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.
I thought I made it pretty clear that I can no longer support Mitt. It's been a while now.
Although, unlike some, I will absolutely vote for Mitt (or nearly anyone else...) over Obambi, if it should come to that in the election.
Sarah is my current top pick for the primaries, though her support for RINO in Chief, McCain is troubling.
Still dead. Sadly.
I will not vote for ANY ticket containing Mitt Romney.
Team Romney threw Election 2008.
How did you say that treachery was working out for you?
He sounded pretty proud of it until recently, I guess he was a bit slow on the uptake.
Agreed. Still waiting for someone to stand forward who embodies Reagan’s vision.
Huh? Moreso than McCain's people?
Umm... no.
That's pretty far-fetched to think that the guy who didn't win the primary is somehow to blame for the results of the general election.
In fairness to Mitt, he may not have been raising his hand in response to the question. It’s possible he was merely performing his usual, periodic test of which way the wind is blowing.
Romney is slick as a snake oil salesman. They are all politicians but this man is slime.
I think it is comical he is even trying to run.
Doesn’t “Mitt Romney says...” mean the same thing as “barf alert”?
ALL politicians lie.
And Republican primary voters want him because they have heard of him. Name ID means everything now.
My guess is that Romney was always Pro-Life but he couldn’t say it publicly while running for public office in Massachusetts.
Pro-Life means you lose in liberal Massachusetts.
People used to say, Why can’t you get over Chappaquiddick? It was umpty-ump years ago!
The answer was: Because he’s still lying about it—right now!
So Romney changed his mind on abortion. Fine (provided you buy his garbled account of his thinking processes). But now he’s lying about it.
Perhaps, which means those who do at least insult God's intelligence; and many politicians who lie go further & manage to also insult many others' intelligence (as the article says: "...he can't resist insulting people's intelligence about his past record when discussing his current position," Antle writes.)
HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you are telling a big LIE SIR!!!! OUT OF YOUR OWN WORDS!!!!!...why don’t you watch your OWN VIDEO!!!!!!!
Then why does he often clearly state that he was Pro choice? Why did he create the myth of Reagan being "adamantly pr-choice" as an explanation for his own conversion?
How could he so sincerely and in such convincing detail describe his personal adoption of the proabortion view in 1970? Romney has described the actual conversion epiphany that he had at the end of 2004, how could there have been a conversion if he was already pro life?
Why was Romney so aggressively pro abortion, supporting and funding and voting for and even doing fund raisers for pro-abortion Democrats in their races against Republicans, Why did Romney do fund raising for Planned Parenthood?
Spin and twist his words all you like, the fact remains that he has never denied having been pro-choice at one time.
Yes, he changed his mind. So what? We ought to welcome converts to our cause, not shun them.
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
It should be obvious that had Romney run for Governor of a conservative state like Utah, he would have been running as a pro-life candidate. As for why is he lying about it, “That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.”
Don’t you just love a guy who can lie with a straight face and a big toothy smile? Nice hair too.
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