe so true. Well put.


14 posted on 02/26/2007 7:52:19 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

ping


15 posted on 02/26/2007 7:53:16 PM PST by sevenbak
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To: kalee
"His father died in a car crash in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter."

1982 huh. Let's see that means Obama was 20 when his polygamist father died. Didn't have to go very far back in that tree now did we.

16 posted on 02/26/2007 7:56:56 PM PST by Domandred
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Just Google obama father wives and Voila!

From Bookblog...

"It turns out that Obama's father had a wife and children in Africa before coming to Hawaii. Barack Senior met yet a third woman at Harvard, who moved to Africa and raised several more children in the extended Obama family. Barack senior is smart and ambitious, and initially successful. But he runs afoul of the Kenyan dictatorship in his arrogance and naivete, loses his job and is blacklisted. Unemployed and broke, he turns to alcohol and delusions of grandeur, while his children raise themselves. He is rehabilitated later by a new regime, but the damage he has done to his family leaves ongoing bitterness after his death."


17 posted on 02/26/2007 8:08:48 PM PST by kalee (Tthe offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Obama's dad was a bigamist was Romney's?


18 posted on 02/26/2007 8:31:07 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I wonder if every candidate who is running for POTUS will undergo an exhaustive search of their genealogy.

On another note:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/25/sharpton.thurmond.ap/index.html

"The Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendant of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond -- a discovery the civil rights activist called "shocking" on Sunday."

This genealogy gig is being used in any number of ways, lol.
19 posted on 02/26/2007 8:31:51 PM PST by khnyny
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I have come to believe, based on what I know firsthand about where "news stories" come from, that the Romney campaign is trying to get all this stuff on the table now - long before it could have an impact. In other words, Mitt and his team are "leaking" this to the press now so it won't harm him later.


20 posted on 02/26/2007 8:41:33 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (outside a good dog, a book is your best friend. inside a dog it's too dark to read)
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