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GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: We need to
learn from each other. I'm not here to defend my faith. I'm
not hear to defend Romney's faith. I'm not here to defend
your faith or tear it apart or anything else. A person's
relationship with their God is a deeply personal thing and
we need to respect that. We need to respect that in every
man, woman and child. We need to respect that in every man
that wants to be President. I'm glad Mitt Romney believes in
God, but I don't care. So does Mike Huckabee. He's a
Baptist. I like that in him. I don't have to become a
Baptist if he becomes President, do we? Is he going to make
us all become Baptists? Is Mitt Romney going to make us all
become Mormon? No. Good! I don't care.
And you know what? Are you going to vote for Mike Huckabee
because he's a Baptist? That would be pretty stupid of you,
wouldn't it? That would be pretty small minded? Are you
going to vote against Mitt Romney because he's a Mormon?
Wouldn't that be pretty small minded? It would be just as
small minded for you to not vote for Mitt Romney because
he's Mormon as it would be for me to vote for him because
he's Mormon.
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Now the Kennedy comparison. I don't know, you know, I don't
know how the media's going to spin this, but Jack Kennedy, I
think people remember this Jack Kennedy speech for -- well,
it's kind of like the whole Kennedy thing. You are
remembering them for, you know, a lot more than he was, a
lot more than this speech was. In a nutshell all that JFK
said, that he wasn't the Catholic candidate for President;
he was the Democratic candidate who also happened to be
Catholic. Amen, brother. He didn't go into details. He just
said, this is who I am and I'm proud of it. And if I were
advising Mitt Romney, I would tell him to say the same
thing, not even read the speech. "You know, here's what Jack
Kennedy said" and then go up and deliver it.
Critics and detractors of Romney would love to have you
believe that because he's a Mormon, he's too weird and
spooky to be President and if you believe that, well, you
know what, no speech he's going to get is going to change
your mind. I get e-mails all the time, avalanches of e-mail:
"I've listened to you for years, you are one of the smartest
most loved guys. I agree with you on everything. But what,
are you completely stupid for the Mormon thing? Oh, my gosh,
you've got to run." Do you think the most important thing in
my life I didn't investigate? Do you think you actually know
something I haven't heard before? Do you think you know
something that I haven't investigated myself? Do you think
that you've got, like the -- "Oh, no, you've been duped!"
Really? A guy who the last thing I wanted to be was a
Mormon? Really? I was looking for escape hatches. I was
looking for anything. I would have given my right arm for it
not to be -- for me to have not found it true. But you know
what? I did. You may not. God bless ya. That's great. That's
what makes America so great.
How can it be, how can it be that we can be so different?
Well, it's pretty easy. God made us all different, and we
all find different things. It is in the honest seeking of
answers. Unfortunately with everybody's religion, too many
people's religion, you get a pack of lies. Isn't the fact
that you agree with me on a lot of stuff enough proof that
I'm not a weirdo cult member? A recent poll from CNN found
that 77% of Americans found Romney's faith wouldn't affect
their decision to vote for him. And you know what? I'm proud
of us. That doesn't mean you vote for him. That means you
have some perspective.
You know, just before he died, I talked to Reverend Jerry
Falwell. I had a chance to interview him and ask him. He was
a nice man. I think I only spoke to him twice, but he really
was a kind and gentle man, and I talked to him on the air
and I talked to him off the air about Mormons because I
specifically asked him on the air, "What do you think? How
important is a candidate's faith?" You know what he said? He
said to me on the air, "Glenn, we're electing President, not
a Sunday schoolteacher." That's Jerry Falwell. When I asked
him off the air about the whole Mormon thing, he said, "I
don't agree with the theology but every Mormon I've ever met
is a good guy." Isn't that what it should be? The world is
in terrible shape these days. The next election may be the
most important election of my lifetime and that's only
because we're getting in more and more trouble. Every four
years we're worse off.
I may say this, that this is the most important election of
our lifetime because we haven't corrected the mistakes of
the last election and they're bigger. And you know what? In
four years I'll probably say to you -- I hope I don't but
I'll probably say, this is it, man, this is the most
important election of our lifetime. This isn't a popularity
contest. You should vote for the man you feel it going to do
the best job, has the best solutions to get this great
country back on track. Good heavens. Shucks! We're America.
We're the United States of America and somehow or another we
have allowed ourselves once again to be convinced that we
can't fix the problems! We can fix the problems! But not by
being small minded.
If I do decide to vote for Mitt Romney, and I don't know if
I'm going to. I haven't made up my mind. I'd like to take a
little piece of Mitt Romney, a little piece of Giuliani, a
little piece of Mike Huckabee and stitch them all together.
A big piece of Duncan Hunter, a piece of Tancredo and, yes,
even a little piece of Ron Paul. I'd like to be Dr.
Frankenstein, stitch my candidate together and say, it's
alive! But because I can't do that, and most likely I'd be
arrested and it couldn't get any worse -- well, I guess it
could. It could be raining. I'll just have to decide who I'm
going to vote for. But I can tell you what. Whatever
candidate is I end up backing, it won't be because he's a
Mormon and it won't be because he's not a Baptist, and I
hope people in my audience feel the same way. I want to know
a guy's character. I want to know a guy's values. I want to
know how smart he is. I want to know how nimble he is and
being able to speak the truth and crush lies. If Mitt Romney
gets my vote, it's because I find him to be smart,
thoughtful, clearheaded thinker on the issues that matter to
me. I don't care if Mitt Romney is a Mormon or not a Mormon,
and I plan on telling him that, you know, the next great
world meeting where we plot the domination of the Earth and
preselect the next winner of American Idol, in the basement
of our churches. Shhh.
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