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.
bump for later... (Curse you, company firewall!)
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.
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.
Mitt and Kerry are from the same neck of the woods. They will say anything that they need to get where they want to be. Flip and Flop
As far as "this was a long time ago" apology, that is pure garbage. This guy is pure snake oil.
That's not going to harm Romney's chances! That's been known for some time. It will only be meaningful to those who already do not support Romney. It seems to turn them on - and that's why we see people like you posting this stuff over and over.
As the Democrats look upon this video of a then political neophyte who appears attractive, articulate, and sincere, they will draw the opposite conclusion.
Being good in a televised debate is worth a lot more in a general election than fastidious ideological consistency.
Wow. Very interesting....thanks for the post.
Because Hillary will be elected by the American people in 2008. After she is elected there will be no more elections.