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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Romney's friends
Mitt Romney has racked up a lot of new friends on his online Facebook profile, a new goal for presidential candidates who in reality have probably never visited the Web community. (Romney told The Associated Press he didn't even know he had a profile there.)

On the site, Romney fans can post messages on his "Wall," a sort of bulletin board. Some are the expected comments such as this:

"Mitt, idea -- sell overpriced t-shirts on your website. I'd like to buy one, you'd like my money. See how this all works out?" -- Adam

And, of course, the Mormon connection:

"It is so exciting to see a good and faithful memeber of the Church running for President. I've heard so much on the news how the public doesn't know much about Mormons -- and this is a great way to get them interested and teaching them more! I can't wait to see how your run goes and the new investigators it may bring! Keep going strong Brother Romney!" -- Katherine

And then there's the anti-Democrats:

"GO MITT ROMNEY!! [You're] THE MAN!! I hope Hillary doesn't get up in office . . . if so, we're gonna all be speaking Arabic in a year." -- Tim

And the straight up requests:

"Hey Mitt, tell all your Mormon buddys to stop coming to my house at like 10 am Saturday morning when I'm trying to sleep . . . thanks." -- Matt

-- Thomas Burr

2 Comments:

At 8:40 PM, Anonymous Randy Buckley, Layton Ut said...

Mitt Romney takes a position right of Orrin Hatch with his position opposing most stem cell research. Why would Social Conservatives trust Romney when they have tried and true options like Brownback or Huckabee? In contrast to Romney these two candidates have consistent voting records.

 
At 8:10 AM, Blogger CapitalCarnage said...

The last one was from Matt --- Canham right?

 

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