Prolife Mitt Romney Watch

Is there a secret Mittmojail?

Dear Prolife Friends:

Earlier this week, Mitt Romney said while he values (and pays big money for) people who exaggerate on his behalf, he is, "unfortunately" not the frontrunner.

Also making the news in the Romney campaign was the resignation of embattled Romney Secret Agent Man Garrity, after a story broke in the Boston Herald that staffers were using phony law enforcement badges handed out by Garrity.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Romney confirmed yesterday that staff members under Garrity were issued badges while Romney was still working as governor. The campaign, however, denied knowledge of their use to intimidate reporters or employees at campaign venues across the country.

Romney hired the man previously exposed for impersonating a law officer, and when he handed out  badges to staffers, they had no idea the phony law enforcement badges were being used to intimidate people while impersonating law officers.  There are plenty uses for phony police badges and nobody gave any thought whatsoever as to the implicit intention.  That's the honest to gods truth.

Who's to say the Mittmobile isn't a secret jail?   Somebody ought to investigate missing persons reports in the vicinities they traveled.  Romney staffers may have seen the Mittmojail when they were handed badges, but seriously, they never would have thunk the whole thing would be a misuse of the law by way of fraud.

After seeing this photo of Romney smiling away with a woman holding a sign saying "no to Obama, Osama and Chelsea's Momma" and autographing it for her, I think the possibility exists that Jay Garrity may well have been the sharpest tool in the whole Romney shed.

If your candidate is a liar with a complete lack of discretion and political savvy, wouldn't the most important thing in the campaign be keeping him away from anything and anyone where he hasn't been rehearsed on what to  say? 

Romney is the only fool who believes his bought and paid for "polls"

When it gets to the point where nobody you speak with across the nation in the prolife community supports Romney but his people claim to be "leading" in various pockets of the U.S., wise people smell a rat. 

Redstate has a good dissection of a Florida pocket of the Romney cult operation:

The Young Republicans are having their national hedonism convention. Somehow or another, I guess by the Executive Committee (the folks I've talked to aren't too sure), the traditional rule that only delegates can vote in the YR straw poll has been changed.

Now, anyone who goes to tonight's dinner can vote in the YR straw poll, a big deviation from the historic pattern and practice.

The dinner's keynote speaker tonight?  Mitt Romney.

The dinner's sponsor?  Mitt Romney.

The youth Republicans phone banking today to get people out for tonight's dinner were even supplied by Mitt Romney.

UPDATE:]  Several people remind me that this is kind of like what happened at the Cobb County GOP BBQ here in Georgia on the 4th. It is a huge annual event complete with straw poll. Romney volunteers loitered around the straw poll ballot table urging people to refrain from voting for Fred Thompson, who still came in first. Romney came in third, behind Ron Paul.

[UPDATE 2:] This just might explain how the rules were changed -- the Executive Director of the Young Republicans is also the St. Johns County Chair for Romney's campaign.

That remnant of the Jeb Bush crowd that once upon a time supported Romney?   Rumor has it, the Bushies got off the Romney cult carcass when the stink of death and weirdness was too overpowering to ignore.

Mitt Romney and Pornography, is he for it or agin it?

Romney is having some trouble explaining his stand against pornography.

After the Virginia Tech shootings, Romney described violence as the fruit of pornography.

"Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games. The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool."

This week's revelation about Romney sitting on the Board of a business that sold pornography on Pay Per View Board, Marriott Hotels, and didn't vehemently oppose it, Mitt offered this explanation:

“I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things that I find objectionable; that’s their right. But I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity,” the former Massachusetts governor said.

Oh, we get it now.  He's not against pornography or businesses practices and procedures that allow kids to be exposed to violence and obscenity, he just personally doesn't indulge.

That's consistent with the Romney we all know.

He's against public funding for abortions, but authors the health care plan that makes public funds for abortions available to anyone who wants one.

He was horrified to learn embryos are killed for embryonic stem cell harvesting and became prolife, but supports embryonic stem cell harvesting because he's looking for a cure for his wife.

He's been a hunter all his life and owns his own gun.  Well, he's never pulled a permit for a gun and he's never actually owned a gun.  He did shoot rats in the backyard twice in his life with somebody else's gun.  Don't let his record in Massachusetts against guns get in the way of understanding his convictions.

He's a Mormon but doesn't read the Book of Mormon, he reads the Bible.  It's the same thing, he says.  I tell you, if it's the one thing Catholics can all find comfort in, it's the realization that Mormon Bishops are more screwed up than our own.

He's against abortion but doesn't believe it should be legally prohibited and refuses to call abortion murder.  He thinks abortion can mean a number of things to a number of people and a one size fits all doesn't apply to abortion. 

Abortion is not so offensive as to have a national prohibition.  Gay marriage is. Don't let his record supporting gay marriage in Massachusetts stand in the way of understanding his convictions.

Jim Bopp and Mass Citizens for Life are tying their dogs to the roof of the cars and heading for Iowa to support their candidate.  Don't let a little thing like  Romney forcing Catholic Hospitals to give out abortifacients against their legally protected rights in Massachusetts get in the way of understanding how the last 20 years of morons playing Rope a Dope with politicians has resulted in the decay of the moral fabric and sanity in this country.   Ten thousand dollars later, MCFL bought themselves a good case of Stockholm Syndrome. 

These poor lambs!

If the Gumshoe Fits...

Somebody over at NRO finally had the stamina to publish what is painfully obvious to people whose brains process things normally: Mitt Romney, the poor fella, has something creepy and weird going on in the hat rack.

But as his campaign has matured, we’re forced to consider a somewhat uncomfortable question. Is there something a little… (shuffling feet, looking at floor, averting eyes)… strange about the guy?

Perhaps saying his favorite novel was Battlefield Earth (by L. Ron Hubbard) was a brilliant strategy to avoid any controversy over Mormonism by replacing it with speculation that the candidate has an interest in Scientology.

Perhaps the strapping the dog to the roof of the family car is one of those stories that sounds a little — okay, a lot — weird afterwards to outsiders, but if you were there, hooboy, it made perfect, hilarious sense. And Romney insists the dog loved it.

And as for having a “director of operations” who is under investigation for impersonating a police officer… well, perhaps any candidate could have a staffer who behaves a little strangely.

And the 13-minute web video about the Romney family at Christmas… well, it shows a heartwarming, Norman Rockwellish family scene in a beautiful home… but one wonders who videotapes the family holiday get-together and puts it on a campaign website? (And why did he wash the dishes with his shirt sleeves down?)

Do read the entire Geraghty piece which is hilariously written.

Hugh Hewitt, mystified over what we find strange about Mitt, has some trouble understanding the different usages of the word "creepy"

There are 1,282 blog posts that connect "Hillary" and "creepy," and 871,000 Googled web pages with those words, and she is still the most formidable candidate the Dems have.

Yeah, but when people use the word "creepy" when referring to Hillary, they're talking about creepy as in underhanded, slimy, deceived and deceiving beyond the scope of acceptable.  As much as they disagree with her politics and the delivery of vindictive malice against Christendom, she's not weird.

There are 412 blog posts that connect "Giuliani" and "creepy," and 316,000 web pages with the terms courtesy of Google.

Yeah, but when people use the word "creepy" with Giuliani, they're talking about the poor fella's intimacy issues with women.   When people use the word creepy when referring to Giuliani, they're talking about the womanizing.  As much as they disagree with having your cookie living in the same house as your wife, he's broken not weird.

 

Romney's campaign update: He's gained 80,000 cheapskates

If it weren't for the 7 million Romney wrote for his own bid to the White House, he'd be down to 5 million cash on hand!

For Romney, whose assets are estimated at between $190 million and $250 million, one of every $5 of his revenue has come from his personal wealth.

Romney increased his number of donors by nearly 50,000 for a total of more than 80,000 for the year so far. McCain reported a total number of contributors of 72,000 for the first six months. The Giuliani campaign said he doubled his number of donors this quarter, bringing his total to about 56,000.

Happy Fourth of July!

The Archdiocesan Wizards

This week's Pilate has a story about a typical priest in the Archdiocese of Boston.  The priest, Fr. Michael Bernier, pictured below in his lumberjack shirt, described himself as a "Pottermaniac" in a talk he gave about - of all things - the Blessed Virgin and our Triune God.

Father Pottermaniac told the kiddos harmless magic is not sorcery but a quest on a journey towards god:

"On the surface level it does sound suspect and does raise red flags," he said. However, he said the magic in Harry Potter is not sorcery. And he noted that the original title of the first book was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." The title was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone" for the book's release in the United States.

"I happen to be one of the people who believes that there's a great deal of Christian imagery and symbolism in the books. And I think it answers, at least in parts, a longing that we have for Christ," he said.

Father Pottermaniac also told the kiddos that Pope Benedict has never raised an objection to Harry Potter.

However, the Pope had the following to say:

"It is good that you explain the facts of Harry Potter, because this is a subtle seduction, which has deeply unnoticed and direct effects in undermining the soul of Christianity before it can really grow properly."

The Pilate ran the photo and story without the actual quote from the Pope - just in case you're ding-dong enough to see the picture of the Plaid-shirted Priest Pottermania standing in front of his trinket collection pooh-poohing magic as harmful and a cuckoo subtle seduction bell doesn't go off in your head loud enough to do your own research.

The Chancery Committees put in charge of wondering why sane people are no longer sitting in the pews are organizing a youth ministry field trip to Borders.

Father Bernier said that Harry Potter is "a symbol of all of us as sons and daughters of God -- humanity pursuing its spiritual perfection in Christ."

All Aboard!

A wealthy Mormon who jetted 150 to raise money for Romney violated FEC Rules

Instead of handing Romney cash for his campaign that would exceed allowable contributions, Mitt Romney is having people pay out-of-pocket expenses directly.

"Federal Election Commission rules allow a donor to travel to a fundraiser at his or her own cost, but since the people in this case were actually flying to an event and then volunteering to raise money for a campaign, a payment of their travel by a private person may violate the election rules, experts say."

"It's hard to see how it would not be an illegal contribution," says Anthony Corrado, a professor of government at Colby College in Maine who specializes in campaign finances.

    Gardner, however, says he doesn't believe there is a problem with him paying for the flight. "They don't care how you get there," he said this week.

They don't?

Why not have Barbara Comstock pull the Seamus windshield out of Romney's garage, strap them to the roof of the Mittmobile and chalk another one up to emotion-free crisis management?

I'm sure these folks like fresh air.

 

Inside Romney's fundraiser at the Boston Garden

They blasted "Baba O'Reilly"?

After everyone was seated and ready to go we first heard from Meg Whitman, CEO of Ebay (I didn’t get a good picture of her). Then they dimmed the lights a little and we watched a short video that was much like a campaign advertisement, and then someone announced Governor Romney and his wife over the loudspeaker. They played loudly over the speakers part of the intro to The Who’s Baba O’Riley.  I’m a big Who fan so that got me even more stoked than I already was.

Baba O'Reilly??

Be sure to scroll down to see the buffoon from My Man Mitt.

Here's a good question from the comments section:

When do we find out how much money they got that day???

I thought it was interesting too, considering last time, there was an awful lot of hoopla in the newspapers the next day over how much money he made. 

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland

Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!

 

Romney is not the sharpest tool in the shed

Romney story about tying the dog to the roof of the car, whereupon the dog defecated a brown liquidy substance from the roof onto the windows was all over the internet today.

Here, here and here.

Do you think it really happened or is he getting watching National Lampoon mixed up with reality?

Weird Willard's Wallet Woes

Romney's second quarter fundraising numbers is clear evidence that Catholic and Evangelical prolifers are not on the Mittmobile.

In January, Mr. Romney said financing his own campaign would be “akin to a nightmare.” But his campaign said yesterday that he had put in more money to maintain the gains he had made, especially in the early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire.

At the news conference, The Boston Globe reported, Mr. Romney, asked why he was putting more money in, said: “Because I have to, all right? My message is important and critical to get out into this country.”

By gum, if grassroots voters won't buy into my infomercials, I'll buy more of them myself.