How true are the claims being made by his campaign about Romney's 'conservatism'?

MassResistance.com ^ | DECEMBER 31, 2007

[SoConPubbie]

DECEMBER 31, 2007) MassResistance is the major pro-family activist group in Massachusetts. We've been fighting for pro-family causes here since the early 1990s. We saw the Romney administration close up (although very few social conservatives were actually involved in it). We're disturbed at recent claims that Romney's campaign is making about his record.

We offer the following to set the record straight. (See our Romney Report, published in November 2006.) Basically, Mitt Romney campaigned - and governed - as a social liberal.

Sodomy laws and domestic partner benefits. When campaigning for governor, Romney told the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows that he favored repeal of the state's sodomy laws, and that he supported domestic partner benefits:

Bay Windows: What is your position on each of the following issues? Domestic partner benefits for state and municipal employees - ROMNEY: I support domestic partner benefits. With regard to specific eligibility and benefits, I would need to study the costs and regulations associated with it in light of the state's fiscal crisis.

Bay Windows: Repeal of sodomy laws - ROMNEY: I don't think government should interfere in the private lives of consenting adults.

[SoConPubbie]

You're being lied to conservatives.

[SoConPubbie]

From the article:

Marriage amendment. Also while campaigning for governor, Romney told the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows that he would vote "NO" on the Massachusetts marriage amendment in 2002 because it would not have allowed for domestic partner benefits:

Bay Windows: Do you support the Protection of Marriage Amendment?

ROMNEY: No, because it would outlaw domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples.

Bay Windows: Do you believe the Protection of Marriage Amendment initiative should be put before voters? ROMNEY: The people have a constitutional right to put questions before the voters. But, if it had been on the ballot, I would have voted no.

WORSE: Romney went on to support writing civil unions into the Massachusetts constitution, convincing hesitant Republican legislators to vote for the "Travaglini-Lees compromise" marriage amendment in 2004 (which eventually failed).

Read Boston Globe article "In crucial shift, governor sways 15 in GOP to support measure"

[FrankR]

[SoConPubbie]

From the Article:

Taxpayer-funded abortions. Romney's health-care plan in Massachusetts allows abortions for a co-pay of $50. Romney claims that "state law" requires taxpayer funded abortions. There is no such state law. He is referring to a 1983 Supreme Judicial Court decision that Medicaid patients must get "medically necessary" state-funded abortions. There's no "medically necessary" clause in Romney's plan. Nor did he make any attempt to keep abortions out of the plan, (though he did veto other sections of the bill) or challenge this rather vague court decision in any way.

[publius321]

Indeed. After being exposed for the lie of not supporting the individual mandate at the federal level, Romney came up with one last attempt to distinguish his socialist medical scam from Obama’s:
http://youtu.be/_L5xXtGRs_c

[SoConPubbie]

From the Article

Helping Planned Parenthood start new abortion clinic. As the Boston Globe recently reported, "Former governor Mitt Romney's economic development agency granted initial approval to a tax-exempt bond last year for a Planned Parenthood clinic in Worcester that will provide abortions, just two months before he left office and began highlighting his antiabortion position as a presidential candidate." His appointees controlled the agency - so much for hands-on management.

Boston Globe article: "Romney officials approved clinic loan"

[Farmer Dean]

Lied to?It’s more than that.It’s a systematic disinformation campaign that rivals the best that Obama has thrown down.

[RushingWater]

He’s a radical left wing social. Who would he nominate the Supreme Court? Conclusion: He’s worse than Obama, because let the Democrats have Obama, do Republicans need a Romney?

[svcw]

To the headline:
Romney is not now nor has he ever been a conservative.
Romney is now and has always been a liberal.
Romney is a liar and always has been.

[JSDude1]

Not true at all!

[Kickass Conservative]

Mitt Romney's newest “one of us” Campaign statements:

I gotta get me one of them Rush Limbaugh 24/7 memberships.

I ain't no ways tired of eating grits.

Resist, we much, or not.

[buffyt]

Tree, I like tree. Tree good. Grits, I like grits. Grits good. Ya’ll, I like ya’ll. Ya’ll good. Lamp, lamp good. I like lamp.

Romney

[buffyt]

Wow, co pay $50????????????? I paid more than that when I had to have stitches in emergency room. $50 to kill a precious baby.

[buffyt]

I call him SLICK.