NY TImes: Romney’s Consideration of Candidacy Is Closely Tied to His Faith, Allies Say

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/us/politics/romneys-consideration-of-candidacy-is-closely-tied-to-his-faith-allies-say.html?_r=0

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WASHINGTON — A prominent Republican delivered a direct request to Mitt Romney not long ago: He should make a third run for the presidency, not for vanity or redemption, but to answer a higher calling from his faith.

Believing that Mr. Romney, a former Mormon pastor, would be most receptive on these grounds, the Republican made the case that Mr. Romney had a duty to serve, and said Mr. Romney seemed to take his appeal under consideration.

Three years ago, Mr. Romney’s tortured approach to his religion — a strategy of awkward reluctance and studied avoidance that all but walled off a free-flowing discussion of his biography — helped doom his campaign. (The subject is still so sensitive that many, including the prominent Republican, would only discuss it on condition that they not be identified.)

But now as Mr. Romney mulls a new run for the White House, friends and allies said, his abiding Mormon faith is inextricably tied to his sense of service and patriotism, and a facet of his life that he is determined to embrace more openly in a possible third campaign.
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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Guy gets caught cheating by his wife, guy invents religion with magic underwear

and now one of these mental midgets wants his fingers on the nuke button

[Botany]

2. Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy

[underpants]

3. I must have forgotten that he was a Mormon pastor

Faith over fact is why he thought he was going to win on election night

[LiberalElite]

5. Oh, more than that -

he was a Mormon BISHOP.

[underpants]

7. He can only move diagonally?

/ \

[LiberalElite]

8. I would have thought that was

a vertical bump up.

[pangaia]

4. "service and patriotism" my ass....

Oh, and 'faith' is just hoping something is true...

[Aristus]

6. "God called me to run for President" is about the most collossally stupid thing a potential

candidate can say. If he/she loses either the primary or the general, one is left with the supposition that God wanted them to run and lose...

[Sparhawk60]

9. God Moved Me to Do This

I always look sideways at people who tell me “God moved me to do this”. Instead of making a grand pronouncement, how about you just quietly go about doing what ever you feel God wants you to do.

/and I may be cynical, but more times then not, they are “moved” to do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place.
/ The Widow's penny is one of my favorite bible stories.