"Romney Willing to Win Without Honor" by Leo W. Gerard at the Huffington Post

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Romney Willing to Win Without Honor

by Leo W. Gerard at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/mitt-romney-republicans_b_2034712.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business

"SNIP.............................................

At virtually any moment as he ran for president over the past two years, Romney could have very publically deplored Republican attempts to suppress Democratic votes. That's because virtually continuously over that time,Republican-controlled legislatures, Republican governors and other GOP officials have concocted a variety of measures to wrest from Democrats their right to vote. These include passing onerous photo ID requirements, limiting early balloting and aggressively purging voter rolls.

These measures disproportionately affect minority, poor, disabled, elderly and women voters, all of whom tend to vote Democrat. Among the most egregious examples occurred in Ohio where the secretary of state tried to limit poll hours in Democratic-dominated counties and extend them in Republican-controlled counties.

At any time during the massive publicity over any one of these incidents across the country -- from Maine to Montana and Florida to Arizona -- Romney could have stood up and spoken for fairness. He never did -- not even after the Republican National Committee was forced to fire a shady voter registration firm that was caught in September submitting hundreds of fraudulent registration forms in Florida or after a Republican operative in Virginia was criminally charged in October with throwing completed voter registration forms in a Dumpster.

A simple statement from Romney would have sufficed: winning by means of voter suppression and registration fraud is craven and beneath the dignity of anyone seeking public office. But he said nothing.

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[DrToast]

1. Uh...Duh!

[aquart]

2. +1

[Democratopia]

3. Repeated theme: at any time Romney could have made a stand to do the right thing.

Ditto for the rest of the Republican party. When have you heard either a GOP career politician or any Republican say: "This is wrong."

[Blue Owl]

4. Romney Road -- the lowest of low roads

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