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bushisanidiot

(8,064 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 12:07 AM Oct 2012

DesJarlais endorsement vanishes from Romney site



http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/desjarlais_endorsement_vanishes_from_romney_site/

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An endorsement from a Tennessee congressman who in a recorded phone conversation urged a mistress to get an abortion has vanished from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s website.

Freshman Rep. Scott DesJarlais, who opposes abortion rights, told a Nashville talk radio show Thursday that while there were many difficult elements to his 2001 divorce, “there was no pregnancy, and no abortion.”

But DesJarlais did not dispute the transcript of a recorded phone conversation in which he urges the woman to terminate a pregnancy.

While the Tennessee Republican Party appears to be standing behind DesJarlais, other GOP leaders in the state like Gov. Bill Haslam and Sen. Lamar Alexander have declined to get involved.

The Romney campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
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DesJarlais endorsement vanishes from Romney site (Original Post) bushisanidiot Oct 2012 OP
Goodness, Mitt has more class than the TN GOP... freshwest Oct 2012 #1
Okay, so he was just testing her, right? Permanut Oct 2012 #2
F****** repblicon hypocrites. Cha Oct 2012 #3
DesJarlies NBachers Oct 2012 #4

Permanut

(5,608 posts)
2. Okay, so he was just testing her, right?
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 12:20 AM
Oct 2012

To see what kind of moral fiber she had.

No? Then how about he was kidding?

Dang, I'm just not very good at this spin thing.

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