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.
If ever a comment deserved a “barf alert,” it’s yours.
Refer to the clip of Mitt at the beginning of this thread.
Sorry, FRiend. That's just not going to explain this one away.
If he was never pro-choice, why did he say he "changed his mind"? What did he change his mind from, and to?
I welcome his flip, in this instance, because it was in the right direction. But to deny that there was a flip is just a silly stand to take.
For the 20th time, he was pro-choice, and has admitted it. He just never used the label.
Admittedly, it's a little odd that he emphasizes the part about never using the label, but it's not dishonest.
It's very misleading, at the very least. It's well within the spirit of the term "dishonesty", even if it's not technically violating the letter of the law.
Romney aides bogus badges: Sources detail illegal security tactic
" Boston Herald - Friday, July 20, 2007
In an apparent violation of the law, a controverisal aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney
created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail
to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards
into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald.
They (the aides) knew the badges were fake and probably illegal,
said a presidential campaign source who asked for anonymity
because the story could damage the individuals career.
Two additional sources confirmed that the badges - described as bright silver plates with a state seal attached -
were first created and used by Garrity while Romney was still governor." Romney Presidential campaign caught with in two states (includes NH).
Myth Romney 2007 campaign's dirty tricks included phoney State Troopers caught in two states
before he was caught using push polls, fake and deceptive stories to the Press about others,
and other dirty tricks on a daily basis.
FAKE TROOPER (and Chief of Operations)
More here - Romney aide is the focus of probe
Romney aide accused of faking badges
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“Team Romney threw Election 2008.”
Can you elaborate, please?
Not if, in the same sentence, you describe what your position actually was. It only becomes misleading to those who would rip the label part out of context.
for someone who supposedly cares so much about “life” , I would also hope you cared about good manners as well.
As some guy that is appearing to be more of a retread troll than anything, I would say that you are being a lot more slippery this time around, but your posts still aren’t making sense. What was your last sign up name?
According to your characterization, it is possible to lie in a non insulting manner. Can you explain the difference?
Then they are especially insulted by stuff like this below, Romney lies so much, so openly, and so without shame or hesitancy that it insults his fellow human beings.
Romney doesn't own a gun and appears to never have, yet in 2006 as he starts to run in the primary, he buys a lifetime membership to the NRA for political reasons.
That is typical of Romney and his shallowness and his cynicism, the man is probably a sociopath, he is definitely a compulsive liar.
Mitt Romney's compulsion to lie is just too powerful for him to control.
"Suddenly, a heavyset man wearing a bright-orange cap entered the room. Mr. Romney, he called out. Eric OrffIm a hunter.
It was a potentially awkward moment. Earlier this year, Romney claimed that hed been a hunter pretty much all my life. A few days later, he said in a statement, Ive hunted small game numerous times.Four days after that, Romney told W. Gardner Selby, of the Austin American-Statesman, Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability. Still, he couldnt resist. Youre a hunter? he said to Orff. Well, same here. Good to see ya.
And what would be an example of a non insulting lie?
You are on a political web site, you must have a lot of experience of watching politicians, you really can’t see this for your self, or are you just one of those Romney guys that won’t put it out front, so they keep with the little questions like the kids in the back seat that are angry but too intimidated to speak out clearly and make their annoyance and their arguments plain.
To an adult, to show that Romney is an especially insulting liar should have been enough, you can contrast it with the many other Republican politicians that you have watched all your life at the level of presidential candidate.
I still don’t know what you were trying to express.
You come off as cryptic and demanding to me, if you have something to say about Mitt Romney, then put it out there, let us know what it is.
Yep, fully agree.
It’s a waste of time for anyone to attempt the line that Romney has been pro-life. He has not been. He’s been pro-abortion or simply shapeshifting his position based on the way the political winds are blowing at any given point in time.
That’s a re-write of what I said earlier; probably written better this time.
I think there is a picture of him handing a check to Planned Parenthood at one of their meetings...lots of pro-life people do that without calling themselves pro-choice, eh, Mitt?
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