Posted on 06/06/2007 8:58:27 PM PDT by JRochelle
An AP article just came across the wire detailing another gaffe by presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). Apparently, while in New Hampshire, Romney was confronted by an openly gay women who was disturbed by the former governor’s position on gay marriage. And in challenging him, she may have unwittingly changed or re-changed or re-re-changed his position on “gay rights.”
“There are other ways to raise kids that’s fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice,” he said.
Umm… what? We’ve lost track now, but we thought Romney opposed gay adoption and gay marriage. We have stopped being surprised by his all-too-often position changes - even from one month to the next - but we certainly never expected him to say “gay couples raising kids” is “the American way.”
Yep : )
You missed part of his statement.
He said it was FINE.
Let me guess....you would have told the gay lady that “its not an o.k. practice in general”.
please! atleast after he showed the gay lady some respect, he told her this.
“But then Romney repeated his view of marriage”.
“Marriage is an institution which is designed to bring a man and woman together to raise a child and that the ideal setting for society at large is where there is a male and a female are associated with the development and nurturing a child,” Romney said.
Well if he is a true Mormon then he would be anti gays raising kids so your argument is incorrect
I have nothing against him being a Mormon
I am against him because he is a fraud
LOL!!
It’s FINE. ;^)
It doesn’t invalidate the FACT that he believe gays raising Children is fine (and the American Way)..
IMO this guy has one foot on both sides of the line. (Another wishy-washy flip flopper). I’d rather have someone that has solid moral values and that they represent TRUE RR, Christian and Conservative views:
No more I am against gay marriage, but for gay adoption schtick, no more “hillary care in Massachusetts”, no more I was for abortion, then against aborion then for abortion, before I was against it! WHERE”S THE TRUE REAGANITE IN THIS RACE?!!
He should have stopped there. He was absolutely correct until then.
He is too nice. He wants to be all things to all people. He wants everyone to like him. Thats just not how a politician is going to win over the voters.
wolves raising kids will do a much better job raising kids then crackheads.
>Romney is toast.<
So are the children.
pardon me
Wrong-Romney WILL be the next president. He’s the whole package. He’s our Clinton without the ‘Ick’ factor.
well said. I guess if you are not for this phony fake you are considered a “Mormon hater”.
HA HA HA HA, HA HA HA: You’re the one that’s funny: My beef w/Romney has never been about his faith: it has everything to do with his flip-flopping Massachusetts ways..
The problems garbage men have with their backs is a much bigger issue than this is.
there are (few) who believe in saying what you do, and doing what you say..STILL WAITING for this person.
OK. Maybe you don't "get it." We expect Mitt to flip flop, depending on who he's talking to. He flipped on abortion since he needed to appeal to voters beyond MA.
But to flip in the same venue is quite awkward. To first tell a woman that she was ALL about the great American choice by having her kid gay-parented; and THEN to say, "Well, you're not providing the ideal situation, tho" is to cater to neither side of the issue. Here, Mitt was trying to walk the tight rope and throw hugs & kids to his admirers on both sides of the rope and all he did was alienate both sides.
While, yes, this kind of political alienation "happens all the time" amongst candidates, it rarely happens in the same paragraph. In fact, this shows more moral schizophrenia in Mitt than I believed could have existed.
Look at Romulus and Remus!
Pingout tomorrow.
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