Romney's Changing Views: Candid or Convenient? (Opportunistic Flip-Flopper)

Obi-ROM Kenobee: "Those videos you saw did NOT show me promoting abortion on demand, gays in the military, and gun control."

Modern translation: "Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

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Princess Lay-uh: "Help me, Obi-ROM Kenobee, you're my only hope."

Yoda: "No, there is another."

We're just waiting on the Force to show us who...

Let's be clear about this as a matter of historical fact: social conservative activists have -- since at least March 2005 -- been attacking Romney's record of promoting abortion on demand, the "gay rights" agenda, and gun control.

Not until December 2006 was his liberal record widely reported by the MSM.

But you expect us to believe that the fact that Romney's being criticized for promoting abortion on demand, "gay rights" and gun control, by definition, makes him a conservative. What are you smoking? Or perhaps more relevant, what do you obviously think we're all smoking?

Note this excerpt from ABC's story:

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But a number of prominent conservative leaders such as Paul Weyrich, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, and Donald Wildmon are not yet convinced, and some openly doubt the sincerity of Romney's beliefs.

"The last message we want to send to prospective candidates in future elections is to say that you can spend your entire political career trashing the values of social conservatives and then win our support by claiming to have a deathbed conversion just before running for president," said Gary Glenn, a leader of the American Family Association.

"It is my opinion that social conservatives will not be fooled by another liberal Massachusetts flip-flopper who insistently promoted abortion on demand, gun control and the agenda for homosexual rights."

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MSM reports (accurately) that recognized conservative leaders distrust Romney's alleged "evolution" (his word), and that's proof that he's really a "conservative"?

Try again.

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