Mitt Romney 2008 - Can a Mormon be president?

[Jim Colyer]

I think Mitt Romney may be the next U.S. president. He was the Republican governor from Massachusetts. He is a Mormon. There has never been a Mormon president. Can Romney be the first? He has filed with the Federal Election Commission, allowing him to raise money for the 2008 Republican nomination.

 

Willard Mitt Romney was born March 12, 1947 in Detroit. He is the son of George Romney, a 1968 presidential candidate. He and his wife, Ann, have 5 sons. Ann has multiple sclerosis.

 

Romney has a B.A. from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He co-founded Bain Capital, an equity investment firm, and made a fortune, helping to start Staples office-supply.

 

He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 but lost to Ted Kennedy. He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and served a four-year term. Romney has conservative values, a Republican governor in a liberal state.

 

With veterans returning from Iraq, there need to be adequate benefits and health care. Romney supports veterans. He was the first Massachusettes governor to appoint a secretary of veterans' affairs. He developed the Welcome Home Bill which gave National Guardsmen free tuition at Massachusetts universities.

 

12 million illegal immigrants have poured into the United States from Mexico. Romney is tough on illegals. He made an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which allowed Massachusetts State troopers to arrest and deport.

 

He supports alternative energy such as ethanol and nuclear and is for drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

 

Romney is pro-life. He opposes Roe v. Wade. He is against abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is threatened. 46 million babies have been aborted since 1973 in what amounts to an American Holocaust.

 

He supports the death penalty in cases which include terrorism and multiple killings.

 

Same-sex marriage has been an improbable issue in recent years. Romney believes that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. He opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions.

 

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[InfiniteNow]

I love how a morman can take a stance on marriage in any serious way. Anyone can be president. Religious affiliation matters not. It's the person that matters. However, I've know a few mormons, and all of them were either a) glad to no longer be one, or :) mentally instable but focussed through cult like behavior.

[Buffy]

With that list of platform points, I know whether I'd vote for him or not, but I'll skip that issue completely.

 

There are strong signs that have conservative Christians polling strongly against him, in many cases *solely* because he's Mormon (Moderates and Liberals don't care):

In a recent Rasmussen poll, 51 percent of evangelicals said they would never vote for a Mormon. The sort of people who don't care whether a candidate is Mormon are the sort of people who live in Massachusetts.

 

But more importantly, for the people who have done some fact checking, the points you list above don't quite ring true:

In 2002, Romney wrote, in a questionnaire from the National Abortion Rights Action League, that, “I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s.”

Read the whole article, and remember that the National Review is one of the most conservative news magazines out there...

 

How do you think he got elected Governor of Massachusetts? It wasn't on the platform you're talking about...

 

His mouth is moving,

Buffy

[InfiniteNow]

Politics1 - 2008 Presidential Candidates: Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)

 

A curious field of grassroots...

[maikeru]

He knows how to talk the talk and walk the walk, but I still doubt he'll be president. Other Republican contenders such as John McCain or Rudy Giuliani have more weight and support, IMO. However, he is a strong favorite in my state.

 

I will not vote for him. I may not vote for any Republicans, even though McCain and Giuliani strike me as some of the better politicians in Washington. (Or so we hope until the next scandal or debacle.) Perhaps I'm not alone when I say I'm tired of liars, cheats, and thieves.

 

Also, I don't like the machinations of the Mormon Church and the Romney team working together. Anyone ever heard of the split between Church and State? In the local news, it came to light that someone at the LDS Church leaked an email which advocated using the Church and its network to influence sentiment and voting for Romney if he makes a presidential bid.

 

deseretnews.com | Paper: Romney team consulted with LDS leaders

 

Secret combinations, indeed!