Posted on 12/07/2006 7:51:55 AM PST by ZGuy
A pro-family activist group in Massachusetts is warning that Governor Mitt Romney is not the conservative politician he's portraying himself to be. The group has unveiled a lengthy document titled "The Mitt Romney Deception."
Mass Resistance founder Brian Camenker says the Republican presidential candidate has been "posturing" himself in other states as a conservative, pro-life, anti-homosexual "marriage" candidate -- but his record, says the activist, tells a much different story. Camenker has followed Romney since his first political campaign against Ted Kennedy in 1994.
"I watched him on television talk about how he was for abortion and how he would be more for homosexual rights than Ted Kennedy himself," he shares. "I mean, we watched him say this on television. And when he ran for governor, we all watched as he claimed to be just as pro-choice as his Democrat opponent."
In "The Mitt Romney Deception," Camenker states that Romney's "new found conversion" to conservatism "very likely coincides with his candidacy for the presidency." The document, says the activist, is necessary because of a "calculated effort" by the Romney campaign to "revise his history and portray [him] as far more conservative than the record shows." And that record, writes Camenker, "indicates that [Romney] has spend his entire career speaking and governing as a liberal."
Camenker says he does not see how a conservative group or publication could take Romney seriously.
"It really shocked me how gullible a lot of these conservatives around the country have been," he says, "and part of it has been because of Romney's very impressive PR campaign into which I guess he's pumped quite a lot of money -- probably millions of dollars -- and the fact that a lot of people just didn't see what we saw here in Massachusetts."
According to the Mass Resistance spokesman, homosexual newspapers have praised Romney quite a bit over the years. In addition he notes that the Log Cabin Republicans, a pro-homosexual group within the GOP, endorsed the governor in both elections while he ran as a liberal.
Romney's office did not return calls requesting an interview with the governor.
This is a bs attack, by a bunch of unknowns.
Romney is by far the most conservative running for 08
The Agape Press is probably owned by SOROS !
Brain Camenker is not an unknown. You may not know this but Catholic Charities had to stop its adoption program because the Romney Administration would not grant it a waiver that would allow them not to have to place children with Same-Sex couples. Not real good for women who want their children to have a family that looks like Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Not real good for the kids either.
Agape Press has a reputation in the pro-life movement. It appears to be a subsidiary of the American Family Association.
Occasionally, Donald Wildmon can be too much of a purist for his own good, but he's reliably conservative.
I have heard these same arguments from other sources. Regretably, there is considerable reason to think that Romney supports abortion from personal conviction as well as opportunism as a campaigner in Massachusetts.
Somehow I don't see the word Agape associated with Soros at all!
Nope--they're "Christian conservatives"--the same folks who sat out he 2006 election out of sheer spite, giving the Democrats control of the House and Senate. It's only been a month since the election and they've already set up the circular firing squad.
They only care about their power in the GOP.
They've abandoned Reagan's 11th Commandment.
The GOP needs a way to win without these fair weather "friends".
Donner Party, call your office!!!!
Not good enough, off with his head!
I am a Christian Conservative and I voted straight Republican in the 2006 election.
James Dobson and James Kennedy are Christian Conservatives, too, not even as conservative as I am, and they called this election too important to sit-out.
All the Christian Conservatives I know, and all the Christian Conservative leaders I heard from by radio, by email, and by US post, were telling us to go out and vote.
I don't know ANY Christian Conservatives who sat-out the election. Not ANY.
And just to clarify, we do not consider voting for less-than-perfect candidates as the "lesser of two evils", but rather as voting for the "greater good".
Please don't blame us.
WE VOTED!!!
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Careful... there are lots of folks who sign on here who love this RINO. :-)
That sounds like something a Mobyite would say.
It's easy, just elect Democrats petending to be Republicans, worked out really well he last time we had control of both houses and the White House.
In other word tell the party to quit digging up these RINO's and funding them, over real Republicans.
"...a lot of people just didn't see what we saw here in Massachusetts."
Prove it.
Agape Press is a Christian news bureau whose work I like very much but their largely evangelical staff and audience are unlikely to say anything positive about a Mormon candidate. I think there coverage of Romney as been fair but they will certainly not be a cheerleader even if his record were better. I think the attacks on Romney's conservative credentials are legitimate (his record and past statements can't be hidden) but misguided. Like Governor Reagan before him his move to the right is real and his coddling of the left in the past has more to do with circumstance than principle. One does not govern Massachusetts as a conservative, that is a non-starter. I would take Romney's pro-life and anti-gay marriage stands as a Presidential candidate to be as real as Reagan's pro-life presidency despite his pro-choice governorship.
let's see...
Reagan was a hollywood Democrat and turned Republican
David Horowitz was a 60s liberal and turned conservative
Michael Medved was a 60s liberal and turned conservative
George W. Bush was an secular alcoholic drug user and turned conservative, and Christian
some people (like GWB) weren't Christians their whole life, does make them 'damaged goods' and unacceptable? and does the same follow for conservatism?
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