stephanie
01-01-2008, 05:40 AM
Romney is not a conservative...Look hard at Romneys record..
5 hours, 36 minutes ago
HAS Gov. Mitt Romney become more conservative in the past few years or has he shrewdly tacked to the right to get the Republican presidential nomination?
We don't know. What we do know is that Romney's record involves more than just switching from a few liberal positions to a few conservative ones. It represents wholesale conversions on issue after issue, sometimes back and forth, and with some false biographical statements thrown in.
Any candidate for office is allowed to change his mind. People learn new facts or have personal experiences that bring them to new understandings. Not every switch is an opportunistic flip-flop.
The reason Mitt Romney has drawn our scrutiny on this issue, and we are not alone, is not because he is the only candidate who has changed positions. He is not. It is because the totality of his record gives the distinct impression that most of his positions are subject to change when politically expedient.
Whenever Mitt Romney has run for office, his public positions on the issues of the day have been in general agreement with the voter base whose approval he was seeking.
In Massachusetts he was pro-choice, then pro-life, then pro-choice, then pro-life again. He was even more pro-gay rights than Ted Kennedy, for strict gun-control laws, for affirmative action, against the Boy Scouts' policy on homosexual scoutmasters, for what he now calls "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, and against the Bush tax cuts.
How can he have changed his mind on all of those issues and others so soon after deciding to run for the Republican presidential nomination?
read the rest..
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Mitt%27s+flips%3a+Why+they+m atter&articleId=cc82f05b-2160-4d2f-aab9-8072e6fb373e
5 hours, 36 minutes ago
HAS Gov. Mitt Romney become more conservative in the past few years or has he shrewdly tacked to the right to get the Republican presidential nomination?
We don't know. What we do know is that Romney's record involves more than just switching from a few liberal positions to a few conservative ones. It represents wholesale conversions on issue after issue, sometimes back and forth, and with some false biographical statements thrown in.
Any candidate for office is allowed to change his mind. People learn new facts or have personal experiences that bring them to new understandings. Not every switch is an opportunistic flip-flop.
The reason Mitt Romney has drawn our scrutiny on this issue, and we are not alone, is not because he is the only candidate who has changed positions. He is not. It is because the totality of his record gives the distinct impression that most of his positions are subject to change when politically expedient.
Whenever Mitt Romney has run for office, his public positions on the issues of the day have been in general agreement with the voter base whose approval he was seeking.
In Massachusetts he was pro-choice, then pro-life, then pro-choice, then pro-life again. He was even more pro-gay rights than Ted Kennedy, for strict gun-control laws, for affirmative action, against the Boy Scouts' policy on homosexual scoutmasters, for what he now calls "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, and against the Bush tax cuts.
How can he have changed his mind on all of those issues and others so soon after deciding to run for the Republican presidential nomination?
read the rest..
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Mitt%27s+flips%3a+Why+they+m atter&articleId=cc82f05b-2160-4d2f-aab9-8072e6fb373e