"What sane man would let another man's words rather than his deeds tell him who is at war and who is at peace with him?" Demosthenes
Romney has, by and large, governed as a conservative. He cut more government jobs then any other state in the country in 2003. He cut more then 1.6 billion in spending, and proceeded to keep annual increases below 2.5% for 3 of his 4 years. He vetoed a fetal farming bill, an embryonic cloning bill, and an expansion of plan B contraception. He promoted abstinence education programs and worked to re-instate the death penalty. And, perhaps most significantly, he played the lead role in advancing the anti-gay marriage ballot proposition which is now but one step from appearing on the 2008 ballot. There are certainly areas of concern in his record. Gun control is one of them, but his position is substantively identical to president Bush's, but has been advanced in a substantially more hostile environment.
Dear Obilisk18,
Sorry, on social issues, he may have tinkered around the edges, but up until his recent conversions, he was, at best, a moderate liberal.
Being willing to tinker with some of the life issues is nice, but no credit is given to any politician who is fundamentally a pro-abort. Mr. Romney himself admits that he was a pro-abort up until 2004 or 2005.
"And, perhaps most significantly, he played the lead role in advancing the anti-gay marriage ballot proposition which is now but one step from appearing on the 2008 ballot."
But again, first he was for ENDA (special rights for homosexuals), now he's against it.
The problem is that in a state like Massachusetts, even the "right" side of the debate is deeply liberal. Thus, on life issues, the fundamental premise of issues like cloning, plan B, etc., is that nonetheless, the Constitution guarantees to women a general right to procure the murder of their unborn children. He accepted that fundamental premise up until, by his own admission, 2004 or 2005.
As well, I believe that once the plan B contraceptive stuff was passed, he refused to acknowledge a conscience exemption for Catholic hospitals and health care workers. This came AFTER his alleged "conversion." Not very pro-life of him, huh?
I think the man is a damned phoney.
It is becoming less and less likely that I will vote for him should he be the Republican nominee for president.
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