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
Then SOME of those should FOLD beFORE the voting takes place!
Me too! Like...
Mitt; we are praying for you and MORMONs everywhere to come to the realization that your chosen religion is a HOAX perpetrated by SATAN and after that gets through to you; you'll find the TRUE Christ and embrace His offer!
I didn't see this coming, as Rip actually HAS been one of the nicer MORMONs on FR.
I <3 addted video.
Addted video?
Does the ted video link Romney to Ted Kennedy?
Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate, pledging to support Roe v. Wade, while remaining personally pro-life.
“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?”
Yes, the numbers must be very scary, including the Rasmussen nationwide poll that shows Romney 45% Obama 39%. Who wouldn’t be “desperate” (please excuse me for not using your all caps) with that kind of poll out there?
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures."
- Alexander Hamilton
I am not supporting an enemy from within.
Impossible for him to beat Gingrich in SC. Romney might even come in 3rd of 4th place. He’s a liberal and on top of that he’s a liberal Morman, which is a cult. He is not a Christian and SC voters are overwhelmingly Christian and do not take to Yankee politicians, especially liberals who have supported abortion and homosexual marriage. Gingrich will win SC going away. There will be no momnentum for this New England elitist after he wins the Yankee state of NH. No way. When Santorum and Perry eventually quit the race, they will support Gingrich, not the yankee liberal Romney. No one on Faux News will mention that. Day after day we are told on Faux News that this liberal creep is the eventual nominee. We are spoon fed this day in and day out. The media trying to cram a liberal down our throats again. Not going to happen this year.
This is as good a time and thread as any....
BTW, R.I.P. Ripliancum.
So do you think he will NOW live up to his tagline... "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31"
Frankly though, I think we can look forward to many of these zotees being reincarnated under different FR screen names. It's happened often.
Bears repeating...
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures."
- Alexander Hamilton
I think that’s the coolest LOL Cat I’ve ever seen.
And it was well played by an obvious master.
Politicians are all about expediency, and most lack any sort of integrity.
I know too many high-ranking ones who just make my skin crawl.
Or “I am personally opposed to cannibalism, but I am for protecting your right to be a cannibal.”
Romney also bashed Reagan in his 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy.
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