Posted on 06/28/2011 9:43:27 AM PDT by Signalman
Republicans recently have watched multiple Mitt Romneys at war with each other over abortion, ethanol, global warming and more. Alas, this is nothing new. Various Romneys have battled themselves on issues as old as the Vietnam War.
"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam," Hawkish Romney said in the June 24, 2007, Boston Globe while running as a conservative for 2008's GOP nomination.
But Romney sang a softer song years before while campaigning for Senate in liberal Massachusetts. "I was not planning on signing up for the military," Dovish Romney said in the May 2, 1994, Boston Herald. "It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam."
Just last week, Romney spooked pro-lifers by refusing to sign the Susan B. Anthony List's pledge to nominate anti-abortion judges and other federal officials. Romney properly noted that this promise might block, say, an abortion rights spy master from leading the electronic sleuths at the National Security Agency. Still, this dust up underscored Romney's bipolarity on this key issue.
"I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape and to save the life of the mother," Pro-Life Romney wrote in the July 26, 200, Boston Globe.
But less than three years earlier, in October 2002, he disagreed: "Let me make this very clear. I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose."
"Government under President Obama has grown to consume almost 40 percent of our economy," Pro-Enterprise Romney said June 2. "We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free-market economy."
"I support the subsidy of ethanol," Rent-Seeking Romney said May 27 in Iowa, however.
Four days earlier, former Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty bravely opposed ethanol subsidies in Iowa. Nonetheless, Romney bear-hugged this boondoggle — weeks before the Senate voted 73-27 on June 16 to terminate the ethanol tax credit.
"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," CO2-Fighting Romney said June 3. "I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants, of greenhouse gases, that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and global warming that you're seeing."
"Good for Mitt Romney," former Vice President Albert Gore Jr. wrote June 15. "While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party."
"Gov. Romney," CNN's John King asked at a June 13 GOP debate in New Hampshire, "constitutional amendment or state decision?" to ban gay marriage.
"Constitutional," replied Traditional-Values Romney.
Conversely, Modern-Values Romney said in an Aug. 25, 1994, interview with Boston's gay newspaper, Bay Windows: "The authorization of marriage on a same-sex basis falls under state jurisdiction."
Gun-Toting Romney called himself a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association in April 2007. (Actually that "lifetime" began in August 2006.)
Gun-Controlling Romney declared in 1994: "I don't line up with the NRA."
Outdoorsman Romney also said in 2007: "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." A spokesman clarified that Romney actually had hunted precisely twice: At age 15 and in 2006.
"Ronald Reagan is ... my hero," Reagan-Loving Romney said in 2005.
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush," Reagan-Bashing Romney said in 1994, while running for the Massachusetts Senate seat against the late Edward M. Kennedy. "I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."
For a change, Republicans should heed a top Democrat. Like the proverbial busted clock that is right twice daily, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was correct Tuesday when he said about Willard Mitt Romney: "The front-runner in the Republican stakes now? Here's a man who doesn't know who he is."
There is no “real” Mitt Romney. There is a fake Liberal Mitt and a fake Conservative Mitt.
I can’t think of another Republican that seemed to have no reason to run for President, or even be heavily involved in politics, like Mitt Romney.
Nobody knows why he runs, or what he wants out of being in government (but only as the big cheese), personally I think that it is both, his childhood obsession to win gold stars, and to avenge his father’s take down by conservatives, and fly over, traditional Americans. I find both of those threatening, but the second one is deadly to our nation.
Mitt Romney is the GOP Al Gore.
Nope, it’s not even a fake, people like Obama who try to play out of both side of their mouth are leftists, plain and simple.
Liberal is the real Mitt Romney.
>>>Nope, it’s not even a fake, people like Obama who try to play out of both side of their mouth are leftists, plain and simple.
Liberal is the real Mitt Romney.<<<
Well, I agree that the Liberal Mitt is probably much closer to the “real Mitt”, but I don’t think Mitt really feels strongly about anything, except that Mitt should be President of the United States. I’d rather have 4 more years of Obama than see Mitt further destroy the country, and do it in the name of “Conservatism”.
Yeah, but he would still be liberal.
No need to call something other than what it is. He is liberal, plain and simple. I know he would try to call himself conservative, but no significant group of so-called conservative individuals would be willing to buy it anymore.
If you know enough amount him, he is a liberal, and his own words prove it.
The only reason he would try to appear conservative would be to try and pander to Utah Mormons and the religious right.
There’s no need to wonder about Mittens; he’s as liberal as they come. He moved to the right in 2008 because Giuliani was running for the presidency. Now that Rudy’s no longer around he feels free to run again as the liberal, blue-state, barely discernable from a democrat GOP candidate.
If the truth was known most politicians are like screen actors with multiple screen persona's. They will play any role and suck up to any interest with the most $$$ that will get them elected.
In years past these interests were USA based and represented the home team but just with different views which is fine. Today they are foreign and global and the sovereignty of the USA is no where to be found on their priority list. That is the real threat to the USA.
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