[Reaganesque]

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.

[Spiff]

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.

[Mr Rogers]

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.

[kevkrom]

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?

[Pistolshot]

You Fred supporters can really dish it out with your incessant cries of "Romney is buying his vitories"

Romney does buy 'vitories'.

but let one Romney supporter say the same exact thing about Fred and you're crying and moaning about the outrageous

If there was ANY basis for this accusation, we would all be on it, unfortunately for you, there is no evidence that Fred 'bribed' the NRTL to endorse him. None whatsoever.

That is the difference.