Posted on 05/20/2007 6:37:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
It's a honor to be with you and be with people who exemplify the pro-life values throughout their lives.
"I believe it's an honor to receive this award, as you can imagine.
"I recognize that it is awarded for where I am on the issue of life, not for where I've been.
"And I respect the fact that you arrived at this place of principle a long, long time ago.
"And I appreciate the fact that you're inclined to honor someone who arrived here only a few years ago.
"I'm evidence that your work, that your relentless campaign to promote the sanctity of human life, bears fruit.
"And I do follow, as Kevin indicated, a long line of converts - George Herbert Walker Bush, Henry Hyde, Ronald Reagan. Each of them made meaningful contributions to this cause.
"It is instructive to see the double standard at work here. When a pro-life figure changes to pro-choice, it hardly gets a mention. But when someone becomes pro-life, the pundits go into high dudgeon.
(Excerpt) Read more at mittromney.com ...
On almost everything. That's the real kicker.
Of course, he hasn't Mitt-flopped on everything: He still openly supports an assault weapons ban, the Department of Education, and killing human embryos, to name a few things.
You do agree with Mitt, don't you EV?
Of course you do. You may be petty and self-righteous, but you're not stupid.
ROFL...
Is that why his administration declared a gay “couple”...two gay men...”adoptive parents of the year”? Bleh.
Go pound sand, Eccles. Your liberal former Governor of Massachusetts is leading you to act in ways I certainly never thought you would ever act.
I wonder how much over the years the Romeny’s have geven to LDS adoption center! Many give anonymous so you may never know.
http://directory.adoption.com/agencies-professionals/LDS+Family+Services.html
Go back and read the Giuliani threads and I think you'll find the answers to that question, and how badly it worked out for those who tried to play that phony card.
"First, we pushed for a stay - that was denied.
"Then, we fought for an amendment limiting marriage to a relationship between a man and a woman - that lost in the legislature by only two votes.
"We upheld the 1913 law that prohibited out of state couples from coming to Massachusetts and getting married here. That prevented us from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage.
"And in the final analysis, as you know, we went to work to secure a vote of the citizens, and that's a battle that took us all the way to Court, we got a win there. And now we're just one step away from putting it back on the ballot. And I'm sure this Representative and this Senator will get the job done.
"Of course, the issue now is whether a single vote majority of our Supreme Judicial Court will be allowed to trump the voice of the people in a democracy. If it is, then John Adams would truly be astonished."
They applauded Mitt, EV. They applauded him because he fought the good fight.
Have you ever fought to keep homosexual marriage from being foisted in the rest of us? Did you succeed?
Didn't think so.
Of course your own puny efforts and sad failures won't keep you from hypocritically straining at some gnat as you strive mightily to find--or fabricate--fault with Romney's heroic efforts on this vital issue.
Don't disappoint us, petty critic. Puke out your red-lettered talking points for the eleventy-thousandth and third time.
Are you saying that giving money to an adoption service (even though you're not really providing any evidence that Romney gave) makes up for the fact that Romney was one of the politicians in this country who has provided political cover for the NARAL ghouls for more than 35 years - and who have thereby contributed to the butchery of 40 to 50 million American babes in the womb?
Sure. That's why the first "couple" that asked for a "divorce" were from a neighboring state. LOL...
Mr. Reagan was pro-life, after he was pro-choice.
Mr. Bush “41” was pro-choice before he was pro-life.
People are allowed to change their views and change their minds. I just think that Mr. Romney has been very eloquent in his explanation of his changed views. He says it best “I was wrong!”
If someone says they were wrong, you can’t go back to a period before they said they were wrong to prove their position. It makes no difference whether it was 30 minutes or 30 years ago, when a person’s views were different.
Romney sold out America by using his executive power to implement the lawless decree of a lawless court. It was by far his worst failure.
Don’t you think that the rhetoric of a political candidate should bear at least some resemblance to his words and record from throughout his political career?
"That's my kind of judge and that's the kind I'd appoint.
Hear, hear!
Don't you agree with Romney that Roberts is a fine model for a SCOTUS justice?
I think you agree with Romney far more than you are willing to admit.
You misrepresent Reagan. He signed a bill that made a rape and incest exception legal. The left used it as an opening to go much further. Reagan realized his error within a very short time period, and fought hard for life thereafter.
Also, it was a dozen years between the time he signed the abortion bill in CA and the time he became President.
If you really believe Romney is sincere, tell him to come back for the 2020 election, after having expended some of his hundreds of millions working to end abortion in the meantime.
Because of the mainstream media in this country and their support of abortion it is dangerous to be pro-life in politics.I really believe it would’ve been much safer for Mr. Romney to stay where he was on his abortion positions. I believe it takes courage to say you were wrong and then support that change with very strong words.
No one knows yet. He's unproven. His silence, his failure to support Scalia and Thomas in their comments on partial birth abortion in the decision on PBA, don't fill me with hope.
Cheap, easy words on Romney's part. *yawn*
"This can't continue.
"At the heart of American democracy is the principle that the most fundamental decisions should ultimately be decided by the people themselves."
Mitt rings out a loud clear note for federalism.
You do agree that federalism is to be preferred over central government authoritarianism, don't you?
Yet another issue on which you agree with Mitt!
It matters not that you know EV, the Lord sees every thing!
You are losing this battle just to let you know, EV even your action of promoting doome and gloom are also being noted!
You mean like Romney changing HIS position to suit the GOP primary voters ? ;-)
"Because of the mainstream media in this country and their support of abortion it is dangerous to be pro-life in politics.I really believe it would’ve been much safer for Mr. Romney to stay where he was on his abortion positions. I believe it takes courage to say you were wrong and then support that change with very strong words."
It wouldn't be safer in a GOP primary. Being pro-abort in a national GOP primary is the kiss of death. Rudy is wrong, but intellectually honest. Romney is just pandering, and we have no evidence that his conversion is heartfelt or not. It just smacks of being too convenient. If he weren't running for President and decided to make the announcement, it would ring more true.
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