Posted on 01/29/2008 6:40:55 AM PST by no dems
Finally, there is a conservative answer to MoveOn.org: RoeGone.org, as in Roe v. Wade – GONE. Nice, huh? What's even nicer is the ad they're launching to expose Mitt Romney's record. Be looking for secular conservative pundits and compromising pro-lifers to jump the Romney ship soon. No kidding. I predict this thing will signal the end of the Romney campaign.
Unlike the other ads that have been done on Romney that primarily focus on his flip-flops on abortion, marriage, gun control, immigration, taxes, pornography etc., RoeGone.org's ad clearly delineates Romney's record as governor – which is very appropriate since that's exactly what Gov. Romney said we should do. I was there at the debate last week when Romney responded to the flip-flop accusations with the words: "I can point to a very simple way to find out exactly where I stand, and that is look at my record as governor."
Let's do that, shall we?
As governor, Mitt Romney issued an executive order forcing justices of the peace to perform homosexual weddings, or resign. Then he ordered marriage licenses changed to read "party A" and "party B" – instead of "husband" and "wife."
As governor, Romney appointed a board member of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association to the bench, and appointed more Democrat judges than Republicans.
As governor, Romney authored and signed a mandatory heath insurance plan backed by Ted Kennedy – including taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.
As governor, Romney overruled his own health department and forced Catholic hospitals to distribute the morning after abortion pill.
Homosexual marriage?
Tax-funded abortions?
Catholic hospital morning after pills?
Homosexual activist judges?
"Look at my record as governor."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Well........don't take World Net Daily's reporting of Romney's words. Take Romney's own words and deeds, and the words from constitutional lawyers, then, as that is all that WND is reporting. BTW, it's not the messenger you should be shooting. Concerning RINO Romney:
Being a conservative means one does not voluntarily force clerks to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples.
How Gov. Mitt Romney started same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts - despite what he says now!
Same-sex "marriage" is still NOT legal in Massachusetts, and was NOT created by the Supreme Judicial Court's Goodridge ruling....
Experts: Credit Romney for homosexual marriage 'What he did was exercise illegal legislative authority'
"What Romney did [was] he exercised illegal legislative authority," Herb Titus said of the governor's actions after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its opinion in the Goodridge case in 2003. "He was bound by what? There was no order. There wasn't even any order to the Department of Public Health to do anything."
Romney Violated Massachusetts Constitution by Ordering ‘Same-Sex Marriage’Creating a means for homosexual marriages is not a conservative position.44 U.S. pro-family leaders signed letter asking him to recant illegal orders
Meg Jalsevac | HARRISBURG, PA, January 19, 2007
A letter addressed to Massachusetts’ ex-governor Mitt Romney has just been made public in which 44 conservative, pro-family leaders from across the nation requested that before stepping down from office, Romney would adhere to the Massachusetts Constitution and repeal his order directing public officials to perform ‘same-sex marriages’.The letter was hand delivered to members of Romney’s staff on December 20th, 2006 at his office. Romney took no action to adhere to the letter’s requests before he left office at the beginning of the New Year.
The letter cited numerous, historical cases and the Massachusetts’ Constitution to assert that Romney’s actions in implementing ‘gay marriage’ were beyond the bounds of his authority as governor. The authors further asserted that his actions were unconstitutional as were the actions of the four initial judges who formulated the official opinion on the matter in the ‘Goodridge’ case, the case that originally brought the matter to national attention.
Commenting on the ‘Goodridge’ opinion, Judge Robert Bork said that it was “untethered to either the Massachusetts or United States Constitution.”...
RomneyCare is not conservative; it's socialistic health care. Socialist health care is bad. Canadians already know this:
A Short Course in Brain Surgery highlights the plight of an Ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the U.S. to get the medical care that is rationed in his home country.
Romney has by far and away appointed liberals to the bench. That is anything but conservative.
Governor Romney appointed 36 judges but a check of their political affiliation confirms that only 9 of them are Republicans. Two are radical gay activists and 14 are registered Democrats. The remainder are unenrolled. Since Massachusetts Democrats are among the most pro-abortion Democrats in America, we have to assume that the majority of Romney's judicial appointments are NOT pro-life.
The article, above-cited, lists additional concerns that conservatives have with Romney and who he claims to be.
And here's Romney, in his OWN words on abortion:
Romney on Abortion - 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
By Fred Lucas and Pete Winn
CNSNews.com Staff Writers | December 27, 2007
Since 2004, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered state lawmakers to create homosexual marriage in the state, then-Gov. Mitt Romney has cast himself as a staunch opponent of the court's decision who fought the good fight to stop it from happening.However, not all gay marriage opponents remember it that way. Rather, they say it was Romney who actually got gay marriage started in the state, reacting before the legislature acted and even telling local justices of the peace (JPs) to resign if they didn't think they could officiate at ceremonies involving homosexual couples.
"At least a dozen people immediately resigned," said Larry Cirignano, the former president of Catholic Citizens in Massachusetts, among the organizations that gathered signatures to amend the state's constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
One JP who stepped down, Kathleen Harvey of Bellingham, Mass., said she did so out of conscience and conviction.
"I chose to resign," Harvey told Cybercast News Service. "I personally didn't feel that same-sex marriages were marriages. If they were civil unions, I don't think that would have bothered me, but I personally didn't feel they were marriages. I just didn't want to be officiating at one of those ceremonies."
In April 2004, Romney's chief legal counsel, Daniel Winslow, told justices of the peace that they were required to perform gay marriages. If they couldn't comply, they were expected to resign.
The Romney Same-Sex Marriage Deception Boiled Down
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/05/the-romney-deception-boiled-down
On November 7, Sandy Rios of WYLL-AM1160 in Chicago interviewed John Haskins, a former journalist and editor who is now a political analyst with the Parents’ Rights Coalition. in Massachusetts.
The page with the audio link to the full interview is here; the link is at the third paragraph. The last quarter of the audio is on another topic.
In advance of Mitt Romney’s “I am (insert name of his religion here), hear me roar” speech on Thursday, I am providing selected audio excerpts from the Rios-Haskins interview, along with full transcripts of those excerpts after the jump (if you’re on the home page).
There really is no substitute for reading the whole transcript or listening to all audio segments. But, as with the “Romney, the Courts, and the Constitutions” series, as a service to those in a time crunch, I am boiling it down, this time providing key quotes for each segment
A HT and intense thanks to Matt at Weapons of Mass Discussion for creating the separate segments. If this is to make a difference, it could not have been made without you.
Part 1 (audio link)
Key Quotes:
John Haskins — “…it was something strategically very significant when he promised the Log Cabin homosexual Republican group, when he was running against Ted Kennedy bank in 1994, running for the US Senate, that he could be more effective than Ted Kennedy in advancing the gay agenda. …. that is a profoundly significant statement and an insight that Romney had — that as a Mormon, as a Republican, he had far more leverage to implement a radical gay agenda than a Democrat could have had.”
Part 2 (audio link)
Key Quote:
Haskins — “….. while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney secretly promised to the Log Cabin homosexual Republicans that when the anticipated ruling came forth from the court, that he would abdicate his constitutional duty to defend the Constitution.”.........................
vaudine
Very true.
Very idealistic people indeed. Good that Nazi Germany doesn't exist anymore and those two cannot move to Berlin. :)
We don’t have leaders anymore - we have politicians of the worst sort.
Sanford: Don't know anything about...will have to look into.
Newt: Trying to be some wierd Tony Blair third-way for conservatism...no. no. no.
Allen: Wimp. Was taken down by a kid with a video cam who was not brighter than the "don't taze me bro" kid. No thanks. Ahmajutnob would've danced rings around him.
Barbour: I don't get it. He was a silent rebuttle to all the shennanigans in NOLA that Bush got blamed for. Barbour had his 'house' in order probably better than Rudy did after 9.11....but never heard a peep about it over here. What a shame. An advance on a front that was not taken advantage of.
Santorum: Poster boy for why Rush is wrong when he says "conservatism works everytime it's tried." No it doesn't. The country is turning lazy, and that's throwing the lasso too high.
Maybe a Steele? Or Jindal? I don't know...but the fact that we have to go through a full dozen names to suggest an up-n-comer is bad news.
Rubbins salt in wounds. Romney is a great man. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
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