Public image of Mitt Romney concerns how Mitt Romney was, and is, perceived by others over the years based on his election numbers, poll numbers, religiosity, family, and by what major figures have publicly stated about him. Special attention is given to Romney's 2008 "Faith in America" speech.
Views on polygamy
Romney, along with some other Mormons, has defended polygamy among early Mormons by claiming that there were more women in Utah than men. Census figures for the period, however, report equal numbers of men and women.
Regarding the present day, Romney is a proponent of contemporary monogamous, heterosexual marriage:
“There is nothing more awful, in my view, than the violation of the marriage covenant that one has with one’s wife. The practice of polygamy is abhorrent, it’s awful, and it drives me nuts that people who are polygamists keep pretending to use the umbrella of my church....My church abhors it, it excommunicates people who practice it, and it's got nothing to do with my faith.
Background
Mitt Romney's religious background has been extensively covered by the mainstream media, especially in connection with his 2008 presidential campaign. Mitt Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members of which are commonly known as Mormons or LDS (Latter-day Saint).
In addition to missionary work in France in the 1960s under the tutelage of Wesley L. Pipes, Romney has served as a bishop, and has also been a stake president in his church. In accordance with LDS doctrine, As Bishops and stake presidents are lay positions in his church, Mitt Romney received no compensation or money for his years of service as a bishop or stake president. As part of his religious beliefs, Romney abstains from alcohol and smoking.
Mitt Romney's great-great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt, was among the first leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 19th century. Marion George Romney, his first cousin, once removed, was one of the church's 12 Apostles. Romney's paternal great-grandparents practiced plural marriage, and went to Mexico in 1884 after the 1878 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Reynolds v. United States that upheld laws banning polygamy. Subsequent generations of Romney's paternal lineage have been monogamous, and none of his mother's Mormon ancestors were polygamists. Mitt Romney's father, George W. Romney, was a patriarch of LDS Church. Mitt's wife Ann converted to Mormonism before they were married in 1969.
Mormonism was not an issue in his father's presidential campaign in 1968, for several possible reasons: he dropped out before it could become one, the candidacy of John F. Kennedy (a Catholic) had neutralized the religion issue, and religion generally was not a major stump issue.
Support
Despite losing the 2008 Republican nomination, Romney raised more money than any other candidate, including John McCain.
In February 2008 Rush Limbaugh endorsed Romney saying:
"I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that’s Romney. The three stools or the three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives. The social conservatives are the cultural people. The fiscal conservatives are the economic crowd: low taxes, smaller government, get out of the way.
Ann Coulter endorsed Romney in January 2008 saying:
"One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain. This point was already extensively covered in Chapter 1 of 'How To Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)': Never take advice from your political enemies. Turn on any cable news show right now, and you will see Democratic pundits attacking Romney, calling him a 'flip-flopper,' and heaping praise on McCain and Huckleberry -- almost as if they were reading some sort of 'talking points.'Doesn't that raise the tiniest suspicions in any of you? Are you too busy boning up on Consumer Reports' reviews of microwave ovens to spend one day thinking about who should be the next leader of the free world? Are you familiar with our "no exchange/no return" policy on presidential candidates? Voting for McCain because he was a POW a quarter-century ago or Huckabee because he was a Baptist preacher is like buying a new car because you like the color. The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide.
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