New Mormon Ad Campaign: Seeking to Dispel Myths Or PR for Romney '12 Run?

That church is a master of Public Relations grounded upon plausible deniability coupled with out right lies; i.e. go back to their introduction and termination polygamy.

Beck probably doesn’t care for Willard

Beck does talk up Romney as the only one that can win.

"Glenn Beck and radio pals Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere rattled down the list of potential Republican nominees for President in 2012 this morning, and they had some bad news for the Tea Party movement: Sarah Palin probably won’t run, Ron Paul is still and long shot, and Mitt Romney, as of now, is the GOP’s best bet."

A quasi-Christian group trying to help a quasi-Republican get elected in this conservative tsunami? Better pull out them golden tablets!

I voted for Alan Keyes last time. It is working out extremely well for me.

About 48,000 people did, he doesn't do very well at winning people over.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney, along with his wife, Ann, and two of their sons joined thousands of other mourners here today at the funeral of Gordon B. Hinckley, the president and prophet of the Mormon Church.

Underscoring his prominence at this point in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the church is officially known, with his presidential run, Mr. Romney and his wife sat in the second row next to the center aisle, directly behind U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s representative at the funeral and a former Utah governor.

The V.I.P. section was something of a Who’s Who of Mormon political royalty. Also in the first row was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Utah’s two Republican senators, Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch. Next to Mr. and Mrs. Romney was Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.—notably, an early supporter of Senator John McCain, although his father, Jon Huntsman Sr., a prominent businessman and high-ranking church official is a national finance co-chair for Mr. Romney — and Senator Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican.

Mr. Romney, who is arguably the most visible Mormon in the country at this point, arrived just after 10 a.m. and could be seen at the front of the auditorium shaking hands, hugging and greeting people. He was whisked inside the church’s Conference Center, where the funeral was held, through an underground entrance.

Mr. Romney’s sons, Matt and Josh, sat further back in the auditorium. Spencer Zwick, Mr. Romney’s finance director and a fellow Mormon whose father is a high-ranking church official, was also in attendance.

Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, said there were no plans for political or fund-raising events in the state, even though Utah, with 15 delegates at stake, is among the crush of states voting on Feb. 5. Mr. Romney was scheduled to fly to Minneapolis in the afternoon.

“He’s keeping a low-profile politically, because this is a personal visit,” said Mr. Fehrnstrom.

Polls show Mr. Romney far ahead in the state, where Mormons make up some 70 percent of the population.

The funeral represented a complicated dilemma for Mr. Romney’s advisers. Attending meant taking valuable time off of the campaign trail in the most important weekend of campaigning so far. It also inevitably drew attention to Mr. Romney’s Mormon faith, which is viewed with suspicion by many evangelical Christians and others, as he is making his final appeal in a slew of states on Feb. 5 where evangelicals are influential, including Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee.

When his death was announced late Sunday night, while Mr. Romney was campaigning in Florida, it was too late to wake Mr. Romney to ask how he wanted to handle it or prepare a statement, his advisers said.

The campaign had planned an early morning news conference the following day at a gas station to highlight Mr. Romney’s economic message, so his planned remarks were quickly revised.

His advisers asked if Mr. Romney wanted to address Mr. Hinckley’s death in his opening comments. He said he did and wound up talking about Mr. Hinckley in fairly expansive terms, praising him for his humility and how he expanded the church around the world.

Mr. Romney failed to mention that he also met with Mr. Hinckley in November 2005 to ask his advice about a possible run for president, a meeting reported in Sunstone, a Mormon magazine. When asked about that meeting, Mr. Romney downplayed it.

“I was in Salt Lake and had the chance to go by him and see him and told him that our family was going to be thinking about running for president,” said Mr. Romney. “He smiled and said it would be a great experience if you won and a great experience if you lost.” The funeral, held inside an auditorium that seats 21,000 but was not completely full, hinted at the differences Mormons have with Protestants and Catholics. When Virginia Pearce, Mr. Hinckley’s daughter, took to the podium, she spoke about bearing “testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Joseph Smith founded Mormonism in the 19th century in upstate New York as a restoration of what he considered to be the true Christian church.

Smith said an angel revealed to him the the location of a set of golden tablets containing scriptures that he then translated into the Book of Mormon. The scriptures Smith translated described how a group of Jews came to the Americas. After his death and resurrection, Mormons believe, Jesus Christ came to preach to the group and a church developed, only to fall into apostasy until Smith restored it.

Among the major differences with traditional Christianity, Mormons do not believe in the concept of the unified Trinity; the Book of Mormon, along with two others texts are considered sacred, alongside the Bible; and Mormons believe that God has a physical body and that human beings can eventually become like God.

“I think we sometimes think of Mormons as “cultish”...and it originally was. But they’re good people and they do good things.”

Ah, but they still are a cult, but now with a great pr agency1

“I always think of Multiple wives and the amish when I think of them...and the Osmond Family.”

You need some additional study on Amish, who were never polygamists.

Mormonism is a perversion of Christianity, of God, of Christ. Are there some nice mormons? Of course. I’ve also met very nice Hare Krishnas...

Save me a seat in the boat. I will not vote for Romney. I don’t care who the Dems run or don’t run.

Romney is pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, anti-military, and signed Romney-care into law.

Our family has dear friends in Massachusetts who are being taxed to high heavens to pay for other people’s health care. I will not vote that sort of thinking into office.

So many people here on FR and elsewhere swore up and down that if we’d just vote for McCain, they’d work tirelessly so that the GOP would get the message that we were done voting for liberals running as Republicans.

It’s nearly 2 years later and its worse than ever in some regards. The Tea Party Movement has helped stem the tide, but the GOP has not been receptive.

If there is a nickel’s worth of difference between Romney and Obama, I’m not sure what it would be. Romney has better hair. That’s about it.

If Romney gets the nod, the GOP is stick-a-fork-in-it done.

Fact or Fiction: Mitt Romney has FIRED those of his
team who attacked Gov. Palin on the eve of Election 2008?

Fact: The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

And Beck talks ugly about the Tea Parties too..

when did he do that?

Beck said on his Sept 1 show ...

“Tea party protesters should “model yourself after what happened on 8/28” or “you’re a fool”

I’m Mormon...and *I* have a problem with Romney!