ROMNEY LINKS CRAIG WITH BILL CLINTON

MSNBC ^ | 08/28/07 | Mark Murray

[Reaganesque]

In his interview on CNBC's Kudlow & Company (which will air later this afternoon), Mitt Romney had some sharp words for Sen. Larry Craig, who had endorsed the former Massachusetts governor's presidential campaign and was his Idaho chairman. "Once again, we've found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence. Very disappointing. He's no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine... I'm sorry to see that he has fallen short."

And Romney also included this jab at Bill Clinton as he continued to talk about Craig: "I think it reminds us of Mark Foley and Bill Clinton. I think it reminds us of the fact that people who are elected to public office continue to disappoint, and they somehow think that if they vote the right way on issues of significance or they can speak a good game, that we'll just forgive and forget. And the truth of the matter is, the most important thing we expect from elected--an elected official is a level of dignity and character that we can point to for our kids and our grandkids, and say, `Hey, someday I hope you grow up and you're someone like that person.' And we've seen disappointment in the White House, we've seen it in the Senate, we've seen it in Congress. And frankly, it's disgusting."

[Reaganesque]

I'm not sure which is more satisfying, the shot about Bill Clinton letting the country down with his immorality or the Olberman zombies blowing a gasket over it in the comments below the article. Mmmmm, that's good Schadenfreude! < /carson impression >

[Reaganesque]

Mitt Ping!

• Send FReep Mail to Unmarked Package to get [ON] or [OFF] the Mitt Romney Ping List •

[elizabetty]

Larry Craig -- amoral -- Check

Bill Clinton -- amoral -- Check

Yup, no difference. Both got caught diddling where they shouldn't and both lied about it.

[tennmountainman]

Craig will soon be a distant memory.

[Past Your Eyes]

Olbermann flipped out? ROFLMAO!!!

[L98Fiero]

Perhaps Mark Murray should go back to grade school and learn the difference between the words “links” and “compares”.

[elhombrelibre]

I’m sure he came to the plate ready to bat, but he hit it out of the park with those comments.

[Mr. Brightside]

I'm sorry to see that he has fallen *short*

That was the rumor.

[Clintonfatigued]

Wow, that IS a good shot!

[muawiyah]

Apparantly Craig didn't deliver the goods. Bill Clinton left an evidence trail.

Not that there's a difference there ~

[Reaganesque]

More than likely.

[elizabetty]

Apparantly Craig didn't deliver the goods

Not THIS time. Who knows about his other dalliances.

[Dante3]

And Clinton did it in the Oval Office. Then there is Juanita.

Today I have seen show after show discussing Craig and nothing about the new Clinton scandal - an excuse for the media to downplay it. The moment the Clinton story broke, I wondered what kind of distraction would the media grab onto.

[j_tull]

' And we've seen disappointment in the White House, we've seen it in the Senate, we've seen it in Congress [and we've seen it in the Governors office of the Gay State] . And frankly, it's disgusting."

Yes Mitt, it is disgusting. No votes for you!

[elizabetty]

Amoral is amoral.
Also, we have no idea what all Larry Craig has done, it could be worse than Clinton.

[elizabetty]

Right, everybody knows there were no gay people in Massachusetts before Mitt Romney was governor.

Let's ask long term Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank to confirm that.

[narby]

If Craig goes, fine. But all will not be right with the world until Barney Frank is removed from Congress as well.

[Forgotten Amendments]

If everything about Craig is true, I STILL prefer him to that blow-dried, phoney, Romney.

Craig has been a solid conservative, fighting the good fight, all along. Romney hasn\\\’t.

Are we so sure Romney isn\\\’t in the closet???? Are we???

Not that there is anything wrong with that ...

[Dante3]

I hope Craig resigns. Although he voted for amnesty and some other liberal issues, a number of media reports refers to him as a “conservative.”

[George W. Bush]

A well-placed punch for Mitt.

We'll see in the next day or two whether Mitt's political associates have any skeletons to unearth. A few times, Mitt has come out swinging like this and managed to hit himself.

Still, Mitt and his campaign do show many of the right qualities, the ability to get out ahead of a story, a willingness to demonstrate that they're combative enough to take on the Dims. You can't disregard it. And it's so early, Mitt's earlier slips will be forgotten.