BS U.S. Army Retired |
Because that was mandated by the court and not subject to negotiation.
| BS U.S. Army Retired |
No cite, naturally.
The courts didn’t mandate consultation with Planned Parenthood, only that insurance plans not discriminate against abortion. Besides, how exactly could the courts force the state to require coverage of abortion? Romney could have followed the grand tradition of Andrew Jackson (”John Marshal has made his decision, now let him enforce it>”) He was always free to say that the court rulings were wrong and that, as Governor, he would not agree to any plan that conformed with them. He could have done the same thing with respect to gay marriage. He didn’t, because he was the liberal Governor of a liberal state and apparently quite comfortable in that role.
Fair enough. But don’t turn around two years later and run for President as a conservative. That is an insult to the voters’ collective intelligence. Worse yet, it can’t possibly work.
The only plausible rationale for the Romney campaign is that Lincoln Chaffee and Jim Jeffords didn’t run and somebody has to carry the banner of the New England Republican. Any conservative who supports Mitt is a pathetic fool.