[SteveMcKing]

Give the money back, if the source is not sincere.... Don't be corrupt!

[digger48]

What, did they expect him to be giving to NARAL and Air America?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Now regarding the comments in the headline....they are mine and I will reference this from the Hugh Hewitt blog:

Sunday, March 11, 2007
Inside The MSM's Anti-Romney Campaign
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 12:35 AM

**************************************EXCERPT**********************************

The New York Times' David Kilpatrick has a story on Mitt Romney today that charts Romney's financial support for conservative causes and groups.

A few days ago Kilpatrick called me and asked if Romney had paid me to write A Mormon In The White House?

I blogged about the call and the insulting question on the day it occurred.  Today's article does not mention the call or my post about it.  How many other groups and individuals did Mr. Kilpatrick call and ask if Romney had "spread cash around" in their direction, to quote Mr. Kilpatrick from our call, only to be told "absolutely not?"  Would it matter if Mr. Kilpatrick had been fed a dozen rumors from anti-Romney activists and called each of them only to be told in no uncertain terms that no such payments had occurred?  This is why MSM loses credibility every day with the center-right: An MSMer starts with a thesis and meticulously compiles all the evidence that supports it and leaves off with all the stuff that doesn't.

Mr. Kilpatrick also quotes  the group "Mass Resistance" as being critical of conservative groups accepting support from Romney, but does not offer any background on the group.  A bit of reading, research and reporting on the group and its founder Brian Camenker might have been useful to the Times' readers.  Quoting Mass Resistance without context is a lot like quoting "The Clinton Chronicles" about Bill and Hill without comment.

If you total the donations "uncovered" by the Times for this article, they total less than $150,000 --hardly chump change, but so small compared to the budgets of the organizations involved as to mock the premise of the article.  The article fails to indicate the number of dry holes Kilpatrick dug and doesn't provide background on the "critics" it cites.  Mr. Kilpatrick was personable, and certainly skilled.  But this isn't objective journalism. 

It is agenda journalism. 

[msnimje]

Has anybody asked David Kirkpatrick who paid him to write this piece? Was it Barry Obama? How about John McCain?

[msnimje]

In a related story that Kirkpatrick will not write, Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual agenda groups HATE MITT ROMNEY.

[JohnnyZ]

WASHINGTON, March 10 — In the months before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts contributed tens of thousands of dollars of his personal fortune to several conservative groups in a position to influence his image on the right.

Can't buy me looooo-ooove......

[nowandlater]

I hear he gave money to Freerepublic too. LOL!

Where is my cashola?

[George W. Bush]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/11/us/11romney.600.jpg

Fabulous pic. Ann Romney has real appeal. Her intro of hubby at CPAC was very charming.