The reality is the base has shrunk. I’m socially conservative. I’m pro life, pro- traditional marriage, pro gun. I hope I’m still in the club and haven’t been excommunicated. But you should really read about what I wrote about my home state of CA. Every word of it is exactly true. Demographic factors sank Romney more than anything else. Demographic factors changed CA from a solid red state (at least in presidential elections) to a soild blue state. It doesn’t matter here in CA if you are rocked rib conservative like Tom McClintock, or a squishy RINO like Arnold. Republicans cannot get elected to anything in this state anymore thanks largely to changing demographic factors which are also happening in other states. Someone mentioned Texas. Well we’re going to lose Texas too eventually if some of these trends are not reversed. I believe Obama carried both Dallas and Harris counties-—the two biggest counties in that state.
Yeah, me, to you, in post 43, you aren't reading our posts to you?
Did you read post 48? Did you know that the governor gave us gay marriage?
Life?
PELLEY: Well, the platform as written at this convention for the Republicans does not allow for exceptions on abortion with regard to the health of the mother or rape or incest. Is that where you are?
ROMNEY: No. My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.
Guns? Mitt Romney-"“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts ,” Romney said. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
Mitt Romney on DADT-" One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share."
Boy Scouts
Romney in 1994-"Romney said that homosexuals “should be allowed” to serve as Boy Scout leaders. At the time he served on the national (volunteer) executive board of directors (NEB) of the BSA."
DEC 2000 – The 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Committee, under Mitt Romney’s leadership, banned local Boy Scouts from helping at the Olympics games.
8/05/2012 - A spokeswoman for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Andrea Saul, wrote in an e-mail to the press that Romney’s 1994 public support of homosexuals in scouting remained his position today.