That may or may not be what they thought and how they expressed it at the time. It does sound a bit like a later formulation. And their point of view may not have been so different from that of other Republicans at the time, including many who were or became quite conservative.
“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country; I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate,” Romney said.
He may have said it. She may have thought it. But evidence doesn't confirm that she ran as an abortion-on-demand candidate or on a pro-abortion platform.
Romney was born into politics, at the Governor and presidential level. Romney was political in 1979 and rejected the GOP that chose Reagan.
I haven't seen any evidence that Romney was politically active in an anti-Reagan or anti-Republican way in those years. Later on, he tried the William Weld strategy of running to the left of his Democrat opponent, but where's the evidence of anti-Reaganism during the Reagan years? This idea that because someone's father was a governor or presidential candidate one has to be highly political throughout all of one's life, just doesn't fly.
Yep, that is what they embraced, and conservatives did not.
“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country; I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate,” Romney said.
Yep, Mitt the second presidential candidate in a row from the family, proudly tells us the details that he knows personally of his and his family's life and politics.
Romney was born into politics, at the Governor and presidential level. Romney was political in 1979 and rejected the GOP that chose Reagan.
Yep, he left the GOP because of Reagan, and campaigned on being against Reagan, and has named William Weld as his mentor, as the closest to him in politics. Romney has never not been political.