Posted on 03/12/2010 11:23:26 AM PST by Colofornian
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Mitt Romney is likely one of several Republican candidates who will vie for the GOP nomination and the right to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. For his 2008 attempt at representing Republicans, Romney caused consternation by talking about his position change on abortion and he is doing it again.
Appearing on the "Imus in the Morning" radio program with Don Imus this morning, Imus asked Romney to revisit his position change.
"Well, you know, I never really called myself pro-choice, but I did say when I was running for governor that I would keep the law as it was," Romney said.
But that appears to contradict what he said at the 2007 GOP Iowa straw poll debate.
"Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have," he said then.
American Spectator writer W. James Antle noticed the Imus comment and said Romney could hurt his own chances of getting the nomination in 2012 by revisiting his former position in favor of legal abortions.
"Romney's problem has never really been that he changed his mind. It has been the fact that he can't resist insulting people's intelligence about his past record when discussing his current position," Antle writes.
"This is a perfect political climate for Romney to downplay abortion and run as an economic problem-solver. But if he continues to pretend he was never pro-choice or play word games about his previous stance, abortion will plague his candidacy again in 2012," Antle continues.
For pro-life advocates, overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion decision so abortion can again be prohibited has always been a hallmark of a true pro-life stance.
During a January 2008 campaign stop in Nevada, Romney said he lined up with the pro-life movement against Roe.
"I am pro-life, and I would welcome a time when the people of America concluded that abortion was wrong, but that's not where America is, and that's why I believe that the next right step for America is for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade," he said. "That would return to the states and to the elected representatives of the people the ability to set their own laws related to abortion."
Romney converted to a pro-life position after years of supporting legalized abortion.
He also said during the 2008 presidential campaign that he supports a federal human life amendment as a second goal after first toppling Roe and letting states ban abortions again.
Any Republican taking on Obama would face a president who has compiled a lengthy pro-abortion record.
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, `You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
The last thing we need is a white Obama.
I look forward to you struggling to make a case for Mitt Romney, but I know that you won’t even attempt it.
Absolutely not!
Do you think it's possible for someone to think that murder is wrong, but to stand against government's duty to enforce ancient, God given laws against it?
The government exists, if for nothing else, to protect life and liberty. If the government can not or will not protect life and liberty or refuses to administer justice against those who violate life and liberty, then that State has violated it's ordination and risks imminent judgment from God.
All lies are insulting. Some lies, such as bold faced lies toward intended victims who are neither ignorant nor naive, descend to levels of gratuity that are particularly insulting. They ooze with pathological condescension and are unbearable to the countenance of honest, principled and honorable men. It takes a slick elitist who has audaciously, publicly and enthusiastically politically fornicated with our mortal enemies in so many grotesque ways to lie about his newly acquired virtues so insultingly. Circumstances of lunacy can not be imagined which could cause a true conservative to believe or trust him for a instant, and yet he has surrounded himself with a sycophantic and otherwise dubiously duplicitous court which laud, encourage and throng his exorbitant, buck naked and stinking parade towards ultimate and ignominious defeat.
Let us hope and pray that it is not as the Presidential candidate of the GOP.
Like I said, you won’t even try to come out into the open and make an actual case for anything, if you have a point to make about Mitt Romney, then put it out here so that we can respond to it.
In retrospect, I should not have played ansel12's ridiculous game.
It’s ridiculous that Romney would ever run (again) for President. What a complete waste of money. But I do want to see him give a speech on all the inside info of the mormon cult. That’ll help put the kaibosh not only on Romney’s run, but for any other mormon running for any office in the land. I hope the speech begins with info on how many gods there are, and how Romney plans to become a god on planet Kolob. Beautiful!
I posted the same thing to you in post 92.
Eat it, Romney!!
What I notice is that you still have not said anything about Mitt Romney.
What I did was expose you as a romneybot, that matters.
Hey DimWit Mitt! Don’t ya have some empty walls to store food in?
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