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Romney Campaign Rejects Using the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Obama
NYT ^ | Thursday May 17, 2012

Posted on 05/17/2012 8:26:34 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

Mitt Romney’s campaign manager rejected efforts to use President Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in ads attacking the president, as reportedly planned by a “super PAC” working toward electing Mr. Romney in November.

“Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same,” the campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, said in a statement on Thursday morning. “President Obama’s team said they would ‘kill Romney,’ and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as ‘contract killers.’ It’s clear President Obama’s team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate any efforts on our side to do so.”

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Statements like that from Mr. McCain may be part of the reason Mr. Romney’s campaign quickly rejected the idea of using Mr. Wright as a way of attacking the president. Already, advisers to Mr. Obama have raised the question of whether Mr. Romney will speak out like Mr. McCain did.

“Stunning! Will Mitt stand up, as John McCaln did? Or allow the purveyors of slime to operate on his behalf?” David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser to Mr. Obama, wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


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To: Bigtigermike

Reminds me of an advertisement suggestion I sent to the McCain camp once I got thoroughly frustrated with him for not launching a tough campaign against Obama:

Scene one: Voter asks McCain what he thinks about Rev Wright. McCain Replies, “I’m not going there.”

Scene two: Voter asks McCain what he thinks about Obama voting to let babies who survive abortion die unattended. McCain Replies, “I’m not going there.”

Scene three: McCain stands on a hill overlooking the capital, tears streaming down his cheeks, and wails, “I’m not going there.”

Funny, they never made that ad -— wonder if it hit too close to home???


101 posted on 05/17/2012 10:50:42 AM PDT by LTC.Ret (You'd think I would know better than to volunteer!!! www.sendmetocongress.us)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well said.


102 posted on 05/17/2012 11:05:09 AM PDT by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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To: LouD

The day we decide to support a candidate who is conservative and really means it is the day we stop settling for ‘better than Obama’.

Just sayin’.


103 posted on 05/17/2012 11:14:48 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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To: svcw
Imo Romney will not agree to Wright's being used because then it will open his nutcase Mormonism to public scrutiny...of which he wants to avoid at all costs. Should the LDS political agenda and it's leadership be exposed across the nation it would do him in as much as Obamas Wright issue.....even moreso I think as Obama was already voted in with that baggage regardless if known or not by some who voted for him.

I say let's vet both their so called religious affiliation. Then maybe Americans will open their eyes and see the fraud both of these are about!

104 posted on 05/17/2012 11:32:36 AM PDT by caww
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To: Jeff Head
Romney will take the fight to Obama, and he is getting the RNC to do the same

How are you going to push him in the direction you want, if you keep defending him when his actions or decisions are questionable?

Especially now that you've signaled to him that you have no choice but to support him even though you have to grit your teeth to do so.

His thinking: "Heck, they've got no choice. I'll do what I want."

I know school teachers who go ballistic at the beginning of the school year on extremely little things their kids do. They do it on purpose. They say it gives the kids the idea, "If she gets that upset over this tiny thing, then I'm not pushing her on any of the big stuff."

105 posted on 05/17/2012 11:35:03 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of Our Troops Pray they Win every Fight!)
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To: Jeff Head; xzins; MrB; Steely Tom; SMARTY; Yashcheritsiy; Idaho_Cowboy; greyfoxx39
With what is happneing right now, Romney probably thinks he doesn’t have to get his handss dirty, heck, Wright himself is going after Obama, claiming in a taped interview that the Obama campaign tried to bribe him to keep him silent, and that as Obama’s Pastor he made it easy for Obama to come to his church and keep his Isslmaic roots, and when asked on the tape if he was certain that Obama had converted to Jesus Christ, Wright said, “I cannot say that.”

Well, only took 9 days for you to do an abrupt shift re: commenting upon the religiosity of POTUS candidates, eh, Jeff?

May 8, 2012, to NoRedTape: Do you really have to make this thread an anti-LDS thing? ...As to religion, if you must make it about that... Source: Santorum endorses one-time rival Romney

No religious hypocrisy being practiced here, eh, Jeff?

Tis OK to make threads an anti-Islamic "thing" as long as it pertains to Obama, eh? But Mormonism is somehow "sacrosanct" from similar dissection?

Crass religio-political hypocrisy, Jeff!

106 posted on 05/17/2012 11:52:12 AM PDT by Colofornian (Mom when I grow up, I want 2B like Ike. Mom when I grow up, I want 2B a god from Kolob like Mitt.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Do you think the country can stand four more years of Obama? I don’t.


107 posted on 05/17/2012 11:55:21 AM PDT by LouD (I stand with Scott Walker)
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To: xzins

People are not singlaing that they are going to follow him like lemmings. YThey are soignaling him that they are going to vote for him based on his positions that he is campaigning on and based on the desire to remove Obama.

Then, with a bunch of Tea Parte reps and sentors, we will hold him to those commitmtnets. The ones he made.

I believe, if he gets in and we have such majoirites in the House and Senate, he will fulfill them because the free market, non-regularoty, smaller government solutions he is proposing will work and he and the congress wil get credit (deservedly) for turning around an atrocious situation created by Obama.

You are projecting what you believe he will think, not what is going to actually happen.

Anyhow, we both agree that we have to get the most conservative, Tea Party oriented Congress possible in place and we can work (and must work) very hard together to get that done.

God’s speed.


108 posted on 05/17/2012 12:03:35 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Colofornian
Get off your high horse Colo. You try to make an arcane issue where none exists.

I quoted what was on Hannity last night for millions to see and hear.

And will say right now that religion is not at all the issue here in the least...the lying and the infighting between Wright and Obama are...and the opportunity it presents for the Romney campaign to not even have to go there because they are playing it out themselves.

But have a great day all the same.

109 posted on 05/17/2012 12:17:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Bigtigermike

Unlike with McCain, I understand Romney’s campaign not to use the issue of religion to attack Obama. They don’t want the campaign to deal with Romney’s Mormonism. McCain didn’t have this problem, yet he declined to use it.


110 posted on 05/17/2012 12:58:55 PM PDT by paudio (no tagline for now...)
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To: Bigtigermike

Juan McRINO would be so proud.


111 posted on 05/17/2012 12:59:54 PM PDT by CountryClassSF
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To: rightwingextremist1776; caww; RitaOK; Gator113; onyx

You’ve got that right. Romney never denounced the lies spun by his super pacs against Newt or any other candidate but he wants to play nice with Obama?
Romney’s aide in Fla said they didn’t just want to beat Newt they wanted to destroy him. What a POS!


112 posted on 05/17/2012 1:15:25 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: cripplecreek

You got that right. The rino won’t even charge the donkey but he never hesitated to lie and destroy Newt via his pacs.


113 posted on 05/17/2012 1:17:46 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: Bigtigermike

Smart move.

A mormon attacking a muslim pretending to be a christian? That would be idiotic. None of them are true followers of Jesus Christ.

Romney would be smart to just let everyone else do that kind of attacking.


114 posted on 05/17/2012 1:19:13 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh (I cling to guns and religion.)
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To: katiedidit1; rightwingextremist1776; caww; RitaOK; Gator113; Marcella
You’ve got that right. Romney never denounced the lies spun by his super pacs against Newt or any other candidate but he wants to play nice with Obama?

Romney’s aide in Fla said they didn’t just want to beat Newt they wanted to destroy him. What a POS!


He considers us TEA Party conservatives in the same vein as the candidates we supported.

"Get out of his way! 2012 is his turn!

I'll never forget those interviews: "Are you running, Mr. Romney?"
"Oh, I've haven't decided. Still need to talk with my family."


Cripes! He's been running for 6 years! All that organization and RNC, GOP-E money and backing in place!
115 posted on 05/17/2012 1:30:12 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Jeff Head
Romney on the ticket will mean fewer conservatives in the Senate and HOUSE.

Want that? Keep supporting Bishop backstabber.

Mitt Romney wins much coveted Jimmy Carter endorsement

Gore Praises Romney's 'Climate Protection Plan'

Carville(D):
"It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing.
Romney is an ascendant guy
."

Sen. John Kerry (D) to Don Imus on RomneyCARE:
"I like this health care bill".

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) on RomneyCARE:
"To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable."

George Soros Wants Mitt Romney



116 posted on 05/17/2012 1:48:35 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jeff Head

Jeff, people are not siding with Romney based on his positions.

Gay Adoption?
Gay Couples?
RomneyCare2?

Were he to become president, I’d trust him to side with democrats and rinos to push through objectionable laws.

I’d trust him to push through “moderate” judges (read: liberal)

I’d trust him to reward his elitist social corporatist allies.

I’d trust him to promote 3rd way thinking.


117 posted on 05/17/2012 2:08:09 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of Our Troops Pray they Win every Fight!)
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To: C19fan

The Dems love it when Republican candidates pull their punches. And in this case, they hardly had to raise a fuss to get Romney to turtle. The Dems feared Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, because both were ruthless in defence of their respective candidates. Atwater saved Rockefeller Republican Bush Sr.’s hide in the 1988 election. He could have done the same in 1992 against Clinton if he hadn’t become ill. He was not afraid to exploit the weaknesses of his enemies even if it meant getting his hands dirty. Lizardhead James Carville learned from Atwater’s success and employed the same aggressive strategies in defence of the seemingly indefensible Bill Clinton. The lesson: the bold and unrepentant win elections. The meek and apologetic get trounced. Romney has clearly learned nothing from the past.


118 posted on 05/17/2012 2:48:39 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: Colofornian
I'm not seeing the hyprocsify quite the same here. As much as I disagree with Mormons, I have yet to read anywhere in the book of Mormon that the way to heaven is to blow yourself up killing infidels. Nor have I heard of extremist Mormon terrorist flying planes into buildings.

Reverend Wright has said America deserved to be attacked on 9/11; that Americas chickens were coming home to roost. He is infamous for the quote “not God bless America, but G*d America.” A position the Mormon church does not hold.

In this case I'd say the problem is not so much a religious one, as it is about the rhetoric of Reverend Wright. I'd say it is far more pertinent to call Obama out for sitting in a "church" for twenty years under the teaching of a man who hates our nation, than to criticize Romney's religion. I thought Jeff was trying to keep back the mockers with their planet Kolob charts and such which can get a good distance off topic.

119 posted on 05/17/2012 2:50:23 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: caww

mormonism will be laid bare, in this campaign. Romney will try and stop it, to no avail.


120 posted on 05/17/2012 3:19:42 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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