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Posted on 08/17/2007 4:12:53 AM PDT by monomaniac
Ain’t that sumphin’?
Never underestimate the power of a spouse’s influence on public policy.
Which begs the question:
When has Planned Parenthood-supporter Ann Romney had her “conversion”?
I didn't know that she supported Planned Barrenhood. For some reason the phrase, "whited sepulcher" comes to mind when thinking of these people. Do you have link to any news stories on this?
Cordially,
Cordially,
You got the Idaho Militia instead.
This is one of the major reasons Romney cannot be trusted.
He uses phrases and terms that have well-established meanings over decades in the public policy debate, but secretly applies his own meaning to them, knowing that his use of the terms (as he defines them) will mislead the broader audience.
Thus, he says he supports a “Human Life Amendment.”
To pro-life activists, that for years has meant a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Romney uses the term HLA knowing that’s what pro-lifers will assume he means.
But no, he has his own secret meaning. To him, it could mean an amendment that merely lets New York and Mass continue to allow the taking of prenatal life.
Obviously dishonest, and intentionally so.
Similarly, when Mitt says he’s “always been for life,” he knows pro-lifers will assume by that that he’s always been “pro-life” in the well-defined political sense, i.e, in favor of adopting legal restrictions banning abortion with a variety of exceptions.
But no, the secret meaning he attaches to the term is that he was “personally” against abortion, while he of course had spent a couple decades expressing support for Roe and “a woman’s right” to pay an abortionist to terminate her prenatal child’s life.
Similarly, he said last Sunday that he “wasn’t pro-choice” even in those times — up til July 2005 — when he clearly supported Roe and “a woman’s right to choose.” (Guess it all depends on what your definition of the word “choice” is, a la Clinton.)
Similarly, he boasted a few months ago that he was a life member of the NRA, knowing that the uninformed listener would believe he meant that he’d been a lifelong supporter of the NRA. Nope, he just had enough money to buy a “life membership” last August, after being critical of the NRA and endorsing gun control while governor.
Similar word games at play when he says he “support(s) the right of the Boy Scouts to decide their own policy” regarding the ban on homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters — obviously intended to lead the listener to believe that the supports the Boy Scout policy. When in fact he opposed it in 1994 and still does today.
Bill Clinton was an amateur at this stuff.
Mitt’s the worst I’ve ever witnessed.
As Rush Limbaugh says, “words have meaning,” and one of the main reasons you simply cannot trust Romney is that you cannot trust something as basic as his use of the English language. To him, being “for life” means supporting abortion on demand. You can never be sure what he means by the same words the rest of us use every day, which allow us to communicate because we trust that when the other guy uses the word “is,” he means the same thing by it that we do.
We had a president once before we couldn’t trust, who wanted wiggle room over the definitions of what plain English words mean (such as “is”).
Surely we do not want another one any time soon.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yesterday in this forum, his supporters were arguing over what the meaning of the word “as” is. I’m not joking...
Great post. Completely accurate.
'Hounded by the abortion question, Romney recently told reporters: "I'm pro-life; it would be great if we could just leave it at that." '
If it were only that simple! His past shows it can't be left at that but needs to be probed to get past the polticial-ese. A N D ....the STRAW POLL!! UGH!
PING!
Who even knows what Romney believes anymore?! I fully support a Human Life Amendment because it is one of the best options of ending abortion across America. I’m supporting a candidate that supports the Human Life Amendment.
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