Say It Ain’t So, Mitt
Slate ^ | Feb. 7, 2008 | Bruce Reed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967354/posts
Bruce Reed who did this hit job on Mitt that AFA-Michigan so proudly posted cares not where the disinformation comes from as long as it tars and feathers Mitt Romney, the American Family Association Founder and Chairman Dr. Don Wildmon, left, with AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn at the Family Research and endlessly attack Mitt Romney in the name of God and every thing else!
From: Jeff Fuller jfuller@gmail.com
Date: Feb 8, 2008 7:25 AM
Subject: [MITT-2012!] ACTION ALERT: BOYCOTT AFA! Send a message to the blatantly pro-Huckabee/anti-Mitt organization!
To: secretop-2012 secretop-2012@googlegroups.com
Dear All,
I got real mad when I saw the AFA (American Family Association’s) 2008 Presidential voter guide ( http://www.afa.net/pdfs/08vg.pdf )
This is a powerful organization who boasts nearly 3.5 million members that subscribe to their e-mail listserve. They’ve been listed as the Fifth most powerful organization of the “religious right.” http://www.counterpunch.org/boston07122006.html
No where on their website (or in their email sent out to members with the voter guide) could I find any disclaimer that the AFA president, Don Wildmon, has endorsed Mike Huckabee. http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=351
The flier is incredibly misleading:
1) It has cherry picked issues that favor Huckabee over Romney (who are both strong social conservatives). They leave out every issue where Romney is a solid social conservative as well as those issues where Huckabee is strikingly un-conservative. It actually makes McCain and Ron Paul look more conservative than Romney, who gets a similar scorring to Rudy Giuliani. No objective observer would agree with this kind of “conservative ranking” among those five candidates. Something fishy is going on.
2) It’s factually incorrect. Romney has said he’d sign a Human Life Amendment as President if it made it to his desk, he is definitely not against it. Romney also continually railed on education that promoted homosexuality and homosexual marriage contrary to what the flier says. Additionally, he has said that he would not seek or support any new legislation regarding gun rights/restrictions.
That’s a horribly slanted flier and the AFA should be ashamed. I’ve unsubscribed from AFA and I recommend all Romney supporters do the same after this horrible action.
I read three pages of this drecky book ‘the plan’.
It is dressed up as a plea for sanity, but is just a litany of complaints about how awful Rove and Co were/are. same old partisan potshots.
What this is about, really, are the liberal democrat expropriating another hat, the ‘wonk’ hat, to win the election and dictate policy on their terms. liberals are always trying to write history and it is up to conservative s to not let them.
What we need in response is ‘conservative agenda for the 21st century’. Newt had a stab at it with ‘winning the future’.