Seeker of virtue
Why Romney is now pro life
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/...f=rss_politics
I see some very compelling reasons here which explain why Mitt Romney was at one time pro choice and has since become pro life. If someone has a compelling reason not to believe him, I would love to see what it is.
Last edited by avatar4321; 02-19-2007 at 11:44 AM.
Smitten Senior Admin
Avatar, I keep gettng "Page Not Found".Originally Posted by avatar4321
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
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Romney has always had his own personal beliefs about choice.
The question is why decide right before you're going to run for pres that you now want to impose those beliefs on others?
Answer: the base... the base... the base.
Seeker of virtue
Ill see if can fix it. it was working like 20 mins ago.
Should work now
left coast isolationist
after reading the article it would appear that he wanted to be honest with himself....would you have prefered he lied and remained pro choice just to keep the moderate base happy ..... being pro choice or pro life will not in itself win or lose you the election ....
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Smitten Senior Admin
It also sounds like "became" pro-choice because of a tragedy in his family. Which indicates that he was originally pro-life, and is going back to his original beliefs.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
left coast isolationist
one could read it that way, beliefs are formed by events....when we are young the first event gets us started....it is possible he did not hold a belief until the young lady died....none the less, it is his belief, he holds it for his reasons. for someone to say he holds it for political reasons and not personal reasons is disingenuous...
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Banned
He was never pro choice for himself. He did feel, though, that he had a constitutional mandate to protect the rights of his constituents. That, apparently, is no longer relevant to him.
I'm not sure if it can win or lose you the general election in and of itself. I suspect there are more pressing issues which do that. But it certainly gets you through primary season. (which is why people will look at someone like him and not go for Giuliani, who's really the slam dunk if he gets to a general election).
Smitten Senior Admin
Maybe he has decided to also protect the consitutional rights of his unborn constituents?
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
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