The modern-day KKK controls Mass - mittens laughs, spins damage control

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/11/11/romney_rips_sjcs_justices_on_values/

From "Romney rips SJC's justices on values
Says personal views swayed marriage ruling
By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | November 11, 2005


Governor Mitt Romney's address to the conservative Federalist Society in Washington, D.C., yesterday was warmly received.
(Boston Globe Photo / Lauren Victoria Burke)

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Romney also took heat yesterday when he did not swiftly disavow the remarks of Federalist Society member Gerald Walpin, who introduced Romney by praising him for fighting against what he called the ''modern-day KKK . . . the Kennedy-Kerry Klan."

''Today, when most of the country thinks of who controls Massachusetts, I think the modern-day KKK comes to mind, the Kennedy-Kerry Klan," Walpin, who sits on the society's board of visitors, said to hearty laughter. ''One person who has been victorious against that tide in Massachusetts is Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney."

Romney, along with members of the audience, laughed at the joke and later thanked Walpin for the ''very generous introduction." But later in the day, as Democrats got wind of Walpin's remark and began circulating it, Romney distanced himself from the joke and said it was wrong.

''I agree with the critics," Romney said in an interview with the Globe after a meeting on renewable energy with Gale A. Norton, the US secretary of the interior. ''It is ill-advised and inappropriate to raise the KKK even in a joke, and I think it was unfortunate."

Asked to respond to criticism from Democrats that he should have condemned the remark from the podium, Romney said, ''You know . . . I was trying to figure out what I was going to say" in the speech.

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1. "Romney rips MA Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Justices . . . "

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Romney Rips (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) Justices on Values - Says Personal Views (of Justices) Swayed (Goodridge Same-sex) Marriage Ruling

By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | November 11, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Governor Mitt Romney leveled an unusually personal attack yesterday at the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) for legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, telling a group of conservative lawyers and judges that the justices issued the ruling to promote their values and those of "their like-minded friends in the communities they socialize in."

Though Romney has criticized the SJC's watershed 2003 decision many times before, the broadside he delivered at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C., was an atypically sharp and direct attack on the four justices who found that the Massachusetts Constitution afforded gays and lesbians the right to marry.

"If a judge substitutes his or her values for those values that were placed in the constitution, they do so at great peril to the culture of our entire land," he said.

The remarks won applause from the 500 lawyers, scholars, and others who packed a ballroom to hear Romney's speech.

But the comments did not sit well with some back in Massachusetts, who said Romney's remarks were politically motivated and unfair to the justices.

. . . more at . . . http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/11/11/romney_rips_sjcs_justices_on_values/ (BostonGlobe headline story 11/11/05)
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Well, there you go, Mittens. Now you accuse the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of not following the law; instead, to have been blinded by their own personal views and not apply the law. Hello, Mitt? Why not simply move out of state, hhhmmmmmm? Back to Utah, you useless piece of pig dung!!

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[Rockholm]

2. Can this asshole be impeached?

I would love to even have a class action lawsuit against him. His words could be verbally damaging the Massachusetts economy. I despise you, Mittens.

[paineinthearse]

3. Yes

Article VI. The house of representatives shall be the grand inquest of this commonwealth; and all impeachments made by them, shall be heard and tried by the senate.

Article VIII. The senate shall be a court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer or officers of the commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration in their offices. But previous to the trial of every impeachment the members of the senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence. Their judgment, however shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold or enjoy any place of honor, trust, or profit, under this commonwealth: but the party so convicted, shall be, nevertheless, liable to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to the laws of the land.

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4. "misconduct and mal-administration in their offices"

Romney is just plain mal all around. He hates Massachusetts. Let's dump the Chump.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. hear, hear !! . . . n/t