Mitt Romney 2008 - Can a Mormon be president?

[Belushi]

He won the White House? I thought he got selected by The Gipper and his dad's mates on the Supreme Court...but that of course would be an outrageously cynical thing to say...

Get back to Moscow pinko

 

[kyser_soze]

I remember reading a Nick Cohen op-ed piece in the Observer (yes i know, but it was Sunday) and getting REALLY enraged when he said that Bush won the 2000 election. I'd just finished re-reading the Bush Dyslexicon (which I recommend to any GOP watchers out there - it gets a bit ranty at the end, but the main text is really good) and I got really annoyed that even someone like Cohen seems to have swallowed the Rove-approved history of events in Florida...did I do anything like write to CIF tho? Did I fuck.

 

[JoePolitix]

Isn't the current President a mormon?

Oh no sorry, that would be a moron

http://www.presidentmoron.com/

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Isn't the current President a mormon?

Oh no sorry, that would be a moron

http://www.presidentmoron.com/

Oh dear

 

[TeeJay]

He'll have to overcome Jeb momentum first won't he?

Jeb Bush isn't even on the radar for 2008.

 

[Idris2002]

Romney might have some problems with evangelicals who believe Mormons are a sect comparable to the scientologists or christian scientists. Also secular Americans like myself are suspicious or Mormons in general and are prone to buy into the silly stereotypes like mutiple wives, having sex with fourteen year olds etc.. He does have his hurdles

mears, as I understand there are splinter groups of the Mormon church that do indeed practice polygyny in a highly abusive manner, up to and including 14 year old girls being married off to their uncles.

This isn't supported by the mainstream Mormon church, but the state of Utah which that church controls is noticeably lax in pursuing and prosecuting offenders in this sort of case. So, you're right this is probably an Achille's Heel for him.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Do you think 'merkins will go for another religious nut after bush messed up so badly though?. And the mormons are proper nuts.

 

[Idris2002]

They're also one of the fastest growing religions in the world. From what I've read they're cleaning up among new immigrant groups which see conversion to mormonism as their ticket to assimilation.

 

[exosculate]

Surely no one with the first name Mitt could be credible for the presidency?

 

[JTG]

so, is he going to have a first lady, second lady, third lady, fourth lady etc?

 

[exosculate]

so, is he going to have a first lady, second lady, third lady, fourth lady etc?

The fourth lady is not 14 yet.

 

[bluestreak]

can't we just ban this self=publicising fucktard like i've been suggesting from his first fucking post.

 

[JTG]

can't we just ban this self=publicising fucktard like i've been suggesting from his first fucking post.

I thought you liked me as well

 

[mears]

He'll have to overcome Jeb momentum first won't he? Or is Jeb gonna keep the Bush name out of the Whitehouse until America has forgotten his brother?

I don't know why he didn't run in the first place - he might be a Bush and a Republican but at least he's a relatively competent administrator...

Jeb Bush is not running for Pres

 

[mears]

mears, as I understand there are splinter groups of the Mormon church that do indeed practice polygyny in a highly abusive manner, up to and including 14 year old girls being married off to their uncles.

This isn't supported by the mainstream Mormon church, but the state of Utah which that church controls is noticeably lax in pursuing and prosecuting offenders in this sort of case. So, you're right this is probably an Achille's Heel for him.

Yes, some real freaks have splintered off from the Mormon church. He will have to battle some negative stereotypes.

 

[Idris2002]

Would you agree that the failure to prosecute those freaks whose churches sanction organised child abuse indicates that they have not splintered off entirely?

 

[Aldebaran]

does it really matter what particular cult of christianity you belong to in the long run?

1. I suppose it does for Christians
2. As far as I know Mormons are not considered Christians among Christians.
3. I am not particularly informed but I had in the past some conversations with Mormons. I can't say that they came across as Christians. They came across as Mormons.

salaam.

 

[Aldebaran]

Question for the OP:

What is the reason for you to bring this topic to a UK message board?

salaam.

 

[david dissadent]

Is George W Bush not the proud owner of a Harvard MBA as well?

 

[Aldebaran]

Probably the reason why every company that hired him went bankrupt and the USA is next on the list?

salaam.

 

[mears]

Would you agree that the failure to prosecute those freaks whose churches sanction organised child abuse indicates that they have not splintered off entirely?

I would say they are going after them, espesially the top dogs
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1633567.htm

 

[mears]

Of course it is unfair to attack Romney because of his religious convictions and the misdeeds of those radicals who comprise the Mormon religion.

All Mormons are not bad becasue there are a few bad apples like Jeffs just as all Sunni Muslims are not all bad becasue 19 of them were engaged in killing thousands of innocents.

I am sure you all agree.

 

[Aldebaran]

mears, do you see anyone who is not
white,
male, heterosexual-married-with-children-Evangelical-Christian

standing a chance to get the presidency in the USA these days?

salaam.

 

[TAE]

sounds like a fucking charmer

Not half as charming as you:

lets hope he is found dead in a cheap motel with a pile of coke and a male prostitue

just for the laugh

 

[sleaterkinney]

Of course it is unfair to attack Romney because of his religious convictions and the misdeeds of those radicals who comprise the Mormon religion.

Would you vote a guy in as president of your country who belived this:

According to Latter-day Saint theology, the term Mormon also refers to a prophet who lived in the Americas in the 4th century A.D. He was called by God to abridge and compile the records of his people and their dealings with God into a single book. This book is now known as the Book of Mormon. After Mormon's death, his son Moroni witnessed the complete destruction of his people and buried the record compiled by his father in a hill in what is now upstate New York. This same Moroni, more than 1400 years later, was sent by God as a messenger to Smith who went to the place where the record was buried, and with a great deal of help from God, Joseph Smith translated the record into English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon

Serious question.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Don't forget the magic underpants. Joyce Mckinney had much to say about those at her trial.

 

[Idris2002]

I would say they are going after them, espesially the top dogs
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1633567.htm

Your link talks about what the FBI is doing. I was talking about the attitude of the state authorities in Utah, which is dominated by the mainstream Mormon church.

Oh, and check your PMs, wee man.

 

[Idris2002]

Would you vote a guy in as president of your country who belived this:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon

Serious question.

Strangely, they've never actually put the golden plates on public display.

 

[david dissadent]

Would you vote a guy in as president of your country who belived this:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon

Serious question.

Better than astrology guiding cold war policy.

 

[Idris2002]

Seattle magazine The Stranger includes Romney in its list of presidential hopefuls:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=133892

They also mention the magic underpants angle.