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Mitt Romney wins CPAC straw poll....

Posted on 02/28/2009 1:44:22 PM PST by teg_76

Mitt Romney won the 2009 CPAC straw poll.


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To: AuntB

.....and when men turned into whiny little wimps.
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AMEN to that!


341 posted on 02/28/2009 4:41:45 PM PST by mojitojoe (None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: lone star annie
...Right now we need someone who has a clue how to run the economy.

I, for one, am glad to see Romney out there talking about Zero's policies.

342 posted on 02/28/2009 4:42:12 PM PST by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: FreeManN

WHO is obsessed?


343 posted on 02/28/2009 4:42:15 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mojitojoe

Crist - He isn’t a RINO, he’s closet liberal.

There are a few more things in that closet.


344 posted on 02/28/2009 4:42:53 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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To: mad_as_he$$
The Muslim also happens to be a socialist and went to a block church for 20 years.

Ah...

I was WONDERING when the LEGOites would be mentioned!!

345 posted on 02/28/2009 4:43:13 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: airborne
I've seen Romney's religion attacked more on FreeRepublic than I have seen at any other place.

Same here.
I have been around a long time, and I have always tried to follow this kind of thing. However, I have never seen so much unCharistian attack in one place.
If this is the cream of Republicanism and Conservatism, then God help us.
346 posted on 02/28/2009 4:43:19 PM PST by broncobilly
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To: FreeManN; Carley

If Jindal’s parents were British citizens in India before imigrating to the US, he is not a natural born US citizen.


347 posted on 02/28/2009 4:44:00 PM PST by balls (I have seen the enemy and it is Hussein 0)
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To: broncobilly
Because you can cut and paste a mile of red nonsense doesn’t mean a thing.


348 posted on 02/28/2009 4:44:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: teg_76

The Republicans STILL don’t get it.....we need a CONSERVATIVE, not another RINO.


349 posted on 02/28/2009 4:44:24 PM PST by traditional1 ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery")
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
It’s people like you that gave us Obama.

You are so, so wrong.

Burn in hell.

350 posted on 02/28/2009 4:45:05 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: thecodont

“Please, let’s not assume anything about our next Presidential candidate. Let’s make sure he/she is an Article II natural-born citizen, beyond any doubt.”

Exactly!

But even if he is a NBC do we really want a 3rd rate governor from a 3rd rate state who is GOOFY looking and a bad speaker? I really don’t get the facination with this doofus?


351 posted on 02/28/2009 4:45:14 PM PST by FreeManN (www.ObamaCrimes.info)
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To: mojitojoe
 
.....and when men turned into whiny little wimps.
 
 



1890: Manifesto (a statement denouncing polygamy)

"Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage...I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws..."

~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President





 
The Mormon church Organization; based in Salt Lake City, does not practice Polygamy any more.
They decided to stop the practice for fear of losing all their worldly goods.
It was banned in 1890!.
  


 
 
 
 
OFFICIAL DECLARATION—1

To Whom It May Concern:

Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy

I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.

One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.

Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.

WILFORD WOODRUFF
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 




President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:

“I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.”

The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.

Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890.







 

EXCERPTS FROM THREE ADDRESSES BY
PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF
REGARDING THE MANIFESTO

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.)

It matters not who lives or who dies, or who is called to lead this Church, they have got to lead it by the inspiration of Almighty God. If they do not do it that way, they cannot do it at all. . . .

I have had some revelations of late, and very important ones to me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me. Let me bring your minds to what is termed the manifesto. . . .

The Lord has told me to ask the Latter-day Saints a question, and He also told me that if they would listen to what I said to them and answer the question put to them, by the Spirit and power of God, they would all answer alike, and they would all believe alike with regard to this matter.

The question is this: Which is the wisest course for the Latter-day Saints to pursue—to continue to attempt to practice plural marriage, with the laws of the nation against it and the opposition of sixty millions of people, and at the cost of the confiscation and loss of all the Temples, and the stopping of all the ordinances therein, both for the living and the dead, and the imprisonment of the First Presidency and Twelve and the heads of families in the Church, and the confiscation of personal property of the people (all of which of themselves would stop the practice); or, after doing and suffering what we have through our adherence to this principle to cease the practice and submit to the law, and through doing so leave the Prophets, Apostles and fathers at home, so that they can instruct the people and attend to the duties of the Church, and also leave the Temples in the hands of the Saints, so that they can attend to the ordinances of the Gospel, both for the living and the dead?

The Lord showed me by vision and revelation exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practice. If we had not stopped it, you would have had no use for . . . any of the men in this temple at Logan; for all ordinances would be stopped throughout the land of Zion. Confusion would reign throughout Israel, and many men would be made prisoners. This trouble would have come upon the whole Church, and we should have been compelled to stop the practice. Now, the question is, whether it should be stopped in this manner, or in the way the Lord has manifested to us, and leave our Prophets and Apostles and fathers free men, and the temples in the hands of the people, so that the dead may be redeemed. A large number has already been delivered from the prison house in the spirit world by this people, and shall the work go on or stop? This is the question I lay before the Latter-day Saints. You have to judge for yourselves. I want you to answer it for yourselves. I shall not answer it; but I say to you that that is exactly the condition we as a people would have been in had we not taken the course we have.

. . . I saw exactly what would come to pass if there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. . . .

I leave this with you, for you to contemplate and consider. The Lord is at work with us.
(Cache Stake Conference, Logan, Utah, Sunday, November 1, 1891. Reported in Deseret Weekly, November 14, 1891.)
 
 
 

Now I will tell you what was manifested to me and what the Son of God performed in this thing. . . . All these things would have come to pass, as God Almighty lives, had not that Manifesto been given. Therefore, the Son of God felt disposed to have that thing presented to the Church and to the world for purposes in his own mind. The Lord had decreed the establishment of Zion. He had decreed the finishing of this temple. He had decreed that the salvation of the living and the dead should be given in these valleys of the mountains. And Almighty God decreed that the Devil should not thwart it. If you can understand that, that is a key to it.
 
(From a discourse at the sixth session of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, April 1893. Typescript of Dedicatory Services, Archives, Church Historical Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.)
 

 
 
 
 
What kind of  'Leadership' is THIS???
 
compared to...
 
 
 
 
Hebrews 11:35-40
 35.  Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
 36.  Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison.
 37.  They were stoned ; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated--
 38.  the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. 
 
 
or compared to...
 

Acts 4:19.  But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God.
 


 
So much for an 'Everlasting Covenant' that thundered out of Heaven!!!
 
Well; it DID last about 47 years!

352 posted on 02/28/2009 4:46:32 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

It’s a bit more than that. He rallied business leaders to help out and got equipment from companies in exchange for free advertising. Pretty savvy.


353 posted on 02/28/2009 4:46:50 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: FreeManN

It would pain me greatly to have to vote for Romney. He’s going to lose just like McCain did unless he as Sarah as his running mate. I’m not one of those Sarah followers, the die hard fans, but I can’t see anyone yet that can get a mass movement started more than Sarah Palin. Why do you think the Dems fear her so much and try to destroy her, even now they still do it. She is a threat and they know it. Show me someone that can energize the party that can compete with Mr’ Phoney Baloney in the WH now and I will be glad to reconsider. Don’t say Jindal, he has no chance.


354 posted on 02/28/2009 4:47:17 PM PST by mojitojoe (None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: SoCalPol

Have you found it interesting that during the last election and now the majority of the Gov. Palin bashers
are Mitt supporters and Trolls.


Come to think of it, obvious from this thread, almost all the Palin supporters are rabid Romney bashers and trolls.


355 posted on 02/28/2009 4:47:29 PM PST by broncobilly
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To: Elsie

India is presently about 12% muslim.


356 posted on 02/28/2009 4:47:32 PM PST by balls (I have seen the enemy and it is Hussein 0)
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To: traditional1
The Republicans STILL don’t get it.....we need a CONSERVATIVE, not another RINO.

The Mitt-bots STILL don’t get it.....we need a CONSERVATIVE, not the same old re-cycled RINO!

357 posted on 02/28/2009 4:48:20 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GOP_Lady

It’s reminicent of Hitchcock. He liked a high angle shot to establish importance.


358 posted on 02/28/2009 4:49:44 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Danae

>> Awe jeez, this is satire right?

No, it’s delusion.

I’m glad to have Jindal, Palin, Romney, and Paul speak their Conservative mind, but a tepid assortment they make for POTUS 2012.

All eyes on 2010.


359 posted on 02/28/2009 4:50:22 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: airborne

Now I’m off to search...


Don’t bother. You can find it, but no one will pay attention to what you find.


360 posted on 02/28/2009 4:51:38 PM PST by broncobilly
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