ROMNEY'S "RAP" SHEET
Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:05pm CST
DES MOINES - In another searing twist to the already heated Republican primaries, an email message has mysteriously landed in the inboxes of several Iowa caucus members. The email message links former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his religion to a relatively obscure song titled “Mormon Rap”.
According to the anonymous email, the song lays out some of the more “controversial and divisive doctrines of the Mormon church”, including that of “only watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on TV”, “Donny & Marie’s cult status”, and the usage of language “unbecoming of a President or a Christian” such as “flippin, fetchin, scrudllee-dee, yimminee Christmas, and fiddlee-dee.”
Among other things, the email questions Mitt Romney’s educational background: “[Mitt Romney] claims to have graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. However, his affiliation with Mormon Rap suggests he and his religion don’t even know the meaning of the word obscene. Do you trust this man to tackle what has become the secular assault on the moral fabric of our country?”
These emails come on the heels of a similar public outreach effort with intent to draw attention to Romney’s faith. Back in November, anonymous phone surveys were conducted with questions aimed at the Mormon belief in God, gold plates and angels. This practice, known as push pulling, has been used to provide false or misleading information about a candidate under the guise of a political poll. The Nation Council on Public Polls considers this type of polling “thoroughly unethical.”
Fred Thompson and Rudy Guliani, both presidential hopefuls, had no comment concerning the story. On a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee was also reluctant to comment on the latest negative campaign blitz: “Listen, I don’t have any comment about someone else’s religious music choices...But isn’t that the religion that says Jesus and the devil are 2nd cousins?”
Mitt Romney was unavailable for comment but the Romney campaign did release the following statement: “This is just another example of dirty politics. Mitt Romney has never been directly tied to Mormon Rap. While he may have heard the song a couple of times, Governor Romney does not fully endorse nor care about the doctrinal tenets spelled out in its lyrics. In fact, Governor Romney has not eaten green Jell-O salad with shredded carrots for over 12 years."
DES MOINES - In another searing twist to the already heated Republican primaries, an email message has mysteriously landed in the inboxes of several Iowa caucus members. The email message links former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his religion to a relatively obscure song titled “Mormon Rap”.
According to the anonymous email, the song lays out some of the more “controversial and divisive doctrines of the Mormon church”, including that of “only watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on TV”, “Donny & Marie’s cult status”, and the usage of language “unbecoming of a President or a Christian” such as “flippin, fetchin, scrudllee-dee, yimminee Christmas, and fiddlee-dee.”
Among other things, the email questions Mitt Romney’s educational background: “[Mitt Romney] claims to have graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. However, his affiliation with Mormon Rap suggests he and his religion don’t even know the meaning of the word obscene. Do you trust this man to tackle what has become the secular assault on the moral fabric of our country?”
These emails come on the heels of a similar public outreach effort with intent to draw attention to Romney’s faith. Back in November, anonymous phone surveys were conducted with questions aimed at the Mormon belief in God, gold plates and angels. This practice, known as push pulling, has been used to provide false or misleading information about a candidate under the guise of a political poll. The Nation Council on Public Polls considers this type of polling “thoroughly unethical.”
Fred Thompson and Rudy Guliani, both presidential hopefuls, had no comment concerning the story. On a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee was also reluctant to comment on the latest negative campaign blitz: “Listen, I don’t have any comment about someone else’s religious music choices...But isn’t that the religion that says Jesus and the devil are 2nd cousins?”
Mitt Romney was unavailable for comment but the Romney campaign did release the following statement: “This is just another example of dirty politics. Mitt Romney has never been directly tied to Mormon Rap. While he may have heard the song a couple of times, Governor Romney does not fully endorse nor care about the doctrinal tenets spelled out in its lyrics. In fact, Governor Romney has not eaten green Jell-O salad with shredded carrots for over 12 years."
Jell-O and carrot industry representatives were not immediately available for comment.
1 comment:
For those who need to be visually stimulated, here's a representative video from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TeV8yp8ALM
Question: Is the guy lip singing this song one of our second cousins, because that room in the background sure looks like Aaron and Ryan Welling's old room downstairs.
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