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Mitt Again…
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Ok I have to get this off my chest, as I have said many time that I am a long time listener of Rush. But his pimping and flowering of the speech gave by Romney is just sickening.
Glenn Beck is also pimping the virtues of the speech. I’m tired about hearing about his fucken speech, so what the hell, I’ll post more rants about him and his Mormon homies.
You know folks there have been many individuals both political and not who have given great inspiring speeches. Although I love a good speech and marvel at a good delivery in most instances the words that are sung from the lips of most humans are simply flawed rhetoric.
Yes there have been oratories from individuals that gave me goose bumps and made me smile, others made me cringe. But good speeches don’t necessarily translate into meaningful action.
Y’all who have read my rants about Romney and Mormons know that I have placed a personal scrutiny on both.
Rush and some media folks have mentioned that both Senators Harry Reid and Orin Hatch are also Mormons and have inquired whether or not these two individuals must answer the anti Mormonism charges levied at Romney.
As far as I’m concerned, no. They are not running for “president”, Romney is.
Let me make something clear here. Would I choose someone like Romney or some enterprising Mormon to run my business? Sure. If I were hiring someone for employment and knew they were Mormon would I consider them? Absolutely.
Would I have a problem with a Mormon teacher, doctor, or mechanic? Not at all.
Could a Mormon be my mayor, city councilman, and congressman, hell why not, depending on what I know about him and what he has done for the community.
Ok, governor? As far as I’m concerned no, president again NO!
Yes I’m a biased bastard, sue me!
So then again Snoop what is your beef with Mormons? PPP readers skip ahead…
THEY “TAUGHT” THAT PEOPLE WITH MY SKIN PIGMENTATION WERE INHERENTLY EVIL.
Representing a district or a municipality is one thing representing a state or this nation is another. Yes, I can hear, oh Snoop that’s just stupid. Well would I consider Robert Byrd for president (hypothetical folks work with me here), Christian man and all, fuck no, he still thinks darkies should be sent back to Africa. What is the difference in Byrd’s view of blacks and Mormons view of blacks?
If there were a Buddhist, a Jew, Quaker, Jehovah Witness, Southern Baptist, Hindu running for president I would not give a shit unless they were liberal Democrats of course.
These examples as far as I know did not teach their parishioners that dark skinned people are somehow “cursed.” And I keep reading, “ah, well they don’t teach that anymore.”
Ah yes the beauty of smorgous board worshiping. Just take out the parts that are cool to you and leave out the questionable stuff. Yes way too many “religious” zealots love to pick and choose parts of the bible and their faith that suits them.
So what did the Mormon elders decide, did they have secret meetings around the country or issue memos to Mormons across America to “invite a Negro to church”, tell them they are all welcomed now, we gotta help our brother Mitt.
In my mind I ask myself, does the individual that I choose to vote for in 2008 have a basic level of respect for me as a human being and others that share my skin color.
Does your religion of choice, see all people as equals or as all part of the same human family.
Does your religion come with strings attached; I’m not talking about the morality of good deeds in teaching you how to treat your fellow man, or doctrine like the 10 commandments that outline basic common sense principals on how to govern your life.
I’m talking about, religions that come with man made dogma, secret codes and the hidden rhetoric that can only come from “mans” over processed imagination.
Most of these hidden “rules” and codes come from wanting a particular religion to remain “pure” free of individuals who may destroy the race or religious family.
Although not as religious as most folks, you see I know God feels that he did not make an inherently evil or lesser individual to occupy this earth.
Atheists can argue the existence of a God if they want I could care less, but this is precisely why I would never consider an Atheist for president either.
Basically atheists think that people who even consider a higher power are fools pure and simple and the notion that an individual can run this nation while mocking 90 percent of this population is simple laughable.
As for my belief in God and how he feels about me, I don’t have to attend some ridiculous ceremony or conduct some weekly ritual or throw my money into the coffers of some mega evangelist so they can build these huge churches with Starbucks signs in the shadow of the alter.
But back to Mormonism, I find what they believe offensive, and as much as they try to mask it today I will still be strongly outspoken about it until someone either on the radio, or TV or I finally read in print someone address the real issues with Mormonism.
Yes I have read countless websites and text from Mormons and they quietly dismiss rhetoric like mine as bore out of simple ignorance.
Sorry, wrong Negro, my knowledge of Mormons goes back to my junior high and high school days. I use to study various religions on the side; I was always fascinated as to why certain people would gravitate to one source of religious teaching over another.
As for Romney’s little bullshit speech, it was just that, bullshit; give props to his speech writer for masking the true issue and concerns that Americans have about the notion of a Mormon president.
If and when he decides to tackle the issue head on and be honest about what is likely my ignorance about his true beliefs then I will be willing to consider the man who wants to lead this nation.
He did say that his beliefs were the beliefs of his fathers and his fathers before him, then fine, let your nomination live or die with those beliefs, but I have a right as a voter to
scrutinize and point out the flaws as I see it. And no radio/TV talk show host, high brow blogger or TV pundit is going browbeat me or guilt me into doing otherwise. If they don’t like it, well pucker up, while I pull down the jammies.
This is America, is it not?! Ah but the beauty of blogging is if there is someone, anyone out there who can educate me, please feel free.
The floor is now yours. Hell someone contact Mitt, and have him send me something.
I’ll post Mitt 2008 buttons on my blog if I could get a reasoned and logical response from a Mormon out there who wants to set me straight.
I’ll be waiting.
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Romney Explains Reasons For Mormon Faith Speech
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Gov. Romney’s Religious Speech Today - Full text on Human Events
I don’t get many comments but here is one from a concerned Romney fan
Give me a break, You guys feel better about yourselves talking down mormons? Show me a living mormon that believes blacks are evil and i’ll give you $1,000,000.00 You you find them. Mitt Romney is the most capable candidate. Enough with talking about what you don’t know!
Let me just first say, I did not hear dudes speech, I did read the text at the link provided, but generally people I don’t give fuck what he had to say.
What I a little pissed off about is last night I was reading a number of sites and all of a sudden there are all of these blogs chastising the Mormon skeptics because some of us just won’t let go of the weirdness and the racist history of the Mormon faith.
Golden tablets my ass!
You know what for those who are a little uncomfortable of the scrutiny Romney is getting y’all can kiss my ass. Certain radio talk show hosts, these proclaimed higher than thou blog pundits was to cast criticism on those of us who have a fucken opinion.
We all have a right to decide for ourselves what criteria we choose as individuals to use in determining what candidate we support for president.
Whether that is religious faith, personal indiscretions, lifestyle choices, business decisions, prior drug use, voting record whatever.
How the fuck is someone going to tell me that my focusing on Romney’s religion is WRONG and to the jackass who said I don’t know anything about Mormons is full is shit, I know plenty about them.
Ok, so I ignore his religion, there is plenty to scrutinize about him as a candidate. He talks out of both sides of his mouth, he flip flops on damm near every issue, he has no core political convictions and even a former candidate for president who shared the same seat as Massachusetts governor says he is a fraud!
Oh and dickhead you don’t have 1 million dollars otherwise you would not be trolling my blog bitching about MY opinions, you would be giving that money to Romney’s bullshit campaign, idiot!
(WBZ) MANCHESTER, N.H. Republican Mitt Romney, vying to become the first Mormon president, said Monday he decided to give a speech focused on his faith and the role of religion in politics because the subject is of interest in early voting Iowa — where he has lost his lead in GOP presidential polls.
The former Massachusetts governor, running even in the leadoff caucus state with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a onetime Southern Baptist minister, said he also was concerned about preserving the impact of faith in America’s political character.
He said his address Thursday at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, would not mirror that delivered by John F. Kennedy in nearby Houston in 1960 as Kennedy sought to become the first Catholic elected president.
“This is not a repeat or an update of the Kennedy speech,” Romney said in responding to an audience question after delivering an economics presentation to the city Rotary club.
“I want to make sure that we maintain our religious heritage in this country, not a particular of faith, if you will, not of a particular sect or denomination, but rather the great moral heritage that we have that’s so critical to the future of this country,” Romney said. “So, I’ll be talking about faith in America — not my own faith in America — and of course I’ll answer the obligatory questions, as he did.”
Later, speaking with reporters, Romney said he was not trying to combat religious bigotry, despite some recent leafleting and phone calls criticizing his faith.
Read the rest if you want, but why bother. Regular PPP readers you can skip the next part, cause you have heard this before, LOL!
Ok first of all I saw Romney on the tube last night and basically the segment talked about this pending speech and how it compared to the speech Kennedy gave during his presidential run defending the Catholic faith.
In case you have been under a rock, or you have chosen not to take a closer look at Mormonism there is no comparison between the Mormon faith and Catholicism.
First of all Catholics we not teaching their brethren that black folks were a bunch of savages, and they were all doomed!
Let’s review again, maybe someone from the media will read this blog and ask ole Mitt to explain this shit:
From Brigham Young
Journal of Discourses:
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African Race? If the White man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
Cain slew his brother. . . and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race–that they should be the “servant of servants;” and they will be, until that curse is removed.
See this is the beauty of blogging, and in particular having your own blog. I STILL have yet to find any other blog entry on the countless blogs I read on both sides of the political aisle that addresses this one very simple, very basic human issue.
“Mr. Romney, I’m sure you grew up listening and reading the teachings of Brigham Young and other Mormon elders. These people taught that individuals with dark skin, particularly African-American’s are (cursed) and that they should be (the servants of servants), and that they were the representatives of Satan.
Are we as American to believe that decades of teachings are to be simply ignored and that Mormons of deep religious convictions have done a spiritual 180 and that we should just ignore the teachings from one of the most prominent leaders of the Mormon faith?”
So let me throw this out there folks, if indeed Romney were to say that the teaching of Brigham Young or other Mormon elders were indeed, flawed or we dare say “wrong” When did he come to this revelation? If you are a person of faith, do you or would you renounce your faith in order to appease non believers, in essence sell your soul just to be President of the United States? Sphere: Related Content
How (Not) to Make Fun of Mormons
Monday, November 12th, 2007[Church News] So far, a Trib story about the change of a single word in the Book of Mormon — expecting, no doubt, that millions of converts who previously had dismissed Mormonism out of hand will now change their minds — has generated a whopping 334 Website comments. (The D-News message board has only 65, but the board is moderated and requires a login to post.)
Any discussion of the Mormons’ sacred text is bound to generate more heat than light as church members starchily defend their faith against ex-Mormons, who love to taunt.
One thing we can all agree on, however, is that comments from clueless, out-of-state non-Mormons should stop now. People who have never lived here love to criticize Mormons every bit as much as the rest of us do — the problem is they never get their Mormon-bashing quite right. They always make the same feeble jokes about “wives” and “underwear,” and always in the same mystified, faux-bemused tone. It’s just irritating.
So, for all you out-of-staters, please stop making fun of Mormons. They’re our Mormons. We make fun of them because we live among them. They control many aspects of our daily lives. In some cases they’re even our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and a whole slew of cousins. We know what it’s like to be archly excluded from neighborhood block parties and we’ve learned how to plan ahead when it comes to Sunday cocktails. We’ve been there, man!
Until you’ve been there, too, it’s unlikely you understand what’s really funny about Mormons. You’ll make the same tedious jokes in the same mystified, faux-bemused tone used by thousands of would-be jokers before you. You’ll realize — as, surely, no one ever has before — that if you remove the second M from “Mormon,” you get the word “moron.” And then you’ll wonder why none of us are laughing.
Please, just stop. It just isn’t funny. (Brandon Burt)
Ya see this post is going to serve as a warning to novice bloggers, consider it a public service message.
On my trackback links I had a link to this post How (Not) to Make Fun of Mormons.
Now dude is swiping bandwidth by linking to one of my South Park pictures, but I don’t give a shit about that, his link lead me to read his post which provided a source of amusement. Anybody who read this blog knows my sense of humor is really jacked and provoking me is usually not in your best interest.
I’m still shunned in right wing circles because of my candor and my colorful use of language, fucken hypocrites, I bet many of these elitist bloggers engage in racist jokes or sexually inappropriate humor in private, however ole Snoop rants honestly about shit thereby simply acknowledging a krazy outspoken Negro or bothering to hook a brotha up with a link would be tantamount to endorsing my socially unacceptable rants….sorry people, cranky flashback…. bad Snoop, bad Snoop back on track please….
Now back to this dudes Mormon post. He mistakenly adds this little comment:
“One thing we can all agree on, however, is that comments from clueless, out-of-state non-Mormons should stop now.”
After I stopped laughing, almost in tears, I’m just thinking who does this dude think he is?
As I have said before, being a Negro, I have always had serious issues with Mormons,
Can a Mormon be president? Is this a trick question?
Commenter response: my “sensationalistic” post about Mormons
So any such individual who would dare to reprimand anyone for having an opinion about a religion that promoted racist doctrine is frankly full of crap.
I not well versed in the specifics of Mormon doctrine but what I go by is what was said by the leaders of the church just a decade or two ago.
I don’t have to make this shit up.
For good measure, let’s throw in this You Tube clip of John McCain’s mom and what she thinks of Mitt “Mormon” Romney.
Moral of this story, don’t link to the “Poop” if you don’t want poop on the bottom of your shoes.
Sphere: Related ContentMitt Romney Runs Away From Man In Wheelchair Over Medical Marijuana Question
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Found this on the Tube. Posting for my man Weed Smoker, I’m curious what you think.
Romney Campaign Cover-up
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Found this on the blog eyeon08.com via Conservative Grapevine
Sphere: Related ContentTodd Harris said what everyone has been thinking for a while:
The statement from Todd Harris, communications director for Fred Thompson, accuses Mitt Romney’s campaign of a “half-baked cover-up” of what he alleges is the association between a Romney consultant and a hastily pulled website that said nasty things about Thompson.
Harris concluded with the kind of rhetoric that tends to warm Democratic hearts: “This latest episode only serves to prove what many voters are already figuring out: Mitt Romney will do anything, say anything, smear any opponent and flip flop on any position in order to win. The American people in general and the Republican Party in particular deserve better than this.”
“I’m not running as a Mormon” - Sure we will all just ignore that little detail…
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007“Mitt takes the gloves off” and politico.com, Romney became aggressive with staunch conservative Mickelson after some back and forth. Here is the transcript of that discussion: Video can also be seen hereMickelson: “I hope we can do this so we can expend some quality time on here rather then the sound bytes.”
Romney: “No, I don’t like coming on the air and having you go after me and my church.”
Mickelson: “I’m not going after your church, I agree with your church!”
Romney: “I’m not running as a Mormon, and I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon.”
Mickelson: “See, I don’t mind about it being all about that.”
Romney: “I do, I do.”
Nobody is going to vote for a Mormon in a national election anyway…. oh, get a grip people you know I’m right, I always say what others won’t.
I checked out this PBS documentary on Mormons and there was one section that talked about excommunication and how people who would question the Mormon faith would basically tell anyone who would dare question doctrine to “get the fuck out” you can’t be part of OUR religion anymore. Forcing family member to shun each other because some brainwashed old white guys could maintain control over the flock.
Free thinking is strongly discouraged.
Again, Romney is a non factor in the race, but I find it interesting that he would be upset that individuals like me want to focus on his religion. A religion basically pulled out of one dudes ass with a history of racism, subordination of women and isolationist tendencies and you want to be president representing ALL Americans? Plez!
In case you did not know…..
From Brigham Young
Journal of DiscoursesShall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African Race? If the White man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.Cain slew his brother. . . and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race–that they should be the “servant of servants;” and they will be, until that curse is removed.
Just as I said about Ron Paul, racists are automatically disqualified from running for public office, “but Snoop Romney doesn’t believe that, Mormons are not like that anymore.” C’mon, ole Snoop is not boo boo the fool, any good PR effort can burry crap like this and help an institution put on a more public friendly face.
You can’t be part of a religion that taught this racist crap for many years and all of a sudden say, “never mind, Negros are good people too.”
Sorry I’m someone who looks deeper at issues than most folks, I’m just wired that way.
The video:
Cartoon banned by the Mormon church
Sphere: Related ContentRomney: Gay couples raising kids is the American way
Monday, June 11th, 2007From the site The Palmetto ScoopThis dude says he doesn’t drink and has never taken illegal drugs, I think it’s time he starts. At least he could use that as an excuse every time he puts his fucken foot in his mouth. He can’t keep his flip-flops straight. Damm!
Sphere: Related ContentAn AP article just came across the wire detailing another gaffe by presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). Apparently, while in New Hampshire, Romney was confronted by an openly gay women who was disturbed by the former governor’s position on gay marriage. And in challenging him, she may have unwittingly changed or re-changed or re-re-changed his position on “gay rights.”
“There are other ways to raise kids that’s fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice,” he said. [”N.H. woman challenges Romney on gay marriage” - AP]
Umm… what? We’ve lost track now, but we thought Romney opposed gay adoption and gay marriage. We have stopped being surprised by his all-too-often position changes - even from one month to the next - but we certainly never expected him to say “gay couples raising kids” is “the American way.”
Another Romney Mitt-Flop
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Found on the blog FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog
Sphere: Related ContentAnother Flip Flop for Mitt Romney?
Add it to the other flip flops:
Commenter response: my “sensationalistic” post about Mormons
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Mormon Church in Oakland
Here was a response to an earlier post entitled:Can a Mormon be president? Is this a trick question?
lol. I just randomly stumbled upon this while searching for a statistic.
A wonderfully sensationalistic post.
Among other things, you forget that one of the reasons the mormons were so hated was BECAUSE of abolition. They were abolitionists, and harrassed and killed because of it.
The writings of bruce r mcconkie have nothing to do with church doctrine, or belief, and he was severely chastised for his bigotted statements. Ezra Taft Benson was referring to something that had nothing to do with race, but the socialistic/communistic agenda of martin luther king and friends. Take a look at his real history. His communist ties are irrefuteable.
Anything found in the journal of the discourses, is NOT doctrine, and is compiled from various notes and manuscripts from different sources.
Blacks were not able to hold the priesthood in the church for a period of time, for a whole different set of reasons none of which dealt directly with racism in the sense that the media throws the term around.
The quotations from the book of mormon you listed have -nothing-, I repeat -nothing- to do with race or skin color, and never have. You are obviously ignorant of the traditional hebrew symbolic speech along those lines. Where fair, and white is equated with clean, and dark and black was equated with dirt and corruption. Having NOTHING to do with race.
You’re perpetuating the same sensational misinformation and lies which led to the slaughter of mormons in the 1800’s. Now, you’re just attacking from the other side of the argument.
My response..
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Can a Mormon be president? Is this a trick question?
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Since the comments made by Sharpton abut Mitt Romney is all over the airwaves, I though I would recycle another old post that I put up when Mitt first announced his presidency bid.
Nobody dislikes Sharpton any more than I do, but him mentioning the racist past of Mormons is legit, and anybody who either wants to sweep it under the rug or ignore the racist past of Mormons is frankly full of shit!
Since Mitt is launching his presidential campaign I though I would recycle this post from last summer by Cal Thomas.
I know some folks will say “damm Snoop give dude a break, Mormons are not the evil people you portray them to be, times have changed”
Oh man I could not event type that with a straight face…
After the article I have some racist examples that I know most Mormons still believe in. No individual can be president when the religion he practices entire history has doctrine supporting racist sentiments. If you’re a fucken racist you don’t just snap your fingers and your racist beliefs just fade away.
There are still 70-something plus white people that still believe schools should be separated by race, that racial housing covenants are a good thing, that interracial marriage is wrong and blacks need to go back to Africa…hell there are 20 something white people that think that way… anywho…
Besides after the South Park Episode I will never be able to take Mormons seriously again. I rank them right up there with Scientologists.
By Cal Thomas
Consider the following scenario: four candidates are running for president in 2008. One is a pro-choice Protestant who believes in balanced budgets and would cut spending and lower taxes, but is divorced and remarried to someone who has also been divorced. The second candidate is a Catholic, who is pro-life, but who believes in tax increases and more government spending to help the poor. This candidate is married, but during the ’60s he smoked dope and lived in an ashram with two women. The third is Jewish and supports the Iraq war and Israel against those who wish to destroy it, is married to a gentile and thinks same-sex marriage is OK. The fourth candidate is a Mormon, who is married to the same woman he started out with, is pro-life, opposes same-sex marriage, wants taxes and government spending cut, would put more conservatives on the Supreme Court and appears consistent in his private and public behavior.
According to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, if you are a conservative Christian voter, you are more likely to vote for the Protestant, Catholic or Jewish candidate before you would vote for the Mormon, though he is more in line with your political philosophy.
The poll found that while anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism are fading among voters, anti-Mormonism is not. Thirty-seven percent of those questioned said they would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate. Article VI of the U.S. Constitution forbids a “religious test” for those wishing to serve in public office, but it can do nothing about voters who wish to apply a religious test to candidates.
The impetus for the poll appears to be the likely presidential candidacy of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon.
I am reminded of a comedy bit by the late Steve Allen. Allen would take a camera and microphone into the street and ask people, “Could you ever vote for an openly heterosexual person for president?” The shocked interviewee would fervently respond, “Oh, no, I could never do that.” It was funny, but it also said something about the ignorance of the individual being quizzed. If Romney runs, he might consider following the example of another son of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, who addressed the issue of his Catholicism in a speech to the Houston Ministerial Association during the 1960 campaign. Kennedy said: “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; 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, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.”
Sphere: Related ContentOld Mormon Bashing from ABC
Thursday, May 10th, 2007In light of Al Sharpton’s comments about Mitt Romney, I found this You Tube clip
as George Stephanopoulos reveals his bigotry towards Romney, Mormons.
Rev Sharpton On Romney’s Religion
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Got a gun Mitt?
Monday, April 9th, 2007Mitt Romney made another mistake last week trying to inflate his record as a hunter, and he’s paying the price. Pat Bagley took advantage of the goof with this cartoon in the Salt Lake Tribune:
Romney rival Mike Huckabee also went to town, responding to a direct question about the episode from Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation yesterday (video):
“It’d be like me saying I was a lifelong golfer because I played putt-putt when I was 9 years old and I rode in a golf cart a couple of times.”
READ THE REST AT REAL CLEAR POLITICS
Sphere: Related ContentRomney, self-described lifelong hunter, has hunted on two occasions
Thursday, April 5th, 2007I knew this reminded me of someone else…
BOSTON - To hear Mitt Romney talk on the campaign trail, you might think the Republican presidential candidate had a gun rack in the back of his pickup truck.
“I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life,” he said this week in Keene, N.H., to a man sporting a National Rifle Association cap.
Yet the former Massachusetts governor’s hunting experience is limited to two trips at the bookends of his 60 years: as a 15-year-old, when he hunted rabbits with his cousins on a ranch in Idaho, and last year, when he shot quail on a fenced game preserve in Georgia.
I threw rocks at squirrels when I was a kid, does that count!?
Last year’s trip was an outing with major donors to the Republican Governors Association, which Romney headed at the time.
An aide said Wednesday that Romney was not trying to mislead anyone,
BULLSHIT!
Sphere: Related Contentalthough he confirmed Romney had been hunting only on those occasions in his life.
He said what!?
Thursday, March 29th, 2007LUFFTON, S.C. - Former Massachusetts Gov. said Thursday that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush are all potential running mates for GOP White House hopefuls in the 2008 race, but added such speculation is a bit premature.
“There’s some wonderful people right here in this state, as you know, Governor Sanford being one of them, Romney said to a round of applause after being asked about vice presidential picks by a member of a crowd of about 400 people gathered for his campaign stop in this early voting state.
I have to be honest with you, I haven’t given a lot of thought to that, so I don’t want to put any names in that hat right now, Romney said, but also gave a nod to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, calling him “quite a guy”
Sure, go ahead, float the name of a governor who has the fucken confederate flag flying on top of his capitol dome. That will get your poll numbers into the HIGH single digits.
Idiot bastard.
I’m also sure Jeb is working right at this moment to have a press comment to denounce you mentioning his name.
Sphere: Related ContentMitt’s Falwell faux pas
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Another Red State Post
Mississippi’s Jackso[n] Clarion-Ledger reported yesterday that Mitt Romney was in the State Tuesday, playing the “Bible Belt” game, when he declared that he had received the endorsement of well-known Bible Belt figure Rev. Jerry Falwell:
Romney said he has the support of leaders like the [tag]Rev. Jerry Falwell[/tag].
Mitt’s hometown Boston Globe quotes Falwell denying Mitt’s claim:
“It has come to my attention that a statement attributed to Governor Mitt Romney suggests that I have endorsed his candidacy for President,” Falwell said in the statement. “I have met with and respect [tag]Governor Romney[/tag], as I do many of the other prospective candidates for President.
“If Governor Romney becomes the [tag]Republican candidate[/tag], I could certainly support him,” he said. “However, I have not endorsed or offered support for Governor Romney or any other candidate and have no plans to do so in the immediate future.”
Without repeating my rant before read this: Can a Mormon be president? Is this a trick question?







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