This story, from the L.A. Times, is one for the ages. “Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday that a judge he appointed while Massachusetts governor should resign because she released without bail a convicted killer now charged with murdering a young couple.”
That’s right – Romney appointed a judge who subsequently let a killer go, and he ended up killing again. But Romney is lucky the killer did not track him down while he was out of prison. “Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said that Tavares, while imprisoned in Massachusetts, had threatened to kill Romney and other state officials. The threat was made in a letter intercepted by prison officials in February 2006.”
And here is the capper – Edward P. Ryan Jr., a past president of the Massachusetts Bar Assn., said Tuttman had made the correct call based on state law “and for Romney to call for her to resign is nothing more than political expediency. If Romney had any courage, he would stand up and say this judge did the right thing.” Prosecutors “offered no facts other than to refer to his record” in arguing for Tavares to be held on bail.
This story is a complete disaster for Romney. It reminds American voters of another former Governor from Massachusetts – Michael Dukakis, who famously released a killer named Willie Horton, who went on to rape and assault someone after he was released from prison.
Of course the best reason not to support Romney, at least in California, is that he is being fronted by Mike Schroeder, the infamous adviser to disgraced O.C. Sheriff Mike Carona. How will Schroeder spin this latest disaster for his boy Romney?
Very interesting. Romney won’t stand up for that judge who was applying the rule of law according to state statute. It isn’t the “right thing” politically for him to do. It is kind of like how he rails against sanctuary cities re: immigration, yet he has no problem using undocumented labor in his home or never brings up his own family’s immigration story to seek sanctuary in Mexico. And this guy is supposed to be religious?!
Because of Mitt Romney a young newlywed couple is DEAD. As a result of his decision making regarding who he appoints as judges.
What offends me almost as much as him appointing this liberal judge responsible for letting this monster out to murder this couple is the game he is now playing.
Calling for her to resign? He knows that isn’t going to happen. It is just empty grandstanding. Does he really believe that people are going to buy this? Does he really think people aren’t going to be offended by this gimmick? Does he really believe we are going to be fooled?
Well perhaps he does. After all, he believes that some ancient “white” American Indian angel came and talked to this guy in the 1800s. Someone who would believe that would believe just about anything.
Truth about Mormonism.
Forget terrorism. The most important issue in this Presidential Election is who will the next President appoint to the Federal Courts.
Well we have seen what kinds of people he appointed when governor. If we expect something different from him in the White House then we are just as gullible as those who followed ole Joe Smith.
Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb.