Posted on 08/20/2007 7:39:06 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Of course, Romney is still splitting hairs -- he supports some embryonic research and opposes other embryonic research.
Not to mention his investments in companies that do embryonic stem cell research.
anyone know how he made his money? I saw the article the other day he is worth 200 million. How did he get it?
This abortion issue drives too many people batty.
Romney was born in 1947.
Romney only recently became pro-life.
Therefore, it took Romney almost 60 years to "experience life"?
What a load of .... .
Perhaps it is so important to so many because they see it as the fundamental issue that others spring from. If one can’t see sanctity in the most innocent, how do they truly find sanctity in anything else?
This abortion issue drives too many people batty.
I’m pro life, but the pro life movement has played the shell game with this issue.
The traditional conservative position on abortion was that the Roe decision impeded States’ rights, and that the states decide their individual abortion policies.
These days, too many pro lifers expect a USSC decision that would outlaw abortion (bad idea), a Constitutional Amendment that would outlaw abortion (what happened to state’s rights?), etc.
I have the traditional conservative view - I’m against abortion but the states should decide their policy. This doesn’t seem good enough for modern-era anti-abortion fetishists. They move through life like wide-eyed dumbasses unable to make sense of their position. They make the rest of us look bad.
I think the goal of no more first trimester abortions in the USA in the modern era is strictly fantasy island stuff. Many conservatives don’t have the clarity & maturity to see that too many people (maybe even a majority) want abortion to be legal.
It takes a remarkable individual to truly have no grasp that they have lost.
Should we beat them who make faux pas every few hours with a rehash press release for days?
That was no faux paus - that was a blatant mischaracterization by Mitt of Reagan's views on abortion while he was governor.
Some Rudy boosters also have attempted the same thing, and for the exact same reason - to bring down Reagan a notch in the hopes it somehow makes their guy look better. But such an attempt is wrong. Reagan was never pro-choice and never in favor of abortion on demand. The legislation he signed allowed for legal abortion in cases of rape, incest and the health of the mother. Doctors abused that last provision.
Sorry, buy calling anti-abortion activists "fetishists" and "dumbasses" is what makes you look bad.
I didn’t say all - I said some, or even many. I am pro life myself, but I see the legacy of failure that the prevailing pro life movement has brought us.
Indeed, many can’t even see it themselves. Those are fetishists and dumbasses.
That is a slight exaggeration. It was a poor choice of words. Did you watch the whole interview? He misspoke under pressure in a heated exchange during an interview where Chris Wallace had gone on the attack on several issues. Mitt has never used that term before when describing Reagan's position.
Given that Romney is at 4-5 townhall meetings and 6-7 interviews a day, and not just sitting at home writing essays, it is not surprising that he will have a few words misspoken here and there. Nobody is perfect.
What about your candidate's (Fred's) blunder in telling the CNN guy he supported the Federal Marriage Amendment on Friday and then turning around the very next day and saying he opposed it? Blunders happen. Nobody is perfect.
I sense increased desperation as people make mountains out of molehills.
Horsecrap - like I said, we've seen this gambit from Rudy boosters as well. It was a deliberate mischaracterization of Reagan's record to somehow rationalize Mitt's.
What about your candidate's (Fred's) blunder in telling the CNN guy he supported the Federal Marriage Amendment on Friday and then turning around the very next day and saying he opposed it? Blunders happen.
Fred wasn't trying to tear down part of someone else's legacy. The mistake was his own.
I'm sure it was by some devious, underhanded, possibly satanic means. Just ask the We Hate Mitt gang, they'll tell you.
I just want to know. Didn’t the clintons have a net worth of 500k when elected, now worth 40+ million. I have no problem if he made money in the private sector.
Corporate takeovers. Buy a healthy company with borrowed money, saddle it with debt, part it out, and walk away with the profits.
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