NEW JERSEY SUPERMARKET BARACK ROLE MODEL
VERY UPSET SINCE HIS MOMMY DIED IN 2007
AND BECAUSE THE MARINES BOOTED HIM OUT
SO HE MURDERS TWO YOUNG WHITE EMPLOYEES
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"If I had a son he would look like....."
- Barack Hussein Obama Junior
Posted on 09/01/2012 7:45:13 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Thanks to one of my Facebook friends, I was just today alerted to the interview Romney gave CBS news on 8/27/2012. The video is here. In the interview, Romney says, "My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother."
The health of the mother exception is universally recognized by authentic pro-lifers as a loophole you can drive Roe v. Wade through. Then Romney makes the following statement, clearly putting an end to any notion that he is pro-life in any meaningful sense of the term:
"But recognize, this is the decision that will be made by the Supreme Court. The Democrats try and make this a political issue every four years, but this is a matter in the courts; it's been settled for some time in the courts...."
Translation: Pro-life is whatever the Supreme Court says it is. Romney's statement proves that with his nomination, the Republican Party effectively ceases to be the Party of Lincoln. Lincoln recognized that where a fundamental issue of unalienable rights is involved, no Supreme Court decision that fails to respect the principles of America's Declaration of Independence "settles the issue." By contrast, what we hear in Romney's interview is the slavish surrender of unchecked, unconstitutional, just plain tyrannical power to the federal courts. Did the Dred Scott decision in 1857 settle the issue of slavery? Not for Lincoln. No more can the present U.S. Supreme Court's pro-abortion jurisprudence settle the issue of abortion for us. In keeping with the Lincolnian heritage, the pro-life movement has been rooted in the Declaration's avowal of the Creator-endowed, equal, unalienable right to life. That's one of the things that made the Party of Lincoln its natural home.
But with Romney as its standard bearer, the GOP no longer upholds that avowal. To be sure, the GOP platform still makes cynical use of language drawn from America's Declaration heritage. But with his words, Romney rejects Lincoln's Declaration statesmanship; his articulation of the just cause of the Civil War; and his affirmation that the American people should never allow the Union to be dissolved on grounds that overthrow the indispensable principle of just self-government the Declaration articulates.
In this interview, Romney aims a death blow at the soul of the pro-life political cause. The timing of the interview was no accident. The evening before the vote that sealed his nomination as the GOP candidate for President, Romney makes a clear and emphatic statement nullifying the GOP's supposed platform commitment to the Declaration cause of the pro-life movement. So-called pro-life leaders and voters who back Romney cannot now deny that he stands openly within the political precincts of pro-abortion hell. As his supporters, they stand there with him. What we hear in Romney's CBS interview is the sound of the precincts' gates clanging shut behind them all. As I forewarned repeatedly: Romney's candidacy is a snare (Psalm 64:5), beware of falling into it.
Then you are not pro-life. You support baby murder.
BUT If the child has Down Syndrome....
BUT if the child is unwanted...
BUT if the child has any genetic flaws......
There may be a place for a third party someday if the GOP keeps nominating the type of squishes we've seen them offer up since Reagan, but not this time. Work on getting a Congress that will pass (and repeal) necessary legislation, and confine the executive to executing the laws so enacted.
Obama must go.
No, he's running himself.
I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. Cheap. Interested?
Killing little boys and girls by cruel and unusual means was beyond the pale in his day.
But Lincoln had very firm opinions on the principles of moral right that form the basis for this free republic.
"Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines that conflict with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated in our charter of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the revolution. Think nothing of me — take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever — but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles.""I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."
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If Romney can pull us back from abortion anytime for any reason to only those exceptions, then I will rejoice.
That's not the perfect position and understandably won't satisfy the purist in the pro-life movement.
But, if he could get us at least back to that former standard, it would be an enormous improvement and I would welcome it as a battle won in the much larger war.
Retaking lost ground is worth celebrating and I will celebrate it should that happen.
EternalVigilance, don’t you think you should include a disclaimer stating your vested interest in tearing down the Romney-Ryan ticket?
Your post is inacurate that quote was from 1994!!
Legality of abortion
In a 1994 debate with Senator Ted Kennedy, Romney said: “One of the great things about our nation ... is that we’re each entitled to have strong personal beliefs, and we encourage other people to do the same. But as a nation, we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice, and my personal beliefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign.”[201][202][203]
During the 2002 governor’s race, Romney’s platform stated, “As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current pro-choice status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change.”[204] The executive director of Massachusetts NARAL at the time, Melissa Kogut, stated that in her organization’s endorsement interview with Romney, he was “emphatic that the Republican Party was not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice.”[205][206]
The Boston Globe on July 26, 2005 quoted Romney saying, “I am pro-life. I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother. I wish the people of America agreed, and that the laws of our nation could reflect that view. But while the nation remains so divided over abortion, I believe that the states, through the democratic process, should determine their own abortion laws and not have them dictated by judicial mandate.”[207] At the May 2007 Republican Presidential debate in South Carolina, Romney stated that “Roe v. Wade has gone to such an extent that we’ve cheapened the value of human life.” He followed by saying “the people should make [the abortion] decision, not the court.”[192] Romney’s spokesperson has indicated that had Romney been the governor of South Dakota, he would have signed into law the controversial law banning abortion, but he would include exceptions for cases of incest or rape, which the South Dakota law excludes.[208]
In statements since leaving the governorship, Romney has expressed his opposition to “partial birth” abortion.[19][209][210]
In 2011, Romney declined to sign a pro-life pledge sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List to support legislation to end all taxpayer funding of abortion and to sign a law to “protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.” The pledge also commits signers to nominate judges and appoint executive branch officials who are pro-life. Romney’s spokeswoman said the pledge could have “unforeseen consequences” and that Romney could not “in good conscience sign it.” Romney did not hesitate to explain his stance: “It is one thing to end federal funding for an organization like Planned Parenthood; it is entirely another to end all federal funding for thousands of hospitals across America,” he wrote. “That is precisely what the pledge would demand and require of a president who signed it.” [211]
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Romney promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would help overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to individually decide on the legality of abortion.[212] Furthermore, he would nominate judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the law.[213]
[edit] Personhood legislation
Romney has expressed support for constitutional amendments at both the state and federal level guaranteeing constitutional protections to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Romney said that if elected president, he would support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would legally define personhood as beginning at conception.[214] In the 2012 presidential campaign, he said that, had he as governor been presented with a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, he would have supported it.[215]
[edit] Embryonic stem-cell research & human cloning
When he ran for governor in 2002, Romney strongly advocated stem-cell research, and he promised to lobby then-President George W. Bush to embrace it.[216] During Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign, he renounced his prior position and said that he agreed with Bush’s decision to ban federal funding for research on excess embryos.[216] He said that his views had been drastically altered in 2004 after discussing stem cell research with Douglas Melton, a stem cell researcher at Harvard University. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute was planning research that would have involved therapeutic cloning.[217][218] According to Romney, Melton declared that the research “is not a moral issue because we kill the embryos at 14 days.” “I looked over at Beth Myers, my chief of staff, and we both had exactly the same reaction, which is it just hit us hard,” recalled Romney. “And as they walked out, I said, ‘Beth, we have cheapened the sanctity of life by virtue of the Roe v. Wade mentality.’”[218][219]
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Romney opposed research using cloned embryos created by implanting human DNA into donated eggs.[216][chronology
No... there are no “buts” in that statement... not there and never were.
LLS
So you are not voting, you are just showing off your superior morals?
It is also to ignore the explicit, imperative requirements of the Constitution of the United States:
"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.""No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
You lie and contort articles and phrases just as well as the Obama Administration. How long you been on their payroll and what are they paying you to post here on FR?
Our pResident has done more damage to our country and will do so much more if we don't kick him out in November. Watch the damage he will do between November and January! That thought makes me sick but maybe we can correct it when he is gone.
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