Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich on the Martin case
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
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A few quotes via BuzzFeed: Romney, Santorum Comment On Trayvon Martin.
Based on this, at least (and on my other post), it seems that Romney and Santorum are handling this with a bit more respect and propriety than is Gingrich.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
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Quoting just the quotes (which is 3/4ths of the article, but if anyone has copyright on the quotes, it’s Romney and Santorum, not BuzzFeed).
Romney:
Santorum:
Santorum is a lot stronger — he stops short of mentioning racism explicitly, but it is a lot stronger of a condemnation.
Romney, on the other hand — he’s not even acknowledging that the worst aspect is the police response. He might as well be a spokesman for the police department putting out a CYA statement.
This goes right to how I view the two candidates.
I don’t agree with Santorum at all on most every issue, and I think he’s a prissy little sanctimonious busy body, but I like that he stands up for what he believes, and sometimes he actually is on the right side of something. There’s at least some common ground.
Romney? There’s nothing there to like.
FYI, # 1, quotes can’t be copyrighted. Not by reporters. Not by speakers.
Also, you’ve got things completely bass-ackwards. Lambasting law enforcement for not “immediately prosecuting” this case is a precipitous and reckless statement. Prosecutions don’t work that way. Cops and then prosecutors don’t drop in like the Navy Seals to whisk away the “white Hispanic” race murderer for a waterboarding session and then a quick trial, conviction and execution.
Romney by far has the better take on this. There needs to be a thorough and impartial investigation. The facts need to be developed. If it’s determined that Zimmerman committed a chargeable offense then he needs to be arrested, indicted, arraigned, subjected to a preliminary hearing, tried before a jury, and, if convicted, sentenced and then incarcerated. That’s how prosecutions actually work. Lastly, don’t believe everything you read in the media. They have an agenda. They’re biased. They’re not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Regarding Gingrich, he’s already slipped down into talking parody territory. It’s a fall from graceless to brainless.
You must feel tremendous kinship for him…
No, of course not…according to your own standards, that process should only happen to Muslims from the Middle East…
Couldn’t this be said about pretty much any issue that’s been discussed in the campaign so far?
@Tsar Nicholas II:
Are you also an IP attorney in your spare time?
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