Posted on 03/10/2010 10:09:50 AM PST by TitansAFC
I hadn’t read your post...I’ve actually been working all day and have just been dabbling in it from time to time. It is a fairly lame conversion story, but it just doesn’t make sense to me to lie gratuitously. Even if one were predisposed to lie, why do it when you don’t have to, you know? I’m not talking about Romney per se, but anyone. Strange. I do like to see quotes however, because context and accuracy is important.
“Romney says his moment of illumination about the immorality of abortion came two years ago during a meeting with an embryonic stem cell researcher.
“The comment was made that this really wasn’t a moral issue, because the embryos were terminated or destroyed at 14 days,” Romney said during a recent campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, S.C., in a reprise of other recent explanations of his thinking on abortion.
“And it struck me very powerfully at that point, that the Roe v. Wade approach has so cheapened the value of human life that someone could think it’s not a moral issue to destroy embryos that have been created solely for the purpose of research, and I said to my chief of staff, and that’s been 2 1/2 years ago, I said to her, ‘I want to make it very clear that I’m pro-life.’”
The Harvard University researcher with whom Romney met, Douglas Melton, has disputed Romney’s recollection of their Nov. 9, 2004, meeting in the governor’s Statehouse office.
“Governor Romney has mischaracterized my position; we didn’t discuss killing or anything related to it,” Melton said in a December statement to The Boston Globe. “I explained my work to him, told him about my deeply held respect for life and explained that my work focuses on improving the lives of those suffering from debilitating diseases.”
That is typical of Romney and his shallowness and his cynicism, the man is probably a sociopath, he is definitely a compulsive liar.
Mitt Romney's compulsion to lie is just too powerful for him to control.
"Suddenly, a heavyset man wearing a bright-orange cap entered the room. “Mr. Romney,” he called out. “Eric Orff—I’m a hunter.”
It was a potentially awkward moment. Earlier this year, Romney claimed that he’d “been a hunter pretty much all my life.” A few days later, he said in a statement, “I’ve hunted small game numerous times.”Four days after that, Romney told W. Gardner Selby, of the Austin American-Statesman, “Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability.” Still, he couldn’t resist. “You’re a hunter?” he said to Orff. “Well, same here. Good to see ya.”
Sounds like it reached its potential.
RINOsaur ;)
Romney is an opportunistic a-hole.
Yes, but given the fact it was required by law and provided since 1981 in Massachusetts (and I don’t know how long in the other 16 states mentioned), abortion assistance was given to low-income women with or without this reform bill. It is a red herring. It simply made no difference. I know we are all for Federalism, but not when the blue states makes their own laws we don’t agree with, I guess.
It is also interesting that this same abortion assistance is provided in several other states with GOP governors, but they are given a free pass, while Romney is not. Only Romney is expected to break long-standing laws and go against his constituency it seems.
-redgirlinabluestate
People here don’t hate Mitt.
They hate liberals.
Nevermind.
The trolls and their leftover threads give me an easy outlet.
;-)
Actually, I wasn’t, I was trying to understand why people were so ferociously objecting to his conversion
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Because I don’t believe he HAS converted on that or any other issue.
He’s a slimy politician who will say whatever it takes to get what he wants.
:)
Mitt Romney: Pro-Choice? Who, Me? (Mitt now claims he was NEVER Pro-Choice)
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He wasnt...
Romney was and is pro-abortion...
Romney plays the crybaby you-hate-me-cause-I’m-morman-card worse than Obama plays the race card. Its the reason he praises obama at dinner speeches for the RSC, RNC, GOP.
Mitt RomneyCARE (D, RINO):
"Sometimes you must play the only card you have."
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