Romney Reverses his Anti Abortion Stance

[BostonPirate]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/mitt-romney-abortion_n_1952780.html

For what it's worth, the big talk in Boston is that there has been a showdown between the Romney boys and Romney's senior advisers. They blame the campaign for making Mitt more conservative than he really is.

It also offers a window into the often disjointed Romney comments and his campaign that constantly goes back and says he didn't mean it.

Mitt Romney said Tuesday he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion, a softer stance from a candidate who has said he would "get rid of" funding for Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade.

“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the Republican presidential nominee told The Des Moines Register in an interview.

The Romney campaign walked back the remark within two hours of the Register posting its story. Spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the National Review Online's Katrina Trinko that Romney "would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life."

Of course this dovetails into the whole bio waste company that Romney has investments in that disposes of aborted fetuses.

As for what his real position is? Who knows. It all depends on where the money is I guess.

I think this will cause a bit of erosion with enthusiasm within the teavangical movement. hate is a weak poll driver.

 

[maxpowr9]

Doesn't really matter for the teabaggers. Like many moronic Dems, they will vote for someone because a certain letter is next to their name.

 

[BostonPirate]

I don't know... These are the domestic terrorists of the GOP. These people have shot people in church and blown up clinics. To think that they will stand for this Romney re write is a bit much to expect of them IMO.

Of course... You may be right. What do GOPpers believe in more? Anti abortion or their Obama hatred?

Its death or death...lol.

 

[loveguys72]

This sort of thing is exactly why I could never vote for Mr. Romney. There really is no "there" there.

 

[T-Rexx]

I presume this is part of Romney's "pivot to the center" to try to attract moderate votes, after his "pivot to the right" to win the Republican nomination.

As a Mormon ex-bishop, I presume he is an anti-abortionist, and would go back to his "No funding for Planned Parenthood" stance if he were to be elected president.

 

[BostonPirate]

I presume this is part of Romney's "pivot to the center" to try to attract moderate votes, after his "pivot to the right" to win the Republican nomination.

As a Mormon ex-bishop, I presume he is an anti-abortionist, and would go back to his "No funding for Planned Parenthood" stance if he were to be elected president.

he has a long history of being Pro Choice actually. He only changed recently to secure the GOP nomination....

“On the idea of ‘multiple-choice,’ I have to respond. I have my own beliefs, and those beliefs are very dear to me. One of them is that I do not impose my beliefs on other people. Many, many years ago, I had a dear, close family relative that was very close to me who passed away from an illegal abortion. It is since that time that my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter. And you will not see me wavering on that.” He later added that “I hadn’t thought much about” abortion until Keenan’s death, but that it “obviously makes one see that regardless of one’s beliefs about choice, that you would hope it would be safe and legal.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/30/romney_family_secrets/

 

[T-Rexx]

he has a long history of being Pro Choice actually. He only changed recently to secure the GOP nomination....

His "pro-choice" history comes from Massachusetts, where the message was (again) being moderated to satisfy his audience at the time. All that talk in the Kennedy debate was crafted for that particular Massachusetts audience. You can't believe anything Romney says, ever, under any circumstances. His real positions on issues are unknowable.

But, he is a Mormon ex-bishop. There is no such thing as a moderate Mormon bishop. If he is elected president, he will pivot back to his anti-Planned Parenthood/anti-abortion stance. I would bet money.

He's only temporarily "pro-choice" for the general election coming up in November.

 

[BostonPirate]

He definitely would sell any ideal of his to get power. That is his only consistency.

 

[T-Rexx]

^ The polls show he has a big problem with women (they're two to one against him!). This "change" in his abortion stance is intended to address that problem.

After the election (whatever the outcome) he will surely go back to his anti-abortion rhetoric.

 

[BostonPirate]

^ The polls show he has a big problem with women (they're two to one against him!). This "change" in his abortion stance is intended to address that problem.

After the election (whatever the outcome) he will surely go back to his anti-abortion rhetoric.

I read a new poll today... can't remember where... that said that Romney's bounce came from conservative married women, and that he and the president are now even with them.

Single women are still holding at the two to one number though, and they outweigh the married women two to one... still not great math for Willard, but its better for him than before.

Interesting stuff.

 

[Rolyo85]

Give him a week or two, and he'll be pro-gay marriage...

 

[ReadyWithReadyWit]

I was actually going to start a thread on "what is going to be Mitt's next pivot", but Mitt beat me to the punch...

This should be deeply disconcerting to Republicans... that is if they are actually voting for Romney and not against Obama...

More importantly, this should be deeply disconcerting to all Americans... that this void of a candidate is the nation's alternative... while I am not convinced as others are that Mitt is a horrible human being... I am thoroughly convinced that he lacks any new fresh ideas whatsoever... leaving him completely beholden to the most extreme Republican Party of our generation... with his only defining attribute being that he indeed has "enough working digits to handle a pen".... and that is unsettling...

Obama is accused of pandering to buy votes... then, pray tell me... what exactly is this? More generally, Romney's strategy seems to be to take every side of every issue.... that way the voter can... I presume... magically jumble in their mind a set of disjoint Romney positions that work for them personally... and cross their fingers that this is the Romney they actually get as president...

Does anyone want to bet me that this stalwart of a man magically "softens" his stance on immigration by the end of the month?

 

[Constantine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/mitt-romney-abortion_n_1952780.html

For what it's worth, the big talk in Boston is that there has been a showdown between the Romney boys and Romney's senior advisers. They blame the campaign for making Mitt more conservative than he really is.

It also offers a window into the often disjointed Romney comments and his campaign that constantly goes back and says he didn't mean it.



Of course this dovetails into the whole bio waste company that Romney has investments in that disposes of aborted fetuses.

As for what his real position is? Who knows. It all depends on where the money is I guess.

I think this will cause a bit of erosion with enthusiasm within the teavangical movement. hate is a weak poll driver.

It's hilarious how they don't believe in fact checkers, but the campaign keeps fact checking him.

 

[Kulindahr]

But...


it was the lamestream media!

 

[Benvolio]

It seems never to have occurred to any of you that one of the reasons for his great success has been his flexible open minded pragmatism. Obama's rigid idealogy is a weakness, not a strength.

 

[BostonPirate]

It seems never to have occurred to any of you that one of the reasons for his great success has been his flexible open minded pragmatism. Obama's rigid idealogy is a weakness, not a strength.

Great success?

The man has been running for office for twenty years, and he won once, and refused to try for a second term and left the state in disgrace.

Obama does not have a rigid ideology. That's ridiculous to even contemplate. He has said that Taxes must be part of the deficit reduction. He is willing to negotiate on any other item, so long as revenue is increased. The tax cuts did not work. They destroyed jobs and ballooned our debt. This is about leadership,, buddy.

Any jackass congressman can sign a pledge to grover Nerqwisht. It takes courage to do something for the good of the nation.

Romney has no core.

You are forgetting I am from Massachussetts obviously, and I can tell you, Romney is a piss poor exec and a piss poor leader. He is one of the single most selfish men this state ever had to endure.

He faked his address to get into office. Either that or he really was living in his son's unfinished basement.. images of Smeagol/Gollum come to mind here.

The guy is a liar, a tax cheat, and a thief. He has destroyed his reputation. We passed flip flopping months back. This is just poor character now.

 

[Benvolio]

Obama does indeed have a rigid ideology. It is called Marxism. Virtually everything he does reflects his intent to wage class warfare and his belief that the bourgeoisie are bad and the proletarians are good. He feels that the Constitution and laws are created by the bourgeois to oppress the workers, so he feels no obligation to obey the laws. Anything he wants to do to keep power is justified.

 

[Benvolio]

His autobiography admits he sought out Marxist professors, and people who knew him before he was a politician have told of his radicalism.http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/obama-college-marxism-occidental/2010/02/08/id/349329

 

[rareboy]

You do realize that this is utterly ridiculous don't you?

That it can only be described as raving, given that it is not backed up by spoken or written word or deed?

You do realize this, don't you?

I'm beginning to worry. The rants about immigrants and the fantasies about Obama being a Marxist dictator reflect the pathologically addled mental state of FOX news or Glenn Beck.

You do realize that even these people don't believe this nonsense.

Don't you?

 

[Benvolio]

Dictator is your word.