[kinghorse]

Positioned right of McCain and without the dendril plaque. Yeah he's looking okay right here.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Woo Hoo!!! Only two more years of this presidential campaign cr*p...

(I'll care in a year or so)

[street_lawyer]

Is this the same Mitt Romney as the Mitt Romney, former governor, Mass., who recently garnered 12 percent of the republican poll for president?

[Hydroshock]

THis spineless rino goes which ever way the wind is blowing. I will not vote for him.

[freeangel]

Romney is nothing but bad news.

[RegulatorCountry]

"There is no doubt that Governor Mitt Romney is running unabashedly as a pro-life and pro-family candidate for president"

There's no doubt he's running as one, but there's plenty of doubt as to whether he actually is one, given his many past pronouncements while governor of Massachusetts.

[Keyes2000mt]

In 2001, Romney said, in a letter to the Salt Lake Tribute, that he believes that “abortion is the wrong choice, but under the law it is a choice people have.” And in the 2002 governor’s race, Romney made clear that “on a personal basis, I don’t favor abortion,” that he opposed lowering the age at which minors could obtain abortions without parental consent to 16, and that he supported a ban on partial-birth abortions, but that, as governor, he would “protect the right of a woman to choose under the law of the country and the laws of the commonwealth.”

How about you judge for yourself.

[restornu]

There is a better way to live with our fellowman and still keep our convictions.

[Cicero]

I think Romney and Giuliani both have problems as pro-life candidates. Whom do we believe, Romney, who seems to trim his views according to voter polls, or Giuliani, who is honest but so far has refused to commit himself to a pro-life stance?

For the moment, I'm suspending judgment.

Bopp naturally wants a reliable pro-life candidate, and so do I. But I'm not yet ready to commit myself to either of them.

Nor will I commit to Duncan Hunter, who seems to be the best of the conservatives, until I see whether he has any chance of winning. At some point, it will be time to vote, in the primaries and the election. That's when those of us not yet ready to endorse and work for a candidate will need to decide, and persuade our friends to do the best possible.

[lentulusgracchus]

Giuliani is simply not a social conservative. He is pro-choice, pro-partial birth abortion, and pro-special rights for homosexuals. He is also pro-gun control......And Romney’s record on other conservative issues is impressive as well.

Oh, really? Well, just what is that record?

The writer states Giuliani is anti-RKBA and pro-gay without saying that Romney breaks the other way on these issues.

Has Romney signed a "shall-issue" pistol-licensure bill? Vetoed a gun-grab? Vetoed other Million Moms/Handgun Control/VPC legislative initiatives? Interposed his office in attempts to sue firearms manufacturers for criminal abuse of firearms?

And we know about all the support that has just gushed from Romney's office and fax machine for social moderates and conservatives who are trying to reverse the atrocity committed by the lesbian-coddling Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in imposing, by judicial fiat, homosexual "marriage" on the people of Massachusetts -- thus enabling gay lawyers to commence their long-awaited Article IV assault on the institution of marriage in federal court. An assault that has heretofore been frustrated by the utter nonexistence of homosexual "marriage" in any State of the Union, until Massachusetts's SJC deliberately enabled the gay lobby to sue the other 49 States in federal court.

Massachusetts gave the entire institution of marriage away on Mitt Romney's watch. How does that make him not "pro-special rights for gays"?

The only things on Romney's record that say "conservative" to me are his membership in the Mormon Church and his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young. Everything else I see says "Harvard Law" and "Bay State Liberal". Yuck! Ptui!

[Pox]

It's unbelievable how stupid the author and others believe 'we' are considering this POS. He's no better than Clinton, and both are only fooling idiots with their current 'positioning' on any given subject, IMO.

[justche]

Mitt is really a social conservative

Vote for Rudy he's the only one that can beat Hillary

What is wrong with a TRUE conservative showing up and leading the way??

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So far it's Hunter, Brownback or Huckabee for me. Romney is my least favorite, and that's saying a lot when McCain is in the mix.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is a great article. Thanks for the post.

[freekitty]

No way. I am tired of being railroaded by those that want to push off the old reliable rinos to us.

[Dante3]

Romney is far better than Rudy or McCain and there is much less the MSM can use to try to trash him. And since he has a good chance to win, I expect the MSM and others, some disguised as "conservatives" or "Republicans" to start their attacks.

[EternalVigilance]

The True Mitt Romney Legacy in Massachusetts:

Judge orders 'gay' agenda taught to Christian children

[unspun]

Where is Romney's sober promise to secure our borders, protect our Citizenship, and end "North American Integration?"

[Gelato]

Whatever one thinks about Romney’s conversion, and I believe it is sincere, the fact remains that Romney opposes public funds for embryo-destructive research....

Yet Romney SUPPORTS embryonic stem cell research. He only says he's against federal funding and cloning, to hide the fact that he holds no respect for the intrinsic value of the human embryo.

"Stem cell research does not require the cloning of human embryos. Some stem cells today are obtained from surplus embryos from in-vitro fertilization. I support that research." -- Mitt Romney, March 6, 2005

"Mitt Romney's position on embryonic stem cell research is not pro-life, and no one should say that it is," the Republican National Coalition for Life, a group founded by conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, said in a weekly e-mail.
(Romney's stem cell view may upset the right, Feb 11, 2007)

James Bopp is either ignorant of his candidate's position, or he has decided to join in the deception.

[DBrow]

Feb 18 transcript:


Stephanopoulos: Let's talk about guns. You were supportive of the Brady bill, the handgun waiting period, in the past. You signed an assault weapon ban into law and you said, in the past, "I don't line up with the NRA."

Now, you…

Mitt Romney: Well, on that issue.

Stephanopoulos: Now you're a member of the NRA.

Mitt Romney: Yes, and I know the NRA does not support an assault weapon ban. So I don't line up on that particular issue with the NRA, either does President Bush. He likewise says he supported an assault weapon ban.

Today we don't have the Brady bill because we have instantaneous background checks. That's no longer a operative or needed measure.

But I'm a strong proponent of Second Amendment rights. I believe people, under our Constitution, have the right to bear arms.

We have a gun in one of our homes. It's not owned by me, it's owned by my son, but I've always considered it sort of mine.

Stephanopoulos: When did you join the NRA?

Mitt Romney: Within the last year and I signed up for a lifelong membership. I think they're doing good things and I believe in supporting the right to bear arms.

I've been a hunter all my life, not frequently, but as a boy, when I worked on a ranch in Idaho, we used to go out shooting rabbits, because they were eating all the barley, and I got pretty good with a single shot .22 rifle, and been quail hunting more recently.

So I'm a hunter and believe in Second Amendment rights, but I also believe that assault weapons are not needed in the public population.

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If he defines "assault weapon" like the new Dem bills do, we won't have any semiauto guns, normal mags, or shotguns. If we own an "assault weapon" we won't be able to sell it.

Romney had better come out and define what an Assault Weapon is, and why they are so bad.

Maybe he should speak for 20 minutes straight on what the Second Amendment means to him- I "believe" in it too, but I doubt we'd agree much on meaning.

He describes himself as a hunter, like Hillary Clinton does.

Conservative?