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Romney was born in 1947. Romney only recently became pro-life.

So? Ronald Reagan was a democrat for how many decades? It's not the number of years one is fighting on our side that is important -- it is the quality of the commitment.

Some of the most committed and passionate activists I know are the most recent ones.

Also, conservatism does not rise and fall on just one issue alone. Romney has been a conservative on a majority of issues his whole life.

Don't forget, Democrat Ronald Reagan voted for FDR for President four times, and campaigned for Harry Truman. He remained a Democrat until he switched his registration in 1962. He lived 5 decades as a Democrat.

Don't forget, too, that Ronald Reagan said he had no opinion on abortion one way or another when he became governor. He was 56 years old. Hadn't really thought about it too much .

From the book, Reagan In His Own Hand: 1975 Reagan radio address:

“Eight years ago when I became Gov. I found myself involved almost immediately in a controversy over abortion. It was a subject I’d never given much thought to and one upon which I didn’t really have an opinion.

And just a few years later he was staunchly pro-life, leading the conservative revolution and becoming one of our most loved and respected presidents. People change. And good. Imagine if people like those unfairly trashing Romney today had rejected Reagan back then too.

----->>Think about it. This is Ronald Reagan quoted above --- in his late 60's -- writing that he hadn't formed an opinion one way or another on abortion eight years earlier UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION ON IT WHEN IN OFFICE - when the issue of life was squarely placed before him ----> then it mattered.

That sounds VERY much like what happened to Romney.

Governor Romney: "Times of decision are moments of great clarity. Before I was Governor, the life issue was just that, an issue. But when responsibility for life or ending life was placed in my hands, I made the right decision. I chose life." (Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks At The National Right To Life Convention Forum, June 15, 2007)

I think that is the hardest thing for some of the one-issue absolutists to fathom -- that some people don't really have a strong opinion on this issue one way or another for a good deal of their lives -- if ever. Busy, perhaps, with other pursuits in life and not fully informed on the issue at all. Not forming a strong opinion one way or another until later in life (and, nonetheless, one of them turned out to be one of our most beloved presidents - imagine that!).

With these two men, Reagan and Romney, when the issue of life hit them in the face and, ultimately, they had to take a stand -- they made the right choice in the end.

"I am evidence that your work, that your relentless campaign to promote the sanctity of human life, bears fruit." (Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks At The National Right To Life Convention Forum, June 15, 2007)

Amen to that.