Posted on 02/02/2010 11:40:49 AM PST by yongin
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: For those reading 2012 implications out of Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney’s monthly PAC newsletter provides some insights.
Brown, R-Mass., is featured in two pictures in the newsletter, and Romney takes full ownership of his victory:
“As supporters of the PAC, you deserve a thank you,” the newsletter from Romney’s Free Strong America PAC reads. “Your support made it possible for Governor Romney to get behind Senator Brown from the very beginning, when polls showed him a 30-point underdog and everyone assumed the outcome was pre-ordained in favor of the Democrats.”
“Governor Romney asked his entire political team to help the then-unknown Brown, and he raised early money for him at a time when very few people would give him a second look.”
Indeed, several key figures in Brown’s victory -- notably Eric Fehrnstrom, Beth Myers, and Peter Flaherty -- were and continue to be Romney people.
Brown’s campaign manager, Beth Lindstrom, was a member of Romney’s Cabinet; his press secretary, Felix Browne, was a deputy press secretary under Gov. Romney; Brown finance director Priscilla Ruzzo held that same post in Romney’s 1994 Senate race; and Will Ritter was a key advance staffer for Romney before he worked for Brown’s campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
By supporting a guy who went against his own church's principled pro-life viewpoints because he thought running to the left of the Swimmer on abortion would help him in his 1992 Senate run? Some spiritual vision.
Calling in the wolf pack again, eh?
Your group is amusingly predictable.
Is Lady Lawyer so intimidating to you that you can't take her on all by yourself?
yes, Romney supported a winner.....and he got to introduce that winner at his victory celebration.....does NOT mean he can take credit for Brown’s win.....Brown gets all the credit.
One of the keys here at FR was to make sure not to mention how involved Romney was in the Brown campaign — although that should have been clear to everybody, since the campaign was being run by former Romney staffers, and Romney’s statewide organization was essential for Brown, who was a regional candidate.
Anyway, Brown was like a 2002 version of Romney, without the Mormonism. (Brown is Christian Reformed).
Rudy Giuliani was the frontrunner, not Mitt Romney. Mitt never polled first. He was always mired in the runner-up slot or below.
The portrait depicts the governor seated at the front edge of his desk wearing his trademark business suit. Beside him is a small framed photo of his wife, Ann, and ... [wait for it] ... a copy of the health care reform law he called his greatest achievement.
Piss on Romney.
Bienvenido a la fiesta, amigo.
When Brown first started, Romney cmapaigned with him, and held multiple public fundraising events.
However, after that, Brown worked at separating himself from conservatives, and instead invited in people like Rudy Giuliani, while asking groups like the RNC to keep out of his race, because he was running an “independent”, “down-home” race, not an “outsider” race.
And you’re an effin troll.
Now THAT would definitely be claiming credit for something he didn't do.
Actually, at that time, I was actively litigating against the ACLU on the abortion issue. So I was paying attention to what Mitt said, and I didn’t like it.
I happen to know that in his ecclesiastical position, he always counseled women against abortion, and he took hell from the pro-choice people over it.
I also understood that he couldn’t go into a race in Mass. threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade. Actually, he had no power to do that, so it would have been stupid to take it on.
Beyond the campaign rhetoric, though, I think he took the right positions on things like parental notification, and other issues on the margins where states had the power to act.
But, I thought he went a lot farther than he needed to go in his rhetoric, and now he’s paying the price.
But the amusing thing is to watch Freepers rhapsodize over Scott Brown and vilify Romney, when Brown is probably less conservative than Romney. On abortion, Romney is now far more conservative than Brown. And Romney never posed naked for a centerfold.
Hate tends to twist logic like a pretzel.
Probe: Mitt missed chance to keep Tavares jailed - Could have nixed killer’s early exit
Friday, December 28, 2007 - Boston Herald
"Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration failed to act on disciplinary recommendations
that would have kept ex-con killer Daniel Tavares locked up another year -
and behind bars at the time he was accused of killing a newlywed couple in Washington state."
"Despite Tavares’ long history of violence, the Romney-led Department of Correction
took no action on recommendations that he be stripped of “good time” because
of assaults on prison guards in 2003 and 2005, said sources familiar with a state probe into the case."
Charles, we await your proof ....
Paying the price? Heck, he went against his own church's teachings. I hold such a man in rather low esteem - that he would trample over his own faith's principled pro-life teachings to gain political adavantage.
But the amusing thing is to watch Freepers rhapsodize over Scott Brown and vilify Romney, when Brown is probably less conservative than Romney. On abortion, Romney is now far more conservative than Brown. And Romney never posed naked for a centerfold.
Once again, Brown didn't defy his own church to take a pro-choice stance. And I'll take a former centerfold over a political whore any day of the week.
Hate tends to twist logic like a pretzel.
Shrieking 'hate' is the last refuge of scoundrels nowadays.
Mitt is not the man to admit that either.
He is a fake.
Wheress the photo where he lovingly kissed that photo shopped portrait ???
Nice job of vetting, Mitt.
ProChoice?
lol
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
Don't you know laughs are best when shared, and one of the funniest things in the world right now is you Romneybots?
Diogenesis is most unselfish in sharing the fun.
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