comMITTed to Romney!

Fine article in Christianity Today If you are tempted to lump all Evangelicals together with the group that helped to derail Romney’s candidacy, please read the article below. There are many wonderful people who identify themselves as Evangelicals who voted for Romney and who will support him again in 2012 if that is the ways things work out.

~~John Cronin~~

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/09/values_voters_s.html

Sarah Pulliam

The crowd at the Values Voter Summit still seemed to love Mitt Romney who drew many supporters last year during his run for president.

“Palin herself could put the lipstick on the pitbull,” Romney said to a cheering crowd.
The audience drew quieter as Romney focused most of his address on the foreign policy and the economy. When he began talking about religion, gay marriage, and abortion, the crowd became more energized.

“Americans are God-fearing people. Even those who don’t believe in God, in this country, they really believe in something bigger than themselves, as Rick Warren called it, a purpose-driven life. We’re family oriented. We sacrifice everything we have for our spouse and our children. In my view, a family begins with commitment of marriage and marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman.”

The “values voters” began booing quietly when he mentioned Barack Obama’s remarks at the Saddleback forum in August.

“Americans respect the sanctity of human life. We value life from its very beginning to its very end. Rather than vigorously defending life, Barack Obama just a couple of weeks ago, dismissed an inquiry with a flippant response that it’s above his pay grade. Did you hear what he said would be the most important criteria for selecting a Supreme Court justice? Their empathy. How about respect for the law and the constitution?”

Romney came in first in a straw poll at last year’s summit when he was still running for president.
Posted by Sarah Pulliam on September 12, 2008 6:21PM

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Romney is for families. He is for Mom and Dad and the kids. He is a true follower of Jesus Christ because he lives what he preaches. “By their fruit, ye shall know them”.
Go Mitt! And go conservatives!

Posted by: Ron at September 12, 2008
I wish John McCain would ask Mitt Romney to do his ultra focused style audit of the Fed. Government once he’s President McCain. The cutting and the saving through efficiencies would likely be worth TRILLIONS!!

Oh, you don’t know about how Mr. Romney’s research and company audits and analyzing as a venture capitalist made him a legend? He gets to the heart of things like no one ever has. Then he debates and problem solves until there is nothing left to discuss. His style,skill, and brains made him a legend in his industry and all his partners very wealthy. He took a process called the BAIN WAY (from a firm called Bain and Associates) and bettered it, then applied it to about 160 firms. Over the 14 years as founder and CEO of a spin off from Bain and Associates called Bain Capital, he averaged 113% return on investment PER YEAR!!!!! Amazing right? Never been done before, right? A problem solver extraordinaire. His solving the SLC Olympics mess is part of the cirriculum at Harvard MBA. Harvard where he earned an MBA and law degree similtaneously and graduated with honors in both–a year earlier than most. Story after story of accomplishments and high moral character in his work life and career. Even liberals that worked in his firm were amazed at his honesty and lack of personal pride–admitting out of the blue when he was wrong. He worked toward the best way to solve problems until he arrived at the truth. That’s why liberals who knew and worked with him said they’d follow him anywhere. He always sought the truth!

The media and the “left” were so afraid of him they did all in their power to defeat him. Christian conservatives like Hugh Hewitt and many others felt that a person such as Mitt Romney only comes around maybe every 20 years or so.

It took the dark side of a Huckabee to help the “left” defeat him.
Maybe, the next sterling talent won’t be so maligned by both sides next time around

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This message is going out along the Christian News Wire. Hope it makes it far and wide QUICKLY!!

The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), in his capacity as a private citizen, today released this statement regarding tomorrow’s primary votes:

“I have spent the last 33 years as an active evangelical Christian. I am an ordained evangelical minister. I graduated from an evangelical Bible college and an evangelical seminary. I serve on the board of America’s oldest association of evangelical church leaders, and I head one of the most active evangelical ministries in Washington, DC.

“I have thought long and hard about the upcoming elections. I have prayed earnestly about them, and I have met many of the candidates and their top campaign people and I have studied their platforms and policy proposals.

“After careful and prayerful consideration, I have concluded that an evangelical vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and a vote for John McCain will be a disaster for this country.

“Let me explain. It’s clear to me and many others that Mike Huckabee is not broadening his appeal enough to win the primary. Therefore, his only contribution is to siphon off votes, giving McCain a clear path to victory. It’s very possible Huckabee is being positioned to be John McCain’s pick for vice president. In order to win, McCain needs Mike Huckabee and the evangelical votes he brings with him. The specter of a McCain-Huckabee ticket is bad for evangelicals.

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“Evangelicals must consider both the stakes and the realities in this election. Mike Huckabee’s continuation only helps John McCain. The consequences are just too great to take this risk. A McCain victory will hurt this country because of the long-term damage of the wrong judges and justices. Worse, McCain’s court legacy will continue to hurt our children and our grandchildren, perhaps even our great grandchildren.

“Evangelicals must choose wisely from among candidates other than Mike Huckabee and John McCain as they vote tomorrow, February 5.”

For identification purposes only, the Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) is president of Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, chairman of the Committee on Church and Society for the Evangelical Church Alliance and co-founder of the annual National Memorial for the Pre-born and their Mothers and Fathers, the only pro-life worship service held inside the U.S. Capitol complex in Washington, DC.

Strong words there, and from someone who hasn’t endorsed Romney . . . just a pragmatic leader who sees how horrible McCain would be as both a nominee and/or President.

Let’s hope this makes the rounds QUICKLY!

Jeff Fuller

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I just saw a ticker on TV that said, quoting Mike Huckabee:

“Why do they say that Huckabee is a spoiler to Mitt Romney? Why don’t they say that Mitt Romney is a spoiler to Mike Huckabee?”

Mike, here is why:

In Florida, you only got 4% of the non-evangelical vote, and of all the evangelicals you court, you only got 29% of their votes. Your Florida results were totally in line with the prior states’ voting. As an identity-candidate, what other function does your candidacy serve besides that of a spoiler? Of course you know you can never win with less than 10% of all non-evangelical votes!

Contrast this slice with Romney’s results: 29% of all evangelicals’ votes and 34% of all non-evangelicals’ votes. Oh, and Mike, this just in from the Maine Caucuses:

1. Mitt Romney 53% of the Vote
2. John McCain took 22%
3. Ron Paul came in at 19%
4. Mike Huckabee at 5%

Indeed, you hope to be a spoiler, and a cunning one at that.

NOTE TO ALL ROMNEY SUPPORTERS: You can make a big difference in the next few days. Click on the title of this blog post, copy the browser address (URL) above, and paste the address into an email message. Then, with your own supporting message, email it out to as many people as you can in your email address book (don’t forget to click on the title first). You may also want to include these two links:

Evangelicals for Mitt

Article VI Blog

Never, never, never underestimate the viral, synergistic power of grassroots determination. We can make it happen for Governor Romney.

~ Vic

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Hat Tip to Ranzel for bringing this excellent analysis to our attention. Mitt Romney is nailing down the Reagan coalition.

NEW YORK TIMES

Tags: Florida, John McCain, Mitt Romney

Does Mitt Romney have a victory to cling to in Florida? Joshua Trevino, vice president for public policy at San Francisco’s Pacific Research Institute (and one of the founders of the conservative blog RedState), breaks down the numbers on his personal blog.

“Mitt Romney is in a bad way,” Trevino writes. “He blew through $10 million in Iowa and lost; and outspent McCain eight to one in Florida, and lost that too. But for all this, Mitt Romney is not done yet and the reason lies in the breakdown of this evening’s Florida vote.” He continues:

CNN has the exit-poll numbers, and they reveal some surprising things:

* Romney won pro-lifers.
* Romney won the mainstream religious. (Huckabee won the very religious ­ less than one-fifth of the pool.)
* Romney won the Protestants.
* Romney tied Huckabee with Evangelicals.
* Romney won the pro-GWB voters.
* Romney is the primary second choice of Giuliani voters, Thompson voters …. and McCain voters.
* Romney won the immigration hard-liners.
* Romney won the upper-middle class, earning between $100,000 and $200,000 annually.
* Romney won the terrorism-oriented voters.
* Romney won the self-identified conservatives and the self-identified very conservative.
* Romney won the values-oriented voters.
* Romney won the white voters.
* Romney won the tax-cutting voters.

In short, Mitt Romney won the Republican Party’s idea of itself ­ and that, too, is a big deal. If you’re white, Protestant, anti-abortion, go to church on Sundays, think well of the President, want lower taxes, hate terrorists, make a good living, want to do something about immigration, and live in Florida, chances are you voted Romney. The question before Florida was whether McCain could win a closed Republican race, and now we know he can. The question now is whether he can win conservatives ­ and in Florida, he did not.

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Though I provide analysis below, I do not suggest I have answers to the questions I raise. But I do raise questions that I think are of critical importance and consideration; not just to this current presidential contest, but more importantly to America. These are questions I think nobody wants to discuss (see photo below).

Tonight (1/29), I have heard the term “lick their wounds” several times. That is not at all how I feel about the loss in Florida. It is fair to say, I believe, that America as a nation, has matured in its history to a point in which a woman or a black man can be elected President by a majority of both sexes and a majority of those of the white or black races. I believe that America has come of age to the point that the bigotry we call sexism and racism, though still engrained in some people, has been marginalized.

What about the bigotry of religious intolerance? In an enlightened age, it is known by all that bigotry of any kind is not acceptable. In this modern day, we don’t generally hear statements of bigotry in common language in ways that were pervasive as recent as the 1950s and 1960s. Religious bigotry was even out in the open at that time as evidenced by evangelical ministers that routinely and publicly denounced the idea that Americans might vote for a Catholic. Today, bigotry of any kind, as a matter of common discussion in mixed company, is simply unacceptable in today’s diverse age. As a result, we do not hear public discussion about religious bigotry. Does that mean that this form of bigotry has also been marginalized to the point America can elect a Mormon? I do not believe it has. In fact, I think it is still pervasive, if now private.

In the states in which GMR won the Silver, by how much did he miss the Gold? Usually around 5%, maybe 10%. Today, he missed the Gold by 6% in a very large state. Since I began to seriously pay attention to presidential politics for 2008 back in 2006, I have seen poll results showing that a fair number of Americans are unwilling to ever vote for a Mormon; anywhere from about 20% of those surveyed to 40% recently. Since I have always concluded that America has matured to the point at which religious intolerance has been effectively marginalized, I more or less dismissed those poll numbers as based on simple ignorance, not bigotry.

Then, as the early state caucuses and primaries became history, I started to see a trend that I saw repeated today in Florida. It is fair to say that a majority of Americans do not find McCain acceptable as President as evidenced by his votes of 35% compared to 65% to all others. But to understand whether bigotry is at work against MR specifically, we need to drill down into the numbers. Is it not also fair to say that the most conservative voters of all would not be generally attracted to McCain, who is a well-known liberal Republican, or at least a Republican that cannot be trusted?

[In order to keep this commentary from becoming longer than it is, I use only the initials of candidates’ first and last names and any time there is a number, it represents a percentage]

In Florida, among evangelicals, the votes were JM(30), MR(29), MH(29). We can conclude that the 29 who voted for MR are not bigots. My presumption is that the reason MH’s 29 did not go to JM is because they consider him way too liberal to represent their values and principles. But if MH were not in the race, would all 29 go to MR? As you think about that answer, if they would not all go to MR, why would any significant portion of them go to JM? Incidentally, as MH keeps smiling and telling the world he can be the nominee, he knows he cannot. He won exactly 4 of all non-evangelical votes; that is par for the course for him. Since day one in Iowa, there has never been broad support for MH. Why does he stay in the race?

White evangelicals voted this way: MH(31), MR(31), JM(28). I think it is fair to say that those who voted for JM would be the more moderate or less orthodox evangelicals, simply because they could have chosen an orthodox evangelical in MH, and they did not. If true, and MH were not in the race, would MH’s 31 go to JM or MR and why? Why would an orthodox evangelical vote for the more liberal, twice married, untrustworthy Republican when they have MR, whose values and principles are much closer to theirs by comparison?

Of voters who think abortion should be illegal, the votes were MR(35), JM(29), MH (21). These are very conservative voters. We know 35 are not bigots and since MR won the majority here, we know that a very high percentage of voters know him to be strong pro-life. If MH were not in the race, would most of his 21 go to MR or JM and why? Of voters who think abortion should always be illegal, the votes were MH(32), MR(30), and JM(26). These voters are even more conservative overall. If MH were not in the race, would most of his 32 go to the more conservative candidate MR? If they would not, why not? Why would more than a handful go to JM instead of MR? Could bigotry influence their decision to go to JM?

Voters that identified themselves as very conservative were MR(44), JM(21), MH(20). It is well known by now that MR is the most conservative of both JM and MH. That being the case, if MH were not in the race, would his ‘very conservative’ voters go to the known, more conservative MR or to the less conservative, more liberal JM? And why? Could bigotry influence their decision to go to JM?

Over at Evangelicals for Mitt, both Steven Muscatello and Nancy French think MH should do “the honorable thing” and drop out. Read their excellent arguments here and here. But think of the context of my rhetorical questions above and consider this. If RG could so easily see the vanity of continuing the race, knowing he could never win, why can MH not see it? Or is it that he sees it and has ulterior motives? Think of the irony. RG, the person many have derided as ethically challenged, drops out seeing the reality; there are no ulterior motives really. MH, whose supporters consider the most ethical and upstanding man in the race, who would consider himself the most humble among them all, plans to “win the nomination” to quote him. Right. And pigs will fly for the first time in February. We now have resounding proof that MH cannot garner more than 10% of all non-evangelical votes and he has only nearly received 40% of all evangelical votes in one state. Clearly, he has no broad support, unlike GWB did as an evangelical. So, his decision to stay in the race is based on what? Ego? Vanity? Love of the sport? Is he lying to us when he says he is not running for Pastor in Chief? Or does he want to influence his voters away from MR and if so, why?

As many at this site have shown, MH revealed his stripes when he let slip his rhetorical Jesus/brother question in an interview. He also ardently campaigned in Salt Lake City to save the Mormons there from hell at the evangelical convention.

My opinion is that the frequent citing of 20 to 40 percent of all Americans unwilling to vote for a Mormon for President, the bigots are at the low end of the range. I may be naïve, but I do not believe that 40% of all Americans are religious bigots. Now, we know that when MR loses the Gold, the margin of loss is only 5% to 10%. That margin of difference is well below the 20% conservative estimate. Where are those 20% or so aligned? Are they divided among RG, MH, and JM? Are they mostly with MH or JM?

My conclusion is that the margin of victory that JM has enjoyed in any state, is a direct correlation to the reported bigotry still pervasive in America. If so, how does MR overcome this obvious bigotry, to win? These less than 20% “unwilling voters” are currently aligned with RG, JM, and MH, in some unknown mix. But knowing this does not help, does it? By definition, if they are bigots, MR will never be their choice. It cannot be argued that all 20% of these “unwilling” voters are in JM’s camp. Yet, it is he that is the beneficiary of their unwillingness to ever vote for MR. And clearly not all of the supporters left in RG’s and MH’s camp are bigots; but some are. So it is fair to say that if both RG and MH were not in the race, a fair number of their non-bigoted supporters would back the most conservative candidate in the race — MR. And why are the voters not following Rush Limbaugh’s advice to not vote for JM and MH?

So again, what is the motivation of MH to remain in a race he knows he cannot and will not win? Is his primary motivation to steer as many evangelicals to the Protestant JM, away from MR? If so, is that reason enough to not drop out of the race?

I think this issue is the 900-pound gorilla in the room with which nobody wants to make eye contact.

~ Vic

[Source of exit poll information above: CNN Politics]
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I am in wonderment as to why the MSM pays any attention to the Head to Head polls when we have not even finished the primaries. I know that it is fun for them to speculate and it makes news, but polls on this national level mean nothing. If I was to look at this logically why would we, as the republican party, want to send McCain up against Hillary. Politically it would be like a Brother and Sister running against each other for President of the U.S. Are we so blind that we cannot see that rotating chairs in Washington with people that have been their for so many years is not a good idea. Why do you think that the most successful coporations higher their CEO from outside unless they were groomed specicially for the role. This process would not take 30 years. OOOOOOOOh I forgot this is washington, not the real world…

Brent

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Have you ever wondered why so many evangelical voters are supporting Governor Romney? The writers at the following site are all either evangelicals (5) or Catholic (1). Their reasoning is awesome. Their writing is even better:

Why We Support Governor Romney

After reading their “why” statement, click on “Home” or one of the author’s names to read of their profile.

Just below is the photograph of Nancy French (co-founder) and Charles Mitchell (one of the authors). Both attended the Faith in America speech last month in Texas. Charles is my favorite writer on that site.
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In the last month, traffic to this blog site has doubled, more or less. To all of you who have visited this site, THANK YOU! And to all those who contribute as writers, THANK YOU.

For a couple of weeks now, I have been thinking of all the new visitors coming to the site to learn about Governor Romney. Many of us have been studying him for well over a year and we know all about him, his life, his career, his family.

But many of you are new to Gov. Romney and know nothing about him. His speech last month in College Station, Texas was a turning point in his campaign for the presidency, much as a similar speech was for JFK in 1960. Arguably, this speech by Gov. Romney will go down in history as one of the great statesman speeches of all time in this great nation of America. Indeed, many political experts and pundits, including Chris Matthews opined that this speech was the single best political speech they had heard in decades.

I still run into supporters of Governor Romney who still have never heard this speech. This speech is worth the time it takes to watch it. Please do if you have not seen it yet.

I was fortunate to attend this speech. It was an event I will never forget. It was a deeply emotional speech; emotions I observed among many not of the faith of Gov. Romney.
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Total voters thusfar: 1,731,000

Total non-Evangelical voters: 996,800

Huckabee — 36%

Non-Evangelical Numbers

Percent of total votes cast that were from non-Evangelicals: 58%

Jeff Fuller

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I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE AND THAT YOU PURCHASE THE DVD THAT IS NOW FOR SALE.

Tonight (1/14), with my wife and several family members and friends, we drove to Newport Beach to watch the screening of the new film ARTICLE VI. Atlanta also had a screening of the film tonight at a packed house. The theater at Lido Isle holds about 500 people and it looked like there were about 450.   At the end, Hugh Hewitt, Executive Producer of the film and Reed Dickens, Producer answered questions. Hugh asked the audience by raise of hands how many members of the LDS, Protestant, and Catholic faiths were present. Roughly, the mix was 30%, 50%, and 20% respectively. [see brief review below the film's poster]

Click here to go to the film’s online site ——-> http://www.article6themovie.com/index.php

I highly recommend this documentary to everyone — It is outstanding in every way!

Brief Review:

This film is a documentary. Though I found it very interesting, informative, and even entertaining, it is a documentary. As I listened to conversations around me and with the creators of the movie, people were most enthusiastic.

The movie combines a wonderful mix of music, interviews, video and film footage of historic and current events. Beloved patriotic music was arranged to different melodies and played by a single acoustic guitarist as background to footage of religious strife and intolerance across America. Interviews were primarily of evangelical leaders, including Richard Land, university religious and theology professors, and “woman-on-the-street” interviews among others. There were a large number of different individuals that were interviewed across the country and of many different Protestant faiths.

Some of those interviewed represented the hard-core evangelical point of view of, if-you-are-not-evangelical-you-will-go-to-hell, to the more tolerant, what-would-Jesus-do-if-he-were-here-today points of view, best articulated by David French (co-founder with wife Nancy of EvangelicalsForMitt.org) and Richard Land (at the end, I spoke briefly with Hewitt who said he thought David’s commentary was the best of all those interviewed — David is serving in Iraq as JAG for the Army near the Iranian border today). All in all, I thought the large number of people interviewed and the various points of view provided balance and were fair in presentation.

Fascinating to me, and to most people attending, were the outstanding commentaries by religious/American historians illustrating the many examples of religious bigotry and intolerance this nation has endured from the early days of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts where Quakers were hanged, to the presidential race involving Thomas Jefferson (deist) in which it was feared that the country would become less believing by electing a non-believer. In our nation’s history, various forms of religious intolerance played an important part in many presidential races including that of the JFK who eventually became the first non-Protestant (Catholic) President. In fact, several clips from Kennedy’s amazing and eloquent speech in 1960 to the Texas ministers in Houston were used liberally throughout the film.

Though Governor Romney’s name and photograph (from print articles) were shown a couple of times briefly and there were several examples of religious intolerance against members of the LDS Church (Haun’s Mill Massacre) as well as by LDS Church members (Mountain Meadows Massacre), the film was not about Romney or religious intolerance only involving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Examples of intolerance involving the LDS Church were simply the most frequent and recent examples of many examples provided in the film.

In the discussion we had with Executive Producer John Carosella, Kevin Anderson asked him why they made a decision to exclude clips of Governor Romney’s “Faith in America” speech from last month. He reiterated that the film was never intended to be strictly about politics or about a current presidential candidate. He said the film is intended to be a cultural statement that is intended to stir debate among people of diverse religions to encourage them to find the humanity and friendship in others of completely different faiths.

The narrator of the film (Bryan Hall, I think??) and the person conducting most, if not all, interviews is LDS. However, I believe all the other creators of the film are of different Christian faiths and political persuasions (John Carosella told us he is “a liberal” and with a great laugh said he will be voting for “someone on the other side!”), including Reed Dickens and Hugh Hewitt who are evangelicals.

After the screening, a question was asked as to distribution to political camps and candidates. Dickens said the movie either has been sent or will very soon be sent to every presidential candidate and many members of congress and other national leaders. So look for publicity eventually as candidates are asked for their opinions about the film. Incidentally, Hewitt responded to a question about whether America has matured to the point in which evangelicals can vote in large numbers for someone not of their faith like Governor Romney, as they have not (more than about 25%) in the first three contests. He said he thinks they can. However, he said he was most disappointed in the level of bigotry he has seen thus far in the race. He also said that he is very disappointed that Mike Huckabee has not publicly demanded the end to all religious intolerance that exists today; that he has the power to make a big difference in this way and he has not (not exact quotes, but my attempt to capture the spirit of what he said in a long answer).

Those present that I saw included Ann Romney’s brother, Jim Davies and John Schroeder of Article6Blog.

For all upcoming screenings, click here and scroll down. I highly recommend you purchase the movie and show it often, especially if you live in a future primary or caucus state! This movie is definitely one you will want in your film library.

~ Vic

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Hugh Hewitt is the Executive Producer of a new documentary, the trailer of which you may have seen a few weeks ago. The first time I saw the trailer was December 6th. Well, it is finally premiering nationwide (see other locations by clicking CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this post)

Want to attend the premiere? For free? This post is intended promote the film in the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Riverside metropolitan areas. See details and RSVP information below the poster of the film.

The date of the California premiere is Monday, January 14, 2008 — Newport Beach, CA

Check-in Begins at 6:00 p.m. — Show Time is 7:00 p.m.

— See trailer and RSVP details below —

Hugh Hewitt will be at this showing next Monday. I plan to attend with my wife (she knows I like a cheap date!). This afternoon (1/10), I was told the theater hold about 500 people and they have received 200 RSVPs.

Southern California Premiere:

Regency Lido Theatre
3459 Via Lido
Newport Beach, CA 92651

RSVP Required by telephone (M-F, 8-5): 949-296-1520 or via email: rsvpoc@outsideeyes.com

Information: Click here —–> ABOUT THE MOVIE

Watch the Trailer: Click here ——-> TRAILER

This one time viewing in California, next Monday, is free of charge (in fact, all premiere locations are free).

OTHER PREMIERE LOCATIONS: The film is also being shown in these cities on various dates: New York, Atlanta, Washington, DC, Shreveport, and Salt Lake City. For more information for these cities, click CONTINUE READING just below.

~ Vic

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Those who follow this blog know that I hold in high esteem the journalism of The Wall Street Journal. In fact, I believe it is the finest newspaper in America. But after reading two articles yesterday in the Op/Ed pages, I just about concluded that it belongs with the MSM!

I am disgusted with the media’s continued repeating of false information! Are they just lazy? What happened to honest, diligent research?

In these two articles in the Journal, they repeat as fact that Governor Romney somehow supported gay marriage. THAT IS TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, AND CATEGORICALLY FALSE! It is not some partial truth — it is altogether false! I am sick of their overall lazy writing.

Here are the two articles and cited excerpts (see truth at bottom of this post):

McCain’s Promise — It is cruel to compare the senator to most of his Republican competitors — Monday, January 7, 2008

Who can forget Mitt Romney listening in seeming amazement, a few weeks ago, as Tim Russert pressed him to explain certain extraordinary (if politically convenient) turnabout stands he’d taken on gay marriage . . .

POTOMAC WATCH — The New New Mitt — New Hampshire voters know Romney’s record better than most — That could spell trouble — BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL — Monday, January 7, 2008

They include people like Bonnie (who preferred not to use her last name), an accountant who turned out in frigid temperatures to support Rudy Giuliani at an event in Salem, N.H., and who demonstrated a critical knowledge of Mr. Romney’s record: “[He] allowed gay marriages in Mass[achusetts].”

FACTS SUMMARY: Fact #1: The State of Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state’s constitution permits gay marriage. That ruling came when Governor Romney was governor. Governor Romney was against the Court making new law and has been against gay marriage his entire career.  Governor Romney did not sign this into law; the Court did!   Fact #2: Had Governor Romney not taken action, gay couples living outside Massachusetts could have traveled to Massachusetts to get married and their marriage contract would by law have to be accepted as legally valid in the other states. Governor Romney took action, with huge opposition and political capital, to enact laws to prevent Massachusetts becoming the “Las Vegas” of gay marriage. He succeeded!

Now, read this awesome post by David French, a lawyer and outstanding researcher (co-founder with his wife, Nancy French, of Evangelicals for Mitt) — [David was recently deployed to Iraq, 12 miles from Iran]. This post was written by David almost exactly one year ago. Click here and be sure to click through the links he provides:

TRUTH — David French — January 11, 2007

~ Vic

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I first saw this at Evangelicals for Mitt.

Rush crushes McCain and Clemency Huck on many, many topics.

Rush virtually endorses Mitt by default.

P.S. Swing by NY for Mitt to see a bunch of other YouTube videos we’ve found this afternoon.

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PLEASE KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK IN IOWA!

This will be my last posting of this CALL TO ACTION.  Please do as much as you can to follow the blogs below and to post comments wherever you can.  Be sure to check Iowans for Romney often (see below).    I hope to bring you real time posts from Iowa with photographs.  I will be there Jan 1st to Jan 4th.

Let’s keep working very hard for Governor Romney.

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YOU ARE ALL MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

CALL TO ACTION — At every comment you leave, enter this URL: www.EvangelicalsForMitt.org — From this point forward, if we all leave that URL at every comment we leave, especially any and all that are about Huckabee, we will have tremendous influence!

The purpose of course is to educate and illuminate others; never use vitriol of any kind. You may not realize it now, but you can greatly influence voters in Iowa by your thoughtful, intelligent comments that are pro-Romney and facts that show the true record of Huckabee. Below this are other things you can do to leverage this information across America. According to our resident Iowa expert, Jeff Fuller, these are five of the most prominent and influential political blogs in Iowa right now (by clicking each blog name, you will be taken to the blog) —

Don’t forget to leave this URL at every blog post from now on: www.EvangelicalsForMitt.org:

CYCLONE CONSERVATIVES

THE CAUCUS COOLER

IOWA LIKES MIKE

THE REAL SPORER

THE CORN BELTWAY BOYS (pro-Giuliani)

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TODAY’S FEATURED ARTICLE is from the Des Moines Register ——> “Huckabee willing to buck his party while keeping folksy demeanor” — This article is so slanted and biased to Huckabee, it is almost sappy. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE go to this article and leave comments. The people of Iowa need to be awakened to the truth of this man. Please leave a comment. This article is the longest and most slanted article for Huckabee I have seen; the writer is obviously choosing to ignore all the truth.
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VIRAL ACTION — You and I can be tremendously effective in our influence if we leverage this information by getting it out to our family members and friends who would like to be involved in any grassroots effort to help Governor Romney. They may not take the time to visit this blog or they may not be as politically immersed as the rest of us junkies. How to get them to help? It is very simple. All you do is the following:

1) Open a blank email page and place in the subject line something like: “IMPORTANT: Your Help Needed in Iowa”
2) Click on the above title of this blog post. Doing so will open the post into its own, separate web page, apart from all other posts.
3) After doing #2, simply copy the URL of this post into the body of the email page you started in #1.
4) Add a brief, personal request in your email to visit that URL (this post) and to help influence voters in Iowa. Ask them also to forward your request to their contacts.
5) Attach as many email addresses as you wish in the “To” or “Bcc” box (I prefer “Bcc” for privacy) and send it out each time you see this post.

NOTE: Please be most respectful in your comment and try to represent Governor Romney in the way he would behave. That said, use active language to show why you support Gov. Romney and how you might have changed from another candidate to now support Mitt. Every Romney supporter I have met is intelligent and knowledgeable; let’s use these to influence Iowans.

If every one of us does this each time we see this posted request: a) go to one blog and leave one comment, and b) email to all our Romney-friendly-friends, this message will take on a viral nature that will definitely reach tens of thousands of grassroots volunteers from Maine to Hawaii, Americans abroad, and in US military installations worldwide. If you will take out five minutes every time you see this message and do this, we will have a tremendous collective impact on the Iowa Caucus.

Also, please visit IOWANS FOR ROMNEY often leading up to January 3rd for other specific information on how you can influence voters in Iowa.

PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME OTHERS WILL TAKE ACTION — PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW

And THANK YOU!

~ Vic

Help Governor Romney get his message out — PLEASE CONTRIBUTE NOW, HERE

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think…”

— Lord Byron, English poet (1788-1824), from Don Juan, Canto III

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