Romney Criticizes Unmarrieds: Demands They Stop Enjoying Life!

[DeSwiss]

Romney Reaches to the Christian Right
In a Conservative Crowd, Candidate Talks About Marriage, Child-Rearing

By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 6, 2007; A04

VIRGINIA BEACH, May 5 -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) did not discuss his Mormon faith as he continued his outreach Saturday to conservative Christians in a graduation speech at Regent University, the school founded by televangelist Pat Robertson.

Instead, Romney, who is intensely courting this key segment of the Republican base in hopes of winning the party's 2008 presidential nomination, expounded on conservative themes such as the importance of child-rearing and marriage and the presence of evil in the world.

"There is no work more important to America's future than the work that is done within the four walls of the American home," Romney said. He also criticized people who choose not to get married because they enjoy the single life.

"It seems that Europe leads Americans in this way of thinking," Romney told the crowd of more than 5,000. "In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past."

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081_pf.html

Excuse me, I'll be with you in a minute:

*** - Indeed, Mitty ol' boy. These damned young people today have the gall to be enjoying themselves right in front of our faces!!! Do they think God gave them free will or something?!?! Oh, and their brazen spurning of the bounds (and shackles) of matrimony!!! Outrageous!!! Why dammit, why!?!?! Why should they be happy!?!?!? Hmmm???
{Note to Monica Goodling: marriage might be a good career move right about now}.

Its true, in Europe's past you had your arranged marriages (mistresses optional), and once a woman got married everything she owned belonged to her husband. And they had like 15 or 20 kids each!!! That kept em' out of trouble. So yes, let's go back to the days of yesteryear. When men were men and women were women -- and you could easily tell them apart. Say like.... by their underwear.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Tell me I didn't just read that

Perhaps I am hallucinating.

Was it the brown acid, or the red pill?

--p!

[Erika]

2. Just remember he's the ultimate corporatist

He thinks he will become a God of his own planet equal to God.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. "The Ultimate Corporatist"

And there are so many contenders for that title!

--p!

[murielm99]

3. Regent U, huh?

Someone should confront ol' Pat Robertson and ask him when Mormonism stopped being a cult. They should throw his own statements back in his ugly face.

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[Kurovski]

6. "Stop enjoying life." is pretty much the Republican platform.

And they do all they can to see it fulfilled.

And having kids? yeah, they make that rough, too.

[Breeze54]

7. Love the emote! But not Mitt the Shit!

"Demands They Stop Enjoying Life!"

Well, that's easy to do when you're a single parent with a couple of kids and
no court enforced child support! Thank gawd the rethugs made that happen too!! :sarcasm:

Mitt takes the to the debates!!
:rofl:

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Mittens will do anything

SAY anything, to get elected. How's that working for you so far, Mitt?

BTW, I am single, with no intentions of getting married. No idiot is going to tell me what to do with my life, EXPECIALLY this smug, self-serving moron. And pardon me for living, but I DO enjoy life, except when I have to hear crap like this. God forbid anyone can enjoy life.

[xchrom]

9. you can't say tapeworms are known for their brains -- and mitt is a perfect example.

[JTFrog]

10. He comes from a religion

based on polygamy, what do you expect? All the women should be servicing a male husband somewhere in Utah don't ya know. :sarcasm:

on edit:

And why is he talking about the Bible? Is he trying to pander to a base that thinks his religion is a cult? Did he not see this:

On the Web site of the Christian Broadcasting Network, another Robertson entity, a page called "How Do I Recognize a Cult?" says that "when it comes to spiritual matters, the Mormons are far from the truth."

This guy really makes my skin crawl and I'm pretty sure he's going to be the GOP candidate for 2008.

[arcane1]

11. "go forth and multiply" = more cheap labor and cannon fodder

:grr: