Romney: It's OK to change your mind

Des Moines Register | July 27, 2007 | By PERRY BEEMAN

[jdm]

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Romney: It's OK to change your mind

[Atlas Sneezed]

I haven’t seen him changing his mind on guns.

If he came out for National Concealed Carry (reciprocity), and vowed to veto an AWB, I’d give him real consideration.

Meanwhile, he is a proven unreformed gun grabber who seems merely to want power for himself.

[dirtboy]

It's OK to change your mind

It's also OK (not just OK, but sane) to question a politician changing his mind concurrent with a run for a new office with a different electorate.

[MAexile]

Only if you’re a Democrat.

Republicans aren’t allowed.

According to the MSM, apparently.

[jdm]

"I haven’t seen him changing his mind on guns."

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Opponents have distributed Romney quotes suggesting that he once supported gun control, but now doesn't. Sen. Sam Brownback this week referred to an old video on YouTube in which Romney suggested that people of all sexual preferences should be able to participate in Boy Scouts, but also said the Boy Scouts could decide on their own whether to allow or ban gay leaders.

How do we know he still doesn't?

[Vision]

It's OK to change your mind, that's how I keep this shine...




Here's a thought...should you trust a politician from Massachusetts with a tan?

[Theodore R.]

Next thing: he’ll be saying he was “brainwashed” about something.

[TheZMan]

Romney needs to go the way of McCain. This is shameful.

[traderrob6]

“Romney: It’s OK to change your mind”

A bit self serving.

[RichRepublican]

He’s absolutely right——go Mitt!

[TAdams8591]

So if one realizes he or she is wrong about an issue one can’t change his or her mind?

[TAdams8591]

Mitts position on guns is the same as both Bushes and Ronald Reagan. Did you criticize them as harshly for their stand on this issue? I’ll bet you voted for all three of them.

[jdm]

So if one realizes he or she is wrong about an issue one can’t change his or her mind?

He changes his mind when it's politically advantageous for him.

[restornu]

More like your self serving because you never changed your mind did you?

[tiger-one]

At one point it was called the conversion of Mitt from Rhino to Conservative. Started in 2005.

[George W. Bush]

I haven’t seen him changing his mind on guns. If he came out for National Concealed Carry (reciprocity), and vowed to veto an AWB, I’d give him real consideration.

Are you sure he even knows there is such a thing as concealed carry? There are times when he tried to approach the gun issue that I feel like he's lived in a gun-free fishbowl his whole life except for his brief teeaage Rodent Hunter excursions.

I like him as a person. He's appealing in fact. But he just seems more clueless about gun rights than most local junior high girls where I live. And we're not that militant about guns either.

Do you suppose he just never advanced past the idea of a gun as something other than an object used as a tool to win another Scouting merit badge?

[tiger-one]

“So if one realizes he or she is wrong about an issue one can’t change his or her mind?”

Yes, to get nominated and elected as POTUS. Then he can change his mind back to before he changed his mind.

[sittnick]

Now, did he always think it was okay to change his mind?

What if he used to think it was NOT okay to change his mind, but then changed his mind about changing his mind?

[tiger-one]

You keep putting out the same BS. Reagan is not running the Bush’s were and are wrong. Mitt is the guy who just joined the NRA to get his B rating which is BS, because the NRA is not the spokesmen for all gun owners.

People who want modify the 2ND Amendmendment, like Mitt does will also attempt to modify any other Amendments which does not meet their fancy.

[George W. Bush]

Mitts position on guns is the same as both Bushes and Ronald Reagan. Did you criticize them as harshly for their stand on this issue?

Bush made many here nervous over campaigning to sign AWB II. He still does though the Dims are still fearful and we trust the Senate to know better than to fail us. No excuses will be accepted.

In a time when Dims might possibly gain seats in Congress, we do have to take more seriously the protection a true gun rights supporter can offer us from the WH. You might want to check on cloture requirements vs. veto override requirements. If we lost another 5-7 seats in the Senate in '08, only a presidential veto might stand between the Dims and the Second Amendment.

It's only rational to evaluate candidates in exactly this way if you are a hardcore supporter of the Second.

As you know, I've read a lot of Mitthreads and recognize his positive points. But the man can't even seem to utter the words "concealed carry" let alone make a positive statement on the subject.