Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has gone to heights of hypocrisy rare even in politics as he tries to flip-flop his way to the top of the Republican field.But now Romney has topped even himself.
Josh Marshall has the goods in Talking Points Memo.
Writes Marshall:
Mitt Romney comes down from the mountaintop of his primordial phoneyhood to reveal himself as an abysmal hypocrite.
Romney
says the Libby commutation was "reasonable" but ...(a)s governor, Romney twice rejected a pardon for Anthony Circosta, who at age 13 was convicted of assault for shooting another boy in the arm with a BB gun - a shot that didn't break the skin. Circosta worked his way through college, joined the Army National Guard and led a platoon of 20 soldiers in Iraq's deadly Sunni triangle.
In 2005, as he was serving in Iraq, he sought a pardon to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer.
In his presidential bid, Romney often proudly points out that he was the first governor in modern Massachusetts history to deny every request for a pardon or commutation during his four years in office. He says he refused pardons because he didn't want to overturn a jury.
During the four years Romney was in office, 100 requests for commutations and 172 requests for pardons were filed in the state. All were denied.
-- Josh Marshall
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