A vote for Romney is a vote for a liberal.
Posted on 12/30/2011 12:14:22 PM PST by Nachum
During his unsuccessful run against Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994, Mitt Romney decided that he would run on a pro-choice platform after being advised that a pro-life candidate could not win in liberal Massachusetts.
The revelation comes from a new book, “Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics,” by journalist Ronald Scott. Journalist Byron York reported on Scott’s disclosure in an article published Friday in The Washington Examiner.
“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,” York writes. “In light of that, Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate, pledging to support Roe v. Wade, while remaining personally pro-life.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
>>SNAP QUIZ: Who was the most prominent Massachusetts politician to flip-flop on abortion? No, it’s not Mitt Romney; it’s Edward M. Kennedy. Unlike Romney’s switch, the late senator’s change from anti-abortion to pro-choice occurred in a less media-saturated era, the early ’70s. There were no dueling videos. No cable news. And political reporters were overwhelmingly male. Abortion was not yet the divisive issue it became.
>>On Oct. 21, 1970, as a reporter for the Globe, I followed Kennedy on a long day of campaigning in southeastern Massachusetts. His opponent was Josiah “Si’’ Spaulding, a Republican so liberal he probably couldn’t get a seat at a Middlesex Club dinner these days. Kennedy was running for reelection after his first full six-year term and trying to overcome the shame of Chappaquiddick a year earlier.
>>...Spaulding, trying to confront his elusive, better-known opponent, showed up for an impromptu debate, the most impassioned part of which involved abortion. Spaulding favored legalizing abortion, which was then outlawed in Massachusetts and nearly every other state. Kennedy, in a booming voice that would become more familiar to voters in future years, lashed out at Spaulding, Referring to adoption, he said, “Don’t tell me there’s not enough love in the world to take care of all the babies that are born.’’ I had never seen him so worked up on an issue. ??Earlier that month on “Meet the Press,’’ he had asserted that a “fetus has some rights,’’ including “the right to life.’’ Kennedy went on to defeat Spaulding handily. But the dynamics of the abortion issue were beginning to change. ....In Kennedy’s autobiography, “True Compass,’’ the word “abortion’’ does not even appear in the index. Nor did the Globe’s biography, “Last Lion,’’ address his change on the issue. But by 1987, he was an outspoken pro-choice advocate, warning that the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork would lead to “a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions.’’
I see a campaign ad in SC from one of Newt’s Super Pacs with this Romney fact.
Romney has NO core ideals.
Romney is a phoney.
Romney will take any position to get votes.
Romney sucks. But he is better than obammy.
Hell, anyone is better than the marxist punk.
"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
We will have control of congress after 2012. Given that, it is better that we have an angry and alert populace insisting on political war with an open enemy in the white house, than a slumbering electorate being betrayed by the Benedict Arnold of 2012.
No Romney, PERIOD ! We told them, We told them, We told them ! Personally I'm writing in George Washington if Romney is the candidate.
Romney said that he and his family became determinedly pro-abortion in 1963 after a death they were aware of.
Romney remained pro-abortion through Roe v Wade and the following decades of the intense, anything but fence sitting, abortion wars and Reagan years, and even as he rose through the ranks of church leadership in his religion, and until he was almost 60 years old and ready to run for President.
I don’t think there is much question about Romney being pro-abortion and a political con man.
Interesting, in an effort to promote his own strong and early pro-abortion stance, Romney proudly claims that his own mother ran as a pro-abortion Republican Senate candidate in 1970.
Mitt was pro-abortion years before Ted Kennedy.
A vote for Romney is a vote for a liberal.
“You mean politicians lie? I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.”
If we demanded the same perfection of ourselves that we demand of our politicians we would have all committed suicide long ago.
Man, I can’t stand mitt.But I may kill myself is I have to spend the next 4 years with obammy all the freakin time.
I’m rooting for moochelle to beat him bloody cause he already is senseless.
My #10 is a general comment. I don’t support Romney.
I am a pro lifer in a very blue state. Many times I have to bite my tongue in order not to have fights with the people who surround me. We have to look at time and place. I am glad that Romney is officially pro life. I like it when somebody “flips” to our side.
Proves one thing ... mittens is no Ronald Reagan.
What time and place? Romney was formally pro-abortion for at least 41 years and at almost age 60 switched to pro-life as a mere political switch for campaigning to gullible and indifferent people.
I am glad that Romney is officially pro life. I like it when somebody “flips” to our side.
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That’s the thing, he isn’t. He just lies and says whatever the people in front of him wants to hear. Which is not surprising in some ways. He was taught how to lie and say what people want to hear from a very early age.
Mitt flips and flops on abortion constantly, sometimes in as little as the space of 10 days. Colo has a chart of it, IIRC.
Anyone who believes Mitt has had a real conversion on abortion, gay rights or anything else is deluding themselves.
I used to be on the other side and changed. In fact, I was afraid to declare myself pro life for a while because I knew how “friends” would react. People do change on this issue. The bottom line, he can not be worse on this than Obama - who wants infants to die in utility rooms because they are deemed “unwanted” by their mothers and by HIM.
I’m not saying you set your bar to low. I’m saying your bar blew away.
The bottom line is that Mitt Romney was the most dedicated and passionate speaker for abortion of any Republican I have ever heard or even of Democrats who I have heard, Mitt has not changed.
Watch the videos of him speaking for his commitment to abortion, it is the most convincing of all his tapes.
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