By supporting a guy who went against his own church's principled pro-life viewpoints because he thought running to the left of the Swimmer on abortion would help him in his 1992 Senate run? Some spiritual vision.
Actually, at that time, I was actively litigating against the ACLU on the abortion issue. So I was paying attention to what Mitt said, and I didn’t like it.
I happen to know that in his ecclesiastical position, he always counseled women against abortion, and he took hell from the pro-choice people over it.
I also understood that he couldn’t go into a race in Mass. threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade. Actually, he had no power to do that, so it would have been stupid to take it on.
Beyond the campaign rhetoric, though, I think he took the right positions on things like parental notification, and other issues on the margins where states had the power to act.
But, I thought he went a lot farther than he needed to go in his rhetoric, and now he’s paying the price.
But the amusing thing is to watch Freepers rhapsodize over Scott Brown and vilify Romney, when Brown is probably less conservative than Romney. On abortion, Romney is now far more conservative than Brown. And Romney never posed naked for a centerfold.
Hate tends to twist logic like a pretzel.