[ClaireSolt]

I sure hope Al Queda doesn’t blow up a city while we all quibble about this.

[Antoninus]

Still, the Globe admitted, "That he is now a pro-life advocate, committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, is believable, given the political equation necessary to win the GOP nomination."

LOL. Exactly. Mitt is an "I'll take whatever position is necessary to get the votes" kind of guy.

I don't trust him even for half a second.

[mnehring]

So, how do we decide if this is a CTJ issue with Romney or if it is flip flopping? Not all position changes are flip flopping, nor are all epiphanies genuine.

IMHO, while I don’t support him in the primaries, he does seem like the type of person I would give the benefit of the doubt to unless evidence shows me otherwise.

[JohnnyZ]

"Probably from a political standpoint and a personal standpoint, the greatest mistake was when I first ran for office, being deeply opposed to abortion but saying, 'I support the current law,' which was pro-choice and effectively a pro-choice position.

That was an outright lie.

He certainly didn't bother with any "current law" semantics when he first ran in 1994. And his stance in 2002 was far, far more liberal than he's been trying to portray it -- he even pledged his support for government funded abortion.

He even repeatedly used his relative's death to convince people how sincerely and deeply committed he was to legal abortion.

[pnh102]

Could it be possible that this is a genuine conversion to the pro-life position by Romney? There have been other prominent Republicans who were pro-baby killing who saw the light and became pro-life. George H. W. Bush comes to mind.

[crazyhorse691]

“That he is now a pro-life advocate, committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, is believable, given the political equation necessary to win the GOP nomination.”

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He was the Gov of one of the most liberal states in the Union and we are supposed to believe that he misled the voters then, but, not now? I like Mitt, but, I don’t like his Clinton-like maneuvers.

[David In Staten Island]

To understand Romney’s abortion position, watch the YouTube video of him with Jan Michelson. Why would people find it a stretch to believe that a man who has ALWAYS been personally and morally opposed to abortion could be pro-life? My guess is that they are either un-intelligent or have a secret (or not so secret) agenda in tryint to smear the man. It would be nice if other candidates could start discussing real issues rather than creating ones like this.

[MurryMom]

Mitt Romney is without question the biggest and most obvious fake ever to attain public office, and that includes Jesse Ventura and Newt Gingrich. Mitt reneged on just about every position he ever held during his entire political life. The sad truth is that, to win the nomination of the clown college that is the modern Republican Party, he almost has to be an obvious fake.

[Biblebelter]

I will accept Romney’s postion change on abortion, before I accept what that weasel Brownback did on immigration which was change his vote for the record and desert the Teddy Kennedy wing of the Republican Party when he saw they were going to get defeated. As slick and a smarmy a politician that Romney might be, I can NEVER trust a weasel like Brownback who change his vote for the record on an issue like illegal immigration.