***********.....can we start disparaging Romney for polygamy and pedophilia too? - Political Forum

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 07-24-2007, 02:28 AM

I don't even think Obama should stoop to Romney's level. He just has to ask the same question I did: would Mitt not complain if people made fun of him being a Mormon and the polygamy (and perhaps pedophilia) that Mormonism espouses.

Mormons also have a history of pedophilia. Is this really where Romney wants to go with this?

Child Brides - Mormon - Polygamy

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Polygamy and Mormonism are inseparably entwined. One of the most offensive aspects of Mormon-based polygamy is the rampant practice of taking underage girls as polygamous wives. This is precisely what Brian David Mitchell did when he abducted Elizabeth Smart. In the western United States, there are at least 30,000 people involved in the practice of Mormon-based polygamy. In these polygamous groups, the compulsion for underage girls to marry polygamists--usually men much older than themselves--is a part of everyday life. In these communities, girls as young as 12 or 13 are often married off to priesthood leaders. The most powerful and influential of these priesthood holders have first pick of the girls. Parents of the young girls submit their daughters willingly into these unions with the hope of being blessed by God in their afterlife.

One asks, where did this practice come from? Why do these offenders take such young girls as wives? What does Mormon doctrine have to do with this?

These are indeed puzzling questions, but the answers are simple. The founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith Jr. set the precedent for this behavior.

Smith married several underage girls himself. The most notorious example of this is in the case of Helen Mar Kimball. Young Helen married Smith in May, 1843. She was 14 years old; the same age as Elizabeth Smart was at the time of her abduction. Helen’s father, Heber Chase Kimball gave his daughter to Smith as a token of his unquestioning devotion. In return, Smith promised that this union would seal up the salvation of the Kimball family. Smith didn’t use a knife to coerce this young girl, he used the weapon he was most adept at using, psychological manipulation.

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superdude17* · 07-24-2007, 02:33 AM

a. That is a little girl, not Romney holding the sign. He probably has no idea what is on it. Just taking the picture very quickly.
b. If I remember correctly, Obama is the one that currently has started this war of words. And, tonight we saw almost everyone attacking Obama. Its quite entertaining. Why they aren't going after Hillary, I don't know. He will be out soon.
c. I like Romney w/ Rudy's VP candidate. That is a 100% guarantee to the house.

Coyote Says · 07-24-2007, 03:13 AM

Is it just me, or does the lack of spell check on that sign detract from its credibility?

prrriiide · 07-24-2007, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by superdude17*

a. That is a little girl, not Romney holding the sign.

That little girl needs a serious botox treatment and has a bigger wattle than the turkey Mr. Bush pardoned last November...

And that certainly looks like Mitt's hand holding the sign in the pic on the right...

superdude17* · 07-24-2007, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by prrriiide

That little girl needs a serious botox treatment and has a bigger wattle than the turkey Mr. Bush pardoned last November...

And that certainly looks like Mitt's hand holding the sign in the pic on the right...

Good one, not.

Have you ever seen how these people do the autograph sessions. If not, I suggest you figure it out. They go down the line, person by person, 10's at a time, people grabbing at them for a picture or autograph. They don't look at the signs or what the fuck is on them. Give me a break.

Either way, I agree. I applaud Romney for holding the sign. Obama's a schmuck.

emptypepsi · 07-24-2007, 06:26 AM

"Chelsea's Moma" - LMAO.

BANDERA · 07-25-2007, 07:31 PM

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Good one, not.

Have you ever seen how these people do the autograph sessions. If not, I suggest you figure it out. They go down the line, person by person, 10's at a time, people grabbing at them for a picture or autograph. They don't look at the signs or what the fuck is on them. Give me a break.

Either way, I agree. I applaud Romney for holding the sign. Obama's a schmuck.

Do you even know what a "schmuck" is ?? I would bet that you most likely do not.

iTaliAN_ICe · 07-25-2007, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by superdude17*

Good one, not.

Have you ever seen how these people do the autograph sessions. If not, I suggest you figure it out. They go down the line, person by person, 10's at a time, people grabbing at them for a picture or autograph. They don't look at the signs or what the fuck is on them. Give me a break.

Either way, I agree. I applaud Romney for holding the sign. Obama's a schmuck.

And Romney is a flip-flopping douchebag...

RepublicanHater · 07-25-2007, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by superdude17*

Good one, not.

Have you ever seen how these people do the autograph sessions. If not, I suggest you figure it out. They go down the line, person by person, 10's at a time, people grabbing at them for a picture or autograph. They don't look at the signs or what the fuck is on them. Give me a break.

Either way, I agree. I applaud Romney for holding the sign. Obama's a schmuck.

No, you're a schmuck for saying that. If it was the other way around, you would be screaming your head off. You're telling me that they don't read what the signs the people are holding say? Of course they do, they look at them to make sure they're okay and that it won't ruin the public's viewing of them, because one little picture with a person holding a stupid sign can ruin a canidates whole run.

Scribbler1 · 07-25-2007, 07:51 PM

It's a George Allen moment. Might hurt him...might not.

Obama's best move would be to smile and shake his head. Reagan already did the "there you go again" but this would work just as well.