Posted on 11/28/2007 1:08:21 PM PST by rwbusa50
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican group that backs abortion rights will start an ad campaign this weekend in Iowa and New Hampshire portraying Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper and drawing attention to a questionnaire he filled out in 2002 endorsing legal abortions.
The ads by the Republican Majority for Choice suggest Romney's current anti-abortion stance is politically motivated. The group will spend more than $100,000 to air a 30-second television spot in Iowa and New Hampshire and run full page ads Sunday in the Des Moines Register, the Concord Monitor and the New Hampshire Union Leader.
"He's an opportunist," Jennifer Blei Stockman, national co-chair of Republican Majority for Choice, said in an interview. "It's important for voters to know who they are voting for."
Stockman and other members of the group's board have donated to the presidential campaign of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an advocate of abortion rights. Stockman contributed $2,300 to Giuliani's campaign last May.
But Stockman said the group itself has not endorsed a candidate in the presidential contest. She stressed that the Republican Majority for Choice and the Giuliani campaign have had no discussions regarding the ad campaign.
Earlier this month in Iowa, Giuliani expressed disapproval of any outside advertising effort that might surface on his behalf akin to the one John McCain's supporters have launched in South Carolina. McCain has asked his donors not to bankroll such campaigns.
Asked whether he would make the same request of his backers, Giuliani said: ...
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Being attacked by the Rino Minority for Dead Babies should be a badge of honor for Governor Romney.
I believe he has also been attacked already by the Log Cabin Outhouse “Republicans” too.
What a laugh. These harpies are going to learn AGAIN that they are NOT the "Republican Majority for Choice." They just wish they were. Once they get Rudy the nomination they will find out what a minority they are, but they will have successfully taken back their tiny little minority (and vanishing) party from the conservatives that Reagan stole from them.
I have a message for them: You may wrest the party from conservatives and destroy it, and soon enough your dream will come true - when you join the REAL "Majority for Choice," the Democrats.
**GOP Abortion Rights Group**
Huh?
I did a quick search, she's quite the East Coast socialite liberal (and wife of David Stockman).
Bizarre. The Republican Majority for Choice (i.e., the Republican Minority for Abortion) is attacking Romney for not being reliably pro-life? Talk about deceptive ads.
Notice that they have allocated $100,000 for a single ad, and probably have a budget of millions. In other words, they represent the Country Club contingent, rich people who want to be free to indulge in unlimited abortion and perversion without any consequences.
One more proof that Giuliani is the choice of the Country Clubbers and money men.
That picture reminds me of the fashionable adage, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” Look at her wrists, and her gold-plated hair.
“From what I can see, it was a matter of conscience.”
LOL...if it took Myth romney about 5 decades to discover his conscience, one wonders what kind of a person he is.
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I trust Rudy, someone who has been honest and consistent on his views concerning abortion, more than someone like Romney, whose only consistency is in flip flopping on his positions.
Pro-Life Americans are the base of the GOP and the grassroots activists on the frontlines of the conservative movement.
Should the GOP nominate a candidate who is Pro-Choice (Rudy or Romney) or a candidate who is an ideological socialist (Huckabee), the GOP may not long be the political vehicle conservatives use to advance our agenda.
Then why was he still making pro-abortion statements as late as May 27, 2005 at a press conference? Why was he subsidizing the abortion industry via Commonwealth Care--something he signed into effect in April 2006? Why did he not veto the section that made Planned Parenthood a healthcare player in that care by making a PP rep a board overseer?
I think one side of his brain forgot to inform the other.
I disagree. Ronald Reagan ended taxpayer support for foreign abortions. Clinton reversed that on his first day in office. Bush reinstated it on his first day in office.
Bush has been reliably pro-life and has not let his advisers talk him around, as I’m sure they have often tried to do.
Rudy has a pro-abortion record that is far more extreme even than most Democrats. I agree with you that he has been fairly honest about it, although his pledge to appoint “strict constructionists” to the Supreme Court is clearly bogus.
Honesty is good in itself, but not when a leader tells us that he can be counted on to kill babies. I don’t much trust Romney on this issue, but several other candidates appear to be reliably pro life, including Thompson, Hunter, and the otherwise questionable Huckabee.
Sounds like a fine, upstanding, and honest group to me...
Just look at their name. They have the backing of the majority of Republicans, and they support choice! How could choice be bad, especially if the majority supports it!?!?
The name of that group alone just screams liberal propaganda!
Much like log cabin republicans...
RMoC is where the “moderates” like to hang their hats to look all civilized for their liberal friends...
It’s a front group for abortion on demand...
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