Posted on 12/26/2007 7:02:35 PM PST by TheLion
Bleeding-heart types looking for a "minority cause” for which to advocate in the 2008 presidential elections are torn between the candidacies of a woman, two African- Americans, a Hispanic and a former mayor of Cleveland who is more of a communist than Vladimir Putin.
Tough choices, those, and all of them Democrats.
In the interest of fairness, however, the name of Mitt Romney should be added to the shopping list of those searching for an oppressed minority to support.
As a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Romney is aligned with one of the most persecuted and oppressed minorities in history. Even in these enlightened times, millions of Americans say they would not vote for the charismatic ex-governor of Massachusetts under any circumstances.
And, in an amazing demonstration of religious bigotry, a New Hampshire liberal rag, the Concord Monitor, used its Sunday editorial pages to tell readers why they should not vote for Mitt Romney.
This "anti-endorsement" is unprecedented, unfair, un-American and unwise.
Editors at the Concord Monitor even went so far as to warn readers that Romney must be stopped ". . . because he lacks the core philosophical beliefs to be a trustworthy president."
IHT: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/23/america/Romney-Anti-Endorsement.php
That particular bit of editorial malfeasance is a thinly-veiled assault on Romney's Mormon faith, pure and simple.
Fact of the matter is that Mitt Romney is the most conservative candidate running for the White House. He is also the most experienced and qualified, a fact attested to by his service as the governor of liberal-infested Massachusetts, and by his enormously successful personal finances.
Mitt Romney knows how to work with people from diverse political backgrounds, how to overcome discrimination and adversity, and he knows how to run a large organization. No other candidate comes close to matching his qualifications for taking over the Oval Office on Ja
I’m willing to support any candidate who can beat the Democrats. I just think the two considered the “most conservative” are not doing as well. I have often said I will back whoever we send up there.
We are now in a vetting process that requires candidates to compete out there in the trenches.
If Hunter or Fred can’t get the nod, then we will definitely lose the whitehouse, should Romney, then be out of the picture.
Some much larger conservative minds than I have seen that Mitt can go the distance and pull everyone together. He will also pull votes across party lines.
Go back to the DNC, your guy will be more loved there.
TheLion: Our whole history has been filled with religious persecution. I doubt it will ever stop. The left started this one and those that don’t like Romney have run with it.
I’m sorry, but you leave out the tons of anti-Gentile persecution that also occurred. Here’s a little bit of it from Aaron DeWitt in 1875 when Brigham Young was practicing Blood Atonement (I have lots more)
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To Mrs. Elizabeth Durrant. My Dear Sister: How to commence this letter I have promised you so long, I hardly know, but will say in the first place I have been deceived, led into error, imposed upon, deluded, beguiled into a false religion in my youth and spent the best part of my life in a wilderness, a desert, a land of sage and salt, away from all enlightenment and civilization, among the most degraded tribes of Indians on the Western hemisphere. And what is still more worse, I have had to mingle with a BEASTLY, BLACKHEARTED, BLOODY PRIESTHOOD; a set of treacherous villians, as full of meanness as old Satan, and as thirsty for blood as a stinted leech.
While these are facts, they are not half told, For hundreds have been killed for gold; Both men and women have been slain And robbed to add to Brigham’s gain.
Editor:And the letter went on for some pages in the same tenor, interspersed with short poems attacking Brigham. He recorded the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the fate of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies, the murder of Dr. King Robinson, several other murders— including the Aiken party, and the castration of Henry Jones. The final paragraphs hinted at his own story:
Dear Sister, in this sad letter I have told you the truly as it is in Jesus Christ, and as I expect to meet at the final bar of retribution. All these deeds and a thousand others equal to them in baseness and brutality, have all been committed under the cloak of religion. But I must tell you more of them at another time.
I will tell you the reason why we could not leave this blood-stained land, I mean ten or twelve years ago. In the first place, we were a thousand miles from the nearest town East, eight hundred miles to the nearest settlement West, and God only knows how far to any place north and south. On all this vast tract of land no white man dwelt. No civilization was known, none but the red men roamed the dreary solitudes. To travel such a space required considerable food, a good wagon and team, in fact, everything necessary for a three month’s pilgrimage. Nor was it safe for a few men to go together, unless they were well-armed. Again, every Bishop knew your business and was always on the lookout. If you started they would send men to drive off your stock, and thus you would be compelled to return. Then if you did not behave and act the hypocrite, the bishop would send the Danites to use you up and send you across lots to that bright brimstone home we read about. Thus you see it was almost impossible to get away.
http://www.saintsalive.com/mormonism/murder.html
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I know what the response will be, that that was an unknown bitter apostate. But I have similar accounts from “Tell It All” by Mrs. Stenhouse, “Wife No. 19” by Ann Eliza Young, from Governor Ford of Illinois who stopped the annihilation of Nauvoo, from Reed Peck who was at the final moments of Far West and quite a few others (some Mormons as well).
All in all, there was quite a bit of provocation along the way. I mean, the Gentiles didn’t even treat the Jews as badly. Who knows what was and what was not justified, it’s just clear that playing the victim card doesn’t wash.
Check my post 163.
I’ll check out Men to Match My Mountains. if I can.
You should send that post to the National Review and Robert Bork.
and they are taking down our country.
The murder, kidnapings and other crime they commit is costing San Diego over 50 million dollars a year.
We have 1 million legal Mexicans and tens of thousands of illegals.
The drug cartels and the beheadings are no joke.
As I posted earlier, it will be very interesting as to how it all shakes out.
It is telling when you consider how Romney has held up to all of the heat. He has kept his composure and dignity. I don’t think I could have done it.
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of
us, they’re behind us...they can’t get away this time”
- Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
I’m optimistic too.
My husband and I plus a whole bunch of family members and friends were going for Huckabee but we think we are going for Mitt Romney now.
Fred Thompson @ 9.7%
Duncan Hunter @ 2%
Reality will soon be coming to stay, my FRiend.
All right!
And wherever your’re going, who’s going there with you?
Jesus!
You use a quote by Gen. Puller who would have abhored
a person and his 5 sons who would not serve their country in the military especially while we are in the war for our lives.
I also say this as my dad knew Puller and served with him in the 1st Marine Div. in the Korean War.
“I’m willing to support any candidate who can beat the Democrats. I just think the two considered the “most conservative” are not doing as well. I have often said I will back whoever we send up there.
We are now in a vetting process that requires candidates to compete out there in the trenches.”
I know you want to support Thompson if only........
That post would sound a lot more honest if you hadn’t started out supporting Giulini and then switching to Mitt Romney BACK IN JANUARY.
Excellent post that demonstrates the silliness of the line from this article that mormons are the most persecuted minority in history. It’s just a silly comment.
They were doing their fair share of persecuting.
Also, legal prosecution for violating the law of the land should not be viewed as persecution.
persecuted and oppressed?....give me a break....what I dislike most about the Mormon church is their superficial “goodydom” and their elitist ways.....Romney is a perfect example of that...
At the time, I wasn’t aware of of Guiliani’s social stances....they are unelectable, so I switched. Do I need to appologize?
Well, that about settles it. Romney is a flaming-lib RINO, and there’s no way to deny it.
A student wrote the article!
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