Posted on 02/01/2008 7:04:46 PM PST by wastedpotential
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is under fire as he pursues the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. A recent Internet video highlighted comments made during a 1994 debate against Sen. Edward Kennedy in which Romney declared that he supported a "woman's right to choose." Romney quickly distanced himself from those comments, winning praise from conservative pundits. But a look at Romney's second campaign, the 2002 race for Massachusetts governor, reveals that his pro-choice stance and support for embryonic stem cell research were clear and ardent less than five years ago.
In the spring of 2002 Romney completed a Planned Parenthood questionnaire. Signed by Romney and dated April 9, 2002, it contained these responses:
Do you support the substance of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade? YES Do you support state funding of abortion services through Medicaid for low-income women? YES In 1998 the FDA approved the first packaging of emergency contraception, also known as the "morning after pill." Emergency contraception is a high dose combination of oral contraceptives that if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, can safely prevent a pregnancy from occurring. Do you support efforts to increase access to emergency contraception? YES
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Well, if we can’t rely on the “Weekly RINO” for fair and objective information on Romney, then what can we rely on?
When I want to get the real truth about Republican politics, I always turn to Fred Barnes and William Kristol, lol.
Yes, we all know McCain will be so much more trustworthy in this matter.
/sarc
And you are delusional if you think Huck as any chance of getting the nomination or precipitating a brokered convention.
Unless Romney kicks the stuffing out of that bitter, old backstabber McCain in the upcoming primaries, the nomination will most certainly go to McCain.
And McCain cannot possibly beat Obama. He may not even be able to beat Shrillary.
Your vote for Huck is a vote for McCain, and by extension, a vote for whichever abomination the Donkeys nominate.
I was wondering about this. Thanks for posting it. It’s possible he could have had an epiphany. Many of us have had them, even late in the game. But it’s entirely possible it was a matter of expedience.
I do not like McCain or Romney, but I don’t agree with the statement that Huckabee cannot get the nomination. I believe he can. If he carries the states in the south next Tuesday - AL, GA, TN, AR, OK, MO - he may end up with more delegates than McCain. California is not winner take all, but GA is.
Romney is just not a true social conservative in my book. I feel it in my bones.
If Romney was so staunchly pro-life, then why would he sign into a law that he knew would pay for abortions with tax payer money? Saying the Supreme Court made him do it is a cop out. I wouldn’t want a health care bill to start with, but if I were to want to pass one, but knew that doing so would kill unborn babies with tax payer money, I would not create it, plan it and would veto any such bill.
That’s what it means to be staunchly pro-life. Mitt seems to me to be lacking.
True enough, but unless they are shilling for McCain his views on this matter shouldn’t bother these two squishy guys at all.
What is the Mormon stance on abortion?
“I feel it in my bones.”
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Well that settles it for me then.
Doesn’t have to settle it for you, just for me :)
Here’s my question - if Mitt was pro-life after 2002, why did he sign into a law a health insurance plan knowing the state supreme court required that his plan pay for abortions with tax payer monies? I wouldn’t sign that bill for any amount of political capital or other “good” it would do. Some principals are worth fighting for.
Mitt disagreed. That is what makes him unsettling to me.
But Huckabee is just not truthful. And he has no good reason to stay in the race.
His purpose is to sabotage Romney.
He is tied nationally with Romney in national polls (see Fox News’ poll today), so he has as much of a claim to stay in as Mitt.
Is that your liberal leaning bones you are feeling?
I am not a “liberal” leaner at all. If Ron Paul was not so nutty on the war, I would probably be supporting him as he is the only true limited government, federalist in the race. I believe the federal government is for signing treaties, national defense and regulating interstate commerce.
Mitt won MI by promising $20 billion in federal aid to them - really fiscally conservative, huh?
Look - Mitt signed into law the health care plan bill in Massachussetts that he touts so much knowing that it would have to pay for abortions with tax payer money. I do not believe President Bush would sign such a bill into law. I don’t believe Duncan Hunter would support such a bill, even if it was great in every other area. I also don’t believe Mike Huckabee would.
Mitt did.
I understand your aprehension. I am very much pro-life. In fact, I feel abortion is wrong even in cases of rape and incest.
That said, I understand how others disagree and can take another position and still be pro-life. It would be wrong for me to accuse them of being pro-abortion, etc...
Similarly, I might feel that him signing that bill into law was wrong. But I don’t believe it means he is not pro-life. I don’t know what discussions took place, what options he had, if he could have somehow done something to get around that aspect of the bill. But I do believe that he is on the side of life. I have no doubt. I feel it in my bones. :-)
Now, that Fred is gone Bill seems to have fell in with McCain whole heartly.
Here is a ad that highlights Mitts pro LIFE record as governor.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=peFGA_HN3Yc
“True enough, but unless they are shilling for McCain his views on this matter shouldn’t bother these two squishy guys at all.
What is the Mormon stance on abortion?”
I think they’ve been trying to diminish Mitt and anyone else who strays from a RINO, “Wall Street Journal” Republicanism. Anyone who hinted they might be against open borders automatically got the wrath of Barnes and Kristol, and many others at Fox News.
Not a Mormon, but I’d guess they probably oppose abortion. They seem to have children early and often.
So are you a one issue voter?
“Now, that Fred is gone Bill seems to have fell in with McCain whole heartly.”
Anyone who went from Fred to McCain is playing the cronyism game and not pay much attention to the issues. I think he just fell in love all over again. He’s been a McCain admirer in the past.
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