Posted on 01/12/2007 5:31:34 AM PST by Risha
Five things Mitt doesn’t want you to know
By Jessica Heslam
Boston Herald Media Reporter
Friday, January 12, 2007 - Updated: 04:22 AM EST
1. He flip-flopped on abortion rights:
In 1994, when he tried to unseat U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Romney said he supported Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. He said abortion should be “safe and legal in this country.”
In 2002, when running for Massachusetts governor, Romney promised not to change the state’s abortion laws. Today he says he’s “firmly pro-life.”
2. He’s changed his tune on taxes:
In 2002, Romney refused to sign a no-new-taxes pledge.
Last week, Romney signed a “taxpayer protection pledge” and is vowing to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates” and “oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits.”
3. Thomas Trimarco
Trimarco was second in command under former Massachusetts Treasurer Joe Malone when Treasury employees bilked more than $9 million from the state’s unpaid check fund. Romney appointed Trimarco as his top budget secretary and also to the Massachusetts Turnpike board.
4. The Big Dig disaster
Critics say Romney waited too long to take over the embattled $15 billion roadway project. Romney stepped in last summer after a tunnel collapse killed a Jamaica Plain woman. State inspectors also signed off on checks never done under his watch.
5. Gay rights
During his 1994 run against Kennedy, Romney wrote in a letter seeking support from Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group: “We must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.”
As governor, Romney backed a proposed amendment to ban gay marriage.
Do you really think there is anyone here who has not already made up their mind on Romney? Who do you think you're going to sway by posting negative stuff?
1. He matured. Who among us has never changed their mind on any issue?
2. He refused to make the same mistake as George H. W. Bush... seems reasonable.
3. He hired someone who was in authority when others under that authority acted badly... hardly a bad act from Mitt.
4. Too soon, too late... the timing is never perfect, so the nay-sayers will always have something to whine about. A few dozen other officials in MASS can also have that charge laid at their feet for the Big Dig fiasco... and the second part has the author again blaming Mitt for acts by state workers while he was in office.
5. Making equality a mainstream concern does not mean that one must support gay marriage proposals... especially poorly-written ones.
What a sloppy hatchet job.
(I'm actually not for Mitt for President, but this was just a crummy piece.)
A classic Herald/McCain hit piece.
That's OK. I'm still hoping Tom Tancredo jumps into the race because as it stands now he, or maybe Hunter, are the only ones that deserve my support. In my humble opinion Mitt's a moron and McCain's worse.
My thoughts exactly. Several of these points are out of context to begin with, like #1 and #5.
I voted for him for governor, but I won't make the same mistake when I vote for president.
It's been a rather big week for Romney:
Monday: Raise 6.5 million bucks
Tuesday: Get endorsed by Senator DeMint
Wednesday: 1994 Senate Debate hits the web
Thursday (or was it Weds) rapid response to the 94 debate.
Heck money, endorsements, and getting the worst thing about you out early. I'll call it a good week.
Disclosure: I am an undecided Republican primary voter
There's a difference between maturing and flipflopping on the issues when you're sixty years old after having been in public life for thirty years. Romney was a liberal two years ago. Today he is a conservative. Where will he be two years from now?
Another gratuitous MSM Romney hit piece. It appears the MSM would rather Republicans nominate someone else.
One for the Romney list?
"It appears the MSM would rather Republicans nominate someone else."
And that makes it an endorsement to me! ;)
a trend of thought, or a political tendency, seeking to make political capital out of situations with the main aim being that of gaining more influence or support, instead of truly winning people over to a principled position or improving their political understanding.
Romney is a Phoney. Wake up!
He did a great job!* He passed universal socialized health care using a scheme that Ted Kennedy has adopted and is now pushing nationwide. No Democrat governor of Massachusetts has ever been able to that -- but Romney did.
*Great job if you're a socialist, that is.
Let's set a few things straight here. Romney NEVER endorsed abortion,but said he'd uphold the existing pro abortion laws as they stood.His Admin held taxes DOWN against the wishes of a tax happy state legislature for 4 years,as did the previous 2 Republican Governors in Mass.He tried from the start of his Admin to get control of the Big Dig horror show,but thanks to how the Dukakis Admin. had origially set up the MTA to make it autonomous to government management had to go to court to get control of it.He didn't flip flop on Gay rights because he never endorsed homosexual marriage,though he did support homosexual "unions" something I disagreed with him on !!!
Okay, the Herald is not so MSM as the Globe, this article was still a sloppy hit piece intended not for the reader's edification, but to benefit either McCain and/or the Dems.
#6 He's a Mormon.
I'm not a Romney supporter (especially now than Ron Paul has jumped into the race), but I think numbers 2, 3, and 4 are unfair. Number 2 - while he may not have signed a pledge, the fact is he cut taxes and did not raise them in any category. Record is more important than rhetoric. Number 3, I don't see any proof of a direct connection of him to that scandal. Number 4, he actually DID try to do something about the Big Dig mess before that woman was killed - it was only her death that made others cooperate with him and shame Amorello into finally resigning.
And that's a problem why?
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