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All Caucus goers: Pamphlet to use to sway LDS folks from Romney to RP

Submitted by johnjen on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 19:15
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Hello all Iowa (and all other) caucus goers! I apologize for the tardiness of this post, but it's taken me longer to do this than I'd hoped.

I have created a four-page doc (which folds into an 8-half-page pamphlet) which gives some quotes from every LDS (Mormon) prophet either on the Constitution or proper role of the government. The pamphlet then gives some examples of where Mitt Romney has stated things that go against these teachings and other scriptural doctrine. It then presents Ron Paul and his 20-year defense of the Constitution. LDS folks believe the Constitution was divinely inspired and should be defended. If an LDS person doesn't know this, they will after reading this flyer :). It also gives a brief overview of RP's platform and signature of integrity as well as endorsements, etc. I had to fit a LOT of material in this little pamphlet so I couldn't bloviate too much!

PLEASE PRINT THIS FLYER OUT AND BRING IT WITH YOU TO YOUR CAUCUSES!!! Simply duplex print all four pages and fold page 4 to 5 and 2 to 7. Assemble so that pages show up sequentially 1-8 in this "pamphlet." Staple if necessary.

If there are LDS people present who are in the Romney camp, challenge them to take 5 minutes and read the entire pamphlet. If they then do not "see" that Romney would not be the staunch defender of the Constitution that we know RP would, well, they deny their prophets' words to their own peril.

You'll find the pamphlet here uploaded to Meetup's share:

http://files.meetup.com/673818/lds_teachings_mitt_vs_paul.pdf

You can also find it mirrored at:

http://www.reynoldsnet.org/lds_teachings_mitt_vs_paul.pdf

Please keep this post "bumped" through the Iowa caucus. I'm hoping very sincerely that this can be used as a "tool" to help "unblind" some of the blinded Romney supporters or supporters who may be on the fence. Thanks!!!!

UPDATE: I didn't receive any feedback on whether to leave the verbatim spelling mistake (signified as such with [sic]) or fix it and annotate to that fact. So, I fixed the original mistake (from the quoted text itself) and got rid of the [sic] while annotating this fact in the cite for the quote. I also fixed "strawpoll -> straw poll". I see no other errors. I've uploaded this file again to the above places with the SAME filename. Let's get 'em!!!

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Great Work

Submitted by oneporter on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 01:53.

That is quite exceptional. Good job

Thanks!

Submitted by johnjen on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 10:10.

Thank you! I hope sincerely that it helps somebody somewhere, whether its in a caucus or just a church congregation or neighborhood to "convert" blinded Romney supporters ...... time will tell :)

*blimp*

Submitted by mikiloe on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 22:31.

*blimp*

LDS Tract

Submitted by Kyle in Flint MI on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 22:00.

Great job. Please correct spelling errors and send some to NHQ; and Idaho MeetUp Group.

Thank you again. Very kind of you to do all of that research.

Indeed the Constitution does hang by a thread.

NHQ

Submitted by johnjen on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 01:44.

How does one get in touch with NHQ? I won't be in the business of sending them printed versions of this, but at least let them know the PDF is available.

I will research the Idaho Meetup group(s) and make sure they're aware of it too! Thanks.

Thanks

Submitted by johnjen on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 23:50.

Thanks (see thread below--I know "pieces" was spelled incorrectly but that's the way Joseph Smith incorrectly spelled it and the quote was verbatim from WJS and [sic] was used to mark that).

I noticed just now that "strawpoll" should be two words.

What is your opinion about fixing the quote from Joseph Smith? I wanted to leave it as is and use the [sic] notation. Is "strawpoll" a big enough thing to fix or is that a "who cares?" Opinions?

That pamphlet is totally

Submitted by Crickett on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:55.

That pamphlet is totally awesome, and I am not a Mormon. There are, however several spelling errors and a typo. Please review. The rule is this:

"I" before "E" except after "C", and when sounding like "A" as iin "neighbor "and "weigh".

You spelled pieces wrong, for one.

The spelling error is in the original quote

Submitted by johnjen on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 23:43.

The spelling error is in the original quote from Joseph Smith and is marked with "sic" to indicate that this is a "known problem" but the quote was being quoted verbatim from the author--spelling problems at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

Would it make more sense to fix it and not quote him "verbatim" or leave it as is? Opinions?

Thanks!

Nice ... could add ...

Submitted by jbgledy on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:46.

One of the things that gets me the most (being LDS myself) is that Mitt believes "Life" is more important than "Liberty". For LDS folks liberty (or Agency) is far more important than "life". LDS people do NOT believe in a plan that "force" people to do right, but rather one that provides agency (liberty) to choose.

Mitt said about wire-tapping churches, schools, etc. during a debate ...

"And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second. We have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't forget, the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive, and that's what we're going to have to do." - Mitt "Battlefield Earth" Romney

Mitt believes it is OK to take away liberty/agency to spy on us to keeep us alive - life is more important than liberty to Mitt. He said that in the "Live Free or Die" state (NH) too.

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... in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity ...

Excellent!

Submitted by johnjen on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 23:52.

That is an excellent point. Rats .... I might be able to work that in to a "v 2.0" of it. If so, I will most certainly fix the "strawpoll" as two words. What is your opinion on the [sic]-notated misspelling from JS? Leave it "verbatim" or fix it and get rid of the [sic]?

Thanks!

That's an amazing pamphlet for Paul

Submitted by TheOnlyHope on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:39.

Romney is such an obvious fraud. I've always considered him the real threat.

SLC Meetup 365 thanks you

Submitted by mikiloe on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:38.

I just added this to our files section on our meetup page. This is great and should be useful in adding a few more to our ranks

Good job!

Submitted by see-thru on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:24.

I'm impressed.

Bump

Submitted by hawkiye on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 21:15.

Good job!

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