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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 08:52 AM Apr 2012

Did 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 Mitt’s 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 he’d 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.”

Romney’s father, George—who served as governor of Michigan and was a member of the Nixon cabinet and also a presidential candidate—was 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 Romney’s 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 OP
We should demand to see his birth certificate and family tree liberal N proud Apr 2012 #1
Sherif Joe should investigate Capt. Obvious Apr 2012 #2
mitten's nominal claim to being "Hispanic" is like McCane claiming to be Panamanian. nt Javaman Apr 2012 #3
Mitt can claim ties through the people who cut his lawn maybe Capt. Obvious Apr 2012 #4

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
2. Sherif Joe should investigate
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 09:05 AM
Apr 2012

He's right on the border so he should have no problem finding his polygamist Mexican birth certificate.

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
4. Mitt can claim ties through the people who cut his lawn maybe
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 11:07 AM
Apr 2012

"The illegals who cut my lawn are just the right height"

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