Personally, I’ve given Romney the benefit of the doubt ever since he began eyeing a run for president. He’s smart and effective and seemed to have decent politics. His religion doesn’t bother me.
But his recent reversal on choice and equality exposes him as a man whose principle and integrity barely rise to ankle level.
Mitt was firmly on the side of a Woman’s right to choose when he was running against Ted Kennedy for Senate. Today Mitt is firmly anti-choice.
Mitt was an outspoken advocate of full equality for gays and lesbians only two years before supporting the federal amendment to ban gay marriage.
The DNC details his Olympic level flip-flopping.
“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country” [Romney Kennedy Debate Transcript, 10/1994]
“As we seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent [Ted Kennedy].†[Boston Globe, 10/17/94]
Ed Firmage predicted this here, and discussed Mitt & Mormon question more recently.
I pray Mitt will not sink so low as to call in “free agency.”
#1 by glenn - January 5th, 2007 at 12:52
Don’t have to be a weatherman, to know which way the wind blows…
#2 by Richard Warnick - January 5th, 2007 at 14:06
In 2000, John McCain was my man because of his straight talk, even if I didn’t agree with him on every issue. Now look at him, he’s become a total “pander bear” and has already spent years groveling for the far-right GOP primary voters. How can Mitt (or Willard, whatever his real name is) out-pander McCain? Same goes for Giuliani.
#3 by Cliff Lyon - January 5th, 2007 at 18:51
Ditto here. I would have voted for him over a democrat for th first time. No more. He sold out.
#4 by Tom Grover - January 9th, 2007 at 10:45
This is all a result of Mitt’s charted strategy- to duplicate Bush’s harmful activation and patronization of literalist Christians in order to get elected. It’s the Bush-Christianity-Polarization strategy, and quite frankly, I am so disappointed in Mitt for lowering himself to this. From a purely strategic point of view, I think this bridge might be gone and burned and that America won’t be interested in another Presidential candidate that panders to and manipulates the religious right.
I would have supported you Mitt, if you would have run as the same man who saved the Olympics and ran for Gov of Massachusetts.