No, I have lots of other problems with Romney.
However, abortion for me is a “no way” issue. Government's primary job is to bear the sword of the civil magistrate to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. When government protects baby-killers and punishes babies, it's turned its primary purpose upside down.
Jim Robinson has done a real service by posting the Romney videos on this site. In his campaign for Massachusetts governor, Romney repeatedly insisted he is pro-choice, that his own mother lost her race back in Michigan because she was pro-choice, and that letting people make up their own minds on abortion has been a core position for him and his family for their entire political life.
Romney says he's rethought his views on abortion and is now pro-life.
People change their political views. I get that. But on a change this major, a pro-choice politician needs to be repenting of his prior failure to protect life. This is not a minor issue, it's a **REALLY** major issue, and I don't see Romney doing much to avoid the logical conclusion that he changed his views for reasons of opportunism, not for reasons of personal conviction.
We cannot afford to have a man in the White House appointing Supreme Court judges who does not consider protecting life to be a no-compromise issue. Romney doesn't meet that test.
(By the way, don't jump me for using the words “pro-choice” here. Romney's position was that abortion is wrong and should not be chosen by believers, but that it's not the government's role to make religious decisions for people. Romney's position was very wrong, and I believe it is flat-out evil, but a decision to permit doctors to profit from killing babies is significantly different from some of the Planned Parenthood types who really **DO** advocate abortion. We're dealing with two related but different views here — both are wrong, but we need to be accurate in how we condemn each view. There's not a dime's worth of difference in the practical effect of being a pro-choice and a pro-abortion politician — either way, babies die — but there are important differences in how we level attacks on the different views that lead to legalized baby-killing.)