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Meet Mitt Romney’s cousin (Uh-oh!)
The Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2012 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 02/03/2012 6:05:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Park Romney says some pretty wild things.

Mormonism, he writes on the Web site parkromney.com, “is an insidious contemporary fraud.”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “an American cult,” he professes.

Mitt Romney, he claims, would be conflicted in office because “obedience to the leadership of the Mormon Church is part of the covenant of the temple ordinances to which Mitt Romney is absolutely a party.”

Were you to come across a man articulating such views on a street corner, you probably would give him a wide berth and look over your shoulder to make sure he wasn’t following you.

But Park Romney, apostate Mormon, is no street-corner eccentric. He is Mitt Romney’s second cousin. Church documents and archival research done by The Post’s Lucy Shackelford trace Park’s lineage to Miles Park Romney, who is also Mitt’s great-grandfather.

The two men have never met. (Miles Park Romney had 30 children, which means Mitt Romney has scores of cousins.) And, based on what Park has been writing, he’s not likely to get a dinner invitation from Mitt anytime soon. “Gov. Romney has never heard of this person, and he doesn’t know him,” campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said....

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Other Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: inman; lds; mexico; mitt; mormonism; mormons; parkromney; polls; polygamy; romney; talkradio; wehatemormons
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To: hoosiermama
Yes but the real God or the "gods" that are created by cults.

I remember Huntsman.

21 posted on 02/03/2012 6:35:34 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

This is ALARMING but only us on FR will ever hear about it.


22 posted on 02/03/2012 6:36:31 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: citizencon

Wait till they start digging into Romneys Grandpa and also the ancestor that was murdered by his 12th wife’s lawful husband.


23 posted on 02/03/2012 6:37:29 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: txhurl

I’ll sure spread it around!


24 posted on 02/03/2012 6:38:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW
The man is saying that Romney will govern according to Mormonism. We are NOT a theocracy.

I'd say "not yet" but Romney will never be President anyway.

25 posted on 02/03/2012 6:39:50 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Controlling RINOs in Congress is like herding cats; should we be surprised Newt got scratched?)
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To: COBOL2Java

I’d like to prevent him from being the nominee.


26 posted on 02/03/2012 6:41:00 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: ansel12

But Park Romney, apostate Mormon, is no street-corner eccentric/

The remark above is from the article which calls Park Romney an apostate. My remark was aimed at him.


27 posted on 02/03/2012 6:41:39 PM PST by mardi59
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To: DJ MacWoW

I suppose Newt is too much a gentleman to go hot with this.


28 posted on 02/03/2012 6:42:38 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Drip, drip, drip.


29 posted on 02/03/2012 6:43:37 PM PST by itsahoot (I will Vote for Palin, even if I have to write her in.(Previous tag line reactivated))
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To: txhurl

I don’t think that Newt would dare touch it. Look what happened with questioning Bain’s dealings. And it WAS legitimate to question it.


30 posted on 02/03/2012 6:44:23 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: annieokie

“This may get some notice, but it looks like they are painting Park as the crazy cousin.”

The way it works, is that he is the crazy cousin until the RNC Convention is over...then another second cousin pops up and swears that Romney must know the formerly crazy cousin and in fact, personally joked about having 3 wives to him.


31 posted on 02/03/2012 6:46:11 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: 6SJ7
Second cousin? Really? How about Obama's Uncle Omar and Auntie Zeituni? They shouldn't even be in the country... much less on the dole.

That is so Liberal minded of you.

The Soylandra scandal cost the taxpayer a lot of money. Oh yeah, what about Haliburton? Huh, huh?

32 posted on 02/03/2012 6:47:34 PM PST by itsahoot (I will Vote for Palin, even if I have to write her in.(Previous tag line reactivated))
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To: ansel12

Bishop Romney will never be president. You xaN SPIN THIS CULT IN WHATEVER DIRECTION YOU WISH TO SPIN IT, BUT IT IS STILL A CULT.

The prophet himself told Bishop Romney to run? Really? I thought only the blessings of Gos Himself had any meaning. All you’ve told me is that Bishop Romney would attempt to run this nation as a mormon. THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.


33 posted on 02/03/2012 6:48:07 PM PST by mardi59
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To: DJ MacWoW

Then how are we going to handle this?


34 posted on 02/03/2012 6:51:31 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: txhurl; DJ MacWoW; onyx

If all 400,000 of us e-mailed it to our lists, it’d be world-wide news before my birthday (tomorrow) is over!!


35 posted on 02/03/2012 6:52:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: txhurl
The only thing that we can do is to educate ourselves and then everyone we know about Mormonism.

And keep it in the forefront on FR.

36 posted on 02/03/2012 6:54:05 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bet Drudge never sees or hears it.


37 posted on 02/03/2012 6:55:04 PM PST by txhurl ('We need to be sudden and relentless.' Save the canons for the whites of their eyes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

38 posted on 02/03/2012 6:56:24 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: mardi59
The prophet himself told Bishop Romney to run?

I wished we could say that, but the only evidence is that they had a private meeting in 2006, or 2007, where the prophet gave him the green light, to run. I might still be able to locate the Deseret News article.

39 posted on 02/03/2012 6:58:57 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: Defiant

Dana Milbank doesn’t poot or blow his nose without clearance from David Plouffe or David Axelrod, so this was okayed at the top.


40 posted on 02/03/2012 7:02:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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