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Politicofact says

Mormon supporters of Mitt Romney are promoting a day of mass fasting and prayer to seek divine help for the Republican candidate in the upcoming Presidential debates.

This is actually great news for Obama.

I am sure that these Mormons have been praying all along for a Romney win, but now trying to organize mass prayer smacks of desperation. When desperate people are praying that means that they have run out of actually useful ways of affecting the situation. In this case it probably means that Romney's Mormon money well is running dry.

It is also amusing that they did not consider that fact that news on mass amounts of Mormons praying for a candidate to win will probably turn off many voters.

Politicofact says

leo707 Get lost TROLL

And pray tell how do you see me as trolling you?

I am all ears and eagerly await your reply.

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Jesus Could Be Their Candidate and the Republicans Would Still Lose

leo707 says

I am sure that these Mormons have been praying all along for a Romney win, but now trying to organize mass prayer smacks of desperation. When desperate people are praying that means that they have run out of actually useful ways of affecting the situation. In this case it probably means that Romney's Mormon money well is running dry.

Some of their motivations may be complex. Romney's own money is not tapped out, and Thomas Monson controls literally billions of $ directly, plus probably billions of $ indirectly. From their perspective, this campaign may be about positioning Romney's cult to poach followers from "less demanding faiths," part of a larger pattern worldwide. Sure Romney would probably like to be President, so he can bully people all over the world, but the next few years are going to be difficult anyway so his cult may be better off being able to lead interfaith prayer sessions and saying that "none of these bad things would have happened if Romney had won." If they lose the election, they can blame their favorite villains, whether "the liberal media" or illegal aliens impersonating voters. Right now, they are forming bonds in the trenches, probably lifelong bonds, so that they will be welcomed into the world of American religious fundamentalism. It is very much like the Onion article, except it isn't a joke.

Reader says

You are to me a sad piece of work.

I assume you mean the Tampa Times news organization that he is here to represent.

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leo707 says

And pray tell how do you see me as trolling you?

I am all ears and eagerly await your reply.

That idiot is just shooting and taking potshots at everyone. He's doing the Liberal Lords work and anyone that questions his authority is obviously a heretic and a prime candidate to be tossed off the Liberal sacrificial fiscal cliff.

curious2 says

Romney's own money is not tapped out, and Thomas Monson controls literally billions of $ directly, plus probably billions of $ indirectly.

True, true, but I was referring to the Mormons who would be dipping into their kids college funds to help make the next US president a Mormon.

curious2 says

From their perspective, this campaign may be about positioning Romney's cult to poach followers from "less demanding faiths," part of a larger pattern worldwide.

For most Mormons I think that it all boils down to an increasing appearance of legitimacy in the eyes of others. Of course this in turn would result in easier recruitment.

curious2 says

...his cult may be better off being able to lead interfaith prayer sessions.... Right now, they are forming bonds in the trenches, probably lifelong bonds, so that they will be welcomed into the world of American religious fundamentalism.

Early on in the primary process Mormons were encouraged to "reach out" (attend a Catholic Mass, etc.) to people in other faiths in an effort to appear "normal."

Mormon scripture directly calls other faiths abominations and their leaders corrupt, so outreach is going to be difficult. However, it would not be unprecedented for the Mormon prophet to do something like declare that other faiths are no longer abominations, and even just re-release the Pearl of Great Price with the offending text changed or missing.

CaptainShuddup says

He's doing the Liberal Lords work and anyone that questions his authority is obviously a heretic and a prime candidate to be tossed off the Liberal sacrificial fiscal cliff.

Yeah, but I did not even question his/her *er* "authority."

CaptainShuddup says

That idiot is just shooting and taking potshots at everyone.

Seems so.

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marcus says

The two are not mutually exclusive. The US is supposed to be a republic that is a democracy. You know, "of the people, by the people, for the people."

They are mutually exclusive. A Republic is guided by the rule of law, a democracy rule of the mob.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/KFXuGIpsdE0

What is this still "if"? Those of you who are still pondering the possibility of Romney becoming a president; here is the news. He is not going to be one. It is a done deal, thank you very much.

Or you are just milking it, cause there isn't really much to talk about Rombey's campaign.