Posted on 01/27/2008 1:43:51 PM PST by presidio9
American RTL Action president Steve Curtis is challenging the wisdom and pro-life leadership of Ann Coulter for her endorsement of pro-abortion Mitt Romney for president. The group's ARTLaction.com site documents Romney's recent promotion of child killing with links to official government websites, Romney's own campaign, mainstream sources, and audio and video clips of the candidate himself:
Mitt Romney claims, "On every piece of legislation, I came down on the side of life." "That is a lie," said Curtis, former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. In April 2006 Romney signed the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan that pays for even elective abortions. Today he falsely claims a 1981 court ruling about "medically necessary" abortions forced him to provide tax-funded elective abortion, showing he prioritizes socialized "health care" over protecting kids, even when that "health care" actually intentionally kills children. Romney gave a permanent seat on the Massachusetts payment policy advisory board to the nation's leading abortionists at Planned Parenthood. Romney signed the 2005 bill that promotes chemical abortions with Plan B. As Governor he appointed openly pro-abortion Democrat Matt Nestor to a district court; and disputing a ruling from his own state health department Romney personally argued that pro-life hospitals must dispense abortifacients.
Romney claims to have been personally pro-life for many years, but also claims a recent pro-life conversion on Nov. 9, 2004 while talking to Harvard researcher Douglas Melton about embryonic stem cells. However Mitt still openly supports killing the baby of a rapist, and killing the tiniest of humans for research. Dr. Melton has even disputed Romney's account of their conversation, and "pro-life" Romney even attended a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. During the years that Romney says he was personally pro-life he aggressively claimed to be second-to-none in asserting abortion as an essential right. And in October 2005 Romney asked the federal government for a waiver for a major increase in funding for abortion "counseling" and for tax-funded abortifacients.
Coulter repeatedly suggests in a Jan. 16, 2008 column that pro-lifers should let liberals help them pick their nominee. "The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing... Mitt Romney." Coulter mocked primary voters who "do absolutely zero research on the candidates" and then she concluded without presenting any legislative research but instead mouthing Mitt's own sound bite, that "Romney governed as a pro-lifer."
"She is good at debunking claims," said Curtis, "so she should go to our website and try to disprove our damning evidence that Romney is aggressively pro-abortion. Romney has deceived Ann Coulter and maintained his godless pro-abortion position."
"The evidence is indisputable-- Mitt Romney is lying to get Christian votes," said vice president of ARTL Action, Columbine dad Brian Rohrbough. "When 'pro-life' leaders lie, more innocent children will die, so Ann has either been tricked, or is helping him trick others. American RTL is calling Coulter to account." In the early primary contests the new 527 group American RTL Action ran anti-Mitt TV ads only in Iowa and South Carolina, the two states where Romney was trounced because his pro-abortion actions were exposed.
Don't stay hoem of that POS gets the nomination; vote Libertarian or some other third party to express your disgust and let him know what you've done. Tht what I plan to do if that POS gets the nomination.
I think that even NARAL is personally against abortion but....
Coulter repeatedly suggests in a Jan. 16, 2008 column that pro-lifers should let liberals help them pick their nominee. "The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing... Mitt Romney."The suggestion that Ann was saying we should "let liberals help them pick" is absurd. Ann was making the common-sense argument that a person liberals hate is probably someone on our side, not that we should allow liberals to choose our candidate.
According to an interview in 2005, Romney bragged that his whole family was pro-choice "after an intimate family experience took place." He bragged that his mother ran for the US Senate as a pro-choice Republican, and provided the documentation.
That does not square with your hopes and wishes.
You have just expressed my exact feelings. We are in the same boat. Romney also appeals to me as a very smart business man as apposed to people like, say, Ted Kennedy who has sucked off of politics his whole life and never made a payroll or run a business. Or Hillary who has sucked off her husband (no pun intended) and is shouting about Obamas lack of experience when her only experience is being a crooked lawyer and the wife of a crooked politician.
Maybe you can buy a clue with the change you get back from Hillary or Obama.
No, you would have to be a fool to believe Romney will become pro-choice again if he wins the presidency as a pro-life candidate.
To satisfy your cynicism, I’ll point out that he would undoubtedly want a second term, and he’s smart enough to know what happened to the first president named Bush.
Would Thompson give Mitt bonafide conservative gravitas, a la Dick Cheney?
“Mitt is IT!”
You lose me, when you call Romney “pro-abortion”. My friend, extremism is not your friend.
Please don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say I believe that.
I choose not to trust him AT ALL to stay true on the issues he has flipped on (guns, abortion, marriage, family), as long as I still have a candidate in the race to vote for who has NEVER flipped on them.
what is the circle that lives around huckster.
It seems that pro amnesty judges will be just fine with keeping current abortion cases alive.
does not make huckster so valuable.
You should see this group's website and commercial
McCain is far more of a flip flopper than Romney ever even thought of being, and it’s either him or Romney on the Republican side, so it’s rather pointless to consider anyone else. It’s been that way since New Hampshire, actually, when they finished first and second. I pointed out at that time that one of them would inevitably be the nominee.
The nomination of Mitt Romney, if it should occur, will signal the Republican Party’s demise.
It’s a shame when people allow themselves to become single-issue voters.
The phrase 'single issue voter' is used to marginalize proLIFE voters. If you aren't a single issue voter, why don't you support Ron Paul? He is very conservative and great on almost all the issues, except his foreign policy will result in us getting our heads cut off. Its only one issue though.
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