John McCain

Republican Presidential Candidates Trip Over Themselves to Support Bush

Posted by Kombiz Lavasany on July 3, 2007 at 03:18 PM

A poll from Survey USA found that more than 60% of Americans disagreed with Bush's decision to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby. Meanwhile the Republican presidential candidates tripped over themselves to stand with Bush and against justice.

Fred Thompson, who helped raise over 5 million dollars for the Scooter Libby Defense Fund, praised Bush saying, "while for a long time I have urged a pardon for Scooter, I respect the President's decision."

Anthony Circosta, an Iraq war veteran, asked then-Governor Mitt Romney for a pardon, twice. When Circosta was 13 years old he'd shot a BB gun at the arm of a friend and had been convicted of a felony, even though his friend was completely unharmed. Circosta needed a pardon in order to become a police officer in Massachusetts, but was denied twice by Romney. Today Mitt Romney praised Bush's decision to commute Libby's sentence.

Rudolph Giuliani, who fancies himself a "tough on crime" candidate, instantly caved when he heard about Bush's decision. Like Patrick Fitzgerald, Giuliani was a federal prosecutor at one time, though he may have changed his position on obstruction of justice.

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