Posted on 12/21/2007 11:22:10 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
MITT ROMNEY is determined to prove he's pro-life. How about proving he's pro-truth?
Every time Romney tries to explain his evolution from supporter to opponent of abortion rights, his honesty comes into question. That's because his explanations over the years don't add up.
In June 2005, former Globe columnist Eileen McNamara challenged Romney's assertion of his mother's pro-choice position. Two longtime Romney family friends and political supporters -- former governor William Milliken and former Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Elly Peterson -- told McNamara they could not recall Lenore Romney speaking out publicly for abortion. If she had, it would have represented a dramatic change of heart and break with the Mormon Church. Peterson, who worked on Lenore Romney's campaign, said, "If it happened, I'd remember it. It didn't and I don't." Milliken, who served as George Romney's lieutenant governor, also expressed skepticism.
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I have no respect for a man who would be pro life in his conscience and yet pretend to be pro-abortion in order to get elected to office. I prefer a man who is firm in his convictions. The only thing that Romney is firm on is his lust for power.
If he has beem a pro-life sheep in pro-abortion wolf's clothing and you add to that the insistence upon $50 abortions in MASS, then Romney is a creep of the lowest order.
We don't need a president who gained power by lying about his abortion views as a strategy to gain an office of public trust. Here is a man who clearly sold his soul to the devil to gain power. Regardless of his religious affiliation, he is not worthy of the office of President of the United States.
“they could not recall Lenore Romney speaking out publicly for abortion.”
The anti’s are really scrapping to find something on Romney’s family. All they can come up with is goofy stuff like this.
Now, the question is why? Is it psychologically because of his always desire to be President, and like a good little boy make his daddy happy? He does look boyish. Is it because his father, and mother where also parsing liberals, as was/is Mitt? Like father, like son?
Is he sick or lying? Why do people call him weird? What makes Mittboy run? In short, WTF is this guy all about? Why is supposedly this straight, and pure, and moral and the brightest guy in the room all over the place? Why’s he so, so slippery. How did this light amongst us sinners manage to be thought of as the Kerry/Edwards of the Republicans?
Who are you campaigning for, Ol’ Sparky?
Are you saying....this Mike Murphy guy didn't say this?
"He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly," Romney adviser Mike Murphy told the National Review in 2006.
And it doesn't bother you that he would lie about it. Just to be elected?
As I stated in another post, Romney did not lie. He attempted to take a “nuanced” position on an issue that really is black and white. He said that despite being pro-life, he would do nothing to overturn the current law while serving as governor...and he didn’t.
Romney says that he now recognizes that “doing nothing” is tantamount to being pro-choice. And as a pro-life individual, Mitt realizes that an elected official cannot simply sit on the sideline, and therefore hand a victory to the pro-choice movement.
He’s on the right side of the issue now, and those closest to him say that he’s been pro-life all along.
Yeah...I guess "faking it" is, as you say,.."nuanced".
ROFLOL...you guy's are amazing.
Look at the people who are running:
Huckabee will raise your taxes, and pay for illegals to attend college
Giuliani will seize your guns, make you pay for abortions, and give amnesty to illegals
Thompson will sell you out to the highest paying lobbyist
McCain will give your country to illegals
Hunter will give the White House to Hillary
And Romney?
The biggest slam you guys come up with against Romney is that he “tricked” a bunch of liberals in Massachusetts into believing he was pro-choice. Big friggin’ whoop.
You really think that's it....??
You've not been paying attention....
What kind of person calls a candidate a liar because he can’t prove that a family member said something because the family member is dead?
All I can say is that there seems to be an awful lot of people who are afraid that Romney will win and are grasping at straws to tear him down. First, it was that he could not have seen his father march with King because he was in high school. Now, he must be lying about his mother being pro choice, because no one remembers what she said about it.
Give us all a break and take a serious look at your own candidate.
The Boston Globe HAS been after Romney for over a decade, ever since he challenged that paper’s hero and prince, Senator Kennedy. Regardless of what one thinks of Romney as a candidate for national office, he has been the nemesis of the Globe as a Massachusetts figure , especially relative to Governor Weld and the line of more moderate governors who followed him (Weld).
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