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1 posted on 11/27/2007 5:20:38 AM PST by JRochelle
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To: JRochelle

How dare you tell the truth about Romney?
Don’t you know that he converted to conservatism last week?
And he only pretended to be a liberal for the last 60 years?
And he was never quite as far Left as Giuliani and Huckabee?
/s


2 posted on 11/27/2007 5:30:33 AM PST by iowamark
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To: JRochelle

Mitt should step down and let a real conservative go against Rudy


3 posted on 11/27/2007 5:31:04 AM PST by ari-freedom (I don't want Huckabee or Applebee...give me someone from Tennessee!)
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To: JRochelle

The Romney Record, it’s criminal.


4 posted on 11/27/2007 5:36:34 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: JRochelle
This is not a rant on defending Rommney it is just the hard facts of what goes on in all states. Unless we have the prison space for the criminals to serve their full sentences we will keep seeing horror stories like these. We have to get serious about encercating and excuting criminals.

No matter which state it is our prison systems are not designed to punish criminals, they are supposed to "rehab" them (liberal feel good crap). Due to the cost of housing them which varies by state, to relieve overcrowding the state governing bodies use 'safety values' and release them early for 'good' behavior. How good behavior is calculated varies by state. 68% reoffend.

Average serve time is 30%...victims must fight hard to keep the criminal in prison due to the 'over crowding'. The juvenile criminals cost twice as much to house as do the adult criminal. Thus we have fewer juvenile prison beds..it's cheaper to keep giving them probation and let them keep committing crimes until they turn 18 and can be dealt with as an adult.

6-7% of our population have been encarcerated or are encarcerated.

Then you get the NIMBY..(Not in my back yard) crowd so when victims get fed up and demand that their governments do something about the crime rate the government ends up doing nothing to build more prisons or add additional beds to existing ones due to the cost factor.

Basically this early release is no different that the catch and release of illegal aliens.

Due to the early release i.e. parole/probation systems we have according to the BJS over 12,000 additional murders per year.

Nationally the recidivism rate is 68%...this is over a decade old study. BTW the recidivisim rate was 64% when Slick Willie was president, and went up to 68% under his watch. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rpr94.htm Reports on the reassert, reconviction, and reincarceration of former inmates who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. The former inmates represent two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year. The report includes prisoner demographic characteristics (gender, race, Hispanic origin, and age), criminal record, types of offenses for which they were imprisoned, the effects of length of stay in prison on likelihood of reassert, and comparisons with a study of prisoners released in 1983.

Highlights include the following:

Released prisoners with the highest reassert rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).

Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.

The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.

parole stats

cost of crime

5 posted on 11/27/2007 5:51:09 AM PST by GailA (Make Valor Quilts for our wounded Troops....I'm a quilt-aholic....Go Fred Go!)
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To: JRochelle

I blame diversity. Race and gender trumps qualification.


6 posted on 11/27/2007 6:10:40 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: JRochelle

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWQzZmUwMDNjZDk0M2Y0ZjBhNmFhYzJjYTNmNzI5Zjc=

Apparently the crime rate went up and down simultaneously in Massachusetts!


7 posted on 11/27/2007 6:57:13 AM PST by Ender Wiggin
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To: JRochelle

‘‘The governor is going to have to explain his appointment, and the judge is going to have to explain her decision, but it’s not an isolated situation,’’ Giuliani told the Associated Press Saturday while on a campaign bus tour across New Hampshire. ‘‘Governor Romney did not have a good record in dealing with violent crime.’’

Rooty, Rooty, Rooty (head shaking). You have no room to talk buster. Some of YOUR judicial appointments are just as bad if not WORSE. Not to mention your own personal enabling and abetting of criminals in NYC under your (cough) rule as mayor.

So Mr 'Sanctuary City', not only did you protect criminal Hispanic ILLEGALS, your 'hands off' policy enabled the 9-11 TERRORISTS to plan their attack in that now infamous Brooklyn Mosque. (Rooty shouldn't be running for POTUS, he should be running from the law and under indictment.)

Back to Rooty and his judges; there's been a few articles on the nincompoop bonehead affirmative action judges he picked and what they've done. The RATS will release that salvo when the time's right. It'll make Romney - or anyone - look Elliot Ness.

Not defending Romney, but Rooty is a complete phony on 'Law and Order' (no pun).

8 posted on 11/27/2007 7:07:41 AM PST by Condor51 (Rudy has more baggage than Samsonite)
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To: JRochelle

It’s a poor political trick to blame a governor, or president, or mayor for a mistake that some appointee made imo.

People will have fun with this for a while, but really, why is this Romney’s fault?


9 posted on 11/27/2007 7:12:51 AM PST by Ender Wiggin
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To: FreeInWV; 383rr; abishai; Afronaut; airborne; Alberta's Child; Alice in Wonderland; Antonious; ...

Deroy Murdock still pimping for Rudy911 ping.

More cherry-picking of stats, more bullsh** from Deroy.


10 posted on 11/27/2007 7:14:01 AM PST by TitansAFC ("My 80% enemy is not my 20% friend" -- Common Sense)
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWQzZmUwMDNjZDk0M2Y0ZjBhNmFhYzJjYTNmNzI5Zjc=


13 posted on 11/27/2007 7:16:05 AM PST by TitansAFC ("My 80% enemy is not my 20% friend" -- Common Sense)
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Yah know... I’m not a huge Romney fan, and I’m even a resident of Pierce county where these gruesome murders happened. But trying to pin this horrible event on Romney is just plain lame.


14 posted on 11/27/2007 7:16:13 AM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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Does anyone actually take Deroy “Rudy is pro-life because abortions decreased while he was mayor” Murdock seriously???


15 posted on 11/27/2007 7:17:23 AM PST by bcbuster
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To: JRochelle
While Romney may have made some lousy appointments, isn't Giuliani raising this issue truly the pot calling kettle black?

I seem to recall that Giuliani appointed some real nuts.

And, of course, he appointed criminals as well.

17 posted on 11/27/2007 7:18:31 AM PST by B Knotts (Tancredo '08!)
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To: JRochelle

Its a two person race, Romney and Guiliani.


18 posted on 11/27/2007 7:21:03 AM PST by Badeye (That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
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"But Kathe Tuttman, a Romney-nominated superior-court judge, rejected both a lower-court decision and prosecutors’ requests to hold Tavares on $50,000 bail."

Can't blame Romney for a lame judge, he's not a mindreader.

30 posted on 11/27/2007 8:23:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JRochelle

Not waying in one way or another on Romney, but the ROOT OF THE FREAKIN’ PROBLEM is a that a guy who carves up his mother only gets a 17-20 year sentence in the first place. So he was released after 16 years, BFD!. Does anybody really think serving another year or 4 would have made a difference as to what kind of animal was released into the world?


37 posted on 11/27/2007 8:33:58 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: JRochelle

How Romney chose judges:

1. Created a system that ignored political affiliation (stupid)

2. Put DIVERSITY as a priority over belief and qualification

3. Allowed himself to be pressured into choosing women

I do not want his philosophy picking Supreme Court Nominees

Lousy lack of conservative leadership and thinking.

ampu


42 posted on 11/27/2007 10:01:04 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (j)
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To: JRochelle
As the Herald reported November 21, Daniel Tavares Jr. wrote his father to say he received a college education and learned seven languages behind bars. As this convicted killer added: “Only in Massachusetts.”

No way should anybody who has been elected by Massachusetts ever be considered a viable candidate for President.

45 posted on 11/27/2007 10:29:25 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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This brings back vivid memories of former Massachusetts Governor Dukakis and his bid for the White House in 1988.

Now, it’s Mitt Romney, wanting to be in position to nominate federal judges. No thanks!

46 posted on 11/27/2007 10:40:04 AM PST by backtothestreets (My bologna has a first name, it's J-O-R-G-E)
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