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Rick Santorum had Mitt Romney on the defensive concerning the Romney PAC ad which said that Santorum voted in favor of legislation allowing convicted felons to vote. In fact, the vote Santorum made applied to felons who had served their sentence and paid their debt to society.
Santorum then asked Romney if he favored his position. Romney replied that he opposes restoring the right of violent felons to vote. Santorum countered by asking if he felt so strongly about it why didn’t he change the law when he was Governor of Massachusetts. Romney said he could not do so because the legislature was 85% Democratic. He then added that he had no control of what PACs did in his name. Santorum disagreed and that Romney could have told the PACs to “Stop it!!!”
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ayrnieu| 1.16.12 @ 10:10PM
Oh, oh good. Santorum didn't vote to allow convicted felons to vote; instead, he voted to allow convicted felons to vote. I'm glad he cleared that up! So, who's the posterfelon for this push to only restrict franchise from jailbird/probationary felons? I mean, I know that candidates exist -- I think of Intel's bad behavior in the case of a Perl consultant that they'd hired -- but those I think of should be pardoned.
Dai Alanye | 1.17.12 @ 12:08AM
ayrnieu doesn't seem to comprhend the discussion.
Romney accused Santorum of wanting to allow felons to vote. Santorum said he did, once they had paid their full debts to society, and that Massachusetts under Romney had a more liberal policy. Romney gave his usual excuse that the Dems controlled the legislature, so he was unable to say a word about the issue.
In other words, Romney plays the hypocrite one more time.
ayrnieu| 1.17.12 @ 1:22AM
Right. Romney('s PAC) accused Santorum of wanting to allow felons to vote, which position Santorum confirms. His "debt to society" talk is like a Paul supporter's "he's a non-interventionist, not an isolationist!", and the response to it is the same as the response to that: 1. duh, that's precisely the position you're being attacked for, and 2. nobody ever meant this other position that you're disclaiming, and 3. this defense shows that you're either being disingenuous or that you're not paying much attention to our problem with you.
Given Santorum's "b-b-but Massachusetts"... well, I still can't conclude that his intent was simply to release squid ink and trying to swim away from the subject, but he certainly didn't fly into an attack on Romney's position of not wanting felons to vote. Maybe we'll see him go channel Dukakis in the next few days, hammering this unexpected moral high ground.
davod| 1.16.12 @ 10:58PM
ayrnieu|give over.
ayrnieu| 1.16.12 @ 11:13PM
Try speaking in complete sentences, davod.
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