Posted on 01/10/2007 11:17:52 AM PST by slowhand520
Let's see if this will comeback and hurt him
(Excerpt) Read more at shinesforall.com ...
1994, his first run for political office. It will lose him a few conservative votes. It will win him just as many or more mushy moderate votes. Let's see if anyone brings it out in the primaries.
He is charming, handsome and convincing. He was elected in Mass. It WAS the women.
The women will vote for him!
He wins.
"1994, his first run for political office. It will lose him a few conservative votes. It will win him just as many or more mushy moderate votes. Let's see if anyone brings it out in the primaries."
Agreed. 13 years is an awfully long time, especially considering he hadn't actually served in any elected office up until that point (i.e., he had little chance to evaluate the practical effect of policies and ideas). He governed, a decade later, substantially to the right of the positions highlighted in that video. That's where the money is.
Of course it will. Good to have it out there now. It will be old news by then. ;-) By the way, I wish he'd won that election. He was the best choice.
bump for later... (Curse you, company firewall!)
"Let's see if anyone brings it out in the primaries.
Of course it will. Good to have it out there now. It will be old news by then. ;-) By the way, I wish he'd won that election. He was the best choice."
Yup. McCain leaked this in response to the dissappointing news (to him anyway) published in RollCall that Iowa movement conservatives are cool to him and enthusiastic towards Romney. It highlights one of McCain's biggest problems: his rashness. He really blew his wad here. He leaks a video, that has statements that have been publicly discussed ad nauseam here and other places, a year before the first primary. Brilliant.
I wonder if his "tar-baby" statement will hurt him?.......Nah...
Two quotes from the video:
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country."
"I believe that since Roe V. Wade has been the law for 20 years that we should sustain and support it and I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice."
- Mitt Romney
Romney will be a strong, effective spokesman for the GOP. I think he will wear well with voters and look very leaderly and capable next to the over-exposed, empty-suit celebrity candidates like Hillary and Abomination. But a big part of his attractiveness as a candidate is that he has a resume and some amount of name recognition to match his political abilities.
But some people will not get past the fact that to run and win as senator or governor in a liberal state like Massachusetts you have to make some concessions. You will not advance a conservative agenda one inch in a state like Massachusetts if you deny political reality and run as a doctrinaire conservative. I have full confidence he will run as a pretty solid conservative when running nationally precisely because he came right to govern after his 1994 campaign for Senate and later for governor.
So many conservatives just focus narrowly and solely on his abortion position to claim he's some sort of liberal that he's not, a position which has evolved to become pro-life by the way based on some studying he did (most thinking adults find certain of their positions evolving over time), and ignore the other ways in which he governed conservatively including of course leading the charge against gay marriage.
But the "cut off your nose to spite your face" crowd will ignore all the ways he governed as a conservative to focus on the few areas where he had to adapt to Massachusetts' political reality. They really are so deluded that they can't see how self-destructive they are. These same thoughtless, non-pragmatic types gave us Clinton 1 and seem intent on giving us Clinton Part Deux.
"Two quotes from the video:
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country."
"I believe that since Roe V. Wade has been the law for 20 years that we should sustain and support it and I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice."
- Mitt Romney"
Wow! I've never seen those statements before! It's not like we've, you know, discussed this ad nauseam for months./sarc
So much for the people who say he is more conservative than Rudy... at least I trust Rudy will not waffle in the WOT, I don't trust Romney won't waffle, because he tells people what they want to hear.
Well, this female more than likely will not vote for him.
If his beliefs and positions have evolved to become pro-life that is a good thing and I will not hold that against him. We are all called to conversion every day.
What year are those quotes from?
His Universal Health Care Plan is being touted by Kennedy today, I don't call that conservative, not by a long shot.
His saying he was an independent when Reagan was President and didn't go along with Reagan's policies will not help him.
Not "just" abortion, he also believes in gay rights and he sort of proved that belief wasn't a 1994 anomaly.
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