Mitt Romney said this:?

"I can't imagine anything worse than polygamy." Now, I'm not saying he is lying. Nor am I addressing his record or his stand on most issues. But isn't this a weird thing to say? Can't imagine ANYTHING worse than polygamy? What about assault? Arson? Murder? Rape? Fraud? Yeah, it was a remark made at a moment in time--but does it strike anyone else as just...odd? Even a little bit worrisome?

Public Comments

1. Is having five ugly wives worse than just having five wives?
2. Well no it's not, what you forgot to put into your statement was the question that he was asked that invoked that response. So in response to the question he was asked, polygamy may perhaps be the worst thing. It is easy to get the answer you want when things are taken out of context or omitted.
3. I'm sure he would think that all those things are just as bad, if not worse than, polygamy. He had to say that because the interviewer cornered him with all sorts of inappropriate questions about his Mormon faith. The interviewer found it necessary to bring up questions of polygamy (which has been outlawed by the Church for at least 100 years), and Romney was placed in an uncomfortable position where he had to make such a strong statement against polygamy or risk ostracism from his critics. I would suggest that you not take his statement so literally and view it more as something said at the spur of the moment because he was cornered and had to make some kind of statement.
4. Why is Romney scrutinized so closely!!! Why isn't Hillary's lawyering up with the "black Panthers" back in the day,talked about Source: Unfortunate policeman killed By a Black Panther
5. This is taken out of context. Post the ENTIRE question that he replied to. I am not Romney fan, but come on.
6. He was referring to his Mormon religion and that once upon a time the Mormons condoned polygamy. I can't imagine anything worse than Mitt Romney as President. I could not vote fora anyone weak minded enough to buy into that Mormon BS.
7. I think he is just trying to distance himself from the small Morman sect that practices polygamy. When people say "I can't imagine anything worse...." it's just a figure of speech, people don't really mean that they can't imagine anything because OF COURSE there are worse things in this world. Mitt Romney is just saying it for effect.
8. Hey, you've got a sharp eye and ear. I'm not worried because I wouldn't vote for Romney if he was the only one running for president period. He is the member of a belief that has very strange and outrageous teachings. Even though archeology and science prove Mormonism wrong, it isn't enough for the Mormons to leave it. I find this very strange. Mormons teach that in about 600 BC some Hebrews left Israel , a Nephi and the Lamanites and sailed to this land called America and so therefore the Native Americans are actually the descendants of the "lost tribes" and told them they were the descendants of the "lost tribes" Reputable theologians and Bible scholars, archaeologists, and scientists and other right thinking people using DNA have proved Joseph Smith a faker and fraud and and still Mormons believe this stuff? I find this very very strange.
9. At least he didn't say he disbelieves in evolution.
10. It did seem a little over-the-top.
11. Cut the man a break. He was explaining his stand on Polygamy. I am sure that he does think there are worse things, but I am sure that he wanted to make it clear that he did not believe in it- nor did he want to practice it. You have to realize that he is under fire because of his beliefs and because of doctrine that have not been practiced by his religion for a very long time. People are trying to hold him accountable for things that were happening generations before he was even born. That is like calling the decendants of slave owners bigots because their ancestors owned slaves. Get real- you really are being unreasonable.
12. That's because the Liberal, racist, bigoted media who sits there and bemoans on and on about tolerance has nothing to do but question Romney about his faith. The question you should be asking is: why are the media focusing not focusing on substance.
13. I'm not a Mormon, but I think he is sincere in voicing his own feelings about the multiple layers of considerations and complications inherent in polygamy. Wives that don't like each other, rivalry between wives for one reason or another, having to step in and settle these petty disputes, dealing with pent-up resentments, children's emotional and health needs that are never ending, having children being born from different wives in the same time period, having to feed all of those mouths! Etc., etc. He's trying to say that regular families are enough of a full-time challenge already without having to multiply these standard problems exponentially by taking on more wives. On the basis of a normal day-to-day routine, without any unusual events like terrorism or natural disasters like tornadoes or fires intervening, he can't think of any domestic circumstance worse than the arrangement of polygamy. That is what I think he was trying to say in the limited words he used.
14. You have to understand that Mitt Romney was trying to make a HUGE statement about how wrong he believes polygamy to be. Because his religion has a history of the practice, he probably wanted to make sure that everyone knew his stance on polygamy. But yes, on the spot he might have took his statement little too far...