Mitt Romney is often his own worst enemy

The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 1-11/08 | RB Scott

[JohnnyZ]

I really think that Independents are his worst enemy.

It's true that Mitt is very, very unpopular with independents. There's no way he could win a general election.

[Colofornian]

"Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world. We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don’t matter any more." - Bruce R McConkie about the 1978 Revelation.

"Don't pay attention to that man behind the curtain," booms the voice amidst smoke & thunder.

(What we forget about that movie, the Wizard of Oz, is that the Wizard was a fraud...he wasn't who he said at all! He intimidated people into spiritual battles. He gave unearned degrees of education; he gave metals of no value; and then when he was needed the most at the end, he took off!) Let us NOT forget that for LDS, apostles (like McConkie) and prophets are interchangeable. And secondly, "apostles" like McConkie told BYU students in the early 80s NOT to seek a "special relationship" with Jesus Christ.

Has the LDS Church ever retracted McConkie's writings or talks? (None officially) Has the LDS Church ever claimed any of his teachings were heresy? (No)

[BlueMoose]

this is just more of the back door campaign.

[BlueMoose]

And secondly, “apostles” like McConkie told BYU students in the early 80s NOT to seek a “special relationship” with Jesus Christ.

[BlueMoose]

Just more of the same.

[BlueMoose]

And secondly, “apostles” like McConkie told BYU students in the early 80s NOT to seek a “special relationship” with Jesus Christ.

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WOW

[EverOnward]

RB Scott is full of himself. A little google shows that although he considers himself as a "not particularly devout mormon," he rambles on at length as if he's an authority of the church he purports to be estranged from.

See:

http://www.themuss.net/catchingmitt/

He's evidently part of the Sunstone crowd. Anyone familiar with them knows they're kooked out liberal mormons that are half-way ashamed they are. They consider themselves great intellects, yet like cows they chew the same old cud: attacking the church from within on various points inconsistent with their liberal views. They were the libbers back in in the ERA days who wore black arm bands to church and used Sonia Johnson like a puppet to parrot their pro-ERA, anti-Mormon bilge.

Another google shows they're still in business attempting to be elitist, intellectual snobs who think they know more than the Prophet, the Pope and 1,000 ministers combined.

[Domandred]

And secondly, "apostles" like McConkie told BYU students in the early 80s NOT to seek a "special relationship" with Jesus Christ.

The speech that came from was "Our Relationship with the Lord" - March 2 1982

You might actually read the whole thing to understand what he was saying instead of taking words out of context.

[Radix]

Romney got to be a great man by living a great life.

Romney got to be Governor here by nuances, and by the good fortune that his opponent back then was a freaking mentally challenged sacrificial lamb.

Romney compromised a lot in his deal with the Devil to become Governor of Massachusetts. At the time, I was elated, that he out politicized the politicians.

Most of the Massachusetts Legislature rascals were unwilling to give up their safe seats, and so mentally challenged but big boobed Shannon O’Brien got the Democrat Party nod that year, and Mitt romped.

Mitt was targeted by the scum over at Be-A-Con Hill by the entrenched political machine, and the local media from day one as Governor. An office for which he refused any salary.

I wish that I had the time or interest to indulge the ignorant out here who would stick a knife into the heart of a man who has proved in every area of his life that he is decent and competent.

Well, some of his campaign comments are troubling when viewed in the light of critics who tolerate hypocrisy unbounded by career politicians, but hold this man here to a standard unseen before in my surveillance of prior campaigns.

I like Hunter and Thompson a lot, but Mitt is not less of a conservative despite the BS that has been spewed out here concerning him over the last year and more.

[BlueMoose]

And secondly, “apostles” like McConkie told BYU students in the early 80s NOT to seek a “special relationship” with Jesus Christ.

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tHANK yOU > as i thought this is not what was said. Again some are not truthful.

[P-Marlowe]

Romney is the Chameleon Candidate.

I got this picture of him standing near a wall.

[TheLion]

I hate to rain on the Romney hate parade but this is one of the dumbest articles I have ever read. This clown must support Huckabee or Fred.

[BlueMoose]

“Romney, a Mormon, also trails Huckabee, an evangelical, in devoutly Christian South Carolina.”

Ah, so according to the “Tribune Style Guide”: “Mormons” are not “Christians.” The Trib returns to its anti-Mormon roots!

[BlueMoose]

” I suspect that the worst case scenario for the Tribune is a presidential race in which Romney goes up against whoever the Democrats nominate. A man of substance who earned his way to millions, who is intelligent, does not demagogue and rabble rouse, does not try to provoke factionalism and jealousy, and who has a record of integrity and unselfish public service, Romney would be a stark contrast to anyone the Democrats are likely to nominate.”

From Tribs Comments.