Romney faces a reckoning on '08

[Sid]

With just seven weeks left in office, Governor Mitt Romney is bringing together his advisers and leading supporters for a postelection powwow this weekend as he nears the most important decision of his political career.

Romney, who has for months deflected questions about his presidential ambitions, is huddling with advisers and donors just as the field of GOP presidential hopefuls begins to come into sharper focus, with potential rivals such as Senator John McCain of Arizona and former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani already forming presidential exploratory committees. Romney's meetings this weekend are certain to touch on his plans for 2008 and how and when to make them known.

Last week's elections were not kind to Republicans, and Romney, who stumped for many gubernatorial candidates on the association's behalf, saw many of them lose. .
But there were silver linings for Romney in the midterm elections. The most obvious was the surprise loss of Senator George Allen, Republican of Virginia, who had been considered a leading 2008 presidential contender until a series of missteps over the summer.



Romney faces a reckoning on '08 (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/17/romney_faces_a_reckoning_on_08/)

[CoreIssue]

Remember JFK and the issue of him being Catholic?

Think there will be a simlar declaration he will not govern as a LDS, like Kennedy had to do about being RC?

Fact is, of course, JFK seemed more a secularist than of any kind of religion.

[Sid]

Mostly about Mormonism:



Mitt Romney and Mormonism [32:27]
(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-165097805928466048&hl=en)

[Sid]

Looks like Romney's LDSism will be harder to sell than JFK's RCism was in '60:



Governor Romney thinks polygamy is abhorrent, awful, and the worst sort of violation of marriage he can think of!

So, does he think that the polygamy of his great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, was abhorrent? Miles Romney had five wives. Every prominent Mormon from 1850 until the end of the Nineteenth Century had plural wives.

They believed they could not "become Gods" unless the practiced polygamy. (http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/quotes/becomegods.htm)According to their beloved Brigham Young, the Mormon Church would never give up polygamy. (http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/quotes/giveuppolygamy.htm) And Mormon Apostle and scholar Bruce R. McConckie said Mormon Polygamy will be reinstated immediately after Christ returns to the earth in the Second Coming. (http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/quotes/millennium.htm)



The Problematic Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney (http://mazeministry.com/mormonism/romney/romney.htm)

[Sid]

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The truth about this Mormon Candidate for President of the United states. What is Mormonism? The truth will be revealed in this video, see it and listen and learn for yourself


Mitt Romney The truth of His Mormon Beliefs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUYV4JZEKo&mode=related&search=)

[Prakk]

We should probably be accurate when discussing Romney's faith. One: Polygyny is the more accurate term to describe what was practiced by the mainstream denomination of the LDS. They practiced it for a short time and abandoned it out of pure expediency to promote Utah's addition to the United States.

Two: As much as I ahbor the LDS religion as a sham and a counterfeit of Christianity we need to get our terminology straight, they are not "Mormons" nor is their faith "Mormonism", it's properly referred to as "LDS" which stands for "Latter Day Saints".

Hugh McBryde

[CoreIssue]

We should probably be accurate when discussing Romney's faith. One: Polygyny is the more accurate term to describe what was practiced by the mainstream denomination of the LDS. They practiced it for a short time and abandoned it out of pure expediency to promote Utah's addition to the United States.

Two: As much as I ahbor the LDS religion as a sham and a counterfeit of Christianity we need to get our terminology straight, they are not "Mormons" nor is their faith "Mormonism", it's properly referred to as "LDS" which stands for "Latter Day Saints".

Hugh McBryde
There has been a continous flow of Mormons that practice polygamy.

Granted, they are small in numbers, but they have been there.

While not practiced by the mainstream, it has never been removed from the Temple theology.

You have to remember the distinction between marriage terrestrail and marriage celestial. And celestial marriage has never ceased to by polygamous. In fact a requirement to gain godhood.

Agree it isn't Christian.

Yes, the official name is LDS. But it is equally true, the call themselves Mormons, as well.

So, semantically, both terms are generic to them.

[Prakk]

"There has been a continous flow of Mormons that practice polygamy."And Christians, as well.

[kay-gee]

In the same sense that the "Reigious Society Of Friends" are known as "Quakers" all the best....

[CoreIssue]

"There has been a continous flow of Mormons that practice polygamy."And Christians, as well.
The difference is Mormon doctrine supports it but the Bible rejects it.

[kay-gee]

This Romney....Rep or Dem?............................all the best......

[Sid]

Mitt Romney may be the frontrunner in Iowa and New Hampshire, but in national polls he lags far behind. Despite consistently strong performances in all televised debates, and spending far more money than his GOP rivals, the Gallup Poll puts him in fourth place—with only half the backing of third-placer John McCain.

Part of the problem may be the spreading perception that he’s “too perfect” to be president. The other major candidates have experienced divorce, infidelity, or both, but Romney married his high school sweetheart 39 years ago and they’ve produced five spectacularly successful, happily married sons.

This impeccably-groomed multimillionaire also affiliates with a controversial church that prohibits pre-marital sex, alcohol, tobacco, and divorce. Somehow Romney needs to identify with his imperfect fellow citizens. Maybe he could start by expressing sympathy for rival Rudy Giuliani and his wife in the face of scurrilous personal attacks against them in Vanity Fair magazine.


-- Posted by: Michael Medved at 6:06 PM (http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/e42d4ec3-1199-49c6-8ac1-c9a4bf0f086c)

[Sid]

I ran across this and believe it is fairly balanced in defining the issues of Romney's Mormonism.

Mitt Romney and Mormonism [10page .pdf] (http://homepage.mac.com/mayorloz/filechute/Mitt%20Romney%20Mormon.pdf)

Romney is trying to portray his Mormon faith in the same manner as JFK's RCism. . .

. . . problem is that JFK was solidily in the cultural/cafeteria delegation of the RCC.

Romney, OTOH, actually takes his faith seriously.

No real comparison to JFK can be made.

[CoreIssue]

I agree.

And trying to portray LDS theology as the same as ours is deceitful.

[Sid]

Wouldn't a choice between Romney and Hillary be really ugly?