Posted on 03/16/2007 8:26:14 AM PDT by Unmarked Package
Watch the video at CNN and shorter clips at YouTube:
Gov. Romney on America's New Challenges (01:18)
Gov. Romney Discusses Iraq on Larry King Live (01:58)
Ann Romney on Larry King Live (02:20)
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
To Mitt Romney, "sexual preference" is equal to ethnicity or FAITH.
He thinks we need "an outpouring of tolerance."
He also manages, as is his wont, to take both sides of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in one breath.
Mitt Romney:
"I think General Pace has said that he regrets having said that, and I think he was wise to have issued an apology, or a withdrawal of that comment. I think that we, as a society, welcome people of all differences, whether there are differences in ethnicity, faith or sexual preference, and I think he was wise to correct his comment and to suggest that that was an inappropriate point to have made."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3166.html
He was also very good with Sean Hannity on the radio today.
"Larry King's had at least six different wives and at least one child with a woman he did not marry. "
LOL, really? I did not know that ... he's a real King Henry VIII!
EV, you score a point there.
He needed to have said "Wouldn't change it *period*." The "now" is an escape hatch.
"I originally didn't think the 'Don't ask, Don't tell' policy made a lot of sense -- it seemed kind of silly to me," he said. "But you know what? It's worked. It's been in place now for over a decade. The military seems to be getting along pretty well with that rule. I wouldn't change it right now." ~~Mitt Romney
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/
It seems like a realistic approach to support something that is working right now.
That's good to hear. I'm sorry I missed it, and I was sitting right next to a radio all day. Doh!
I missed it....damn. Thanks for the thread.
Anyone know what religion she was before she converted to Mormonism?
Ann Romney was an Episcopalian.
I really like Ann Romney. She has a nice, pleasant, outgoing family! : )
I mean to add AND she has.....
In the video titled "ABC 'This Week': Faith & Values" under Mitt TV on the campaign web site, Ann Romney talks about her conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Here you go:
~Snip~
Stephanopoulos: While he was gone, you actually converted to Mormonism back here in the United States from — you were Episcopal, I believe.
Ann Romney: I was Episcopal, but we went to church about once a year.
Stephanopoulos: So what was the biggest leap of faith for you?
Ann Romney: There was no huge leap of faith for me at all. When Mitt left, I really just studied it on my own.
It was not something I did for him or planning on some other life plan with it. It was an internal thing that motivated me just from my heart, as well.
Stephanopoulos: You told Kate Snow that you think that governor should give one of these JFK-style speeches, like the one John Kennedy gave in 1960.
Mitt Romney: No one can do what JFK did.
Stephanopoulos: Not exactly, but…
Ann Romney: I don't like all the emphasis that's being put on it, because I see it as being a little unfair.
He is a man of faith and he has amazing principles. He's a good father and husband. I'd like them to look at the measure of the man and stop focusing so much just on his faith.
Stephanopoulos: But this is part of what makes us human beings and, you know, John Kennedy, when he gave that speech, he said that he believed in the absolute separation of church and state.
And he went on to say this, he said, "Where no Catholic prelate would tell the president, should he be Catholic, how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference."
Is that what you believe?
Mitt Romney: Well, we have a separation of church and state in this country, and we should and it's served us well.
I don't believe, for instance, we should take "Under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't think we should take "In God we trust" off of our coins.
There's a point at which we take something which is a good principle to an extreme.
But I do recognize and support the idea that when you take the oath of office, you basically support something which Abraham Lincoln called America's political religion.
And if I'm lucky enough to be elected president of this country and I take that oath of office, there will be no higher promise than to abide by the Constitution and the rule of law.
That's Abraham Lincoln's political religion.
~Snip~
http://perishthethought.blogdrive.com/archive/346.html
Thanks!
Thanks!! Aren't women treated a little bit inferior in Mormonism? Don't the men determine if a woman can go to heaven?
I liked Ann Romney also, but she came across more as a Democrat than a Republican in her answers.
Because she likes Eleanore Roosevelt as an example of a First Lady?
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