It amazes me that some posters on FreeRepublic seem to fear or detest Mormons more than they do Muslims.
Reid and Romney are not conservative.
Shame on anyone claiming they are.
So the LDS takes a beating in California, a wealthy populous state, due to Section 8, and they run a campaign in culturally different from California, Mid West states. That just happen to be ones Mitt needs.
Yeah.
Right.
Noting to see here.
Why Mitt Romney/Pratt is just an obscure guy from Massachusetts, er, Michigan, er Utah...that happens to ...um be ...oh yeah....attend, every now and then a Mormon Temple.
It’s not like he comes from and is hooked up to, and his family is and always has been Mormon royalty.
Nah.
It just that some at higher headquarters, S. Lake, messed up and put the California damage control money into those Mid West states. ( You know those wacky Mormons! Haha! )
How can the author not see a Romney presidencey as good for Mormonism? Increased membership is not just the only thing to be looked at. What about just general acceptance of Mormonism? /rhetorical
McKay Coppins...
isnt he that liberal who used to work for Newsweek ???
Hardly a conservative writer...
Mitt Romney is a flip-flopping socialist bum!
Some people just don't get the TEA Parties. RINO Romney is just more of the same. Dump him!
McKay Coppins from the artice...
“The problem, of course, is that it’s ludicrous. Even if you believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is sinister enough to claim political neutrality and then secretly coordinate PR efforts with a potential presidential candidate, how would such actions benefit Mormonism?”
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Oh Coppins is hoping many people dont know about the mormon White Horse prophecy...
Williard Mitt Romney sees himself as a fulfillment of that Joey Smith “prophecy...”
That the mormons would save America some time...
“You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.”
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., May 6, 1843, in Roberts, John, Journal of John J. Roberts
“[W]hen the Constitution of the United States hangs, as it were, upon a single thread, they will have to call for the ‘Mormon’ Elders to save it from utter destruction.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 2, p. 182, February 18, 1855
- George Romney, interview in “A Man’s Religion and American Politics: An Interview with Governor Romney,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Autumn 1967, v. 2, p. 25
“[T]here will be a complete change of government. Washington, D.C. will cease to be capital. The present national bureaucracy will have its end. The internal conflict will sweep away the current system of governments and will pave the way for the political kingdom of God and the millennial kingdom through which Jesus Christ will rule and reign.... A new government will be established among the saints and that political Kingdom of God will espouse and uphold the principles of Constitutional government.”
I haven’t been able to track this theory back to its root,
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Gosh McKay and you so “bright”
“.. are Mormons just trying to convince Americans that Mormons are ‘normal,’ so that in 2012 they’ll consider voting for Mormon King Mitt Romney? (These ads are running in four or five potential swing states, after all.)”
is not a theory..
Its a battle plan right out of SLC...
Since Joey Smith sent his disciples out knocking on doors around the US of 1844 to get himself elected to POTUS and prophet-in-chief, (he was already “king” of the United States - he had declared himself that)
And uttered his “white horse prophecy” claiming that only the mormons can save the United States..
Mormons from that time on have toyed with the idea that they were the “one” (like Obama ids the “one” right now - the new messiah)
George Romney thought it weas him in 1964 and 1968..
When that didnt work George groomed his youngest son, Williard Mitt Romney to be IT, the king, the POTUS the “savior” of America...
Romneys sense of entitlement transends any clues he has received to the contrary..
Rather than accept defeat when he was not elected as the GOP candidate in 2008, and that the GOP and the TEA Partiers dont want him because he is a lifelong liberal from a liberal family..
Romney’s superiority conplect and ego, and delusionment has to accuse conservatives of being “mormon bashers” and “bigots” and “haters” and “liberals’ and “Obama lovers”
After all why wouldnt we vote for a has been broken down old Saturday Matinee runway model full of Botox, Rogaines and socialism and progression for our dear leader ???
Whatever can be the matter with the Republicans that we dont want a “bishop-in-chief” nominee so in love with himself and blind that he would think abortion and gay rights and gun control and AMNESTY and big government and kissin China is a good thing..