comMITTed to Romney!

Posted in June 2006, CBN’s “The 700 Club” highlighted Romney as the first of the candidates for President. If you look real close you can see what this blog used to look like (amazing how far we’ve come) . I hope you enjoy the video and the read.

http://news.bostonherald….rticleid=145695

Reaching out to the Christian right, Gov. Mitt Romney appeared on televangelist Pat Robertson’s 700 Club to dismiss criticism of his Mormon faith and recall a 1968 near death car wreck in Paris.
In an in-depth interview on the show, which is targeted at fundamentalist and some evangelical Christians, Romney solemnly recalled being falsely pronounced dead at age 21 by French police after the car he was driving was struck head-on by a drunken driver. Romney, who was on a Mormon mission, had four fellow missionaries in the car, one of whom was killed.
The police that arrived on the scene had to get us out with the Jaws of Life, and in my case, they took my passport and wrote “il est mort” - he is dead, Romney recalled.
Romney has said little publicly about the crash but Robertson’s show pointed to the tragedy as a theme in the governor’s life.
Turning around that near-death experience is a theme that has followed him through much of his life. Just when it appears all is lost, he’s able to find an answer, Christian Broadcasting Network host David Brody said of Romney in the segment, which aired yesterday on the “700 Club” and ABC’s Family Channel.

The theatrics of this piece were great, during the “crash sequence” of the story they made Governor Romney’s face like a sepia look, with some black mixed in while he was talking trying to make it look like a bleak moment in his life as it obviously was.

Considered a leading Republican contender in the 2008 presidential race, Romney said he has yet to make a final decision on his political future. He did, though, caution against discounting him because of his Mormon faith.
People said, “Well, gee, can a Mormon win here in a state that’s, what, 50 to 55 percent Catholic? Romney said, referring to Massachusetts. “Well, the answer is yes.”
He added, Could an actor who’d been divorced win as president? Yes. Ronald Reagan was able to do that.
Brody told the Herald the network targeted Romney for its first profile of possible 2008 presidential candidates in part because of the Mormon issue.

He was right on target when answering questions about how his faith would affect whether people would vote for him for President.

“He’s right out of central casting for the presidency. It seems like he may have the whole package that folks potentially could be looking for,” Brody told the Herald.

I truly was stunned to see how positively they played Governor Romney on this network, I definitely would have expected it to at the very least been as neutral as it could have been; but they really in my opinion did a good sell job on Governor Romney being quite like the anyone and dispelled the idea of Mormonism being weird.

Bay State Democrats, who have relentlessly criticized Romney for his out-of-state travels, were quick to pounce once again, accusing the governor of putting presidential aspirations ahead of Massachusetts.
“He’s been a miserable failure in terms of making Massachusetts a great place to live,” said state Democratic party spokeswoman Cyndi Roy. “And it’s unacceptable for him to fly in and out of the state when it fits his campaign schedule.”

Let’s see, miserable failure…Universal Healthcare, a budget turned from a deficit to a surplus without raising taxes, his dedication to education, Melanie’s Law, amongst other “failures”.

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