"Romney Never Saw Father On King March"
This Boston Globe story is trouble for Mitt Romney, who is being proven wrong, wrong, wrong for indicating that he "saw" his father, George Romney, march with Martin Luther King Jr. On its own, the mistatement could've been catagorized as the fantastical remembrance of a child for his father. But this historical revisionism is proving a pattern for Romney, as he pushes the authenticity of his latest positions on choice and gay rights and health care reform.
Next, we'll hear, perhaps, that Love Story was written about him and Ann ...
The killer graphs in the Globe story:
Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."
Yesterday, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom acknowledged that was not true. "Mitt Romney did not march with Martin Luther King," he said in an e-mail statement to the Globe.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Just more lies and half truths from the biggest Flip Flopper in the election. If were to actually win the nomination any of the democrats will bet us badly. Mitt Flip Flopper Romney needs to get out of this race befre he costs us the White House.
It is time for Republicans to give John McCain a second look. John McCain is the only republican that can beat the democrats in the general election.
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Not only did Romney walk with MLK Jr he was there when the Japanese surrendered, freed Jewish prisoners from Auschwitz, and helped defeat the British at Trenton. Well, if he wasn't there his dad and relatives were there. Oh wait, he meant to say "he saw" them there. Well I guess it is time again for him to make a speech on how Republicans are attacking him because he is a Mormon. Come on people Mitt "Flip Flopper" Romney will say and do anything to get elected. He can't be trusted. Just watch him telling more lies back in 1994. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI Romney gets me so angry. It is time for Republicans to give John McCain a second chance. McCain is the only one that can beat Hillary in the general election
Romney's campaign is now TOAST. over. period.
He always was a liar.
He IS a liar.
He is a cardboard cut-out.
Romney to the Republicans is what Hillary is to the Democrats - self-centered, arrogant, will-say-anything-to-get-elected, wishy-washy, flip-flopping Washington INSIDER.
I like Huck.
Merry Christmas all :)
Detroit Free Press: “With Gov. Romney a surprise arrival and marching in the front row, more than 500 Negroes and whites staged a peaceful anti-discrimination parade up Grosse Pointe’s Kercheval Avenue Saturday. … ‘the elimination of human inequalities and injustices is our urgent and critical domestic problem,’ the governor said. … [Detroit NAACP President Edward M.] Turner told reporters, ‘I think it is very significant that Governor Romney is here. We are very surprised.’ Romney said, ‘If they want me to lead the parade, I’ll be glad to.’” (”Romney Joins Protest March Of 500 In Grosse Pointe,” Detroit Free Press, 6/29/63)
In Their 1967 Book, Stephen Hess And David Broder Wrote That George Romney “Marched With Martin Luther King Through The Exclusive Grosse Point Suburb Of Detroit.” “He has marched with Martin Luther King through the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit and he is on record in support of full-coverage Federal open-housing legislation.” (Stephen Hess And David Broder, The Republican Establishment: The Present And Future Of The G.O.P., 1967, p. 107)
ncm: and did that book also mention that Mitt was there as well? I can understand why Romney supporters are upset about all this kerfluffle, but Mitt has only himself to blame - all he had to do in the first place was admit he had made a mistake and that would have been the end of it. But no, he started parsing and slicing and dicing, and today it gets much worse with the revelation the boast to the Boston Herald that he himself marched with MLK.
ROMNEY "SAW"
Romney sees just what he "saw",
It's feely, touchy - that is all.
Mitt saw father march, he did,
and now his campaign's on the skid.
Definitions have no words,
when nothing happens or occurs.
All his statements he denies,
redefines them from his lies.
He explains all of his quotes,
After all, it's for more votes.
And if you think this issue's done,
Believe, you me - it's just begun.
It was Dean that yelled the scream,
What Romney "saw" was in his dream.
With Clinton, it was the word "is"
Now Mitt's campaign is on the fizz.
It's late, but truthful, this advice,
A lie comes with a hefty price.
Flip-flops and the "see-saw" buzz,
Romney's race is now a "was".
-louis gander 12/21/07
What a bunch of foolish children you all are. George Romney championed civil rights. That is historical fact. His son is true on the essence. Who cares if he misspoke about whether King was there when he marched in Michigan or not. We are electing a President and you choose to trivialize everything. Why don't we elect our President by call in votes to MTV? Just grow up! How many times have various other candidates said things poorly as well? And I am not a Romney supporter.
In 1978, Romney was a 31 year-old graduate of Harvard Law school. In other words, a fully formed, well-educated adult.
Unless he had been ingesting strong hallucinogens for a long time, he should have known whether or not he marched with Dr. King. He should also have known that claims of this type are easily fact checked.
I'm close to Romney's age. I don't imagine that I did things or met people that, in fact, I did not. In addition, I don't hunt, and I don't tell people that I used to shoot "varmints."