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[seekeronos]

This is something I'd like to ask, but probably would never actually have the nerve to do...

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Dear Mitt:

If the Apostle and the (Mormon) church of LDS were to receive a new revelation authorizing polygamy again, would you:

a) take any additional wives or concubines

b) would any such additional spouses be entitled "Second Lady", "Third Lady", and so on?

Thanks Mitt!

[dumbblonde]

Romney happens to be one of the few candidates who "gets it." It's a shame that his mormonism should get in the way of his chance to be elected.

[seekeronos]

My crude attempt at humour aside, I actually have no opinion against him on account of his chosen religion (although it is not completely implausible that the Church of LDS might have some degree of influence over him and his family)...

...but I do find his flip-flopping on a few issues disconcerting. It is probably a similar situation to Rudi Guliani's near flip-flop on gun laws (not exactly hopping in bed with the NRA, but not posturing for the application of the draconian regulations on firearms within NYC limits either) or either of them on abortion.

Without getting into a thorny argument over guns or murdered unborn babies though, I'd sooner have more confidence in a politician who stuck to his guns - however unpopular certain bullets might be - than switching up his six-shooter just to get "the Christian vote" or the "NRA vote" (or which ever bit of chameleon-skinning is needed to get a particular market segment to think about voting for them come election day.

I realizes that the modern American political game is built on wide field of many shades of grey, but there comes a point when it becomes one big disgusting slurry of grey goo.

A politician who has overcome his natural cowardice and timidity to call things properly by black and white, despite however it might loose him votes here and there, is in my opinion a real man, and not someone to be despised.

[seekeronos]

EDIT:

"but not posturing for the application of the draconian regulations on firearms within NYC limits either)"

should read:

but not posturing for the *nationwide* application of the draconian regulations on firearms within NYC limits either)