Posted on 10/08/2011 11:03:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told conservative and evangelical voters today that poisonous language doesnt advance our cause, the day after a surrogate for another GOP presidential candidate described Mormonism as a cult.
Its never softened a single heart or changed a single mind, Romney said. The blessings of faith carry the responsibility of civil and respectful debate.
Romneys comments at the Values Voter Summit in Washington were aimed at a conservative radio commentator who immediately followed him on the program, according to a spokeswoman.
But the backdrop was a controversy from the previous day when a Texas pastor, Robert Jeffress, gave an interview in which he said that Mormonism was not a Christian faith and was a cult. He had made similar comments in the 2008 presidential election. As before, the comments immediately caused a stir.
Yesterdays comments were notable because the pastor delivered the comments shortly after introducing another GOP presidential contender, Texas Governor Rick Perry, raising questions over whether Perry knew that his surrogate was about to attack his competitors religion.
Perry told a reporter in Iowa that he did not agree with Jeffress.
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Perry told a reporter in Iowa that he did not agree with Jeffress.
Uh, oh. That isn’t going to go over well with the Mormon haters here.
I thought that what he said was that he did not agree that Mormonism is a cult. He could get away with saying that easily.
What, exactly, does Romney understand about "our cause"?
And neither do you Mutt Boy....
I wonder what the problem is with serving in the military. Very strange that no one has every served.
Humm found this apparently it’s not a Mormon thing not to serve but a Romney Thing.
http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2008/04/mormons-in-the-military/
Interesting. Just another reason to NOT vote for Romney.
“Of course, once Romney gets the nomination, unnamed sources will question Mormonism as a cult, not a religion.”
Which is why a lot of folks think Romney loses in the general election and want at somebody that stands a chance. Before this is over, the Democrats will be hanging responsibility for the Mountain Meadows Massacre around Romney’s neck.
Can anyone explain the difference between this as and a democrat ad?
Bwahahaha!! Willard just had a “heartless” moment of his own.
Maybe this wuss would do well to attack the Democrates’ poisonous language of welfare and what not which is destroying this country, instead of attacking some phantom of the right.
“Their” cause?
I take it our cause isnt yours, eh Mitty?
LOL, for a minute, instead of MORMON, I thought I was reading “Perhaps you simply don’t understand us MORONs”.
A Essay on Mitt Romney. Its damning.
... which is I think a reason to respect Mormons while Mitt is simply a usurper Moron of yet another church, and a Moron with a big M indeed.
We’re told this guy is the Republican frontrunner.
Have a nice day. :)
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I am actually VERY proud she isn't running. Even if the press adored her, it is not a decent and normal way for kids to grow up.
I have from the start disrespected Obama on that count. I agree with Perry, family is the smallest and best gov't.
Rock on!
The same Cain that has left his old pal, Romney, to lock up key donors while he locks up his book sales at Barnes & Nobles?
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You don’t say....
Smarm, deceit, unctious simpering and a flatline hollow laugh do so much better.
Romney is the type of pol who sticks his finger in the air to see which way it’s blowing, then he goes that direction. There are plenty of skeletons in his closet and the lsm is willing to hide them until he is (possibly, hope not) the nominee.
There is so much corruption in DC we NEED to clean-up. I’m starting with Lugar.
That’s why the dems want Romney and we don’t. He’s a RINO they can bend to their will.
Romney must not be the nominee.
“It seems to be theme with those who are against anyone from Texas. Call them racists, remember the Dragging commercial?”
Anyplace not New England. That tail has wagged the dog since union, and the apostate Puritan is the root of the American left. Elitist, condescending, intermeddling and rapacious. Always has been and always will be.
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