Well pardon me, but the boys are throwing some punches. Mitt Romney goes on the Ad offensive against Huckabee touting his record of “No pardons”. Mike counters with a solid
“People need to understand the real record here. Did Mitt Romney act in the best interest of Anthony Circosta or in the best interest of Mitt Romney? If you’re gonna be elected to the job you need to be elected to do the job that’s best for the citizens, not for your own political future.”
Left out of Romney’s Ad is one interesting pardon denial: his rejection of the request of an Iraq war veteran who was trying to become a police officer after his National Guard service. The focus of the AP report was Romney’s denial for Circosta, a 30-year-old from Agawam, Mass. In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Circosta filed for a pardon, seeking to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer. It was denied twice, despite a favorable recommendation from the state’s Board of Pardons. Circosta returned home a Bronze Star winner after leading a platoon in Iraq’s deadly Sunni triangle. Circosta’s crime was shooting a friend in the arm with a BB gun as 13-year-old. The impact didn’t break the skin. Where was Mitt’s outrage when Cheney shot a friend in the face with a shotgun?
What a brilliant Romney phrase. Think of the uses!
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p>Did Mitt Romney act in the best interest of ____________________ or in the best interest of Mitt Romney?
The answers would start to get sort of boring, wouldn’t they?
You can alter the question a million times by filling in the blank differently; the answer is always the same. Quite a rhetorical device, actually.
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p>Ed Rollins is no dummy.
And has the legislature done away with such a stupid law that can end up haunting a person for the rest of their life?
I guess he was tried as an adult?
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p>OK — tirade time…
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p>Seems to me if you’re going to try a minor as an adult, you need to let him be an adult. So, you try a 13 year old as an adult and he’s not convicted… he should be allowed to be an adult at 13.
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p>Voting.
Smoking.
Joining the army.
Dropping out of school.
Consensual sex.
Signing legal contracts.
Ability to get a drivers’ license.
Legal gambling [lotto, casinos, etc].
Marriage rights.
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p>And so on. If he was an “adult” to be tried as a criminal, he’s an “adult” for these other things, no?