"Romney law team likely to hit conservative chord; Panel will furnish advice on judiciary" August 05, 2011|By Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has assembled a cast of judicial advisers heavy with ties to the George W. Bush administration and with icons of the political right - a lineup that is likely to score points with social conservatives.
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One cochair of what Romney calls his Justice Advisory Committee is former Appeals Court justice Robert Bork, a martyr of conservative legal thought whose 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court was sunk by liberals.
The second is Mary Ann Glendon, former US ambassador to the Vatican for President George W. Bush and a passionate opponent of abortion rights. The final cochair is Richard Wiley, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Nixon and Ford administrations....
Other prominent conservatives on Romney’s list include Steven Bradbury, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department under Bush and defended the administration’s use of waterboarding on detainees in US custody; Michael Chertoff, who was Bush’s secretary of homeland security; Jay Stephens, who served as associate attorney general for Bush; H. Christopher Bartolomucci, a White House associate counsel from 2001 to 2003; and Bradford Berenson, another former Bush White House lawyer.....
Chertoff making a bundle of all the "$ecurity."
A notable omission from this year’s list is Pepperdine University law professor Douglas Kmiec, who cochaired Romney’s judicial advisory panel during his last run for president. Kmiec, a Republican, crossed party lines and endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in the general election in 2008 and then served as President Obama’s ambassador to Malta.
Romney’s advisory committee ostensibly will provide advice on “the Constitution, judicial matters, law enforcement, homeland security, and regulatory issues’’ and might offer some legal advice, according to a statement from the campaign.
But the real point of the group is seen as politics: “I’m fairly confident Romney is not turning to them for legal counsel,’’ Chris Lehane, a veteran Democratic political strategist and former adviser to Vice President Al Gore, said with a chuckle.
“There are various people on the list who are leaders on points of legal theory or scholarship that matter to conservatives, whether national security issues or social issues. It is one of the things you do in a campaign - assemble these various policy groups who at the end of the day do very little policy making, but you use them to demonstrate the breadth and width and strength of your campaign.’’
In this case, the history of the cochairs reflects the image Romney seeks to telegraph....
Yeah, right, it's all BS.
If so, why the front-page piece?
Yeah, it doesn't matter who staffs the executive, sigh.
Romney is seen as the top pick of the GOP establishment. The biggest threat to the former Bay State governor’s pursuit of the Republican nomination lurks in the insurgent Tea Party wing of the GOP....
THERE THEY GO AGAIN with the INSULTS!!
Tea Party groups, at the moment, seem to prefer a conservative firebrand in the presidential sweepstakes, such as Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a declared candidate for president, or Governor Rick Perry of Texas, who is flirting with a national run....
Or RON PAUL!
Boy, the media must be SCARED of that guy because they RARELY MENTION HIM!
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Another Bush?
Romney’s recruitment of so many Bush administration lawyers to his advisory panel could also benefit campaign fund-raising....
No matter who wins we will be getting the fourth term of the George W. Bush administration.
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Related: Mystery donation to pro-Romney PAC draws scrutiny
"$1m mystery donor to PAC for Romney ID’s himself; Watchdog groups file complaints" August 06, 2011|By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - Hours after two nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdogs filed complaints yesterday with federal election officials and the US attorney general, a mysterious $1 million donor to a political action committee supporting presidential candidate Mitt Romney came forward and identified himself.
The contributor, Edward Conard, is a former executive with Bain Capital, which was cofounded by Romney, and said last night that he did not intend to circumvent election laws when he created a company, W Spann LLC, which paid the contribution without Conard’s name attached....
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Also see: Romney vows to back push against gay marriage
Mitt Romney Was Born in Mexico
Then he can't legally be president, can he?
