tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post8795135478784346862..comments2023-06-17T08:49:52.285-07:00Comments on Ward Gossip: ExMormons Brace Themselves For Romney 2016Donna Bantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-38544264984220192762014-07-02T06:40:47.733-07:002014-07-02T06:40:47.733-07:00It would be great for scaring little kids on Hallo...It would be great for scaring little kids on Halloween.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-6688533606908250642014-06-25T06:47:00.941-07:002014-06-25T06:47:00.941-07:00Michelle Bachmann would be a kick too!Michelle Bachmann would be a kick too!Donna Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-75083494413594448032014-06-24T17:49:42.852-07:002014-06-24T17:49:42.852-07:00It's hard to imagine the Republicans would be ...It's hard to imagine the Republicans would be stupid enough to pick Romney again. But then again …<br /><br />Personally, I'm rooting for 9-9-9 Herman Cain. He will lose (obviously) but he's so entertaining.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362339037879270082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-12981678000318182892014-06-23T07:13:11.637-07:002014-06-23T07:13:11.637-07:00Just the mental image of that life-sized cut out i...Just the mental image of that life-sized cut out is truly terrifying!Donna Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-76959839846640901832014-06-23T05:08:18.075-07:002014-06-23T05:08:18.075-07:00What if it were between Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, and ...What if it were between Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, and /Romney? Romney might be the least offensive candidate if the three. I'd like to think Hillary could take any one of them out, but . . . <br /><br />I have family members who are not quite as nutty as most of my dad's batshit-crazy LDS relatives, but they definitely have their blind spots, areas where sanity just sort of bypassed them, or however one would care to describe the lapses with reality these otherwise good people demonstrate, particularly when it comes to The Candidate Mitt. In previous elections, their collective contributions to the political process were to vote. Period. I'm not meaning to put them down for that alone, as it's all I've ever done, either, and it may be all I ever do. I just don't know. (I was too young to vote in the 2012 election. I missed it by mere weeks.)<br /><br />These relatives of whom I speak, however, crossed over the bridge of normal political activity to obsessions, compulsions, or some other forms of extremity when it came to the Romney for President campaign. <br /><br />One family of them hosted -- at the request of a stake president, I think -- an elaborate luncheon at which one of the Romney sons spoke. This relative and his wife provided the venue (they have a large and lovely home) enticed hundreds of people to show up, fed them via an extremely pricy and popular caterer in their area, and funded this operation entirely by themselves. <br /><br />Another relative left Utah every weekend for a month to travel either to Nevada or Arizona to campaign where the votes actually mattered, since Utah was not a battle ground state, <br /><br />Another contributed so much to the Romney campaign -- officially or otherwise -- that she was given a life-sized cut-out of the Mittster, which she proudly displayed in her living room. (I'd love to know what she did with the life-sized paper doll after the election.) I heard, though I cannot confirm it, that this particular relative had such a strong reaction to the election results that she was eventually prescribed Zoloft in order for her to get on with her life.<br /><br />Another relative -- an extremely sweet, kind, charming young woman, was unable to go to work at her teaching job on the day following the election. This normally friendly person, who was LITERALLY voted Miss Congeniality in the 2010 local beauty pageant 2010 that feeds into Miss America pageant, had so many Facebook fights with friends over the election and its outcome that she suspended her Facebook.<br />account.<br /><br />If Mitt goes for another round of presidential politics, I'm genuinely afraid for the state of mental health of this extended branch of my family. My dad's siblings and their spouses are, for the most part, too bonkers to be allowed to run loose without their keepers, anyway. They're beyond repair. The other relatives, however, are good people who have, in my opinion, taken what they considered a to be good thing to extremes. I have no idea what I can do to help them if Willard again inserts himself into the political process.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-38879197735835371112014-06-21T08:08:28.878-07:002014-06-21T08:08:28.878-07:00JJ, no kidding. I thought that Huntsman was one of...JJ, no kidding. I thought that Huntsman was one of the few Mormon politicians I almost liked. Then I discovered he's an ExMormon.<br /><br />Jono, I didn't mean to frame my response about RP as a question. But hopefully you got my point. Their options are so crazy they're back to Romney. For former Mormons like JJ and me that would mean listening to our old stake president drone on for another year. Not prettyDonna Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-39267836278853354622014-06-21T07:39:30.892-07:002014-06-21T07:39:30.892-07:00Yikes! What horrible choices the Republicans are f...Yikes! What horrible choices the Republicans are facing. I would rather see Jon Huntsman run again. But then he may be too reasonable and pose too big of a threat on the Democrats. I would just rather not think too much about 2016.Just Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617582702842642998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-26972592394416329562014-06-20T21:30:17.866-07:002014-06-20T21:30:17.866-07:00Yeah, ok, but better than Rand Paul? The poor Repu...Yeah, ok, but better than Rand Paul? The poor Republicans...Donna Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884927711300537802.post-64858883565995180572014-06-20T19:33:24.956-07:002014-06-20T19:33:24.956-07:00If Romney ran again it would bring on a lot of &qu...If Romney ran again it would bring on a lot of "just shoot me" moments.Jonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170214396483091419noreply@blogger.com