Political discussions about everything
By BilboBagend
#12043
Romney is dragging down Republican candidates.

Republican candidates move quickly to distance themselves from Romney, his statements, his policies, his partisanship.

Democrats become more confident in retaining the Senate and start to hope that they may take the House.

One thing is for sure. Romney is a disaster, stupid, disconnected, nasty, pandering, opportunist with no principles or beliefs beyond his own per4soanl ambition. He only has his position and wealth because of the privilege and wealth given to him by his father. He has never earned anything in his life. He has only capitalized on his wealthy, privileged, entitled start at the top by being unprincipled, self centered, and greedy while willing to screw anybody and everybody for his ambition.

It is proper that the present strategy of his campaign managers is to keep him out of the public eye and only in extremely well controlled venues.
By snakeoil
#12045
“The Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.” by Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) Past Leader of Mormon Religion. http://www.mrm.org/

In this message, Benson reminded his audience that the Mormon prophet “is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything,” including “civic matters.” Benson insisted that “those who would remove prophets from politics would take God out of government.” This sermon closed with a stern warning: “The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed; reject them and suffer.” Wanting to know how a Mormon candidate interprets such comments should not be considered unreasonable.

Would a Mormon in the White House give some legitimacy to Mormonism? Perhaps to a certain extent, though I am not aware of anyone who has changed their views on Mormonism merely because Mitt Romney became governor of Massachusetts or because Harry Reid became a senator in Nevada. Their ability to achieve such positions should not legitimize the claims of Mormonism anymore than Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) election to Congress gives credence to the truth claims of Islam. If nothing else, this is an excellent time for Christians to become better educated with the issues that have long separated Mormonism from Christianity. This includes Christian pastors, many of whom have failed to recognize that the LDS people are a neglected mission field.

Candidate Mitt Romney has always maintained that he would be true to his faith, a faith that is fraught with controversy. Mormonism was founded on the premise that it alone represents true Christianity and that all other professing Christians are part of a “great apostasy.” The Book of Mormon claims that there are only two churches, the church of the Lamb of God and the church of the devil. You can be sure that Mormons certainly do not hold that their church is the latter. Mormon founder Joseph Smith, a man who claimed he saw God, taught that God was once a man, and that faithful Mormons can become Gods in the next life.

A popular couplet in Mormonism states, “As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become.” Mormon leaders have insisted that true salvation ("exaltation," or eternal life), can only be found within Mormonism. Some leaders, such as James Talmage and Spencer W. Kimball, have described the Christian view of salvation by grace through faith as a “pernicious” doctrine “originated by Satan.” Anyone who thinks the Mormon Church is moving towards theological orthodoxy is misinformed.
#12088
No one but ignorant anti-social mal-adapts want Romney.

Conservatives clearly don't want Romney.
No rational or honest person wants Romney.
No progressive or liberal person wants Romney.
No libertarian wants Romney.
No person concerned with t5he future wants Romney.
No economist wants Romney.

The only people who want Romney are the professional Republican operatives (and not much) and some of the uber-wealthy who want only one thing, lower taxers.
By snakeoil
#12240
It's amazing that there are no comments on my post about Romney's allegance to the Apostle of the LDS. This is one reason that I will not vote for him. The other reason is that I have no idea what he stands for...it changes with the wind.
Red state gun murder rate....

"Focus on facts". That's laughable, or […]

Big Beautiful Ballroom

And the above is once again male bovine used grass[…]

Although much of the story is lost in the mists of[…]

Nobel Prize

Trump ended 8 wars in 9 months, and thus deserved […]