Watching Romney today, in awe of how disconnected the GOPe really is. Tone deaf? Clueless? Arrogant? Disconnected? Obtuse?
Whoever thought this was a good idea to parade a total LOSER (or if you prefer-LOOSER) chose....well...you know...
Posted on 03/03/2016 8:47:53 AM PST by Williams
Illegal immigration! Not one word because that is what Romney's speech is all about.
And he knows the American people reject the GOPe on that topic.
Plus his speech was full of lies and exaggerations about Trump.
And he of course listed Kasich and Rubio ahead of Cruz because they will do the GOPe bidding on illegals.
Oh at the end he said Mexicans are being used as "scapegoats". I guess they aren't illegal immigrants Trump "imagined" that.
1. He has been around the spiritual block — and back.
Rubio often talks about faith and wrote about his religious convictions in his 2012 book, “An American Son: A Memoir.” His parents baptized him Catholic and he is now a practicing Catholic — after exploring the Mormon and Southern Baptist faiths.
When he was 8 years old, his family moved from South Florida to Las Vegas, where his mother attributed the wholesomeness of the neighborhood to the influence of the Mormon church. Young Rubio was baptized again, this time in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He spent three years as a Mormon, upheld its teachings more enthusiastically than his parents and chided his father for working as a bartender, a no-no for Mormons who abstain from alcohol.
2. He frequents a Southern Baptist megachurch.
Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, often visit Miami’s Christ Fellowship, a Southern Baptist congregation the couple appreciates for its strong preaching and children’s programs. Rubio has donated at least $50,000 to the church, which he attended almost exclusively from 2000 to 2004. But he now finds his religious home in Catholic churches in Washington, D.C., and Florida. In his memoir, Rubio writes that he will go with his family to Christ Fellowship on Saturday nights, and Mass on Sundays at St. Louis Catholic Church. His children have received first Holy Communion.
He wrote in his memoir: “I craved, literally, the Most Blessed Sacrament, Holy Communion, the sacramental point of contact between the Catholic and the liturgy of heaven. I wondered why there couldn’t be a church that offered both a powerful, contemporary gospel message and the actual body and blood of Jesus.”
Starting in late 2004, he began to delve deeper into his Roman Catholic roots, reading the whole catechism, and concluding that “every sacrament, every symbol and tradition of the Catholic faith is intended to convey, above everything else, the revelation that God yearns, too, for a relationship with you.”
Still, Rubio disagrees with Pope Francis on key points. The very day the pontiff, in an address to the U.S. Congress, called for attention to climate change and income inequality, Rubio was on Fox News to point out that Francis is infallible on faith and morals, not on politics, science or economics. Still, Rubio, the child of Cuban immigrants, was deeply moved by the pope’s concern for immigrants.
3. He punted on the creationism question, then sided with science.
In 2012, when asked by GQ magazine, “How old do you think the Earth is?” Rubio dodged. “I’m not a scientist, man,” he said. “I don’t think I’m qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all.”
Later, after much criticism, Rubio said that he knows the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and that the fact is consistent with his belief that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
4. He draws the ire of atheists.
Rubio talks about faith in a way that has many atheists convinced he considers them less American than their religious neighbors.
“We’re bound together by common values,” he said, introducing presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the 2012 Republican National Convention. And “faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.” At the time, pundit Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, blogged: “Rubio just ruled atheists out of being Americans.”
However, when he was confronted by an atheist at an Iowa rally, Rubio told him, “Believe whatever you want.”
On the hot-button late summer topic of Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rubio said “there should be a way to protect the religious freedom and conscience rights” for such workers. He has not joined the push by other contenders to de-fund Planned Parenthood at all costs, including potentially shutting down the government.
5. On the campaign trail …
ThinkProgress.org predicted his “direct, personal affiliations with all three major pillars of the Religious Right — Catholicism, Mormonism, and evangelical Protestantism” — would help him at the polls.
Rubio, like GOP rivals Sen. Ted Cruz and New York billionaire Donald Trump and Democrat contender Sen. Bernie Sanders, went to evangelical Liberty University to address thousands in a sports arena and online.
Rubio replayed his most religious appeals at the January GOP debate just days before the Iowa caucus. “Judeo-Christian values” are what makes America a “special country,” he said.
“Why are we some of the most generous people in the world? Why do Americans contribute millions of dollars to charity? It is not because of the tax write-off,” Rubio said. “It is because in this nation we are influenced by Judeo-Christian values that teach us to care for the less fortunate, to reach out to the needy, to love our neighbor.” He also said his faith would drive him as commander in chief.
But possibly his most overt pitch for the conservative Christian voters was in his ad touting salvation through Christ and saying he believes “the purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan.”
Heidi was the “beard” for TED, on the North American Union financial arrangements for making us a Union just like the European CFR mode.
She is a disaster and so is Cruz. The TPA needed him and he paid up, into the McConnell hand and the clan of globalists.
I am fuming right now. I was driving home and heard Romney and was B/S.
I can’t wait to vote now and my family is doing the same.
ur right if it was a trump/cruz ticket this country would go wild and hillary wouldnt get nothing but a jail cell
There was a discussion among lefties on CNN last night. It was the AC 360 show...he has a great panel.
Everyone was talking about how Trump got to the top...Media Control...Personality...True Outsider..."Reality Show" etc.
Then one of them popped up and stated the obvious: Trump has split the party on ISSUES!
Immigration, trade, war...real issues that the base simply DOES NOT agree with party elites on.
And the split has been there for over 30 years.
But the elites will NEVER change their position on them. It's the essence of the party...the bedrock.
This insight came from LEFTY commentators on CNN. Yet we have no media on the right that sees this and will comment on it?
Bottom line: The Republican elite (Media, Conservative Movement, Donors, politicians) don't even want to publicly acknowledge what the split is about. They are spinning a "cult of personality" narrative and pushing it hard. Their goal is a groundswell of ridicule and vitriol to expunge the party of these upstarts.
Because to admit it's over 3-4 very, very important and fundamental issues in which the Party Elites are on the opposite side of 90% of their base...would mean their certain destruction.
This was basically Romney announcing his candidacy. He did not endorse another candidate, in fact he called for them all to win just enough for him to s!ide in at a brokered convention. I hope they realize he is playing them too.
This is the biggest political dick move I have ever seen.
Indeed.
The GOP are dead.
FOr years they could never fight and I thought they were cowards, but they have shown they can fight, but not against the left, oh no, against us.;
I’m done
[ Romney made some good points... ]
Yes indeed, Trump needs to clean up his act. Cruz helps mellow that out, they have good chemistry together.
Go Team!
The thread is about Romney no?
This is not complex.
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Like I wrote: I saw him sign the cross as a Catholic does so your assertion Rubio is a Mormon was wrong - no need to go into Rubio's faith with that much depth.
God works in mysterious ways! Lol
AMEN’
What amazes me is how many don’t look deeper. They accuse us of that on Trump, while blissfully ignoring their own candidates deep establishment ties.
If Cruz were not a GOPe tool, he would have already disavowed Romney’s involvement.
[ Trump gave money to the GOPe for years... because he is a huge consumer of foreign labor... and HE HIRED ILLEGALS and paid a fine! Trump is all posturing for votes... he doesn’t mean a word of it. ]
I’m pro Cruz. There’s a balance in there somewhere. “All things are negotiable.”
Trump/Cruz 2016
I love the corporate raider accusing Trump of destroying small business and laying people off. What a joke!
Rubio has finally figured out that it is the UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS aligned with PAUL RYAN, who are also in on this political shake down of our country and the globalist view for FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA.
Just like Obama said.
Rubio pays tribute to all the forces of the USCCB and shamefully uses the sign of the Cross to do it. Rubio is without faith entirely, pursuing power.
I am a Latin Rite Catholic, like Scalia, not the modernist version of the American Catholic.
Watching Romney today, in awe of how disconnected the GOPe really is. Tone deaf? Clueless? Arrogant? Disconnected? Obtuse?
Whoever thought this was a good idea to parade a total LOSER (or if you prefer-LOOSER) chose....well...you know...
You got it. The GOP has been dead for years. It’s what decades of betrayal and deceit get them.
[ If Cruz were not a GOPe tool, he would have already disavowed Romney’s involvement. ]
We’ll see what happens tonight. If Cruz stands with Romney speech tonight to attack, I’m done with Cruz.
I want to give you an analogy. There were the 1980s classics “Godzilla” Movies. Godzilla is ominous and imposing and gets strength from being hit by lightening ! Stronger and Stronger!! Nothing they do can stop Godzilla Until Godzilla retires to the sea. Donald John Trump IS GODZILLA. The more they attack the more he grows in strength and destroys his attackers with streams of fire from his mouth. Go TRMP!!
http://sonichedgehog2.deviantart.com/art/DBZ-Kai-Dimensional-Battles-1-Prologue-Final-433477934
Cruz is North American Union.
Heidi is his “beard” on that fact.
Vote as you choose, but don’t be ignorant of the truth when you do it.
The TPA vote was no “accident”.
The “pathway to legalization” was no accident.
Wake the hell up.
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