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.
Times change. Plenty of Republicans wanted liberalized laws on birth control. Sometimes very conservative Republicans like the Goldwaters. Even Ronald Reagan signed a very liberal abortion bill into law. After Roe vs. Wade a lot of them changed their minds. It can be hard to get back through 40 years of heated political rhetoric to what people actually thought back then.
As an example, when restrictions on birth control devices was being debated in the early 1960s, Catholic cardinals like Cushing and Spellman said that they wouldn't "impose [their Church's position] position upon those of other faiths.' Would they have thought the same a decade later with abortion on demand imposed by Roe?
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.
He might know about his mother's personal beliefs, But he was out of state during the campaign and his memory might have been effected by things that happened later. Shouldn't the memories of the people who worked on the campaign be taken into account as well?
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.
But Weld was a Reagan appointee and supporter. It might be strange that Bill Weld supported Reagan, yet tried to run to the left of John Silber, the Democrat, or supported Obama in 2008, but politics (as they say) makes strange bedfellows.
Romney has never not been political.
That's an opinion. Maybe even a projection. I doubt Romney was especially political in the years when he was mostly interested in making money.