Posted on 07/09/2012 6:19:23 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Character is consistent. Voters say moral character is one of the most important things they look for in choosing the president. The character of a public figure can be hard to discern amidst a fog of self-advertising, hype, and the distorting effects of TV.
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An unusual personal story gives us insight into Mitt Romney. It is 1996. Mitt Romney is the head of Bain Capital in Boston. One of his employees comes to him, utterly distraught. His 14-year-old daughter snuck out of the house to go to a rave in New York and has been missing for three days. One of her teen friends said he gave her ecstasy and that he last saw her partying under a bridge.
Did Romney offer sympathy and hope? Write a check for a private detective? Wait for the government to solve it? No -- he took responsibility. He took action. He shut down the firm and brought all the employees to New York. For 48 hours, they scoured the streets, going everywhere, asking teenagers if they'd seen the missing girl. Romney called on business associates to send more people to help until they numbered 200. He printed 300,000 fliers and got Duane Reade, one of Bain's success stories, to put fliers in every shopper's bag in their 52 stores. Romney set up a hotline. A broken-off phone call was traced; the girl was discovered in the basement of a house in New Jersey and reunited with her family.
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Romney shows the missing girl's photo to a teenage girl on the street. She says to him, "No, I haven't seen her, but you're not the first person who came up and asked if I'd seen her. I wish my parents cared enough about me, to do something like this for me."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDuzbNZGRRg
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
FTA: That is why personal stories about Romney and Obama, before they were candidates, are crucial. Voters want to understand what kind of man they are electing.
FTA: That is why personal stories about Romney and Obama, before they were candidates, are crucial. Voters want to understand what kind of man they are electing.
We already know...LIBERAL...either way.
How sad is this?
That is a nice story. Very few people on this forum need to be convinced that Romney is clearly superior to Obama. However these stories of Romney having off shore bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands are very troublesome. Already the Democrats are producing and airing attack ads. Unless Romney has a credible and prompt explanation his candidacy will be severely damaged. Many voters ,especially in critical swing states, will not vote for a millionaire who hid his assets to avoid taxes. The story has “legs”. Romney may be forced to withdraw and allow the Republican convention to select a candidate. The country may not survive four more years of the Obama clown parade.
They didn’t seem to care when Billary Clinton had offshore accounts.
What about the other girls who go missing ???
Has Willie Mitty gone out looking for them ???
1. The girl was from a Mormon family..
2. Willie wasnt the only one out looking for her
3. The story has been enlarged a lot with the telling
You may have missed that this story has been posted dozens of times.
The attempt to make Romney some kind of savior here is disgusting.
Did he participate in looking for the run away girl, absolutely, however he was just one of many and the girl returned on her own.
Find the original story not the PR story, you may learn something.
This story as presented is as trumped up as Romney raising from the dead in France when he was in a car accident.
No good deed goes unpunished, nor disrespected. I guess it only counts if he had looked for a Catholic girl!
I guess we should all just throw ourselves into the Obama camp and take our punishment for the next 4 years. sarc/off
As bad as Obama is and has been, you can not find one American whose job he eliminated AND personally profited from the firing. There are enough Willard job casualties that the Dems can run hundreds of personal stories each day between now and the election, all telling their story how they were outsourced, all the while that Romney made hundreds of Millions of dollars off their misery.
American voters aren’t real savvy on the intricacies of economics, but everyone knows someone that is unemployed today, and few are willing to vote for someone labeled a job killer, completer with names and faces to match up with the misery.
If we don’t end up with a brokered convention and kick Willard to the curb, what we will see is the most expensive campaign in world history, and Obama coming out on top.
If Im looking for a HERO to elect as president I’ll look through the man and women who fought for our country...
There’s thousands home from Iraq
and then theres the ones who fought in Vietnam...
Oh WHOOPS
Your Wee Willie Mitty missed Vietnam...
He dodged the draft and fled to France
(Canada was the poor boys “France”)
No way did Romney help someone in need. I have heard over and over here on FR how he is the devil incarnate.
This story as presented is as trumped up as Romney raising from the dead in France when he was in a car accident.
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Except the woman he killed didnt raise from the dead...
Source.
Ms McQuillan makes her point at the end: Romney is an entirely different sort of man. He was raised in a stable, loving family. He lives within circles upon circles of warm, committed relationships -- family, church, community, work, public service. His impulse is to help and to rescue -- a friend's missing daughter, our country's bright future.
Which man do you trust with our country?
I guess it only counts if he had looked for a Catholic girl!
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Whats that suppose to mean ???
I wondered how many posts it would be before the people who are literally killing Free Republic would come on to make nasty comments and ruin the good feeling from this wonderful story.
Well, it was two posts.
I read no more.
Where did Obama serve his military service?
But, I think it is useless talking to you, or svcw, or any of the other short-sighted Mitt haters on this board. I think I’ll start keeping a list because I’ll know whom to blame when this country is lost to the Socialists and Marxists after Obumbum is re-elected because all of the Mitt-haters stayed home.
Members of my family have fought in all of the wars waged on this continent since 1607. I’ll be embarrassed to meet them on the “other side” and admit that my generation could not keep the Republic. That the great experiment was lost in a tide of Mormon hatred.
Really! I guess keeping people out of work is different. As far as profiting how about the Billions his supporters are making. How about denying the Keystone pipepline so Buffett can make money through his railroad company.
How about all the gubmint regulations putting people out of work. And yes he is profiting or how else do you explain his millionaire bank account since becoming president.
I am no Romney fan but your hatred is unbelievable. Enjoy 4 more years of this regime....
Someone on his campaign needs to invent a few more particuarly stories about a non-mormon black or hispanic to offset the stories about the folks that lost their jobs to his Bain Capital corporate raiding.
I have no idea what faith (if any) she professes, but I'm fairly certain she's not Catholic.
Romney is an entirely different sort of man.
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Yes TOO different for me to desire him as my president...
Hes a liberal, as different from a Conservative as night is from day..
This is suppose to have happened in 1996
In 1994 Willard was promising in his US Senate campaign to not overturn Roe V Wade the abortion law which led to the slaughter of millions of little girls, Mormon and Catholic...
Yes “his impulse is to help and to rescue”
He wanted to “help and to rescue” women to murder their unborn daughters (and sons)
Wheres your thread on that “nice story”
For “our country’s bright future” Willie mitty wanted women to have to right to abort their babies...
Even underage girls...
In 2002 when he was running for MASS Gov, Willie said that if parents refused to give permission for under age girls to murder their unborn then those girls were to get a judge to over rule the parental rights...
So much for your “stable, loving family”...”circles upon circles of warm, committed relationships — family, church, community, work, public” ...
Willie was anxious for the STATE to be the parents...
But drag out any old trumped up story in desparation...
Maybe you’ll find one about the soup kitchen Willie sponsors in downtown anywhere...
Gosh there has to be a hospital he built somewheres..
and of course theres that ongoing missing childrens agency that he founded and frequently gives his time and money to...
Gosh all the hours he spent in New Hampshire combing the lake and beating the bushes for some lost frightened child...
Why he even had all his boys and their children out “to help and to rescue”
Trust Willie with my country ???
Ask Seamus if hes even trustworthy with a dog...
Although Romney was not my first choice among the potential candidates, he's the only one we have left at this time. FOUR of my forebears, from both sides of my family, (count them) carried the name Benjamin Franklin, so I have always had a soft spot for ol' Ben's wisdom:
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately
Romney was and still is a corporate raider. He got rich on other’s misery.
Obama is evil, but he didn’t personally profit from other’s misery.
If you continue to believe Romney is the only one with a chance to beat Bams, YOU are the one who will be responsible for seeing Baraak getting sworn in for his second term.
Personally profited? How about personally profiting from the millions who've lost their jobs because of Obama's intentionally nefarious taxing and regulatory policies? Where the "personal profit" factor comes in is the culture of dependency he's grown since coming to power in '09. Creating a mass addiction for government freebies and entitlements pays off handsomely for a liberal politician seeking reelection.
This story is repeated so often because it’s about the only one that show Mitt as a caring person.
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We have yet to see that pic of Willard from 2008
With his Mom jeans neated pressed, wrong shoes, shirt buttoned down no wrinkles, no sweat, hair carefully combed...
Staged to the max...
the one where hes holding a chain saw against a log ...
the saw is not on nor is it in the position to be tuned on...the safety is on or something someone noticed..
He is supposed to be “helping” some poor person in the p0rojects but it turned out it was the front yard of some Mormon bishop or other in a nice neighborhood...
That one got exposed as phony in 2008 along with this story of the missing girl who wasnt...
Well, I didn’t mean to suggest that she’s Catholic. I picked “Catholic” because it is the first thing that came to mind, probably because I’m Catholic. I just thought her comment was breathtakingly crass. I mistakenly thought that I could shock her into recognizing how mean and narrow-minded her remark seemed. It didn’t work.
I could have said Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, or Pentacostal, or Jewish, or atheist, or Muslim. The girl was the daughter of an employee. I don’t think her religion played a part in his thinking. And what if it did? This whole conversation reminds me of the Elizabeth Smart threads where (supposedly intelligent) FReepers accused her father of all kinds of unspeakable sins and crimes when she was missing.
Well, I didn’t mean to suggest that she’s Catholic. I picked “Catholic” because it is the first thing that came to mind, probably because I’m Catholic. I just thought her comment was breathtakingly crass. I mistakenly thought that I could shock her into recognizing how mean and narrow-minded her remark seemed. It didn’t work.
I could have said Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, or Pentacostal, or Jewish, or atheist, or Muslim. The girl was the daughter of an employee. I don’t think her religion played a part in his thinking. And what if it did? This whole conversation reminds me of the Elizabeth Smart threads where (supposedly intelligent) FReepers accused her father of all kinds of unspeakable sins and crimes when she was missing.
No need to make a new list. Altura already posted one over at the TrueBlueLosers website.
That doesn't count toward "killing FR", Altura?
he only looked for the lost child because she was from a Mormon family — that if she had been from another religion that he wouldn’t have bothered. Isn’t that what you meant?
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The daughter of a high mucky muck in the Mormon religion...
Heres your chance dear to prove me wrong...
List all the other girls (or boys) that Willard has searched for...
The Catholics and other Christians
The Islamics
The Hindus
The Buddists...
etc
Eh ???
Well ???
Holy cow. Did some Freepers drink the Obama Koolaid over the 4th Holiday?
Romney wasn’t my first, second, or even third choice, but comparing obama favorably to Mitt? Really?
ANYONE is head and shoulders better then Obama.
ANYONE.
WTH is wrong with some of you?
Yep... just waiting for Diogenesis to check in...
Thanks, altura. I’m making a list and checking it twice, just like Santa, of the screen names of all the people whose hatred of Romney is clouding their vision. Obviously, YOU are not on that list. For that I am ever grateful.
Neither one.
And for that matter, how many lost children have YOU whiners searched for?
Don’t people usually help an acquaintance over a stranger?
Disagreeing with his policies is one thing, but this is uncalled for. As a parent, I cannot image the panic that family felt and if it were me, would want everyone I know plus everyone they know out looking.
Stick with your hero then…doesn’t he think children are a punishment? No need to worry about looking for a lost morman or any other child in his world.
How sad is this?
This is incredibly sad if true.
However, I think there are plenty of street urchins who say this, and even think this, while their families have done everything they knew to try to help them.
What do you intend to DO with this list? No need for you to make a list. Altura has already posted a hit list at TrueBlueLosers.com.
Romney-hatred has caused some FReepers to embrace every single tenet, every single talking point, every single catch phrase of leftism.
You come across as a very insincere and dishonest person.
They are ardent Mormon haters. I’m no fan of Romney’s record, but if Romney were Reagan they would still hate him for his Mormonism above all else. Just watch how easy it is to set them off:
When Philip testified to his friend Nathanael about Jesus Christ, Nathanael replied, “Can any good thing come from Nazareth?” Similarly, no matter what Mitt or any other Mormon might do, these haters would reply, “Can any good thing come from a Mormon?”
Go ahead a zot me. Please, I deserve it.
I guess it only counts if he had looked for a Catholic girl!
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Well if you wanted it to count..
if might have meant a little more if instead of the 14 yo wild druggie daughter of HIS BUSINESS PARTNER who had been allowed to go to New York to a rave party by her father and had not come home for THREE DAYS...Who waits THREE DAYS before they worry about a 14 yo ???...who in their right mind lets a 14 yo got to NYC by themnselves ???
and if the girl had been the daughter of the janitor instead...
Would the daughter of the janitor have been searched for by Willard ???
BTW Willard didnt spend all that much on the search...
He owned the stores that helped...
He was a connected to the hotel that he used...
If not then he was later on the board...
But great for PR and his political resume...
Never let a crisis go to waste...
As usually your MDS and hate for everything Mormon is showing. It must be sad to live a world so filled with hate and bigotry. Yeesh!
Yeah, cause it’s his job to find everybody’s lost children.
Ever notice how it’s taking a really long time to do fund raisers these days?
I have given over $20,000 to this site over the years. Not one dime more until the stupid goes away.
You are the stupid.
I wouldnt know kid
Some of these people are simply insane.
I think Mitt's a douche and a leftist ... I currently plan NOT to vote for him.
I don't want in any way to be associated with these pathological mormonism haters. They're nuts, and their existence makes any opposition to Mitt look nutty by association.
Hmmmm ....
I wonder if maybe they're secret Mittbots, trying some sort of creepy reverse-psychology game?
It has been this way around here for months.
Can you give me the name and religion of any other employee’s or partner’s child who ever went missing that he didn’t go looking for? Of course not because it is not about the good he did to help a partner’s family it is all about your irrational hatred for everything Mormon. What a sad person you are so filled with hate.
Please just vote for O’Bama and salve your conscience.
So, having sat in mormon pews for years and heard the anti-Christian rhetoric from mormon leaders such as the following, both mormon leaders and members have proclaimed "Can any good thing come from a Christian?”
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The mormons using hate speech (and in this case using the words of the Bible to do so) to bash us either are too young to have heard the hate speech against Christians 20-30 years ago, or choose to ignore it in order to fall in line with the "new improved PC mormonism that demands to be seen as Christian".
Have no doubt. These mormons are acting in concert to force Romney on the country to aid and abet mormonism, NOT to aid the USA.
Romney, and possibly many of these FR mormonism defenders have taken sworn this oath in a mormon temple:
“You and each of you covenant and promise before God, angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you do accept the Law of Consecration as contained in the Doctrine and Covenants, in that you do consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth and for the establishment of Zion.
I’m not voting for a pastor. My Baptist grandmother was sure all Catholics were hell bound even though her lifelong best friend was one. She feared John Kennedy not for his politics, but his religion.
I know many, many Mormons. They are people of good character.
The other option in November is a narcissistic atheist socialist who kisses Muslim rear.
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