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Mitt Romney hopes that this will not be his last supper in Tallahassee
It’s sometimes the word not spoken that means the most in a speech.
When Mitt Romney, the Republican contender for the presidency, came to Tallahassee the other day, he gave his talk at a peculiar restaurant that has a lot of religious iconography around.
A wall-size painting of the crucifixion of Jesus dominates one side of the Seminole Wind Restaurant, probably as sobering a scene at a food venue that I have ever witnessed, unless it was the dining room of a religion professor at FSU, Richard Rubenstein, whose wall featured a severed head dripping blood over a birdbath. He later became president of a college.
For Romney, a member of the Latter-Day-Saints, it was probably an attempt to show that his Mormonism is “just plain folks.” A lot of people, more than 20 percent on average according to recent polls, say they would have trouble voting for someone who professes Mormonism. Perhaps some of them would be the good church people who like the Seminole Wind.
Well, to the point I am trying to make. I don’t care to get into the basis of Mormonism, or the skepticism faced by Mormons. Let’s concede that most religions have the ineffable and the miraculous in their founding premise. If you can’t believe in miracles, you might as well not be religious in the first place.
Romney in his Faith in America Speech delivered at the George Bush library in 2007, spoke on his faith:
“Almost 50 years ago another candidate from Massachusetts explained that he was an American running for president, not a Catholic running for president. Like him, I am an American running for president. I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.“
“Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the nation begin.”
The table service at the Seminole Wind is fine and a lot of good plain people come in after Church where they like a sort of prayerful theme for cemeteries, restaurants and such. The company headquarters are in New York, on Long Island. It doesn’t seem like the place for such a restaurant to be headquartered, but branding and marketing are universal these days.
Plans were afoot to build a third Seminole Wind restaurant (one is listed in Thomasville) at the Holiday Inn in Bainbridge. It has since been built, and the Kiwanis club meets there.
A person named “Wondering” wrote on the web:
“Some of the higher-ups in Bainbridge will have it stopped like “What-a-burger” “Arbys” and god knows who else. It doesn’t fit in their jesus-freak mentality.”
Someone named “well” responded:
“Evidently you’ve never eat there! The got Jesus as their theme in all of them and its owned and ran by Christian people! Very good food and service! Good prices and great selection of food!”
Mitt Romney, a viable candidate for the GOP nomination and former governor of Massachusetts, and a member of the Mormon faith, hopes that the Seminole Wind soiree was not his last supper in Tallahassee.