Posted on 03/12/2010 11:23:26 AM PST by Colofornian
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Mitt Romney is likely one of several Republican candidates who will vie for the GOP nomination and the right to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. For his 2008 attempt at representing Republicans, Romney caused consternation by talking about his position change on abortion and he is doing it again.
Appearing on the "Imus in the Morning" radio program with Don Imus this morning, Imus asked Romney to revisit his position change.
"Well, you know, I never really called myself pro-choice, but I did say when I was running for governor that I would keep the law as it was," Romney said.
But that appears to contradict what he said at the 2007 GOP Iowa straw poll debate.
"Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have," he said then.
American Spectator writer W. James Antle noticed the Imus comment and said Romney could hurt his own chances of getting the nomination in 2012 by revisiting his former position in favor of legal abortions.
"Romney's problem has never really been that he changed his mind. It has been the fact that he can't resist insulting people's intelligence about his past record when discussing his current position," Antle writes.
"This is a perfect political climate for Romney to downplay abortion and run as an economic problem-solver. But if he continues to pretend he was never pro-choice or play word games about his previous stance, abortion will plague his candidacy again in 2012," Antle continues.
For pro-life advocates, overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion decision so abortion can again be prohibited has always been a hallmark of a true pro-life stance.
During a January 2008 campaign stop in Nevada, Romney said he lined up with the pro-life movement against Roe.
"I am pro-life, and I would welcome a time when the people of America concluded that abortion was wrong, but that's not where America is, and that's why I believe that the next right step for America is for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade," he said. "That would return to the states and to the elected representatives of the people the ability to set their own laws related to abortion."
Romney converted to a pro-life position after years of supporting legalized abortion.
He also said during the 2008 presidential campaign that he supports a federal human life amendment as a second goal after first toppling Roe and letting states ban abortions again.
Any Republican taking on Obama would face a president who has compiled a lengthy pro-abortion record.
Even Romney himself is not as gay as you are friend. I get it, 24 years in the army, your son was in the 101st, used to be Airborne, etc, you are pro abortion. Whatever.
By the way, are you Airborne?
Your OCD makes it impossible for you to converse in a rational manner. LMAO
Are you Airborne or not?
As long as you are Airborne, I admire you, being a Paratrooper is an important thing.
Larry Craig most likely was personally for gay marriage but he cast his votes for his constituency. He couldn't tell those of us in Idaho that he was gay and still expect to get elected.
Mitt Romney wanted to get elected in a state where they worship Planned Parenthood and I think Romney said what he had to say to get elected as Larry Craig did. Go ahead and piss on the Mormons if you want but they are one of conservatism's strongest coalitions.
Take a look at my article A Deist Among the Mormons
25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Daryl, if Jesus only looked upon outward assets, then the Pharisees & the teachers of the law passed your standards w/flying colors and Jesus was mistaken to "diss" them.
Bottom line: hey, if you're auditioning for godhood, which temple Mormons are, you better be on your best outward behavior.
You want Mormons to leave the conservative coalition just keep bashing them. There are only 3 million of them, we will never miss them.
Hey, if you want to be consistent -- just accuse Jesus of being a "basher" of the Pharisees/religious legalists of his day.
What's also interesting is apparently just as you don't ask the Lds missionaries to leave us alone -- showing your two-sidedness -- apparently you likewise don't or won't address the Lds "scriptures" which reference ALL Christian sects...Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox -- as being 100% filled with "corrupt professors" who believe 100% creeds which apparently are an "abomination" to the Mormon god.
In fact, heres what I wrote on a thread about a month ago:
Yet, it seems some here want unilateral disarmament of both -- all while the typical Lds philosophy continues to be deployed: "Speak softly [on FR threads] and carry a big Pearl of Great Price & Doctrine & Covenants stick in every other venue!"
Definition of this 'stick' [according to descriptors in the Lds scriptures]:
"You Christian sects are 100% wrong;
100% apostates;
100% creedally putrid;
100% corrupt as believers...
implied as a false & dead church...
heart-drifters
the church of Satan
...Signed: Cordially, your "nice" Mormon neighbor - all while Mormons go on bashing Christians worldwide on doorsteps & porches, online on Lds.org, in their curricula, in their translated quad "Scriptures," in their Ensign mag articles, etc.
At that time, I also added: The example I gave was that a Christian Boy Scout leader can work side-by-side with a Mormon Boy Scout leader for the betterment of our teens. We don't have to put down our Bibles & the Mormon doesn't have to put down their BoM.
So, no, Daryl, Lds dont have to leave the conservative coalition anymore than Christians do when Mormon scriptures label them all of those names above. We can work together in Prop 8 type initiatives; Boy Scouts, etc. If we can tolerate them sending out 53,000 Lds missionaries, the bulk of them to Christian homes, coupled with their descriptors of us, then they can tolerate us, too.
Hey, how many times was it put to me, "We're not voting for a national pastor." But you know, we weren't voting for an economics professor, either.
I didn’t say I was okay with it. I am just telling you how an ambitious politician thinks.
Romney + Pro=Life in Massachusetts= Defeat
Romney + Pro=Life in Utah = Victory
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