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DonViejo

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Wed May 22, 2013, 04:33 PM May 2013

Virginia GOP Nominee Thinks Harry Reid Is Just Pretending To Be A Mormon


By Scott Keyes on May 22, 2013 at 12:01 pm

Birtherism is passe these days, save for a few Onoda-esque holdouts. The new conspiracy, if E.W. Jackson gets his way: Harry Reid is faking his faith.

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After Beck said he couldn’t understand how he and Reid can share the same religion yet have such different policy views, Jackson reasoned that the Senate Majority Leader must not actually believe his faith. “I think some of the people who claim to be Mormon or claim to be this or claim to be that, that’s all they’re doing. They’re just claiming,” Jackson said. “They don’t believe it or feel it in their hearts.”

BECK: How do you get people who are religious, who are decent people, just completely to divorce themselves of those principles in the voting booth? It’s like Harry Reid. I’m a Mormon, he’s a Mormon. I don’t understand, I’m sure he doesn’t understand me. I don’t understand how he can be for the things he is and do some of the things that he does and still say that he’s in good standing with the scripture, because it doesn’t work.

JACKSON: There’s a saying I’ve heard among ministers: “some are called and some were sent and some just got up and went.” I think some of the people who claim to be Mormon or claim to be this or claim to be that, that’s all they’re doing. They’re just claiming. It’s a head thing. It’s something they inherited. But they don’t believe it or feel it in their hearts.


Watch it:



http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/22/2047891/ew-jackson-harry-reid/
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Virginia GOP Nominee Thinks Harry Reid Is Just Pretending To Be A Mormon (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
Ol' Uncle Ruckus, Sir, Will Give Us Virginia On A Platter.... The Magistrate May 2013 #1
Clayton Bigsby without the legal blindness nt geek tragedy May 2013 #2
I think he's just pretending to be a Democrat. Scuba May 2013 #3
pretending to be senate majority LEADER as well nt msongs May 2013 #4
+1 forestpath May 2013 #8
I Think these idiots are Pretending to Cha May 2013 #5
I think Jackson is just pretending to be human DFW May 2013 #6
Virginia GOP needs to STFU becomes every time he opens gopiscrap May 2013 #7
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