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John Scarborough comment on Romney.. (Original Post) Playinghardball Sep 2012 OP
"Ambition" is too simple and too secular. It has to do with Mormonism UTUSN Sep 2012 #1

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1. "Ambition" is too simple and too secular. It has to do with Mormonism
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

The BBC documentary, “The Mormon Candidate,” said that Mormons [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]CRAVE respectability[/FONT].

Plus, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]HIDE[/FONT] their true motives and agenda, are [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]mendacious[/FONT]. The motive in the incessant proselytizing is [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]to *attract*[/FONT] (convert) people, extending to physical appearance of being squeaky clean, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"normal"[/FONT] (khakis) and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]big on entertainment[/FONT] (OSMONDs). It ain’t just the OSMONDs: Find a Mormon and there’s all kinds of singin’ ‘n’ dancin’ going on, besides other forms of “entertainment”, like Glen BecKKK.

If anybody thinks I'm generalizing or pushing personal observations into bigotry territory: I knew a teacher who was a Mormon bishop, totally very personable and totally [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"nice"[/FONT] *and* indefatigable sponsor of the folkloric [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]dance club[/FONT], attract attract attract, and a couple of their missionaries would [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]not reveal[/FONT] what (beyond Jesus) they believe differently ("milk before meat&quot . When Mittens [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]evades and dodges[/FONT], he's not doing secular flip-flopping, he's doing an [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]ingrained Mormon thing[/FONT].

In that BBC documentary, Mittens' second cousin, who is ex-Mormon and therefore "alienated" (shunned) by/from family, said, "They don't realize how much they are into [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]brainwashing[/FONT]."

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