Well, I don’t buy your claim that Romney imposed same sex marriage on MA, I believe the state supreme court did that. And I’m not here to defend Romney on every single mistake he ever made. No politician is perfect. RR signed a law here in CA as governor which greatly liberalized abortion. He also supported some tax hikes both as governor and president. Few politicians are ideologically pure. But my larger points are all correct. It’s no longer the econmy, stupid. It’s the demographics, stupid. Also I have pointed out that the GOP is getting pushed out of all of the metropolitan counties in the nation. This has already happened in CA. It is happening in Texas, and it is across the nation. When the Dems build up these huge majorities in our cities that gives them plenty of opportunity to pad their vote totals with”extra” votes like they have been doing in places like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cleveland for years. The GOP is losing out big time in our urban areas.
Pro Life?
Romney in 1994-””My position has been the same throughout my political career, and it goes back to the days of 1970,” he said. “There was a woman who was running for political office, U.S. Senate. She took a very bold and courageous stand in 1970, and that was in a conservative state. That was that a woman should have the right to make her own choice as to whether or not to have an abortion. Her name was Lenore Romney, she was my mom. Even though she lost, she established a record of courage in that regard.”
Romney in August of 2012:
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.