Rumor:Romney Leads as VP Choice for John McCain
From Humanevents.com (Bob Novak)
Will McCain name a vice presidential candidate in mid-July to step up fund-raising before the national convention, or will he wait until Democrats make their choice in late August? A rumor running through the political community now puts former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the lead for VP. But Romney has many critics in the McCain inner circle, and we don’t think the decision has been made.
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Bob Novack is definitely pro-Romney and has been,
so I would expect that he thinks Romney is strongly positioned for the VP slot. Novack is not alone; most of the conservative radio talk hosts, and many at Fox openly and clearly prefer Romney and promote him. Additionally, he is the pick of the Republican establishment as evidenced by his "religion" speech at the Bush Library in College Station and Rove and Card's statements promoting him. Romney's business connections make him popular with the Wall Street crowd as well.
Those promotions and endorsements do not matter in 2008. Average Americans are hurting, and they will choose the next president. Romney has never been able to connect with them. He is seen as an elitist and one who will advance the cause of big business and in so doing threaten more American jobs. John McCain already gets the vision of what will win in November - he is visiting forgotten people and places from middle America. I don't believe John McCain sees Romney in this vision.
FLDS arrests and trials should start in Texas around October....
And if Romney is in the race, you'd better believe that moveon.org and the bitter Obama people (who were meaner than a barn-yard dog BEFORE Reverend Wright)are going to be digging up every piece of dirt they can on Mormonism AND THERE IS A LOT TO DIG UP. The left media is now making the incredible argument that Hagee is McCain's Wright. It's beyond stupid, I know. But when has reason and logic and truth regulated what these people say?
In Romney's case though, it's not going to be ANY stretch of logic to connect the FLDS with the Mormonism Romney was a high official in! Romney was a missionary at the time Mormon's had institutional racism and he believes Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were prophets who talked for God, himself. Believe me folks, Romney's religion will not hold up under examination and there are exmormons out there ready and willing to pile it on. We do not need this.
Just an example of the quotable quotes that will be plastered all over the media (never forget that Mormon's consider this man a mouthpiece of God and is the guy who brought polygamy to American):
Joseph Smith said "Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet...When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go." (History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 408, 409)
ANYONE BUT Romney.
Romney-
Smith died in 1844 and Wright is still alive and well.
I used to have to eat fish on Friday. Things change.
And Karl Marx died in 1883
It's what Smith taught that still survives and is still practiced. Smith is Mormonism's St. Peter. You can't separate Smith from Mormonism. But if you want contemporaneous, consider Dalin Oaks on the PBS special: "There is no room in Mormonism for gays, feminists or intellectuals." And please don't forget that Mormons who question or disagree with the apostles are excommunicated.
Mormons can, of course, believe as they will, but this would be as much of a distraction as if the VP were a Scientologist. I pray that those who are vetting VP candidates spend at least one day reading the volumns of information available about Romney's deepest beliefs because they will become fodder for the left.
No Fish on Friday's!
I loved Nelsa's comment, "I used to have to eat fish on Friday's". AMEN! I am a Mormon convert and the Church I belong to doesn't have anything to do with polygamy, prophets who boast, or any doctrine that teaches or approves of racism. Catholics no longer be-head non-believers or those who have been caught reading the Bible in English. Religious cultures change. Faith and love for God is central in all the candidates as far as I can tell. One more thing, Elder Dalin Oaks did not make that statement on PBS as stated by Amy. That's a terible misquote.
Romney would be a wonderful VP candidate with his strenght in economics. I agree that He doesn't connect well with voters. He would have to be sold as the man who can fix our economy while McCain fixes our military.
Mitt Romney would be the
Mitt Romney would be the wrong choice for McCain to make except that he can talk the language of Michigan and Ohio industrial workers. For many other reasons he would be a MOST wrongful choice. John McCain wants, and needs, to run a non-traditional, even non-Republican campaign. Mitt Romney is a move in the opposite direction. If it happens, it signals a campaign that will "regres to the generic Republican vote," as Rick Davis puts it.