“Unfortunate he had to take that position, but this is in a Senate run against the extremely venal Fatboy in the most liberal state in the USA. What else was he to say?”
Why is Mitt running for office in that state then? He could move somewhere else and be honest about his views or run in Mass and be a Clinton-type word parser. Honestly, his parsing is not limited to abortion. He just doesn’t have a core. His main-stream conservative values are a means, not an end for him.
>>>>Clinton-type word parser. Honestly, his parsing is not limited to abortion.
I was a Mass resident and a republican and conservative at the time.
He was not “parsing”, he was explaining why he was between a rock and a hard place.
I thought his position was unfortunate but certainly it was not ambiguous.
“Honestly, his parsing is not limited to abortion. He just doesn’t have a core. His main-stream conservative values are a means, not an end for him.”
Oh, you know him that well to climb inside his head and know how he thinks? You are his shrink? No core conservative values, you say? Married to his childhood sweetheart, has remained married to the same woman, has 5 sons and 11 grandchildren, doesn’t smoke, drink, or swear, has never personally supported abortion, when active in the church went to a hospital specifically to try to talk a young woman out of aborting her child, hasn’t dumped his wife even after she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (unlike Newt Gingrich did when he dumped his wife who developed cancer). He practices what others preach but don’t follow. Like John McCain who dumped the wife who stuck by him while he was a prisoner of war and married a young and prettier heiress to a fortune. Or Guiliani and his 3 marriages, matched by his wife’s 3 marriages. Or Thompson married twice, and was a known skirt chaser when living in Hollywood. Or Huckabee whose son kills a dog for fun and tries to carry a gun onto an airline. Oh, but Romney has no core conservative values, .... right....