Posted on 02/02/2012 4:17:25 PM PST by fred4prez
"In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared," the story reads. "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.’
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Jim... I am as solid against abortion as anyone you could imagine. I am proud to have met you once, at a function you probably don’t remember here in Tacoma some years ago.
I’m not thrilled that Romney might be our candidate. But if he is... He is.
The question then becomes: Do you want another Obama administration or not? Is FR going to be pro-Obama in the general election?
Don’t be an idiot. FR will never be pro-Obama. And we’ll also never be pro-abortion or pro-socialism or pro-socialist healthcare or pro-Romney.
Mitt happens, but don’t let Mitt happen to America!!
Ronald Reagan walked away from the democrat political party when it left him. If the Republican party becomes the party of abortion or socialist healthcare, it will have left me and I’m no longer a Republican.
ditto
I appreciate the fact that others have had to dig this up and report on it and that he never, to my knowledge, has tried to use it to get others to respect or like him.
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Kid you know this was dragged out in 2008
thats the first time I saw this story...
and much of it was debunked back then too...
Willie Mitty was desparate to find some reason for the other kiddies to like him in 2008 and hes worse off now...
FR is already pro-Obama. Its been nauseating to watch.
Right.
what? C’mon... If Romney ends up being the nominee... FR will become Obama-central. FR will be the anti-Romney tool that the dems dream of.
That’ll be the day.
We’ll be the anti-socialist/anti-abortionist site we’ve always been. Friends don’t let mitt happen.
Was the girl a fellow Mormon? They used the Marriott for their base I see, which makes me wonder if it was a Mormon operation.
Things have changed a lot since August of 2008.
For one, many of us are being faced with something that we have never truly faced before, a Republican candidate that we really cannot vote for this time, they went too far, they have attacked us openly for 3 years and destroyed every threat to Romney, they even helped defeat a republican candidate for Senate to help him, after the tea party delivered an historical victory in 2010, they blocked us from the House leadership.
The other big change is that this time, at the moment that they push a candidate on us who shouldn’t even be in republican politics, we have three years of having built a machine, a movement.
We will have solid options and a course of action ready if it becomes necessary in 2012, to find an alternative to voting for Romney.
I think that FR will have plenty to keep itself busy, relevant, and effective, and not vote for Romney.
The Catholic Church has more problems than the Mormons ? Maybe, but thats because of -
a Large size - in the US its at least 10 times the size of the Mormon church. More people, more scandals.
b. Geographic distribution - Mormons are concentrated in Utah and problems largely remain inside that limited media market, and/or they are taken care of internally.
In the past, and up to this day the Catholic church had and has immensely more political power in the US than the Mormons.
It is still visible even in the fabric of our cities, if one knows how to look. In San Francisco for instance Catholic parish churches and parochial school sites (often former sites) are regularly spaced across the residential zones of tract houses, by area the bulk of the metropolitan area. This is not an accident, these were planned into the city, in collusion with the political authorities, as these areas were being developed in the 1880’s-1910’s. Multiply San Francisco by a hundred.
As far as Catholics are concerned Mormonism is a Christian heresy, as heretical as any other non-Catholic church (save perhaps the Orthodox) as far as I know, as the church has never provided a measure of degrees of heresy.
And the church has never had any official standard of the Christianity of other churches either. If the Mormons want to call themselves Christian that is entirely their business. If they say they are Christian, they are heretical, if they are not Christian then they are not Christian.
If they are not Christian (a broad definition), that is just as much or as little a problem as being a Hindu or Buddhist, or Lutheran or Baptist for that matter. Catholics have no requirement binding them to vote for other Catholics just because they are Catholics. The church would not oppose the election of a Buddhist, why should it oppose a Mormon ?
As far as conversions - the current policy of the church, again as I understand it, is that in the political realm it does not require that other faiths be prevented from converting Catholics as long as Catholics are free to convert others as well. The major loss to conversion is actually from Evangelical/Pentecostal groups, not the Mormons.
You are just making this stuff up. Pope John Paul II told you that Mormonism is not Christian.
The Catholic church recognizes that Lutherans and Baptists are Christians, the Catholic church cannot baptize you if you join them from another Christian church, because you can only be baptized once, however they do require that Mormons be baptized into Christianity.
It is also the reason that all Christians have to be baptized into the Mormon religion when they abandon Christ.
Mormonism is an anti-Christian religion, founded on converting Christians, mostly with clandestine means, what they call milk before meat, where they convince the (often Catholic) Christian that he or she is merely moving sideways, moving into another Christian denomination.
Actually that person is moving into Bishop Romney’s, antiChristian religion, a move which will require baptism into Mormonism.
I also want you to point out the history that you claim I got wrong in post 185.
John Paul II ruled on the Christianity of Mormons ?
When ?
Thats news to me.
Remind me, I am not as young as I used to be - what is it that you object to in this regard ?
Your argument was that Reagan developed politically in a liberal world, and hence was more liberal than a neo-Reagan would be, having acquired his politics in recent times.
My counter was that Reagans world was in reality closer to our vision of conservatism, in a cultural and ideological sense, than is the present day.
You sounded like you were giving a lecture from the mountain, as though you were an expert, you didn’t know about the baptisms?
Now tell me the history that I got wrong in post 185.
Why not read the post again 185, you made a silly, rambling response to it, and said I was "ahistorical".
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