Posted on 04/30/2012 11:54:08 AM PDT by Don Corleone
Snopes.com confirmed this as true... \http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp
Sometimes, this facet of Romney’s personality isn’t so subtle. In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy.
Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone.
That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.”
So, here’s my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can’t help himself. He sees a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn’t do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that’s just how he’s wired.
Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary for three years, and wouldn’t use an expense account. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.
Character counts!! (and yes...that's worth reading again!)
Ditto
AH yes
the god-in-embryo resurrection story...
how could such a wonder be overlooked...
Wonder how long it will be before one of Willie Mitty’s grtoupies posts that 2008 posed pic of him dressed in white button down shirt and ironed Mom jeans and unsuitable shoes and coiffured hair holding a chain saw thats not turned on and pretending to cut up wood in the front yard of a nice house belonging to a family friend who is also a Mormon...
To show his another side still...
The benevolent Romney...
What a guy...
He took a bullet for President Lincoln too...
Matthew Brady was there...
Theres pics...
True that.
When they also post the article where he was raised from the dead in France.
Romney has been groomed for this event since the day he was born, and carved in stone when George went loopy.
The corporation has done their work very well.
THe Office of the Mormon Corporation
Where Willie Mitty pays his tribute money...
Willie Mitty has his Soros too..
All that money raked in for 180 years from the dupes errr members...
For this one magical moment...
The coronation of the chosen one of the Mormon gods....
What are the practical implications of a Mormon President? IOW, all that Mormon Corporation stuff. Then add the RINO part. Now my question is will that be worse than the socialist?
I don't understand the question.
Our choice appears to be socialist R or socialist D.
in the Bible God tells us to flee the very appearance of evil...
We knowe both Willard Mitt Romney and Barak Hussein Obama are evil...
if we are to flee the very appearance...somethiong that only looks evil...
how much more are we not to assoociate at all with real known evil ...
and not endorse it...
nor vote for it...
and yet it seems quasi Christians and moderates only want to flee one and not the other...
Some run to take the snake to pop the snake under their coat...
Ask Brian & Beverly Mauck about Slick Willard’s character... oh, wait...
My question still stands, what are the actual practical consequences of Mormonism in the White House? I want to know how bad it is going to be to tell me why I should keep Obama in office.
I don't know that. What is the practical reason why I should keep a Mormon like Romney away from political power? Or is it simply Romney's liberalism? Liberalism is evil too, I suppose that is good enough reason to reject Romney. Is it a good enough reason to keep Obama?
BHO shouldn’t stay in office, the question “will be Romney be any different”, the answer is no.
Romney is who he is because of his mormonism (because you brought it up) not in spite of it.
I disagree. Although my “mormon” (Mormon) sample size is one, it is obvious that my Mormon is much more conservative than Romney by all measurements. He says Romney is no conservative, but he will vote for Romney come hell or high water, and is just kind of wishing that Romney will turn more conservative. My guess is Romney is the exception, not the rule, although I could be wrong.
Unfortunately , you are wrong.
Romney is a temple mormon, only 15% make it that level, one of the highest of the high.
Your friend may very well be conservative (there are conservative mormons), mormonism is not as conservative as it appears (however you might wonder why they are supporting a liberal).
I know this because my sample is hundreds.
As it stands now mormons will vote Romney at a rate of about 94-98% depending on the poll.
My mormon family and friends support him without question and 100%, they firmly believe that he is called to be president, it revolves around a prophesy of Joseph Smith.
My question still hasn't been answered. What are the actual practical consequences of a Mormon President, if any. I know the consequences of a liberal like Romney (with some ambiguity since we might get some better Supreme Court picks). I also know the consequences of a socialist. I am concerned that the socialist Obama could take the country past a point of no return. I think it is a relatively low risk, maybe 30$ OTOH there is probably a similar risk that Romney can poison the well for a conservative resurgence since the press will call him a conservative. There are also many wild cards independent of either candidate.
In the simplest of terms: Romney is the person he is because of his mormonism not in spite of it.
Romney is a liberal because of his mormonism, in that sense that is how the presidency will be affected.
Because of who he is in the lds corporation their influence will be great on him.
The best thing is to learn about mormonism and then you will get a better picture of Romney.
I don’t care if he fed all the starving kids in Africa for a year. His public policies are still utterly destructive of American liberty and he is therefore disqualified from getting one ounce of support for public office from me or mine.
Thanks that’s a good start for me. I’ll keep asking for more specifics in the next few weeks and months. I would like to know, even if speculative, what kinds of effects (proposed laws, regulations, exec orders, etc) his election will have. His liberalism is pretty well defined by what he has done in the past in Mass. But what else.....
From the article: Gay, who has worked for Bain for eight years, kept his ordeal to himself, confiding only in Romney.
But Wednesday, Romney decided to tell the other 11 managing directors, and they decided that finding a missing daughter was more important than operating a $ 1 billion investment firm.
The executives decided not only to give their time but their money, paying all expenses for the search for the fifth of Gay’s seven children.
That night, 16 employees flew to New York, turned a function room of the Laguardia Marriott Hotel into a “war room,” and got printing giant R. R. Donnelly to print 200,000 fliers with a color picture of Melissa. They also hired a private investigator and set up an 800-number hot line.
Another 40 employees caught an early morning shuttle yesterday, and later were joined by about 250 colleagues from other Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs, Price Waterhouse and Bankers Trust.
“Most of us have children,” said Stephen Pagliuca, 44, a Bain managing director with four children. “That’s the most important thing in our lives. It wasn’t even a question. We just decided to do it.”
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