Holy shit!!! You won't believe this!! Romney is a NUT -- confuses Mormon science fiction with fact

Listen closely. This is strange, very strange -- and the punch line will

have you ROTFLYAO.

If you're a Republican presidential candidate and you're a Mormon, and your

name is something wacky and slightly effete, like maybe "Mitt," you might

find yourself having to overcome the nation's not-yet-fully-formed questions

about the nature of your religion. For a Republican primary candidate, that

can be a big problem.

So rather than address the problem directly, and open up yourself, your

candidacy and your religion to some uncomfortable questioning, here's what

you can do: freak everybody out with strange shit.

You may already have heard that Romney named L. Ron Hubbard's (yes,

Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard ) Battlefield Earth as his favorite novel.

As if that weren't enough, Mittens really went around the bend while

speaking at Pat Robertson's "university" last week where Romney made this

crackpot claim:

"In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently

contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their

term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past."

Got that??

Mittens is telling us that, in France, marriage operates on 7-year

contracts.

Where did he get that shit??

Well, it turns out that the whole seven-year-contract with option to renew

is, in fact, a plot point in a novel by fellow Mormon Orson Scott Card.

Card's book with the seven-year marriage contracts is titled "The Memory of

Earth," and it is a fictionalization of the Book of Mormon set in outer

space.

So -- what else would you expect from a religion that claims to trace its

origin to an angel named MORONi.

"Joe S." <noname@nosuch.net> wrote in message

news:f1pg3j01bnm@news3.newsguy.com...

> Listen closely. This is strange, very strange -- and the punch line will

> have you ROTFLYAO.

>

> If you're a Republican presidential candidate and you're a Mormon, and

> your name is something wacky and slightly effete, like maybe "Mitt," you

> might find yourself having to overcome the nation's not-yet-fully-formed

> questions about the nature of your religion. For a Republican primary

> candidate, that can be a big problem.

> So rather than address the problem directly, and open up yourself, your

> candidacy and your religion to some uncomfortable questioning, here's what

> you can do: freak everybody out with strange shit.

>

> You may already have heard that Romney named L. Ron Hubbard's (yes,

> Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard ) Battlefield Earth as his favorite novel.

>

> As if that weren't enough, Mittens really went around the bend while

> speaking at Pat Robertson's "university" last week where Romney made this

> crackpot claim:

>

> "In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently

> contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their

> term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past."

>

> Got that??

>

> Mittens is telling us that, in France, marriage operates on 7-year

> contracts.

>

> Where did he get that shit??

>

> Well, it turns out that the whole seven-year-contract with option to renew

> is, in fact, a plot point in a novel by fellow Mormon Orson Scott Card.

> Card's book with the seven-year marriage contracts is titled "The Memory

> of Earth," and it is a fictionalization of the Book of Mormon set in outer

> space.

>

> So -- what else would you expect from a religion that claims to trace its

> origin to an angel named MORONi.

ROFLMAO!!! You can't make up comedy gold like this.