Posted on 11/30/2007 3:52:23 PM PST by Delacon
[F]rankly I have a lot of friends among the various candidates. I had coffee at the airport this morning with Duncan Hunter, who's been a good ? personal friend of mine for many years and continues to be a friend. I thought I'd stay out. But it's become clear in the last few months and particularly in the last few weeks that the only candidate who really has a plan that could get him the nomination other than Rudy Giuliani is Mitt Romney. Therefore, it has come down to a choice between Mitt Romney on one hand and Rudy Giuliani on the other. And I frankly don't find Rudy Giuliani all that attractive a candidate and I'm convinced that Romney has been developing the appeal that he needs to appeal across the conservative spectrum."Obviously, Keene wanted his endorsement to mean something besides some kind of empty gesture thrown at a candidate who had no chance at the nomination or to win the general election.
Thats what it comes down to.
Yep...the fix is in.
Did they rate him? I know one candidate that has a 92% with ACU. So much for that!
ACU has NOT endorsed Romney, Chairman David Keene did, like he supported Nixon over Reagan in 1968, and endorsed Senator Spector in his last GOP primary. That’s what Keene does, he endorses RINOs.
CPAC (and ACU) have largely gravitated into RINOism as of the last coulpe years (when I attended the had both the ACLU and “Log Cabin GOP” in attendance with a booth..) YOu would call them conservative??
Wadda ya know. A noob Romney supporter. Surprise, surprise!
If that is true, Mr. Moran has performed one of the following:
1. Inadvertently tagged this article with an erroneous title, requiring an immediate correction, to correct his error.
2. Purposefully tagged this article with an erroneous title, and is attempting to portray a situation as something it is not, requiring an immediate apology and correction, to attempt to restore his credibility.
Attacking the messenger is a tactic used by left wingers and ignoramuses. Which kind are you?
I have to admit that the title is misleading. Mr. Moran is at fault there. My own mea culpa, I missed it. I thought Keene was speaking for the ACU.
If I had not been informed of the truth (i.e., individual endorsement vs ACU official endorsement) from another FR thread, I could easily have assumed the same thing.
There are now many, and there will be many more, on-line sources quoted here on FR by folks who want to support their positions (in this case their candidate of choice, I think).
If Mr. Moran wants to have credibility in this increasingly competitive on-line news and punditry environment, he must not perform either of the actions I pointed to, without rapidly correcting himself.
And, as someone who has frequented FR for a little while, I am interested in the truth being fully revealed on FR, as that was the reason I came here to begin with.
Have a nice evening.
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I have to admit that the title is misleading. Mr. Moran is at fault there. My own mea culpa, I missed it. I thought Keene was speaking for the ACU.
CPAC (and ACU) have largely gravitated into RINOism as of the last coulpe years (when I attended the had both the ACLU and “Log Cabin GOP” in attendance with a booth..) YOu would call them conservative??
I'm so pissed-off by the Rino'ism of the last seven years, that I really would rather have Hillary Clinton in the White House than another pretender to the mantle of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. Better to have the enemy out front and in the open than beside us or behind us, (yet again), selling us out at every turn.
a) This is more of a blog than a publication, and ought to in blogs/personal.
b) The headline is a lie: Romney was NOT endorsed by the ACU, only by it’s leader David Keene.
c) In 2004, Keene endorsed Arlen Specter (ACU 47) over Pat Toomey (ACU 97). Keene is not much of a conservative (thus the Willard endorsement makes sense).
Post #3 - thanks for sniffing this out.
By James Justin Wilson
David Keene is a man of many hats. He’s best known to conservatives as head of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which describes itself as the oldest conservative advocacy group in the nation. He’s also a columnist for The Hill newspaper. Finally, he’s a managing associate of the Carmen Group, a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm.
Recently he’s also been the target of a tough letter signed by 33 House Republicans, including Sue Myrick, chairman of the Republican Study Committee. “The individual actions of Mr. Keene have placed in doubt the ACU’s commitment to” conservative principles, they wrote.
They were objecting to Keene’s endorsement of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a liberal Republican, over his conservative primary challenger, Rep. Pat Toomey. Keene called Specter a “standup guy” despite his “anemic” 47 percent rating from the ACU. Toomey received a “spectacular” 97 percent, which was still not good enough to garner Keene’s endorsement.
Keene made his inclinations clear awhile ago. Thus far he does NOT represent the opinion of the ACU with his endorsement of Romney unless there have been developments I don’t know of.
I find it more telling that old news of keene’s support is flushed back up now that Romney is in a struggle, and that a false perception he has the support of the ACU is being alleged. he didn’t have the NRTL just because he had a founder in his campaign, and so far he doesn’t have the ACU.
How would it look if he endorsed Rudy within days of Rudy having to withdraw?
Rudy = Dead Man Walking
I kind of agree with you, afterall I am so sick of (corporatism)-globalism masquerading as “conservatism” and then selling us out when it is convenient and fits their agenda rather than following the true “conservative” ideals/principles..
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