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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid you see how many times I said "polygamy"?
This cracked me up and reminded me of Mark Penn
While discussing swing states, Schweitzer said Romney would have a tall order to position Hispanics to vote for him, and I replied that was mildly ironic since Mitts father was born in Mexico, giving the clan a nominal claim to being Hispanic. Schweitzer replied that it is kinda ironic given that his family came from a polygamy commune in Mexico, but then hed have to talk about his family coming from a polygamy commune in Mexico, given the gender discrepancy. Women, he said, are not great fans of polygamy, 86 percent were not great fans of polygamy. I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico.
Romneys father, Georgewho served as governor of Michigan and was a member of the Nixon cabinet and also a presidential candidatewas born in Mexico in 1907 to a family of American Mormons who fled to Mexico when the United States government cracked down on the practice of polygamy. George Romneys parents were in a monogamous marriage, but Mexico was the last bastion for the practice of plural marriage in the Church of Latter Day Saints. (The church has since expressly prohibited the practice.)
Romneys father, Georgewho served as governor of Michigan and was a member of the Nixon cabinet and also a presidential candidatewas born in Mexico in 1907 to a family of American Mormons who fled to Mexico when the United States government cracked down on the practice of polygamy. George Romneys parents were in a monogamous marriage, but Mexico was the last bastion for the practice of plural marriage in the Church of Latter Day Saints. (The church has since expressly prohibited the practice.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/19/brian-schweitzer-mitt-romney-s-family-came-from-a-polygamy-commune-in-mexico.html
His polygamy lifestyle is off limits!
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Did you see how many times I said "polygamy"? (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Apr 2012
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liberal N proud
(61,194 posts)1. We should demand to see his birth certificate and family tree
I bet it doesn't branch.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)2. Sherif Joe should investigate
He's right on the border so he should have no problem finding his polygamist Mexican birth certificate.
Javaman
(65,705 posts)3. mitten's nominal claim to being "Hispanic" is like McCane claiming to be Panamanian. nt
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)4. Mitt can claim ties through the people who cut his lawn maybe
"The illegals who cut my lawn are just the right height"