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In 2008 according to the politico 96% of African Americas voted for Obama.
“In 2008, about 25 percent of the 44,000 participants in the GOP presidential caucus [in Nevada] were members of the LDS church and nine out of 10 of them backed Romney over Paul, who finished second behind Romney. Mormons are expected to turn out in force again, mostly for Romney…”
http://www.lvrj.com/news/political-eye-paul-pursues-mormon-support-137405108.html
Although I am LDS, I hardly think that voting for Romney because he also happens to be LDS is a good idea, any more than someone voting for or against a person because of skin color. I think Romney is a decent man, don’t get me wrong, but most LDS folks are ideologically more conservative than Romney, so their overwhelming support of him does not make sense in my mind, unless the 90% are selecting him because of religion, and not his past choices while governing.
Rohirrim
01-16-2012, 12:05 PM
That's the difference between us. I don't think he's a decent man.
Rigs11
01-16-2012, 01:15 PM
That's the difference between us. I don't think he's a decent man.
Isn't romney the dude who put his dog in a crate,tied the crate to the top of his car,and then went on a 12 hour ride?The dog was so distressed that he took a crap.romney pulled over and used someone's garden hose to hose down the dog,and left him in the crate and kept driving.oh but he did recently give someone at one of his rallies $60.spreading the wealth aroundHilarious!
Paladin
01-16-2012, 03:22 PM
He is a plastic man....
H a! H a! H a...... Laughs like one, too. He has not givenany facts in his various speehces. He is absolutlely vacuous and has not presented a single "plan" to do anything. All of his criticisms of Obama are false and should come under the heading of "bearing false witness".
Christiansm my arse.
That's the difference between us. I don't think he's a decent man.
I heard he is very rich ...he must be evil....
orinjkrush
01-16-2012, 04:01 PM
In 2008 according to the politico 96% of African Americas voted for Obama.
“In 2008, about 25 percent of the 44,000 participants in the GOP presidential caucus [in Nevada] were members of the LDS church and nine out of 10 of them backed Romney over Paul, who finished second behind Romney. Mormons are expected to turn out in force again, mostly for Romney…”
http://www.lvrj.com/news/political-eye-paul-pursues-mormon-support-137405108.html
Although I am LDS, I hardly think that voting for Romney because he also happens to be LDS is a good idea, any more than someone voting for or against a person because of skin color. I think Romney is a decent man, don’t get me wrong, but most LDS folks are ideologically more conservative than Romney, so their overwhelming support of him does not make sense in my mind, unless the 90% are selecting him because of religion, and not his past choices while governing.
isn't that the definition of racism (personal & institutional)?
barryr
01-16-2012, 04:09 PM
I heard he is very rich ...he must be evil....
Obama is doing quite well too, but he is a good rich guy.
isn't that the definition of racism (personal & institutional)?
I'm not sure. I just know that in both cases it doesnt seem right. The best case scenerio is that people are being lazy. I can understand some part of it -- one assumes that another person has your values just because of faith, but again, I know many folks who support him that are LDS, and I believe if they knew everyone's voting record, and dug deeper on the issues, I think they would have been on the Santorum, or the Cain or Bauchman's bandwagon (when those two were an option.) People can be lazy, they dont want to dig, they want to make a quick easy choice. I think that is happening to some degree with Romney, like what happened with Obama.
Obama is doing quite well too, but he is a good rich guy.
Wow, I wonder why that is?
Maybe because he says that (with other's money, not his own of course) that "I think that when you spread the wealth around its good for everybody."
peacepipe
01-16-2012, 05:20 PM
In 2008 according to the politico 96% of African Americas voted for Obama. “In 2008, about 25 percent of the 44,000 participants in the GOP presidential caucus [in Nevada] were members of the LDS church and nine out of 10 of them backed Romney over Paul, who finished second behind Romney. Mormons are expected to turn out in force again, mostly for Romney…”
http://www.lvrj.com/news/political-eye-paul-pursues-mormon-support-137405108.html
Although I am LDS, I hardly think that voting for Romney because he also happens to be LDS is a good idea, any more than someone voting for or against a person because of skin color. I think Romney is a decent man, don’t get me wrong, but most LDS folks are ideologically more conservative than Romney, so their overwhelming support of him does not make sense in my mind, unless the 90% are selecting him because of religion, and not his past choices while governing.bogus premise,90% voted for Gore & 88% voted for Kerry. If Obama were white he still would've got about 90% or so of the vote.
Arkie
01-16-2012, 06:17 PM
Wow, I wonder why that is?
Maybe because he says that (with other's money, not his own of course) that "I think that when you spread the wealth around its good for everybody."
The left tries to legislate prosperity as long as it doesn't apply to themselves. The right tries to legislate morality as long as it doesn't apply to themselves. Nobody likes to give up their own freedom, but it's okay to take others' freedom away.
Rohirrim
01-16-2012, 06:31 PM
I heard he is very rich ...he must be evil....
Michael Vick likes him too.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/13/romneys-dog-on-car-roof-story-makes-him-unfit-to-be-president/
Arkie
01-16-2012, 07:19 PM
Michael Vick likes him too.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/13/romneys-dog-on-car-roof-story-makes-him-unfit-to-be-president/
Mitt Romney has several characteristics of psychopathy. Approximately 1% of the population are psychopaths, and that number rises in business leaders and politicians. That's why Romney looks like he has a plastic smile. It's not real. He feels no emotion. He's been coached up to look emotional and that's why he comes across plastic.
And what did Romney do, even after knowing of the dog's diarrhea? Did he realize that perhaps Seamus should be shown some mercy, cleaned up and allowed in the car, to sleep on someone’s lap?
No.
Here’s how the Globe described what Romney then did:
“As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”
Emotion-free crisis management??!
Mitt Romney has several characteristics of psychopathy. Approximately 1% of the population are psychopaths, and that number rises in business leaders and politicians. That's why Romney looks like he has a plastic smile. It's not real. He feels no emotion. He's been coached up to look emotional and that's why he comes across plastic.
He has to be too careful (so that he is not called a psychopath, or some other bizzare claim against him) so therfore he seems plastic --