Posted on 03/13/2007 6:20:04 PM PDT by Unmarked Package
Romney isn't the first to flip on abortion
Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer, March 11, 2007
People have change of hearts I just wonder if his came because he knew he would run fro Prez one day? This is what happened to Gore.
Clinton also had expressed some pro life sentiments when he was governor. Imagine, he tried to have it both ways! How shocking. Ha ha. In any case, he and Gore both knew the pro abortion crowd that has veto power over any Demo nominee would only accept candidates who were 100% pro abortion.
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In Hugh Hewitt's book "Mormon in the White House" he describes Romney as a self made Billionaire that bought failing companies then fixed them up and sold them. What if he brought his trimming the fat company/business skills to the White House?
In Hugh Hewitt's book "Mormon in the White House" he describes Romney as a self made Billionaire that bought failing companies then fixed them up and sold them. What if he brought his trimming the fat company/business skills to the White House? Check it out http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/
Reagan signed a bill he regretted in 1967. That is totally different from being a defender of Abortion during the intense Abortion wars of the later 70s, 80s, and 90s, Romney then had a conversion around two or three years ago.
It was one thing to not have been passionate enough about Hitler in the early thirties, but to compare that to some one that saw the light in 1944 just doesn't work.
I accept Romney's sincerity on his conversion, but it really annoys me when people drag Reagan in on it, when the comparison doesn't even makes sense.
Romney came from a prominent and powerful, national, political family, why didn't he see the light in 1967, or 1977, or 1987, or 1997, he just barely made 2007, anything less would have condemned the religious candidate for the 2008 election.
Romney is a loser and to compare him to Reagan is a pitiful ploy. He has no chance of becoming POTUS.
Thanks for posting this . Some on here think that it's a bad thing for someone to come to the pro-life side . Reagan actually signed pro-abort legislation , did Romney ? Reagan turned out to be one, if not our best presidents ever.
Romney doesn't cower in his explanation for his change of heart in this matter , it's a good change that should be embraced . Let the detractors smear Romney ,and let them consider the alternatives . All of the viable alternatives are very strong and vocal in their support of abortion .
Gov. Romney had lots to say about federal budget spending restraint in his CPAC 2007 speech that was very well received by the crowd. For example, he would cap non-defense, discretionary spending at inflation minus 1%, saving $300 billion over 10 years. It's very refreshing to hear a Republican put fiscal conservatism at the top of his priorities. View a portion of the speech online for more: On Spending Restraint.
Examine Romney's record in Massachusetts concerning spending. He is a serious fiscal conservative.
People do change their minds and hearts when confronted with either a change in themselves or more facts. I'm a little bothered by the fact that his change of heart came because he saw that Roe V Wade led to a cheapening of life rather than because he thinks abortion is killing a human and that it's wrong. That may be a small point, but it seems important to me.
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No RINOs. Give us Fred Thompson.
Mitt Romney, like Ronald Reagan, wears blue suits.
An excellent book, by the way. Here is a great quote from the book with a warning from Hugh Hewitt:
"There is a steep and very slippery slope in front of the passionate anti-Mormon who takes that passion and funnels it into anti-Romney activism because of the theological concerns. Such activists are building a weapon of political war that will be used against them, and those who they might approve for office based on theological soundness in this and future cycles... If the various and disparate camps within what the Left lazily and condescendingly calls the 'religious right' join with the secular agenda journalists of Left... in mocking Romney's sincere religous belief, they can expect the same arguments to be turned against them in even greater force than they have already encountered."
I love youtube --- Check these out about Romney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88Ug3GrvZk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjC4lQ90Sas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQFciAB_qg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-QPa98qQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXV9SbyKLo
Why is there such an effort to bring Reagan into all things Romney - there is no comparison - at all!
He's not a true conservative, he has no vision for the future, he has no vision or message of hope!
BAH! On these candidates who just say what they think people want to hear!
Romney is a loser and to compare him to Reagan is a pitiful ploy. He has no chance of becoming POTUS.
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