Posted on 12/21/2007 5:14:32 AM PST by JRochelle
Here, see Mitt lie!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/CampaignStandard/2007/12/romney_digs_deeper.asp
Maybe you should just vote for Obama, Hillary, or Edwards and life in America will be so wonderful, fair, good, and balanced. But before then; lets keep trashing our own candidates by letting the media tell us what they said and meant.
LOL! This thread is funnier than searching youtube for Joe Isuzu commercials!
Ditto that! (Photoshops we’d like to see.) Weekend at Martin’s.
The “scandal” that’s ridiculous
Mitt Romney has been drawing criticism for saying that he “saw” his father march with Martin Luther King, even though he did not witness the event. This strikes me as a non-story. It seems probable to me that Romney did not mean to say that he literally saw George Romney and Dr. King marching together. In that event, Romney likely would have said that he was with his father when he marched with King, or that he himself marched with King.
For what it’s worth, my father and I marched “with” King in the historic 1963 Washington event. (I can’t prove it though — my father is dead, my mother who “saw” us off that morning is dead, and I might have purchased my commemorative pin on EBay). I never say that I saw my father march with King because that would understate my participation.
In any case, the point Mitt Romney was making is that his father, a Mormon, had a stellar record on civil rights and participated in the civil rights activism of the early 1960s. That claim is incontestable. It’s a pity, moreover, that Romney would even have to address efforts to pin the formerly racist views of his religion on him.
Meanwhile, though, Jennifer Rubin, who criticized Mitt Romney (absurdly, I thought) for being insensitive to Jews when he kicked off his campaign at the Henry Ford museum, reports that Romney told the Boston Herald in 1978 that he and his father marched with Dr. King. The campaign admits that Mitt Romney never marched with King.
Even assuming that this 29 year-old report accurately quoted Romney, I would have thought that the statute of limitations period on misrepresenting one’s self to the press in 1978 has expired.
Powerline
How Ironic that he used, “I saw the Patriots win the World series”, Because it also never happened. Romney is going to be hurt by this. No one would take this statement as a figurative statement. Now with meta talkers, I can’t see my self owning that car, is a person who is visual in his language. Romney was not a visual speaker. This is a Clinton blunder it is all about what your definition of the word see is? Sound familiar? With this lie, how can we accept his transformation from pro-choice to Pro Life. I really think Romney will say whatever it takes to get elected in the Republican Primary. I have no problem with a Mormon as president, but with Romney getting upset about Huckabees statement about Lucifer and Jesus being part of the first born of creation and that they were indeed brothers as quoted on the Later day saints website. I am not sure that Romney is a full beleiving Mormon as no devout Mormon would be pro-choice. Bearing False witness is not allowed except against your enemies, Baptising, unbaptised relative in proxy because one will not enter into the kingdom without baptism, and Mormons believe that they will be Gods of other worlds following death. Mormonism from the outside appears pro family, very dedicated, have a year or more or food supply (not a bad idea) for survival, and weird marital tradition a closer look at Mormon faith is warranted. But as far as having a Mormon of president, they are dedicated to county. Many Mormons make us Christians look like unbelievers in their 2 year service, tithing, and evangelical outreach. But Huckabees question about Lucifer and Jesus being brother is Mormon fact not a slam by Huckabee
Apparently you realized I was satirizing.
Whether it was in the same city as King's march strikes, or whether he saw it on TV or in person, strikes me as an insignificant detail.
More nonsensical anti-Mitt nit-picking.
Too funny. I understand the mistake but that's the kind of thing that makes a Joe Six Pack like me wince. It's also certain to make a lasting home in the list of stupid sounding things said by famous politicians.
Witnesses recall Romney-MLK march
By: Mike Allen
Dec 21, 2007 05:45 PM EST
Politico
Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.
With the cape still around her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.
“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”
She remembered the late governor as “extremely handsome.”
Until this week, that was just a vivid memory for a sweet retiree who now lives in Pompano Beach, Fla.
But Basore’s memory became important this week when news accounts questioned the recollections of the late Michigan governor’s son, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor.
News stories suggested that Romney was exaggerating. It turns out that he may not have attended the Grosse Pointe march, but it certainly happened.
The campaign posted citations quoting one author as writing that “George Romney made a surprise appearance in his shirt sleeves and joined the parade leaders.”
Stephen Hess and David S. Broder also wrote about the march in their 1967 book, “The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P.”
Basore said she was very angry about how the issue has been covered on cable television.
“This very arrogant guy on TV questioned Mitt Romney, and I marched with them,” Basore said. “I hope that the campaign demands an apology. I want him to publicly apologize to me. That was a personal insult, and an insult to Mitt Romney.”
Basore said she called the campaign, and the campaign supplied her contact information.
Another witness, Ashby Richardson, 64, of Massachusetts gave the campaign a similar account.
“I’m just appalled that the news picks this stuff up and say it didn’t happen,” Richardson, now a data-collection consultant, said by phone. “The press is being disingenuous in terms of reporting what actually happened. I remember it vividly. I was only 15 or 20 feet from where both of them were.”
Yes, but the media ignored it.
Quite interesting.
This is a strange article.
Romney is quite slick, I wonder how many of this type of subtleties have been thrown out there.
If no one catches them, they stick.
If they are caught they can be spun.
He's pretty slick.
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