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Mitt Romney Backer Accuses Fred Thompson of Bribing Pro-Life Group
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| 11/14/2007
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 11/15/2007 4:31:41 AM PST by JRochelle
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:31:43 AM PST
by
JRochelle
To: JRochelle
Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, says he can't find any other explanation So he makes this outrageous accusation because HE can't "find any other explanation"? He needs to keep looking.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:38:36 AM PST
by
tsmith130
To: JRochelle
This is an outrageous charge - Mr. Weyrich needs to get out front and center to take his ridiculous accusation back - very quickly.
To: tsmith130
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:49:27 AM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: JRochelle
More of the pot calling the kettle black. You Fred supporters can really dish it out with your incessant cries of "Romney is buying his vitories" but let one Romney supporter say the same exact thing about Fred and you're crying and moaning about the outrageous, despicable nature of the attack for days on end. And there are always the obligatory demands that the Romney supporter who pointed this out be banned from Free Republic.
Well, in the general election, you aren't going to be able to ban Hillary supporters. They don't come here. You can piss and moan all you like about the "unfairness" of the Clinton machine but it won't change a thing. If Fred Thompson is so fragile a candidate that he can't take what he and his supporters are dishing out in the primaries, how's he going to fare against Clinton Inc.? Both you and your candidate need to calm down, grow up and grow a pair or we will be singing "Hail to the Chief" to another Clinton.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:05:09 AM PST
by
Reaganesque
(Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
To: Reaganesque
It goes beyond hypocrisy. Yes, the Fred supporters have been accusing Romney for months of bribing his endorsees. But the real outrageous thing here is that the Thompson campaign's statement in response to Weyrich's foolish accusation is to claim that it was the Romney campaign itself that made the statement. That was a pure, unadulterated LIE coming from the Thompson campaign to claim that Romney or anyone in the Romney campaign made the stupid claim.
Of course they have to try to make a big deal about the Weyrich statement so that no one will pay attention to the other statements of disagreement with the NRTL made by prominent members of the Concerned Women for America, the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, and other pro-life groups.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:12:29 AM PST
by
Spiff
(<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: JRochelle
Mitt supporters take note: As has been said of hillary due to her question planting, the person running the campaign(I.E. the candidate)controls what their aides say and do. Mitt is the one who put this guy up to it and this says a lot about the character of Mr. Romney, all of it bad.
Before you argue about this fact you should know you can't have it both ways, if Hillary is responsible for her aides actions then Mitt is responsible for his aides. Any other stance will be gross hiprocrisy.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:13:47 AM PST
by
calex59
(N)
To: calex59
Mitt supporters take note: As has been said of hillary due to her question planting, the person running the campaign(I.E. the candidate)controls what their aides say and do. Mitt is the one who put this guy up to it and this says a lot about the character of Mr. Romney, all of it bad. Paul Weyrich is not a member of the Romney campaign. He is not an "aide". He is a private individual, a prominent conservative leader, who privately chose to endorse Romney. The Romney campaign has no control over Weyrich or what he says. To make the accusation that Mitt himself put Weyrich up to making his foolish statement is an outrageous lie.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:17:15 AM PST
by
Spiff
(<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: Spiff; Reaganesque
The only hipocrisy being shown on this thread is that of the Mitt supporters. This came from mitt. There is a vast difference of a FReeper accusing someone(Mitt)of bribery, it is another thing entirely for a backer to go on national news and scream about it like a little baby because his candidate( a candidate he works for BTW)didn't get the endorsement. Do you really think that Right to life would give an endorsement based on money? Mitt is for abortion and only recently changed his stance when he realized he would have to in order to get Elected and right to life knows this.
Grow up and face facts: Mitt is a useless Rino who will do nothing to abolish RoeVWade and in all likelyhood will push a health care plan that makes Hillary's look simple by comparison.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:20:36 AM PST
by
calex59
(N)
To: Reaganesque
You Fred supporters can really dish it out with your incessant cries of "Romney is buying his vitories" but let one Romney supporter say the same exact thing about Fred and you're crying and moaning about the outrageous, despicable nature of the attack for days Actually, I don't complain about Mitt's money - but those who do are usually suggesting he spends a lot of money ADVERTISING, and uses his personal fortune to pay for it.
I haven't heard anyone claiming Mitt buys endorsements.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:21:15 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(I'm not sweating global warming!)
To: Spiff
Weyrich is a supporter just like Larry Craig.
Don’t worry, Mitt will throw Paul under the bus in due time.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:25:19 AM PST
by
JRochelle
(Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA now cost only $50.00.)
To: Mr Rogers
I haven't heard anyone claiming Mitt buys endorsements. I guess you don't read the threads announcing the Romney endorsements.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:27:38 AM PST
by
Spiff
(<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: JRochelle
"If the Romney campaign is looking for the reason they did not receive the National Right to Life endorsement, they can start with the fact that Gov. Romney was pro-choice just two years ago," he told LifeNews.com. "The Romney campaign was clearly hoping for this endorsement and are now clearly upset. But being denied an endorsement is no excuse to impugn the integrity of the very organization they were just days ago trying to woo," he concluded.
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Where is Romney in all of this? Shouldn't he be denouncing what Weyrich said?
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:29:20 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Mr Rogers
Mitt Romney has been making donations to conservative causes and organizations ever since he decided to run for President.
To name a few, National Review, the Heritage Foundation several pro-life groups. etc. I don’t know all the names, just know there are a lot.
Back when he was running against Ted Kennedy, he wanted to prove his liberal creds so he donated to Planned Parenthood.
Fred has not done that. He has a real conservative record.
Mitt has had to purchase his conservative creds.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:29:56 AM PST
by
JRochelle
(Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA now cost only $50.00.)
To: calex59
The only hipocrisy being shown on this thread is that of the Mitt supporters. This came from mitt. No, it came from Paul Weyrich who is not part nor has he ever been part of the Romney campaign. He is the president of the Free Congress Foundation, a prominent conservative leader who privately chose to endorse Romney. Your contention, as well as the Thompson campaign's contention, that the Romney campaign or Mitt Romney himself had anything to do with Weyrich's foolish statement is an outrageous lie.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:30:01 AM PST
by
Spiff
(<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: JRochelle
Weyrich is a supporter just like Larry Craig. No. Craig was actually a member of the Romney campaign. Romney had no choice but to dismiss him when it was revealed to Romney that Craig had been arrested and had pleaded guilty to criminal charges.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:32:35 AM PST
by
Spiff
(<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
To: Mr Rogers; Reaganesque
Actually, I don't complain about Mitt's money - but those who do are usually suggesting he spends a lot of money ADVERTISING, and uses his personal fortune to pay for it. I haven't heard anyone claiming Mitt buys endorsements.
That's my take as well, though I don't camp out on this site 24/7 like some do. I might've missed seeing a Fred supporter accuse Mitt of bribing an endorser. Surely the Romney supporters will post links to support this allegation.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:34:57 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
To: Reaganesque
You Fred supporters can really dish it out with your incessant cries of "Romney is buying his vitories" but let one Romney supporter say the same exact thing about Fred See... there's this little thing called evidence that you may want to consider. Romney hasn't exactly been shy or secretive about pumping large amounts of money into winning straw polls (e.g., booking every bus in Iowa to prevent other candidates from being able to bus in supporters and busing in senior citizens to vote in a straw poll by the Florida Young Republicans).
He's been lavishing dishing out money to conservative groups while seeking their endorsements. groups he's never contributed to before, mind you, nor similar ones either. In some cases, they were groups that had previously opposed him.
No such track record exists for Thompson, so the cases are not comparable. Weyrich's comments reek of projection -- what was his price?
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:45:18 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(“Should government be doing this? And if so, then at what level of government?” - FDT)
To: JRochelle
Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, says he can't find any other explanation.
Right Romney deserved the backing because of his STRONG Pro Life record in Mass
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posted on
11/15/2007 6:31:45 AM PST
by
uncbob
(m first)
To: Spiff
“Paul Weyrich is not a member of the Romney campaign. He is not an “aide”. He is a private individual, a prominent conservative leader, who privately chose to endorse Romney.”
Weyrich’s endorsement wasn’t very private, it was meant to be on a par with the NLTL endorsement. You just got burned by your own guy and now you have to spin spin spin, like usual.
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