Mitt on his mission.
Before he entered politics, he spent years as a Massachusetts Mormon leader. He began in the mid-1970s. From 1986 - 1994, he was president of the Boston Stake. It's similar to a Catholic diocese. Before that he was a Belmont and Cambridge bishop. His duties involved organizational work and counseling.
Later he taught Sunday school and oversaw church programs for teenagers. He overstepped by lecturing women on their sex lives and roles as homemakers. A 1994 Boston Phoenix cited an anonymous woman. As bishop, Romney discouraged her from having an abortion vital for health reasons.
The same article mentioned an area professor. She urged him to address domestic abuse. He refused and wouldn't do it. He's an elitist. He surrounds himself in church, business, and political life with powerful white men.
He's insensitive about ordinary popular needs. He doesn't convince people he cares. He calls homosexuality "perverse and reprehensible." His dark side is largely hidden.
He believes in traditional gender roles. Male dominance is fundamental. Women should be child bearers and homemakers.
Comment: 4 years into the Great Recession and everyone's still playing the optimist card. Europe (Euro) is collapsing with Spain, Italy and Greece growing more enslaved to the IMF and World Bank. It's not a sputtering economy, it's simply that money isn't moving from the hands with it to the hands without it. Bank loans are stifled as each (propped up, fake) economic bubble continues to pop.
Here's something you might consider in preparation for what's to come: Social Harmony in Times of Global Dischord
You can of course keep on dreamin', as if the following were not reality.