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Meet Mitt Romney’s cousin (Uh-oh!)
The Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2012 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 02/03/2012 6:05:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Park Romney says some pretty wild things.

Mormonism, he writes on the Web site parkromney.com, “is an insidious contemporary fraud.”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “an American cult,” he professes.

Mitt Romney, he claims, would be conflicted in office because “obedience to the leadership of the Mormon Church is part of the covenant of the temple ordinances to which Mitt Romney is absolutely a party.”

Were you to come across a man articulating such views on a street corner, you probably would give him a wide berth and look over your shoulder to make sure he wasn’t following you.

But Park Romney, apostate Mormon, is no street-corner eccentric. He is Mitt Romney’s second cousin. Church documents and archival research done by The Post’s Lucy Shackelford trace Park’s lineage to Miles Park Romney, who is also Mitt’s great-grandfather.

The two men have never met. (Miles Park Romney had 30 children, which means Mitt Romney has scores of cousins.) And, based on what Park has been writing, he’s not likely to get a dinner invitation from Mitt anytime soon. “Gov. Romney has never heard of this person, and he doesn’t know him,” campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said....

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Other Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: inman; lds; mexico; mitt; mormonism; mormons; parkromney; polls; polygamy; romney; talkradio; wehatemormons
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To: onyx; Me; myself; DJ MacWoW

Better ping myself or I’ll never find this again.
I miss most of my pings during FReepathons.


81 posted on 02/03/2012 8:26:25 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx; reaganaut

If you have questions the person to ask is reaganaut.


82 posted on 02/03/2012 8:27:03 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW; onyx

Always at your service, along with the rest of FR’s Flying Inmans. Collectively we are encyclopedias of Mormonism.


83 posted on 02/03/2012 8:29:26 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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84 posted on 02/03/2012 8:30:10 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: reaganaut; onyx
Thank you for being so open and willing to share.

I'm calling it a night.

Have a wonderful evening!

85 posted on 02/03/2012 8:30:58 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW; onyx; mrreaganaut

Night, sleep well. I’m a bachleorette for a few weeks (MrR is in CA taking care of his parents), so I’ll be up late playing video games as a reward for working hard today. :)


86 posted on 02/03/2012 8:33:16 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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To: reaganaut

I have been nibbling at the Secret Service issue and Bishop Romney a little bit, if he became President.

Maybe we should mention the Danites to the Ron Paul crowd, they could have fun with that conspiracy theory.


87 posted on 02/03/2012 8:33:50 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: reaganaut

I wish I could scream. I’ll have to wait until my neighbors go to work or they’ll think I’m being murdered.

Romney must not win. I am sending the video I posted earlier to a variety of people. I think Christians and Catholics have to see what this person is, a liar.


88 posted on 02/03/2012 8:35:20 PM PST by mardi59
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To: DJ MacWoW; reaganaut

Ditto DJ’s remarks. We’re quick study’s.
I’ll tell you good night on the FReepathon thread.


89 posted on 02/03/2012 8:37:08 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Yeah, I remember Billy Carter and Billy Beer. It seems to be the substance of campaigns now. The divide is so wide we can only talk trivia while the country disintegrates.


90 posted on 02/03/2012 8:37:32 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA
If you drive up I15 past St George and Cedar City,just before you get into Beaver to the left you will see four exactly the same houses with exactly the same cars parked out front. I asked a friend of mine that lived in Beaver. What's up?
He explained that it was with the "Bishops" blessing.

Child molesting garbage.

Welcome to the LDS. !4 year old girls with 2 kids.

These bastards are no worse than muslims.

91 posted on 02/03/2012 8:40:13 PM PST by TexasSecede79366
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To: Graybeard58
For anyone who might think Mitt is a MINO, he isn't, he's deeply committed to Mormonism.

If that is true, then it means his entire "tough" immigration stances, support for "attrition by enforcement", "self-deportation", the AZ and AL laws, border security, etc. is all LIES. Because the LDS is now 100% promoting blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. Why. Because (1) Whites (like Park Romney) are deserting the cult in droves, and (2) A staggering 70% of all new converts to LDS in Utah are illegal aliens.

92 posted on 02/03/2012 8:44:28 PM PST by montag813
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To: DJ MacWoW

I wonder if mittens thread posters should include [Bishop] in the title.


93 posted on 02/03/2012 8:44:40 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: ansel12

I didn’t defend Romney. In fact, isn’t this cousin actually one of the good guys?

And my point was that the other candidates shouldn’t be judged by their relatives. Do you think they should be? Or can’t we discuss that because Mitt Romney is in the race?

Surely nobody at FreeRepublic is going to think better of Mitt Romney because I say the conservative candidates should not be judged by family members who disagree with them, right? If someone attacks Romney because he is white, are we not supposed to notice that our other candidates are white?


94 posted on 02/03/2012 8:45:07 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: montag813

(2) A staggering 70% of all new converts to LDS in Utah are illegal aliens.


Seriously?!?


95 posted on 02/03/2012 8:46:52 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: JimSEA

Get ready for Romney Cola


96 posted on 02/03/2012 8:47:31 PM PST by RBStealth
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To: JimSEA

This has nothing to do with any of that, this is about a high ranking member of a cult who is running for president, from one of the victims of the cult.

This isn’t Billy Beer.


97 posted on 02/03/2012 8:47:43 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

I’m much more put off by Romney’s politics and disingenuous campaign pandering to conservatives than by his religion.


98 posted on 02/03/2012 8:51:42 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: ansel12

I would have thought the smile on the 1st line would make it clear, even to people looking for trouble, that I was pointing out the conservative candidates should not be rejected because they have someone from their past that doesn’t like them. Hence my comparison between Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and Rick Santorum.

And yes, a snarky comment about a specific Gingrich supporter.

I’ll tell you what. I apologize for that. I’m going to try to expect the best from Gingrich supporters for a day, and see what happens. Maybe we can all get along.


99 posted on 02/03/2012 8:52:24 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Are you NOT LISTENING? Romney is a BISHOP, not just a member of the LDS cult which is actively converting illegal aliens into their cult.

No wonder team zero sent Dana Milbank out with the first cannonball today.


100 posted on 02/03/2012 8:56:16 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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