Romney to Meet with Utah Delegates

Desert News | August 31, 2009 | Lisa Rocha

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Romney to meet with Utah GOP delegates By Lisa Riley Roche Deseret News Published: Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 12:45 a.m. MDT 0 comments RELATED CONTENT | E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - McCain's choice alters campaign Utah delegates praise Palin ST. PAUL, Minn. — Mitt Romney may not be on the GOP ticket, but Utah delegates to the Republican National Convention will no doubt give him a hero's welcome when he visits them at their Monday morning breakfast meeting. "Next to John McCain and Sarah Palin, right now there is not a hotter name at this convention than Mitt Romney," Utah Republican Party Chairman Stan Lockhart told the Deseret News. "The fact we're getting him is pretty spectacular, given the fact he already knows where we stand."

Romney is focusing his attention during the four-day convention that begins Monday in St. Paul on swing states like Michigan and Ohio. But after repeated requests, he's making his first stop in Minnesota the Sofitel Hotel in nearby Bloomington to greet the Utah delegation.

After all, Utah gave him an overwhelming 90 percent of the vote in the state's Feb. 5 GOP presidential primary — and at least $6 million in contributions to his campaign. Romney, the leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like the majority of Utahns, dropped out of the presidential race in late February.

Story continues below He was seen as a top candidate to join McCain on the November ballot as the Arizona senator's running mate. But McCain stunned the political world on Friday by naming Palin, 44, Alaska's youngest ever and first female governor. Romney is set to campaign Sunday with McCain and Palin at a "Road to the Convention Rally" at a baseball stadium outside St. Louis.

On Tuesday, Romney is scheduled to address the convention. His speaking slot has not yet been announced. But as a likely presidential candidate in 2012 if the Republicans fail to keep the White House, Romney is expected to speak in prime time.

While in Minnesota, Romney will also hold fundraisers for congressional candidates, serve a meal in a Salvation Army soup kitchen, speak to the conservative Christian International Democratic Union on "The Future of the Republican Party," and address a meeting of the Republican Governors Association.

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[Elsie]

I expect to see Romney in a McCain cabinet.

Uh... HOPE

Uh... PRAY!

Uh... Wish!!

[Elsie]

You have a good point about observing the Sabbath, I plan to go to church today.

Uh...

Yesterday was the Sabbath!

[Elsie]

It'd be nice if all the *you didn't support Mitt because of his religion* folks would actually support their statements with some facts instead of just accusations and speculation.

It's been that way since the 1830's.

It's foundational.

[Elsie]

Those Ten Commandments inlude a very specific instruction regards the Sabbath. I think He meant what He said.

And they were given to a VERY specific group of people: the JEWS.

[IreneE]

I would never be disrespectful to a Mormon that I know, but as a Christian, it is my duty before a Holy God to deconstruct their false doctrine and false prophesies and unHoly “Book Of Mormon” as long as they try to pass themselves off as Christians.

They add to the sealed Scriptures and are not Christians.

I’d rather a backslidden Catholic, Presbyterian or Episcopalian than a Mormon in high office.

But I think that Romney will unfortunately snag a Cabinet post with McCain.

[Tennessee Nana]

Me, I am off to Sunday Mass. Our Lord said to obey His Father. Those Ten Commandments inlude a very specific instruction regards the Sabbath. I think He meant what He said _______________________________________________ God speaking...about Saturday... Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it Holy.” Exodus 20:8-12 But Christians worship God on the 1st Day of the week... In comemoration of the Resurrection of Jesus... The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. John 20:1 But we are told to go to Church... Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25

[Tennessee Nana]

Try that again...

God speaking...about Saturday...

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it Holy.” Exodus 20:8-12

But Christians worship God on the 1st Day of the week...

In comemoration of the Resurrection of Jesus...

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. John 20:1

But we are told to go to Church...

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25

[Ol' Sparky]

he really should run for governor of MA or MI given that Patrick and Granholm are total disasters.

Let him run for Kennedy's Senate seat if Ted ends up not making it. But, Sarah Palin is the future of GOP on the Presidential level.

[fieldmarshaldj]

How would his denomination have changed the fact that he was STILL an ultraliberal, a fraud, and a liar ? He’d have been Huckster, then.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Let’s get Palin in there and then he can permanently retire. ;-)

[fieldmarshaldj]

Deval Patrick wouldn’t have become Governor without Slick Willard’s help. Why would he want to return to a job HE DIDN’T WANT ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I feel like I’m in the Monty Python Dead Parrot skit. His career’s dead.

“Oh, no, Mitty’s just pining for the fjords...”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thanks to Huckster, for the first time in years, the Republicans will have NO candidates for any of the other 4 federal offices on the ballot this year. None. Only the office they currently hold, that being the same one they’ve held for 42 years. Thanks for nothing, Gomer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What part of “keep him away from our party” do you fail to grasp ? He’s a cancer. Let him go hump for rodent candidates, since that’s the only thing he is good at.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Slick Willardbots STILL can’t let go their hate for Fred and Jeri Thompson. Two class acts far and above anything their idol ever had to offer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Good points. Slick Willard’s selection would’ve been divisive as hell, and we would’ve had endless flamewars from Friday clear up until the election, and the ticket would’ve probably lost. McCain’s pick of Palin may have been the smartest thing he’s done in his almost 26 years in Washington.

[rabscuttle385]

Let’s get Palin in there and then he can permanently retire. ;-)

LOL

Now that's a thought.

[narses]

“And they were given to a VERY specific group of people: the JEWS.”

Yes, and through Our Lord we all have the opportunity to become adopted into His Holy Family. Our Lord told us to do His Father’s Will. Pretty clear, even for those who are blinded by heresies.

[Impy]

Embarrassing.

He was on Hannity and Colmes the other day, he naturally wasn’t asked about that.

[narses]

Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ’s Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man’s eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:

Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord’s Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.

The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship “as a sign of his universal beneficence to all.” Sunday worship fulfills the moral command of the Old Covenant, taking up its rhythm and spirit in the weekly celebration of the Creator and Redeemer of his people.

See 1 Cor 10:11.

Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction,...