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Did Romney's Father Really March With MLK? (UPDATED)
National Review Online ^ | 12/20/07 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 12/20/2007 6:16:25 PM PST by Reaganesque

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To: Reagan Man

Awwww, you didn’t ask me about the picture!


41 posted on 12/20/2007 6:59:25 PM PST by Reaganesque (Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
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To: Reaganesque

I don’t play quessing games.

If you want to tell us, go ahead.


42 posted on 12/20/2007 7:01:16 PM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Reaganesque

Seeing the GOP primary littered with liberals is killing me, of course.


43 posted on 12/20/2007 7:02:13 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: Callahan

44 posted on 12/20/2007 7:03:44 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Reaganesque
And now your little manufactured story, that went so well with your other "Mormons are racists" story, is falling apart like so much wet tissue paper.

The Romney Sleaze Machine strikes again: (a) This story is not manufactured, unless you speak of Willard creating it with his ridiculous lie. (b) I have no "Mormons are racists" story.

45 posted on 12/20/2007 7:04:11 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: Callahan
I keep telling them I would vote for Fred, but his organization failed to get him on the ballot in Delaware.

That's about as credible as any of Willard's lies.

46 posted on 12/20/2007 7:05:44 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: Reaganesque

Aww, being called that by a Mittwitt is a badge of honor. I’m gonna put you on my Christmas card list.


47 posted on 12/20/2007 7:08:45 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Reagan Man
Happy to oblige.

I use that photo because:

IT...DRIVES...YOU...NUTS!

48 posted on 12/20/2007 7:10:28 PM PST by Reaganesque (Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
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To: Reaganesque
Posting bold face lies seems to be a habit for the Mittster`s.

In the 1980`s Mitt was an independent liberal who opposed Reagan`s conservative agenda.

In 2007, Mitt's still a liberal and a liar, and he still opposes Reagan conservatism.

49 posted on 12/20/2007 7:18:05 PM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Reaganesque

I don’t really care how much Romney’s dad was tied to the civil rights movement. It’s not like Romney gets credit for what his father did.

But Romney needs a better spokesperson if the campaign speaker actually said he meant it “figuratively”. If he wanted to say that Romney saw his dad march, but wasn’t saying he actually saw MLK IN those marches, he should just say that and move on. Imprecision by campaign spokespeople just drags the candidate into these stupid discussions.


50 posted on 12/20/2007 7:37:56 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: GOP_Lady

Congratulations. Will that make him first there? We got Mitt on the top of the ballot in Virginia by getting his signatures almost two weeks before the other candidates.


51 posted on 12/20/2007 7:38:57 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Diogenesis
Like the endorsement from the NRA

I've told you several times that Romney never claimed, nor received, an endorsement from the NRA. Why do you keep confusing people?

52 posted on 12/20/2007 7:39:38 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Reaganesque
So let me see if I have this right. The Romneys marched with the Kings for equal rights for blacks...then the Romneys went to church where they blindly supported the LDS Church's discrimination against blacks.

LOL. Yeah, there's some rational, logical thinking we need in the white house...NOT.

53 posted on 12/20/2007 7:47:08 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Romney claimed he got the endorsement of the NRA.

Not only that. He said it twice.
TO WIT:

Romney said: "I also was pleased to have the support of the NRA when I ran for governor."

Romney said: "I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

Can either you, or your lying candidate, tell the truth?

54 posted on 12/20/2007 8:07:53 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

I didn’t read those threads because I thought Willard had not used the word “endorsement.”

Now I find out he DID use the word endorsement?

Do you have a link to your second quote?


55 posted on 12/20/2007 8:10:23 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: Petronski
That was from last Sunday's morning interview.
If memory serves it was shortly after the first quote.
56 posted on 12/20/2007 8:14:07 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Reaganesque

Look, this is a non-issue. Mitt’s father was obviously very involved in the civil rights movement with Dr. King. Mitt was a child: his memories are actually good enough. So he’s not a liar in the vein of Al Gore being sung to sleep with the Union Label song, or Hillary being named for Sir Edmund.

It’s wonderful that his father was a great man. But it doesn’t really matter what a candidate’s father did, anyway. It just so happens that many great men come from great fathers. But some great men still do not. We are not a country where pedigrees are supposed to count.


57 posted on 12/20/2007 8:18:59 PM PST by Yaelle
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It’s not only fascinating that Romney won’t tell the truth about his father and Martin Luther King.

It is also fascinating that Romney feels the need to drag Daddy’s memory out of the closet to help promote himself in this race.

It’s bad enough when Hillary uses Bill as a crutch. But using George Romney really smacks of desperation!


58 posted on 12/20/2007 8:21:15 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

So how many times has Mitt brought up his Father in the campaign?


59 posted on 12/20/2007 8:35:45 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Mitt loves to wax poetic about his father.

He’s talked about sitting at the table with his family when his father decided to run for the presidency.

He’s talked about his father’s jogging habits.

He’s talked about his father’s innovation in the automotive industry.

Now he tries to tell a story about his father and Martin Luther King.

It is a common theme for him. He is comfortable bringing up his father’s name and talking about the man.

I wouldn’t do this, if I was running in his place. His father lost his bid for the presidency. And I think that with voters who remember George Romney, this would not be a good connotation.


60 posted on 12/20/2007 8:40:49 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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