More Evidence as to Why Former Romney Supporters in SC and elsewhere are Flocking to Fred Thompson; Romney "Fakes It" with an Unemployed Michigan Mom

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it seems that after relentless attacks against us and now McCain, Team Romney just doesn't get it. It is one thing to stand for our First Principles and let Conservatism guide your way, as is the case for FDT, but it is a completely different story to be fake about your positions and do anything possible to get votes, including pose with a Campaign Staffer's mom, who just happens to be unemployed and then go on CBS and tell Michigan you feel their pain, but not telling anyone of the paid campaign staffer connections? Can we say--the Wolverine State was Set Up by Mitt Romney? I predict this story could very well hurt Mitt Romney today in Michigan, if it gets out in time. Isn't that always the story folks? You learn of this, but its just too darn late to get it out.

Will enough South Carolinians find out just how liberal Huckabee is on immigration, economics & spending, taxes and crime in time by Saturday and will people learn of this story about Romney by today? What was Mitt thinking? He probably thought he could slide this by until after the polls closed?

From Blogs for Fred Thompson on this story:

[Mitt's] sit-down with this Michigan mom was about as spontaneous as his change of heart on abortion, immigration, taxes etc. These changes did not come out of deep empathy and principle, but out of a cold, calculating willingness to adapt to whatever he thinks he must do to get the GOP nomination. This is why Romney is at the very bottom of GOP candidates [to] support. At least the others have some genuine commitment to what they claim to believe.

Romney photo-op was with staffer's mom
By: Kenneth P. Vogel

Jan 14, 2008 09:14 PM EST

(h/t BFFT on Michigan Set Up)

A well-publicized weekend photo-op for Mitt Romney turns out to have been missing a piece of information that might have undermined its credibility: the unemployed single mom at the center of the event was the mother of a Romney staffer.

Local and national media outlets, including Politico.com, reported that Romney was the picture of empathy as he sat at the Marshall, Mich. kitchen table of 51-year-old Elizabeth Sachs, a single mother of two who lost her job as a retail manager – as well as her health insurance – and is running out of money as she tries to sell her house to move to Florida.

What wasn’t reported – and what the Romney campaign did not reveal at the time – was that one of Sachs’ sons, Steve Sachs, is a paid employee of Romney’s campaign, organizing five counties in Michigan....

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Talking to a small handful of reporters after Romney and most of his press pack had left the kitchen, Sachs offered details about her age, job situation, and her effort to sell her home. When asked about her children, she only said that one was "20, soon to be 21" and that another was a teenager.

The Associated Press distributed a photograph of Romney and Elizabeth Sachs kitchen chat, which ran on the Boston Globe’s Web site and CBS’s Harry Smith interviewed Romney from Sachs’ home.