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Subscribe to RSSRomney is celebrating this holiday week with his family in New Hampshire. The Washington Post’s Rucker reports on the Romney’s vacation traditions. “The Romneys, 30 in all these days, spend their time away from the stresses of everyday life — like, say, wrapping up the Republican nomination for president — by following a highly orchestrated, highly competitive regimen of sports and games known as the ‘Romney Olympics,’” the Post writes. “The Romney Olympics have long included a mini-triathlon of biking, swimming and running that pits Mitt and his five sons and their wives against one another. But after Mitt once nearly finished last, behind a daughter-in-law who had given birth to her second child a couple of months earlier, the ultra-competitive and self-described unathletic patriarch expanded the games to give himself a better shot.
Now they also compete to see who can hang onto a pole the longest, who can throw a football the farthest and who can hammer the most nails into a board in two minutes — not exactly the kind of events they’ll be giving out gold medals for in London this month.”
AP’s Kasie Hunt went along to a Mormon church in Wolfeboro that Romney attended: “The family's devotion to the Mormon faith is a part of Romney's life that the electorate rarely sees. Romney himself almost never mentions it in public. And his campaign typically bars the media from seeing him participate in a religion with which many Americans are unfamiliar. But it's a part of his life that could help him connect with an American public that's only just now starting to get to know him -- one that includes many church-goers. Romney's campaign doesn't tell reporters when Romney is going to church. But the Wolfeboro branch is open to visitors and an Associated Press reporter attended the same sacrament service the Romney family attended.
“It featured bread with water instead of wine, a variation on communion that allows for the Mormon prohibition on drinking alcohol. And it provided a rare glimpse into his practice of a faith that has permeated every aspect of Romney's life: his childhood, his college years and time as a missionary, his marriage, his life in Boston, even his business career. … As the first section of the service concluded, Romney and the congregation sang all the verses of "America the Beautiful," a song the candidate often quotes on the campaign trail. Many attendees departed while others prepared for the second portion of the service, a Sunday school for adults.”
Good luck with that… “[F]or now, Mitt Romney remains the least liked challenger since Bill Clinton at this point in 1992,” the Wall Street Journal writes. "But by late October 1992, just weeks before the election, Mr. Clinton had pulled off an extraordinary transformation. His favorable ratings had skyrocketed. Over half of Americans viewed him positively, while just over a third viewed him negatively... So how did Mr. Clinton do it? He started his abrupt climb in June with a round of extended town halls and by yucking it up on late-night TV, including a saxophone solo on the Arsenio Hall show. That July he got the biggest convention bounce in modern political history, followed by a five -day bus tour with his new vice-presidential pick, Al Gore." (H/t: Political Wire.)
Fair and balanced… “News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch used Twitter on Sunday to share some advice with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: Drop the “old friends” from your campaign and hire ‘some real pros,’” the Boston Globe reports.
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OMG. "Romney Olympics." Shades of the Kennedy's and their touch football at the Family Compound. Funny, I was just thinking the other day, what will happen when Romney loses the election, and I had a feeling he would start to groom one of those sons for a political career. Bleech.
Amy, that would be bad but who knows, one of them might actually be different than his dad - so who knows. Doubtful - but anything is better than Mitt!
That is a scary thought Amy! But after all--dontcha know that it is more patriotic and serves the country better to help their father get elected as president than for any of them to actually work or serve in the military with the rest of us? I am sure their sense of entitlement will be passed down through the generations--after all--its Mitt's "turn" to be president! I am sure the rest will want their "turns" as well.
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walr Kelly
Well Mitt the barber's dad couldn't pull it off even after multiple popular stints in the Governor's chair. Maybe the third generation try will be the charm for the Romney dynasty.
I wonder what it would be like to have never had to work a day in ones life? And yet for decades you make $50,000.00 a-day at the expences of others...
Romney olymPigs? What about olymPigs?
Nurse...your ignorance is amusing. All Romney's sons are very accomplished. Despite following similar paths in education as their dad, none of them went to Bain even though I'm sure they would have been welcome. They made their own course. One son is even a med student. I'm sure this is a shock to you, but if MSNBC continues to be your only source of information, you'll continue to embarrass yourself.
I don't suppose anyone has bothered to tell Romney his real problem with the public - it is his faith, not the lack of it or the lack of or active participation in it that will cook him in November. Yes, he is quite wise to keep his religion a secret. The folks in the south, Bubba and the SBC will never actively support a Morman. I know this, I've lived in Bubbaland all my life, attended many Baptist Churches, Churches of Christ (went to David Lipscomb University), Pentacostal churches, and Methodist churches in my life and the one thing they all agree on - Mormanism is a cult with a capital C! Mitt may not be talking up his religion, but you can bet the minions of us who are working to re-elect the President sure are! And Bubba at the gas station filling up his pick up truck and coffee cup in the morning is shaking his head and admits he will just leave that space blank, heck, he might not show up at all (and that is something I've witnessed personally).
I imagine the Baptists and evangelicals are worried, if Mormonism becomes more mainstream, they will lose their kids to it, like making gay marriage legal will turn their kids gay.
UnionBaby wrote" The folks in the south, Bubba and the SBC will never actively support a Morman."
Bubba and the SBE will have to choose between supporting a Mormon conservative or a Black liberal. It will be another chorus of "Deuling Prejudices." Or else they will just stay home, and not vote at all.
Oh, and for the record, there is no "a" in "Mormon."
STRESSFUL? CAMPAIGNING with corrupt Republican corporate's SUPER POOP money? That's NOT STRESSFUL! Try putting food on the table for our families and having to pay the corrupt Republican OIL corporates' gasoline prices, NOW THAT'S STRESSFUL! Foreclosures on our homes by the corrupt Republican FINANCIAL corporates and BEING FORCED to BAIL THEM OUT now that's STRESSFUL!
Vote 100% STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the lives you save WILL be YOURS & your CHILDREN! Let's rid our selves of this corrupt Republican corporate MONARCHY that has MADE SLAVES OF US and STOLE our American way of life from us!!
When people find out what Mormonism is, and where it came from- Romney will be finished. Please-no religious nuts who control nuclear weapons.
He changed the games so he could win...win over his children and their wives? He altered his won games so he could win? Does anyone else find that telling?
[But after Mitt once nearly finished last, behind a daughter-in-law who had given birth to her second child a couple of months earlier, the ultra-competitive and self-described unathletic patriarch expanded the games to give himself a better shot.]
...anyone recall the movie "Mr. Mom" with Michael Keaton and Teri Garr? Martin Mull plays Garr's RICH boss after Keaton loses his job designing cars and Garr, a stay-at-home mom, gets a job at an advertising agency while Keaton stays home to raise the kids. Mull invites his employees' families to the yearly picnic where they hold a sort of "Olympics" that Mull ALWAYS wins...
Martin Romney...Mittens Mull...
Wow. You guys are bitter!! Heaven forbid the man enjoy some family time. I guess he forgot that, according to the caricature the left draws of him, he's supposed to be laughing maniacally as he plans the demise of the country instead of spending time with loved ones.
The right is scary, the left is just plain mean. It's hard to find someone to love as an independent. The comments on this post are rude. Doesn't do anything to woo me to the left, that's for sure!!
NorCal, I kind of agree - if you don't like him or trust him then don't vote for him. But its kinda funny you chose the words you did -
- That's pretty much what he does if you've seen enough footage - Just saying