Hello Richard,   
      
   [..]   
      
    BK>> All true, but I was talking about who Ron Paul appeals to, not  the   
    BK>> beliefs of Libertarians and Tea Baggers.   
      
   RW>Okay.  Just wanted to make sure libertarians aren't tarred   
   RW>wtih the tea party brush.  Big difference!   
      
   The Libertarian Party is an off-shoot of the Republican Party.   
   Some Republicans got pissed about Nixon's wage and price controls   
   and decided to form their own political party.  Republicans then   
   mocked Libertarians, trying to ridicule them in ways that cannot   
   be repeated on a BBS.   
      
    RW>> That is a very apt description of Romney.  i have enough   
    RW>> problems voting for ROmney (or any mormon for that matter)   
    RW>> let alone his attitudes.   
    RW>> I might vote for a catholic, a jew, many other folks, but I   
    RW>> don't trust that church's leadership.   
      
    BK>> The fact that I have heard so much, but can't get an honest  answer   
    BK>> to any of it disturbes me. Other than that, the clear  cults I   
    BK>> dispise are Scientology and Moonyism. I would not vote  for anyone   
    BK>> beloinging to either of those.   
      
   RW>Right, some of what I know about the mormon church was   
   RW>passed down from my dad's mother's side of the family, who   
   RW>resided in western ILlinois near the town of Nauvoo before   
   RW>they got there.  tHe main beef the locals had against them   
   RW>was predatory business practices.  Had they dealt fairly   
   RW>with their "gentile' neighbors the hue and cry against them   
   RW>in western Illinois wouldn't have been raised.  Brigand Young   
   RW>demonstrated that it was part of their culture years later   
   RW>with the MOuntain MEadows massacre.   
      
   What makes Mitt Romney tick?  Is it the ideology or philosophy   
   of the Republican Party (or political party)?  Is it his love of   
   business?  Is it his sense of patriotism, or love of country?   
   I say it is none of the above.  It is religion.  It is his Mormon   
   faith that makes him tick.  Mitt Romney places his Mormon faith   
   above all else.  Above family.  Above politics.  Above country.   
   Above everything else that should matter.   
      
   Mitt Romney was the equivalent of a bishop in a Catholic diocese.   
   He has never distanced himself from his Mormon faith.  Would you   
   vote for a Catholic bishop who is loyal to the Pope?  So loyal to   
   the Pope that the Pope comes first above all?   
      
   John F. Kennedy distanced himself from the Roman pontiff.   
   Mitt Romney will not distance himself from the Mormon equivalent.   
      
   If Mitt Romney is elected president, he will mix religion and   
   politics as if the two can never be separated.  The two will be   
   one and the same.  Led by Mitt Romney himself as God.   
      
   Why did George W. Bush invade Iraq?  Because God told him to do it.   
   Why would Mitt Romney choose to invade/bomb/nuke a country?  Because   
   Mitt Romney views himself as God.  That is the difference.   
      
    RW>> There are parts of mormonism I can actually relate to, i.e.   
    RW>> their beliefs that disaster preparedness is first and   
    RW>> foremost an individual responsibility, but some of the rest   
    RW>> ...   
      
    BK>> Disaster preparedness is both an individual and a national   
    BK>> responsibility. Individual is necessary for the short term,   
    BK>> national for the long term. And a level for everything in   
    BK>> between.   
      
   RW>Again we would agree. IT's where the two meet in the middle.   
   RW>i tell folks prepare for 7 days of "on your own" after a disaster.   
      
   If there were a list of 100 things to keep in case of emergency,   
   what would that be?  And what would you miss the most?   
      
   --Lee   
      
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