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Little-known details about Mitt Romney

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Our friends at the AP decided to give us a “Did you Know” about Mitt.  Here’s my favorite:

While a missionary in France, he was involved in a car accident. A police officer wrote on his passport: Il est mort (He is dead).

My question is: Did the police write that while Mitt handed them his passport?

Hey, forget the Mormon thing, he’s going to need to explain to the GOP what he was doing in France!

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  1. DETAIL YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW: His first name is Willard. He was named for his father’s friend J. Willard Marriott.

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    This means that–like Paris Hilton–Willard is named for a hotel chain.

  2. He simultaneously earned degrees from Harvard Business and Law schools, graduating cum laude from law school and in the top 5 percent of his business school class.

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    Does that trump Kerry’s gentleman’s ‘C’ at Yale?

  3. From Rasumussen Polling: 43% of American respondants would “never vote” for a Mormon candidate.  Nineteen percent on top of that “aren’t sure.” 

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    Among evangelical Christians, only 47% would be open to voting for a Mormon.

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    Thanks for playing, Mitt.

      • I didn’t realize being a Mormon was a scandal.  Likewise, I didn’t realize that Romney was going to stop being a Mormon long before the campaign swung in high gear.

        • Of couse, much of this element of shock mirrors that of Claude Rains in Casablanca, who is SHOCKED to find gambling going on at Rick’s.

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          There is the same sort of lack of understanding about Mormonism as there was about Catholicism fifty years ago – I remember elderly relatives who were CONVINCED that Kennedy would have a special line installed to the Pope to check in on how that interstate road program should be funded.

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          That same sort of ignorance, tinged with leftist bigotry (“thanks for playing, Mitt”) can be addressed with fairminded people like the American electorate.  Not all voters are hatemongers like Joe Kennedy, putting out anti-Mormon propaganda on behalf of Uncle Ted when Mitt ran against him.

          • Sorry Peter P.  I think when people step back and take a hard look at the Mormon Church they are going to ask themselves where the hell these people came from. It’s not the same as Kennedy in 1960.

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            If I’m wrong?please educate me.

  4. He was in France when his father gave his famous ‘I was brainwashed on Vietnam’ interview.  He actual just saw it for the first time a few months ago, with a Globe reporter, IIRC.

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