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Romney's honesty problem
The Boston Globe ^ | August 9, 2007 | Joan Vennochi

Posted on 08/09/2007 8:09:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

MITT ROMNEY is determined to prove he's pro-life. How about proving he's pro-truth?

Every time Romney tries to explain his evolution from supporter to opponent of abortion rights, his honesty comes into question. That's because his explanations over the years don't add up.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: deception; romney
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To: EternalVigilance
> Mitt-hating

I find that humorous, in context. After all, the Boston Globe was Romney's primary vehicle for getting his liberal message out when he was trying [successfully] to gain the support of Massachusetts liberals.

I don't know why anybody would be surprised that the Left has viciously turned on Mitt, since he has at least partially renounced his promised undying fealty to their pro-abort, pro-gay, agenda.

OK, so you answered yourself. The Boston Globe are Mitt-haters. How they came to be Mitt-haters is beside the point.

This is an obvious hit piece. It deserves no consideration beyond that.

21 posted on 08/09/2007 8:34:39 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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To: Iowegian

Please enlighten us all on which facts of this piece are inaccurate?

Reread my post, slowly.

My point is this leftwing paper is hardly in a postion to question anyone’s ‘truthfulness’. Let alone on the topic of abortion, which it supports fully, including partial birth.


22 posted on 08/09/2007 8:35:47 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: TChris
This is an obvious hit piece. It deserves no consideration beyond that.

Sure it does. Because, it demonstrates once again why Romney would be such an awful pick as the Republican nominee.

23 posted on 08/09/2007 8:38:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: Badeye
Let alone on the topic of abortion, which it supports fully...

As did Mitt, right up until the end of his one term as the liberal Governor of liberal Massachusetts. After all, it was just last year that Mitt signed his socialized medicine plan, complete with taxpayer-funded abortions, into law, with Uncle Teddy looking on approvingly.


24 posted on 08/09/2007 8:41:34 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: EternalVigilance

I love your tag line about more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates in Mass. Ain’t that the truth. I don’t know if you’ve ever been there but those ARE the odds.


25 posted on 08/09/2007 8:44:13 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: EternalVigilance

Abortion isn’t the end all decision matrix for me with any candidate.


26 posted on 08/09/2007 8:44:16 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: EternalVigilance
Romney signed socialized medicine, complete with taxpayer-funded abortions, into law LAST YEAR. That fact outweighs anything the man can say now that he wants and needs pro-life votes.

Hmmmm . . . didn't know that. Last year. Taxpayers paying for abortions. Socialized medicine. Why do people buy the bull, hook, line, and sinker every time a candidate pretends to be conservative?

27 posted on 08/09/2007 8:45:56 AM PDT by Greg F (The Congress voted and it didn't count and . . . then . . . it didn't happen at all.)
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To: EternalVigilance

The Boston Globe taking someone to task on an “honesty problem”? Sounds like a pot and kettle story.


28 posted on 08/09/2007 8:46:37 AM PDT by Dionysiusdecordealcis
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To: EternalVigilance

Your dead armadillo photo is a reference to a famous comment by well-known conservative (not) Jim Hightower. Maybe you should cite a different pundit.


29 posted on 08/09/2007 8:48:10 AM PDT by drubyfive
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To: EternalVigilance

Notice how the story and investigation about Mitt’s private police, is not in the news?


30 posted on 08/09/2007 8:49:07 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Badeye

Yes I know what the point of your post was, to avoid the content and attack the messenger. Facts please.


31 posted on 08/09/2007 8:51:22 AM PDT by Iowegian
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To: Iowegian

Yes I know what the point of your post was, to avoid the content and attack the messenger.

So wrong its painful.


32 posted on 08/09/2007 8:54:38 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Badeye
Abortion isn’t the end all decision matrix for me with any candidate.

Hmmm...I'm sorry that the unalienable right to life, the most fundamental of all rights, takes that place in your priorities.

How about the fact that Romney signed a permanent "assault" weapons ban into law?

"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Mitt Romney

33 posted on 08/09/2007 8:57:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: Badeye

Still waiting for you to tell us what part of the content was inaccurate. Obviously, you can’t.


34 posted on 08/09/2007 8:58:20 AM PDT by Iowegian
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To: EternalVigilance

I have yet to decide who I’ll be voting for.


35 posted on 08/09/2007 8:59:00 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Greg F
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, [James Carville] Back Mitt Romney's Health Plan
36 posted on 08/09/2007 8:59:40 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: TChris
Yes! Material from the ultra-Liberal, Mitt-hating Boston Globe!

God forbid the paper that has done far more reporting on Mitt than any other over the last 20 years go back and dredge up a bunch of uncomfortable facts.

How dare they quote Romney!? How dare they catch Romney lying about his record?!?

37 posted on 08/09/2007 9:01:15 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (Romney : "not really trying to define what is technically amnesty. I'll let the lawyers decide.")
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To: JohnnyZ; EternalVigilance
Don't like the facts?

Attack the messenger!

It is stunning how the Romney supporters react to ANY negative statement about him.

This guy is running for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, people! If he, (and you) can't stand the heat of the PRIMARY CAMPAIGN, what are all of you doing in the kitchen!

What makes you think he is supposed to be Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

38 posted on 08/09/2007 9:01:21 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (I think all legal Americans should get 5 votes apiece to make up for the "new" voters.)
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To: Badeye
I have yet to decide who I’ll be voting for.

Me neither. But I assure you that there will be an NHL franchise in Sheol before I will vote for Romney.

39 posted on 08/09/2007 9:01:31 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: Iowegian

‘Still waiting for you to tell us what part of the content was inaccurate.’

I bet you are ‘waiting’. Since I didn’t claim anything like that in any post.

’ Obviously, you can’t.’

The only thing ‘obvious’ is you want to argue with a Romney supporter, for whatever reason.

I’ll suggest you ping one for that stuff.

My problem is with the hypocrisy of the Boston Globe as it relates to abortion, which it wholly supports in all its forms, on demand.


40 posted on 08/09/2007 9:01:34 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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