Posted on 12/29/2011 8:49:56 PM PST by Fred
Edited on 12/29/2011 9:32:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
In 1993, Mitt Romney was a successful businessman with an urge to enter public life and a plan to challenge Ted Kennedy for a Senate seat from Massachusetts.
Romney was also a high-ranking official in the Mormon church -- in charge of all church affairs in the Boston area -- with a dilemma over abortion. Romney was personally pro-life, and the church was pro-life, but a majority of the Massachusetts electorate was decidedly pro-choice.
How Romney handled that dilemma is described in a new book, "Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics," by Boston journalist Ronald Scott. A Mormon who admires Romney but has had his share of disagreements with him, Scott knew Romney from local church matters in the late 1980s.
Scott had worked for Time Inc., and in the fall of 1993, he says, Romney asked him for advice on how to handle various issues the media might pursue in a Senate campaign. Scott gave his advice in a couple of phone conversations and a memo. In the course of the conversations, Scott says, Romney outlined his views on the abortion problem.
According to Scott, Romney revealed that polling from Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan's former pollster whom Romney had hired for the '94 campaign, showed it would be impossible for a pro-life candidate to win statewide office in Massachusetts. In light of that, Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate, pledging to support Roe v. Wade, while remaining personally pro-life.
All lies, all the time: Mitt's greatest hits
What a scumbag.
Interesting.
Here’s some more from the article.
“By Scott’s account, Romney wasn’t seeking approval or permission; he was telling the officials what he was going to do. Scott quotes a “senior church leader” saying Romney “didn’t ask what his position should be, nor did he ask the brethren to endorse his position. He came to explain, and his explanation was consistent with church teachings and policies.”
According to Scott, some of the leaders were unhappy with Romney’s plan and let him know it. “I may not have burned bridges, but a few of them were singed and smoking,” Romney told Scott in a phone conversation.
In Scott’s account, Romney displayed plenty of independence from church influence. But why did he feel the need to brief church leaders in the first place? The Romney campaign declined to comment on that or any other aspect of Scott’s book. A Mormon church spokesman said only, “I do not know of the meeting, but it is our policy not to comment on private meetings anyway.”
Scott has his own view. “[Romney] was not obliged to brief them,” Scott said in an interview. “He probably was obliged to let them know as a matter of courtesy before he would take some stands on various issues that would raise eyebrows, because he was a fairly important officer of the church.”
I also find it interesting that Romney was released from his Church position about 3 weeks after deciding to run for the Senate seat. Since he was in a hight Church position at the time of the meeting, it makes sense. But afterwards, and when he was running for Governor, I know of no such conflict.
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Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate, pledging to support Roe v. Wade, while remaining personally pro-life.
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I hate it when I hear politicians say that. They are NOT pro-life. That’s like saying:
I am personally opposed to children being sexually molested by adults, but I will protect your right to molest all the children you desire.
With Romney you don’t even have to ask if he is lying now or then. If his mouth is moving, he’s lying. The only truth he knows is whatever his audience wants to hear at the time.
He and all his lying friends need to quit and go join the other lying commies in the democrat party.
FUMR!! NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!! GET THE EFF OFF FR IF YOU’RE PROMOTING THAT ABORTIONIST/PROGRESSIVE LIAR!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU
All mittbots must go. zot
In other words he was saying “I know killing the unborn is wrong, yes I know better. But I am going to go ahead and promote it anyway”.
That two faced unprincipled piece of debris!
If I said what I truly think of that bastard Romney I would get booted off of FR.
The man is a scumbag. Actually, that is incorrect. He isn’t a man. Just a scumbag.
FUMR!
He WILL NOT ever get a vote from me under ANY circumstance in ANY election for ANY position. Period end of story.
Although you are now gone, maybe you will read this.
Since this is Romney addressing a death which happened in 1963, I take it to mean that he and his family were pro-abortion for most of his life. Mitt claims that his mother ran as a pro-abortion Senate candidate in 1970, something that we cannot document, but which Mitt claims as evidence of his pro-abortion credentials.
“Many, many years ago, I had a dear, close family relative that was very close to me who passed away from an illegal abortion. It is since that time that my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter. And you will not see me wavering on that.”
So now he is trying to use the MORMONS as cover? Color Mittens DESPERATE. What scary numbers must his internal Iowa polls be showing him to make him push this crap put there?
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Romney was also a high-ranking official in the Mormon church — in charge of all church affairs in the Boston area — with a dilemma over abortion. Romney was personally pro-life, and the church was pro-life, but a majority of the Massachusetts electorate was decidedly pro-choice.
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Couple of things...
First he was only a Stake president at best, they make it sound bigger than it was. Second, the LDS church is NOT as pro-life as many people think. That has been proven here over and over again. Their own ‘Handbook of Instructions’ says abortion is fine if approved by prayer.
Third, Mitt is a lying scumbag, he has never been personally pro-life as evidenced by his comments and flip flops.
Finally, any politician who trades his values (if he were pro-life) for votes is a scumbag who does not deserve to be in office.
The bottom line is that Mitt Romney must be defeated, but the current circular firing squad with some for Newt and some for Santorum and some for Perry and others for Bachmann adds up to a Romney win next Tuesday in Iowa.
That will give Romney momentum into New Hampshire where he already has a substantial lead, then momentum going into South Carolina and Florida later in the month.
Romney’s momentum must be stopped dead next Tuesday and we have got to stop playing his game of promoting various candidates against each other dividing the conservative vote.
Praise God! That one has been a long time coming. What is that, 7 today?
Ripliancum, classic Mittbott bites the dust.
He’s gone!
Liberal Willard’s big Mo will be stopped dead in its tracks in SC.
7 zots? Or 7 on the Mormon threads?
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