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mia

(8,361 posts) Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:10 PM Oct 2012

Lying for the Lord: The Mormon Missionary Rides High

Couldn't find the Mormonism forum, so chose this one. Are politics allowed to mix here? Perhaps religion just a higher form of politics.

http://rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/lying-for-the-lord-the-mormon-missionary-rides-high/

In case you need to hear it again. Mitt Romney will not raise taxes on the middle class, will not increase the deficit, will create 12,000,000 new jobs in the first three months, will protect small businesses, and will save Medicare and Social Security as we know it, while giving future “seniors” more choice about health care options. Everything’s comin’ up roses, and you heard it from his milk-drinking, alcohol-free, tobacco-eschewing lips.

A lot has been made about Romney’s lies, and his commitment to post-truth politics. But they are not really lies–at least not the sort of whoppers that Ben Franklin alluded to in Poor Richard’s when he said the truth stands on two legs, a lie on one.

In the image-is-everything world we live in, propagating your version of the reality you want the world to see is the real goal. Mitt Romney is good at it. But he is not good at it because he a a good lawyer, or a good businessman, or a good guy.

He is a good at is because he is a Mormon–and not just a Mormon but a really good Mormon. And really good Mormons are the best liars in the world....

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Lying for the Lord: The Mormon Missionary Rides High (Original Post) mia Oct 2012 OP

Willard .......... The Great American Liar and Fraud Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #1

Willard is a typical Wellstone ruled Oct 2012 #2

He's just doing what he's been taught. Problem is he's not very good at it. Booster Oct 2012 #3

On the contrary. I think he is very, very good at it. cbayer Oct 2012 #9

You're only good at it if you don't get caught. He gets caught daily. Booster Oct 2012 #13

I would say the measure of success lies in how far you can get, cbayer Oct 2012 #14

I know Mormons that are very good people. So when you say all very good Mormons are liars... hrmjustin Oct 2012 #4

Agreed 100%. Mitch is not lying for the Lord. Mitch is lying for Mitch. dimbear Oct 2012 #8

In which he is no different from many, okasha Oct 2012 #12

As I have noted on DU before HeiressofBickworth Oct 2012 #5

I want Romney to raise the dead! aletier_v Oct 2012 #6

If you offer him your vote HeiressofBickworth Oct 2012 #7

I had not heard of this prior to this campaign, but the more I have seen of him, cbayer Oct 2012 #10

Perfectly appropriate for this group, mia. cbayer Oct 2012 #11

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

1. Willard .......... The Great American Liar and Fraud

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:23 PM

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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Willard is a typical

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:36 PM

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Mormon high priest. Anything to protect his Cult,but,in Willards case,psychopaths know no difference.

Booster

(10,021 posts)

3. He's just doing what he's been taught. Problem is he's not very good at it.

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:37 PM

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Thanks for posting - people need to read this.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

9. On the contrary. I think he is very, very good at it.

Reply to Booster (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:04 AM

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Booster

(10,021 posts)

13. You're only good at it if you don't get caught. He gets caught daily.

Reply to cbayer (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:30 PM

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cbayer

(146,218 posts)

14. I would say the measure of success lies in how far you can get,

Reply to Booster (Reply #13)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:37 PM

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and he has gotten very, very far.

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. I know Mormons that are very good people. So when you say all very good Mormons are liars...

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:12 PM

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...that is not true. Romney is however the king of liars.

dimbear

(6,271 posts)

8. Agreed 100%. Mitch is not lying for the Lord. Mitch is lying for Mitch.

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 03:34 AM

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That's all I've got.

okasha

(11,573 posts)

12. In which he is no different from many,

Reply to dimbear (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:39 PM

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probably most, politicians.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

5. As I have noted on DU before

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:49 PM

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the Romney campaign is following and has been following Mormon doctrine of lying for the lord, sub-set "milk before meat". In other words, it fits with Romney's request to just go ahead and elect him and he'll tell you the details later. And when that doesn't work, he tells lies -- whoppers!!! His latest moderate talk is just more of the lying for the lord that his church carefully trained him in and which he took to so readily and expertly. He is simply not to be believed any time he opens his mouth. No, Romney is not worthy of becoming President of the United States.