Republican Party Officially Nominates Romney

Posted August 28, 2012, 5:41 p.m.

Mitt Romney (photo by Gage Skidmore)

The delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, have officially nominated former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) as the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States. He will stand in the November general election against incumbent president (and presumptive Democratic nominee) Barack Obama (D).

Romney has been the presumptive Republican nominee since securing a majority of pledged party convention delegates in May, following a contentious primary season. Today’s convention vote makes that nomination official. Romney is joined on the Republican ticket by his running-mate, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI 1st).

Before seeking the presidency, Romney served as governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007. He co-founded and served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Bain Capital, and also led the committee that organized the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He is the youngest son of former Governor George Romney (R-MI), who lost a bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Richard Nixon in 1968.

Romney is the first Mormon to receive a major-party nomination for the presidency and, if elected, would become the first Mormon president. Ryan is Catholic and, if elected, would be only the second Catholic vice president, following incumbent Vice President Joe Biden (D).

The Democratic Party is expected to formally nominate Obama and Biden for reelection at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best.

Those who oppose ‘corporate personhood’ should consider how difficult it will be to win a settlement against a company that you cannot sue because it is not a legal person.

The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

I know words. I have the best words.

If America’s wealth were spread around the world it would soon be dissipated, but if her system of free government and free enterprise were spread around the world, nations would soon find them to be perpetual producers of wealth.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.

The tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

With the return of school I’ve gotten back into my stressed-out cycle. In this cycle I go back and forth between ‘OH MY GOD I HAVE A MILLION THINGS TO DO!’ and ‘Ah, screw it.’

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

Therefore the wise know themselves but make no show, have self-respect but are not arrogant.

The more rules and regulations, the more thieves and robbers.

Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Let not one sin after another, difficult to be conquered, overcome us; may it depart together with greed.

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.