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[To GeronL]: Romney’s family was not polygamist. Let’s stick with facts please.

What are you, some Noobie to both the news and FR?

If what you say is true, Then why was Romney quoted about five years ago as saying: "Look, the polygamy, which was outlawed in our church in the 1800s, that's troubling to me," he said. "I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert. And so he took additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy."???
Source: May 13, 2007, as posted on FR: Romney Slams Mormon Church's Past Practice (Note the headline)

Even three months before that -- late February 2007 -- info on Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, was making the rounds:

Horrors! Mitt Romney's Great-Grandfather Was a Polygamist!

The media does love bashing on religions they don't like. Especially when they see an opportunity to alienate Christian voters from a social conservative's campaign.
While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.
Polygamy was not just a historical footnote, but a prominent element in the family tree of the former Massachusetts governor now seeking to become the first Mormon president. Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897. That was more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice.
Romney's great-grandmother, Hannah Hood Hill, was the daughter of polygamists. She wrote vividly in her autobiography about how she "used to walk the floor and shed tears of sorrow" over her own husband's multiple marriages. Hmmm... maybe a reason to vote against Romney? Well, perhaps. And yet the media doesn't seem as interested in another candidate's closer proximity to a polygamist ancestor. We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply flawed individual but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac, whose life was ruined not by racism or corruption but his own weaknesses. And, devastatingly, the testimony has come from Mr Obama's own relatives and family friends. By the way, Obama's dad was already married when he married Obama's mom, then left them to marry a third woman, making him not a bigamist but a polygamist.(Or, at least, a trigamist.)
Source: February 28, 2007, Ace of Spades HQ: Defend Liberty, Support the GOP

This is what I call a balanced Republican view...someone who is wary of the MSM coverage...especially its hypocrisy re: not applying these same "standards" to Obama...yet still concludes "Hmmm... maybe a reason to vote against Romney? Well, perhaps. And yet the media doesn't seem as interested in another candidate's closer proximity to a polygamist ancestor."

Why can't we get more balanced posters like this on FR?

Ones, who indeed show they are wary of the MSM, yet won't also automatically be converted into becoming shills & apologists for Mormonism and polygamy...or become hypocrites for condemning FREEPERS for focusing on Romney's family history & religious ties...yet won't condemn FREEPERs for focusing on Obama's family history & religious ties...

Me? I say it's all fair commentary...vs. those here who have the spirit of Nauvoo on them...seeming wanting to go & destroy the Nauvoo Expositor as the Joseph Smith-led Mormons of old did...'Twas that act that got Smith's final jail cell landing...