It’s Over – So Here It Comes
I think the headlines tell the tale. Fox News:
Rubio endorses Romney, saying he’s ‘earned’ it
Well, that is certainly a big fish. But like the Jedi said to Jar-Jar – “There is always a bigger fish.” Bloomberg:
George H.W. Bush to Endorse Romney Thurs.
Which brings us to the New York Daily News:
GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney moves into mop-up phase of race for Republican presidential nomination
Clear indications that the tone around here is going to change. As the Romney campaign pivots, so does the press. USAToday:
Before politics, Mitt Romney was a Mormon bishop
Yep folks, in the “mop up phase,” we will be treated to numerous background analysis pieces, like there have not been thousands written already, and they will open the door to the Mormon chatter. Sometimes sarcasm can be used to answer the charges:
The operation is so slick, in other words, that the politicians who are being controlled by the Mormon Church don’t even know that they’ve been lobbied. Ingenious.
Of course not, didn’t you see “The Manchurian Candidate?” You see, during his mission in France, Romney was secretly brainwashed…. I should not write that, someone will think I am serious. It is going to get weird though. Did you know some Mormons disagree with Romney?
Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith isn’t enough to persuade all his coreligionists to vote for him…. “I personally think Mitt Romney’s foreign policy is egregious and at odds with the principles of his faith,” said the group’s organizer. “One can look at these talks from prophets and see that Romney is out of touch with them.”
Man they are devious – they brainwashed people to all sides of the political spectrum just to cover their tracks. Again, I should exercise care, someone will think I am serious. Which brings me to the funniest piece I have read in a while:
How Mitt Romney Is the Second Coming of Barry Goldwater
In case you missed the primary campaign just concluded, which this writer clearly did, Romney was not “conservative enough” to win the nomination. They do not come any more conservative that Barry Goldwater. But of course, now that Romney is the presumptive nominee, the liberals will need to make him the most ultra-right, mouth-breathing neanderthal in history.
Maybe we should call the “mop up phase ” “silly time?”
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JLF9999 on 29 Mar 2012 at 9:29 am #
I love how these non-Mormons go to disaffected former members for the “real” story. Like the one where Mirtt was supposed ot have told the woman to give her child up for adoption or face excommunication. It desn’t happen that way. First of all, the bishop does not excommunicate anyone. It is not in his purview. That is handeled at the stake presidency and high counsel level and then by the First Presidency in SLC.
Excommunication is done compassionately for those who have given up and can no longer function in the church due to their own thinking and behavior. When people go to the temple they make vows and committments that have eternal consequenses. Mormons who disreagrd those committments become subject to horrific consequenses after death – greater consequenses than those who never knew Christ and knowingly chose to not know him. Excommunication relieves them of those consequenses. There are specific reasons for this action but keeping a child against a bishop’s recommendation is not one of them. The story about abortion doesn’t fit either. Women who get them are not ex’d. I have been involved in hundreds of LDS people’s personal lives as a case manager for a governemnt agency and I never heard of such a thing.
When it comes to brainwashing, I guess all those Mormon Democrats need more work. Right Harry Reid?
crystalf on 29 Mar 2012 at 9:38 am #
I agree .. crazy .. I heard on the radio today (I am in San Diego) a retread report about how Romney is making improvements on his multi-million dollar house in La Jolla .. however, this time they added in this tidbit: “Did you know that he has hired a LOBBYIST to get through the required permits?!!” .. sigh ..
GottaZoom on 29 Mar 2012 at 3:16 pm #
” . . now that Romney is the presumptive nominee, the liberals will need to make him the most ultra-right, mouth-breathing neanderthal in history.”
You mean the left will use an Etch-A-Sketch? Even as Obama talks like he is in the middle, the whole mob moves to the left . .
coltakashi on 01 Apr 2012 at 12:18 pm #
The Reverend Dozier and anyone else who wants to hang an the “racism” label on the CJCLDS and by association in Romney, including some Obama supporters, had their lies made more obvious yesterday when the Church called Larry Echo Hawk into the First Quorum of Seventy, the third highest leadership council of the Church after the Apostles. Echo Hawk is a Democrat, a Pawnee Indian, a former Idaho Attorney General and candidate for governor in that state, who taught at BYU law school. He had earned his BA at BYU on a football scholarship, overlapping with Romney’s time there. During his time as a professor he was president of a stake made up of wards made up of BYU students. For the last three years he has been the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Obama Administration.