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Did Romney's religion cost him the presidency? (Only if his religion is Liberalism)
Mormon Times ^

Posted on 04/06/2009 12:41:04 PM PDT by mnehring

OREM, Utah -- Kirk Jowers has an answer for whether Mitt Romney's presidential bid was lost because of Mormonism:

"I can unequivocally tell you that the answer is 'yes, no and maybe.'"

owers' comment elicited laughter at the "Mormonism in the Public Mind" conference on Friday, April 3, at Utah Valley University. He is director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah and associate director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs.

According to Jowers, in October 2007 many pundits were saying Romney was on his way to winning. He had focused on the early primaries and was overcoming the deficit of name recognition between him and John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. "It looked like he might actually run the table," Jowers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2008; election2008; ldschurch; mormons; romney
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To: mnehring

I have no doubt that there are some who voted against Romney solely because he is a Mormon. But I am also quite certain that many voted against him solely because he did not hold conservative positions on their hot button issues.


21 posted on 04/06/2009 12:56:55 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: broncobilly
Captain Non Sequitur rides again...
22 posted on 04/06/2009 12:58:00 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: mnehring

1. He had already conceded before most of the conservative states even held their primaries.

2. He is extremely moderate.


23 posted on 04/06/2009 12:58:16 PM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: fishtank

“Except that McCain is more conservative than Romney is.”

Wow Mitt is right up there with the Drunk Kennedy.


24 posted on 04/06/2009 12:59:18 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: mnehring

I wasn’t saying you posted for that reason.
I am not even saying that Romney doesn’t have a lot of liberal sspects that should be criticized.
However, I think allowing anti-Mormon threads on FR diminishes the otherwise high quality of the web site.
But it’s not my web site, so I do next best, try to answer the attacks.


25 posted on 04/06/2009 1:00:03 PM PDT by broncobilly
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To: ejonesie22

Nice of you to feel the pinch and confess.


26 posted on 04/06/2009 1:01:40 PM PDT by broncobilly
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To: MeanWestTexan
“Huckster, Mcqueer, and Romney put together weren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.

We had no candidates, except Fred, and Fred was too damn lazy to run.”

Right now our Woman Palin and Bachmann are the only Ones with guts.
Wow that says a lot for our Party.

27 posted on 04/06/2009 1:02:15 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: lilylangtree
No, his religion had nothing to do with it. Like McPain, Romney couldn’t get the conservative support because people saw right through him as “Slick Mitt”.

End of thread!!

28 posted on 04/06/2009 1:04:26 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: SIDENET

Indeed, it is.


29 posted on 04/06/2009 1:05:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: broncobilly
LOL..

Right...

Try looking up the definition of Non Sequitur...

Also your post 25 was a hoot.

There was a time your were selling Mitt as the aspects” you now seem to want to acknowledge to bolter your “it's the anti Mormons fault” argument...

30 posted on 04/06/2009 1:06:09 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: mnehring; Tennessee Nana; EternalVigilance; Reagan Man; Elsie; MeanWestTexan; ...
Romney's "religion" appears to be socialism without citizens' votes,
shapeshifting to cover RINOism, endless pandering,
GOP-backstabbing and, of course, accepting corrupt kickbacks from the BIGdig to AIG.

Top 20 Recipients of AIG Contributions in 2008

31 posted on 04/06/2009 1:06:28 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: broncobilly

You mean you try to troll, and when that doesn’t work you troll s’more.


32 posted on 04/06/2009 1:06:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: livius

“Er, exactly why should anybody have “helped” Romney? He was even more of a RINO than McCain”

I do not think that Mitt was working for Obama like McQueeg was.


33 posted on 04/06/2009 1:07:35 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

When will the postmortum/debriefing finally end ???

The election was 6 months ago and Romney dropped out 15 months ago...


34 posted on 04/06/2009 1:09:12 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: ejonesie22
That should be:

There was a time you were selling Mitt as the conservative second coming, what are these new “liberal aspects” you now seem to want to acknowledge to bolster you “it's the anti Mormon's fault” argument...

Smart phones and freeping are a pain...

35 posted on 04/06/2009 1:09:28 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: mnehring

how could it have if Hussein’s didn’t?


36 posted on 04/06/2009 1:09:43 PM PDT by Libertarian4Bush
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To: ejonesie22
Smart phones and freeping are a pain...

Try iPhone where you can't cut and paste and the touch screen keeps trying to put in the wrong word.

37 posted on 04/06/2009 1:11:08 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Tennessee Nana
See that is where you are off, this isn't postmortem 2008, it is pre game show 2012 and team Mitt is already trying to take the field.

Fool me once is a foreign concept to them...

38 posted on 04/06/2009 1:11:11 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: mnehring

Blackberry is worse, spell check adds HTML code sometimes...


40 posted on 04/06/2009 1:11:58 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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