Posted on 01/03/2008 11:39:37 PM PST by Maelstorm
A Hard Loss for Romney By John Ellis
It's one thing to lose as you are. What you lose is an election, but there's always another election and in the case of presidential primary politics, a new electorate that awaits you in the next state. It's another thing to lose as you aren't. Mitt Romney was never the 700 Club right-winger his campaign managers conceived. He was and is a man of business and a very capable one at that.
He's all but doomed now. Senator John McCain will beat him in New Hampshire, probably by a lot, and Romney's media coverage will evaporate and his candidacy will consequently die. On January 9, his managers will walk in and say that the campaign needs $10 million or $15 million to continue and that he, Romney, will have to write the check. Everyone who would contribute has maxed out. Everyone who might won't. Two-time losers don't get new money. It's a basic rule of politics.
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You can’t honestly answer those questions can you?
Why won’t you answer them directly? What are you afraid of?
It's so great for Willard right now, he probably took a dive in Iowa just to lose by nine points so he could get to this great shape.
He's the smartest man in the room, donchaknow. The smartest man in any room (filled with voters at $400 a pop).
Thank you very much for the lead. I did and found a very detailed site explaining this prophecy, said to be an oral one. The very interesting thing to one not familiar with it before is that the conditions that were supposed to have been prophesied are so general and have sufficient accuracy that they do not differ appreciably from what hundreds of non-Mormons have predicted or said. In fact if a candidate pledges to do something about such conditions he does not differ noticeably from his competitors. I do not see the harm in any candidate having such beliefs. In a real sense when Pat Robertson ran he had such beliefs and also voiced them. And Pat Robertson, like his father before him, is a Baptist I believe. Incidentally, I had the honor of knowing Willis Robertson when growing up and into my early adult years. He was a fine man and one of the best Senators we’ve had, but his son at times does things and says things that I have as much or more difficulty in following as this business about this prophecy. What is the harm in believing that God might want you to straighten out the problems that we have and that in helping to salve them you are doing His work?
I don’t for example, believe everything in the writings of the Reverend Moon, or for that matter, Swedenborg, but they have some excellent points and, overall, there has been much benefit. I shudder to think, for example, what it would have been like in Washington if part of the Rev. Moon’s vision had not encompassed starting the Washington Times and we had only had the Washington Compost, as Ollie North calls it, all these years.
I am a Catholic. My belief in the Holy Spirit in the same way as a Kennedy doesn’t make me a Kennedy clone and thus doesnt specify how I make decisions.
“My view is that Reagan as a believer was guided and protected by the Holy Spirit. He believed exactly that as well.”
SO DID JIMMY CARTER!
So does that make Jimmy Carter our best President?
You failed to answer the basic question of whether you would choose a Jimmy Carter over a Jewish Reagan conservative because he had Christian faith? You keep evading the central question. Why are you afraid to answer it directly?
A freak is a freak.
Keep snorting - it’s the sound intellectual dinosaurs make as they die out.
However, all this is irrelevant. You showed me that this discussion wasn’t worth the time when you said you’d vote for a scientologist for President.
Dinosaurs dancing on the Romney campaign’s grave!
So classy!
Mitt showed his greatest dignity when he offered to drop out
if did not come in first in Iowa. Is he out?
If not, how much did he increase taxes for NH residents
when he was Gov. of MA?
I'm sorry that you do not 'get it', that Jesus Christ is the ONLY means of salvation and that CHRISTIANS are called to oppose lies and false doctrine's of folks who use His name in their title in order to fool those seeking God. Perhaps someday you will pay attention to that 'still small voice within' which calls you to Him for salvation. We can add you to the pray list, if you like.
In the mean time, try your liberal 'tolerance is politically correct so you better tolerate false doctrines or we will call you a bigot' crap and make yourself a sandwich.
Okay, n00b, so this is the newest strategy, to call people pathetic for opposing the heresies in Mormonism?... Not going to sling ‘bigot’ around anymore? Tell your handlers that’s a pretty smart change. Smarter still would be to shut up for a while, save your feckless powder for the dnc campagin should Romney slip into the nomination.
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs: they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!' |
This is a really good example of answering the question that SHOULD have been asked.
I assume you are Protestant. If you believe they are not, how come you are not a member of the Catholic Church?
If your Organization wants to be known as christian; why aren't THEY Catholic?
Psst...
It's called CHOICE.
Boo Hoo...
TRANSLATION:
"Accept us as 'Christians' or else you prove you are bad Americans!"
Words simply have different meansing for us.
--MormonDude(still cryin' in my beer about last night.)
It is amazing how many insults you can pour into three lines of text. I suppose that is what you call being Christian.
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