Posted on 12/30/2007 4:09:34 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008
Exposing the TRUTH shouldn’t be considered an attack! (except for liberals!)
and we will ALL be glad when Mitt wins.
That's because he is a big nanny state, bleeding heart liberal.
Witnesses recall Romney-MLK march
By: Mike Allen 2007 05:45 PM EST
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.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7524.html
I agree with you.
ROFLOL
Damn good one!
James Carville: "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."
Friday, December 21, 2007
George Romney and Martin Luther King
SYNOPSIS:…at least four historical Books about MLK and 1960s politics state that King and Romney did March together...George Romney was a guest at King’s funeral along with RFK...as Governor and HUD Secretary Romney was a noted non-black Civil Rights leader of his day...George Romney was recognized along with King and RFK as one of four leaders popular among disadvantaged black youths in a 1967 survey...link below to photograph of MLK and Lenore Romney (Mitt’s mother)...link below to photo of Romney being heckled by racist protesters in 1960s for HUD efforts... and most important, George Romney himself, led a march of 10,000 people through Detroit to protest after Bloody Sunday occurred in Selma, Alabama...see below
——snip——
http://occidentalvalues.blogspot.com/2007/12/george-romney-and-martin-luther-king.html
Well I would not vote for either, but Huck probably thinks he is the most truthful.
It sure is true that mitt will tell at least one whopper before the sun sets.
Their could be a time conflict, it's that the same day he's suppose to talk about the NRA's endorsement during his run for governor. :^)
Now that is a whopper!
Huckabee’s 23% Federal sales tax will not make him
any friends, but it will make him lots
of enemies
I’m not thrilled about your guy Mitt, but I would rather have him as the nominee than the Huckster.
That was their plan with Huckabee, certainly, as it was with McCain. But I think they are nervous at his sudden success. Their plan seemed to be working too well.
All of a sudden they are wondering, suppose we put this crazy redneck preacher over the top with our lies, he gets the nomination, and then we can’t destroy him after all, because he’s backed by millions of fanatical Southern Baptists and other backwoods lunatics that infest flyover country? (their thinking, not mine)
Huck may not be the ideal candidate. But he is sure better than Flip Romney.
If you lived in AR while he was governor, you might not think so.
May God save our Precious Republic, if we cannot.
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