Mitt Zombie Calls Me “Delusional”
Prior to Christmas, I had the opportunity to pose a very direct question on the Howie Carr Show about why former governor Romney ordered his Department of Health to change the marriage certificates from “husband” and “wife” to “partner A” and “partner B” without any accompanying legal statute and why he ordered his Justices of the Peace to solemnize and perform same sex marriage ceremonies or resign again without any accompanying legal statute which is illegal. Under the Massachusetts Constitution which John Adams authored:
“the people of the Commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent.” (Article X of the Massachusetts Constitution)
Since there was no “court order” (merely a declaratory opionion without consequential relief) and the people via their elected represetatives never provided their “consent” for changing the current marriage statute chap 207 to allow for “same sex marriage” Romney had no legal authority to issue same sex marriage certificates. (the court didn’t even have the constitutional jurisdiction in the first place to even hear the case in and of itself an impeachable offense.)
I also asked him if it may have had anything to do with his promise he had made in a secret meeting with the Log Cabin Republicans in 2002 not to oppose “same sex marriage” in Massachusetts in order to get their endorsement for governor. He didn’t deny this meeting or said promise.
And he very furtively ducked my question about ordering his Department of Health to change the marriage certificates.
Our friend Tom Blumer of bizzyblog discusses this issue further and talks about the irony of Romney calling me “delusional”:
Mitt Romney Calls Gregg Jackson ‘Delusional’; What Does That Make Romney?
OVERVIEW: On a major Boston talk show just before Christmas, Mitt Romney called a leading conservative author “delusional.” You know what they say about people in glass houses.___________________________________
Mass Resistance has posted the audio and transcript of a call that took place on the air during the Howie Carr show on the afternoon of December 21 on WRKO in Boston.
The caller was Gregg Jackson, who is co-host of Pundit Review Radio on Sunday evenings on WRKO and is co-proprietor at the Pundit Review blog. Howie Carr’s guest was Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney, who in the course of answering Jackson’s question, showed exactly why he is, indeed, objectively unfit.
Keep in mind that Gregg is the author of “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies,” a book that has earned rave reviews from the likes of Thomas Sowell (”political and media spin are shot to pieces by hard facts”) and David Limbaugh (”There is not a better one-stop-shop item to refute with evidence and examples the liberal lies.”).
The former Massachusetts governor, according to this debate footage (first 30 seconds of so at linked video), wants to: “….. bring together the same coalition that Ronald Reagan put together, conservatives fiscally, conservatives from a military standpoint, and conservatives socially,” and says that “….. I was a conservative Republican in a very Democrat state.”
Let’s see how Mr. Coalition-Building Conservative handled perfectly legitimate questions from (sorry Gregg, I’m going to make you blush) one of the rising stars of conservative punditry (bolds are mine; explanations of footnoted items are at the end of this post):
The fact that Romney lied about the court “legalizing same sex marriage” and that he was merely “following the law” when there is no such law is one of the primary reasons I have opposed his candidacy so vigorously. Romney, not the courts, gave Massachusetts “same sex marriage” and in the process shredded the oldest functioning constitution in the world. This alone I believe disqualifies him from the presidency.
January 10, 2008 3:02 pm 
I heard the original conversation - you were rude, interrupted many times, and wouldn’t listen to the answer you allegedly sought to your questions. A typical Howie hit job.
You’re depending on the New York Times version to provide you with the truth? That IS delusional.
Here’s what the article says - the great secret promise - “But, according to several people present, he promised to obey the courts’ ultimate ruling and not champion a fight on either side of the issue.”
What gets lost here in the allegation of several people present is that Romney DID go to court, and forced the vote on gay marriage in the Legislature. The Legislature caved and refused to allow the people in Mass. to vote. THAT is why the LCR are so ripped - Romney DID intervene, in a way that might have had very different outcomes.
The LCR’s are spending money to run attack ads against Romney- and you think he’s in the bag for them?
You ARE delusional.
Mr. Porcupine, that was quite the prickly response.
The promise to the LCR was that he would “obey” the court’s ruling. That’s exactly what he did, even though the executive branch doesn’t take “orders” from the judiciary. It only carries out laws passed by the legislature. In this case there was no law to carry out, but Mitt “obeyed” anyway.
Your narrative about trying to get a vote all occurred in 2006 and 2007, well after 2004’s unilateral imposition of SSM by Romney, and is totally irrelevant to the discussion of what HE did in response to Goodridge.
The LCRs supported Romney in 2002 and don’t now because they fear that he might have changed his stance (he seems to have, but with Romney, you never know). That doesn’t undo the damage that he did in 2004.
[...] UPDATE: From Gregg himself at Pundit Review — “Mitt Zombie Calls Me ‘Delusional’.” At the Mass Resistance blog - “Howie Carr Let Romney Off the Hook on ‘Gay Marriage’ Lies” [...]
Gregg,
I would think you would have moved on from that vicious beat down by Mitt. I heard it live and it was not pretty. I, for one, have had more than enough of your anti-Mitt misinformation campaign. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. You are the type of Republican that pushes us sane folks across the aisle.
Delusional is Gregg Jackson allowing himself to be described as a “leading conservative author”. How many people have to show how many mistakes are in your book before you’re described as a leading wannabe d-list hanger-on?