Huh. This is the first time I’ve managed to read the news today, so this is a big surprise. His comments are kind of strange (why play to the Christian base NOW, Mitt?), but he makes some good points, if a bit more vitriolically than I would have.
God bless.

Thank goodness Romney left the race! IF he is making statements about Europe and France like those above, can you imagine what would have come out of his mouth if he had gotten into the Oval Office? What a great way to keep other nations as friends. I wasn’t planning to vote for him anyway, as he is just too slick….but now I am grateful he pulled out of the race! He actually might have been worse (if possible) than the current occupant of the White House. To make matters worse, he wants a Constitutional ban on gay marriages. Not the Fed’s job to tell anyone who they can marry. Save Constitutional amendments for important things.
Yea! he’s gone! Just hope he isn’t asked to be VP. Don’t know which guy is worse, him or Huck.
I’m not voting Republican anyhow….

Is it traitorous to attack your allies while engaged in a war? Probably not. Would the Republicans have accused any Democrat who said such a thing as being a traitor? Probably so. Republicans and conservatives get free passes on the damnedest things they say. As a wise man said, “What liberal press?”
I wonder how the Mormons will respond to the great majority of Republicans repudiating their religion. Democrats would vote against Romney because they disagree with his policies but the Republicans like his policies; they voted against him because of his religion.

Is Romney the new Falwell of 2008? Your’re right ps, what an ambassador of goodwill he would have been as our next President! Now that he is free to consentrate on something other than being the next President of America, maybe he should read “Escape” by Carolyn Jessop about the lives of women and children in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, (FLDS). I’m not being sarcastic, I’m serious. This is a disgusting way of life for these families, and since he’s part of the past of these people perhaps he can do a great thing and work to straighten out this debacle. This is an unbelievable story of one of the wives and children that got away, don’t miss it.

“Is it traitorous to attack your allies while engaged in a war? Probably not. Would the Republicans have accused any Democrat who said such a thing as being a traitor? Probably so. Republicans and conservatives get free passes on the damnedest things they say.”
Um, with all due respect, Nnmns, huh? For one, in terms of Iraq, neither France or Russia are military allies. (Did you miss the whole “freedom fries” thing?) Secondly, if a Democrat commented that France needed more religion, the reaction from most people would be…well, total shock for one. Certainly Republicans would like it. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see any kind of logical argument to this at all, correct me if I’m wrong here…
God bless.

Joey, there’s a real war we need to win; the war against Al Qaida and all the organizations it’s been allowed to metastasize into while Bush drove us off the road into our Iraq adventure.
France and Europe and Russia have been and should be our allies in that war; our real war; the one we can afford to fight and must fight and must win.
Well, we can afford to fight it if we get out of Iraq quickly. While we spend $275 million dollars every day on Iraq there are a lot of necessary things we can’t really afford. But of course Bush and McCain put those charges off into the future; can’t have people aware of how much money they are paying for this stupid war.

Romney addressed Europes’ problems, and then introduced his wanting the United States to approve a Constitutional Amendment to ban same sex marriages. He in other words is saying to Europe they are going to ruin because they are allowing this immoral state of SS marriage. Yet on the border of Utah and Arizona plural marriages between men and women are just fine. Some have 15 or more wives. Some have more than 56 children. The wives fight for their chance to have sex with the one husband in the house. The wives fight with each other. The children are abused physically and mentally. Do they have this in Europe?

Romney should all about France. Its where he hid from the draft himself.

Hentietta:
All Mormons don’t have bunches of wives. One of my 2 sisters is married to a Mormon…and my sister isn’t one…she is a Methodist. They have one child who is a Mormon, like my brother-in-law, the other is a Methodist, like my sister. He is a loving husband & father and they have been married happily for 28 years. So not all Mormons are like the splinter groups that have the multiple wives, and tons of kids. The LDS church outlawed that practice a very long time ago.
However when my Mormon niece marrys, my sister and other niece won’t won’t be able to attend…because they don’t belong to the church.
Simular to the RCC when a friend of mine married in the ’60′s, they had to marry in her house, because she wasn’t Catholic and he was. If they had married in her church, his folks couldn’t have come to the wedding. Fortunately that has changed, I think.
Romney might be about for the 2012 elections…scary.

Is there any doubt in anyones mind that McCain has the republican nomination in the bag, and Huckabee will most likely be his running-mate?

McCain does have it in the bag, I thinks also. Huck as a running mate, probably too, but not certain. Don’t know if they get along all that well. IMO, I don’t think the Repubicans will be in the White House this time. I won’t be voting for them.

as usual, Mitt is behind the 8 ball, Republicans are stuck in the past. The Iraq war failure was our “Spanish Armada.” It is over, we did not go after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The World no longer supports us. Russia and China have already passed us, their economies are booming. Let’s come home and let them pay for the war on terror. We had since 1974 to remove dependence on foreign fuel.
It is over.

PS, I had many Mormon friends in CA, and I’am aware that they live normal lives. I brought out about The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints Cult that an ex-member wrote about in “Escape”. Have your read it? It is unbelievable, but sadly true, and more should be done about this and others like it. Why should any religion cause abuse, degredation, and death to their members? Nobody else can live that way in the name of God, or should even attempt to.

Henrietta:
No, I haven’t read the book Escape. Might have to check it out. I totally agree that the cult FLDS are really bad news. I don’t understand how any religion could cause the abuse, degredation and death of it’s members. Unfortunately there are many religions that have done terrible things in the name of God.

LOL!
Nothing screams LOSER louder than that swift petulent kick to the sovereign gonads of the ally nation America hasn’t acknowledged to be an enemy in four, maybe five years from the bitter recalcitrant feeb who sought to purchase the GOP nomination with his own money.
Another great parting shot from old Mitt ‘Magic Drawers’ Griswald, who is finally joining his family on that long overdue vacation.
Pray for his dog, saints!

Very unlikely that Buckbeak will be a choice for VP for McCain.
Be a bit more political and less “religious” and you can see that.
As for Romney. He would be a great President.
If you….. who post on these forums… are actually Christian, then you would know that … when Mitt was speaking about France and Europe, he was talking about the Moral Decay of their Societies. If you haven’t been over there, or do not know what life is like in Europe, then you would have a hard time understanding a speech someone gave before an Educated crowd at a “Conservative Convention.”
As well, if any here are naive enough to think Romney is finished with his political career and ambitions, I would have you think again. Just look at his father’s record and his own. You will see that he will be in politics as long as you are alive, and you will not have the power to be there.
He has a voice, and he has media coverage, even if (one) may not agree with his agenda.
The looks of the nominations for Pres this year look very peculiar.
Voting against someone because of their religion… is fine. It’s the American way. The freedom to Vote is ours.
In the Book of Mormon… it clearly defines the times “when the people were righteous” they put men in office, or as their kings, who had the Spirit of Revelation, or Inspiration from God. When they were wicked, they did not.
The same goes here, if a nation falls into the moral degeneracy that prevades much of the world, then that Nation will not vote in a Righteous leader who has the blessing and inspiration of the Almighty.
One neat thing about the Prophets and Leaders listed in the Old Testament. People only listened to (them), if They – the Prophets and Leaders — agreed with — their own…. possibly degenerate and carnal point of view.

Bob Mullins:
I agree that Mitt isn’t done with politics. He has the bucks to stay in and try again in 2012 to be a candidate. His religion doesn’t bother me so much as the man himself. He is a slick dude. I just don’t trust him, thus wouldn’t vote for him.
As to the “moral decay” of this country? We are fine. Every generation has thought that this country was sinking into the mud.(1920′s, 1960′s, 1970′s). With each generation things change. This country, unlike France, and Europe is still very prudish. Having been overseas a couple of times, I find that they aren’t as “immoral” as Mitt thinks.
Are you suggesting that Mitt would be “rightous leader”. Anything like our current “rightous, born again ” leader? That is too frightning a thing to contemplate.

I’m not saying he would be the “perfect” leader by any means. But, I agree with prinicples that can help a leader in office.
I feel his active participation in his (the LDS) religion would make him a more qualified candidate than others seeking office.