“These are my principles, and if you don’t like them, I have others!”
There is only one thing that Romney stands for and that is that he should be president. If he takes both sides of every issue, then there’s a good chance that every person will hear the side he wants to hear.
It’s like the blind men and the elephant, except we’re not blind and the elephant is the one trying to confuse us.
I keep waiting for Romney to announce, “If elected, I will stop being Mormon AND I’ll eat my hat!”
Note that he said legislation. He might as well say he doesn’t plan to invade Baltimore; abortion restrictions at the federal level are as tight as SCOTUS will allow. He didn’t say anything inconsistent with his previous position, which is that he’d press the Supreme Court to repeal Roe.
Of course if you got a different impression from his remarks - say that he’s a moderate on abortion - why, goodness, Gov. Romney certainly can’t be held responsible for that! But he appreciates your support.
He’s a sick freak who’ll say anything — anything — to attain power.
He thinks votes are like dollars, once you’ve earned it - it’s yours to keep. So, to him, sucking up to the Tea Party Republicans during the primaries got their votes, now he just needs to add the moderates and voila! He doesn’t get that he could alienate and diminish votes in one block by pursuing a different block.
Actually, Romney is just saying what we all know to be true: there isn’t much the federal government can do on abortion.
When was the last controversial abortion legislation passed by Congress? The only three laws I can think of were uncontroversial: the Partial Birth ban, the Born Alive act, and the Hyde rule. Republicans have controlled Congress for many years in the last couple of decades. If they didn’t pass controversial restrictions then they aren’t about to now.
Which one? I seem to recall a candidate who promised a net spending cut at a debate. How’d that work out?
The actual quote:
He says nothing even close to your dicey interpretation of his words.
There’s really worrying moves a bit like that in the UK at themmoment. Even though it’s in no way an issue here, certainly compared to America, we’ve somehow ended up with a health secretary who hates them and almost as a one man campaign (well him and Nadine Dorris) is trying to come up with something or other through the back door.
For example in theory you are only allowed abortions in the UK if the mother’s health is at risk, and two doctors agree, but this is a total lie that as far as I know has always been ignored. However he’s started actually doing audits of places to check their records on this and (not surprisingly) they’ve been failing. He’s also on record as saying he wants the abortion cut off to be TWELVE WEEKS!
Absolutely insane really, but no one has really noticed because, as I say, abortion is just not an issue here. If he starts really buggering around I should imagine then it will be…
Ummm … no: http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/15661705-452/romney-ahead-in-polls-for-first-time-gains-ground-with-women-voters.html and http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/10-8-12%20Political%20Release.pdf to cite a couple of examples.
Maybe he meant butterfly nets, did you ever think of that? How much of your tax dollar goes to buy those now? Yeah, that’s right. Almost none.
Vinny, you don’t get it. He means that something Obama said might be interpreted so that it is not 100% solid truth. Therefore, the Law of Equivalence demands that anything Romney says, no matter how false nor how often repeated, is precisely the same.
If Obama sells you a beat up old Caddy, and says it gets pretty good mileage, considering…then by the Law of Equivalence, that would be precisely the same as if Romney solid it to you by telling you it would fly.
Romney Reiterates: ‘I’m A Pro-Life Candidate’
Comment is superfluous.
So how many Romneys Per Minute are we looking at, here?
“I am not not for being against laws that i favor being not in support of their passage.”
“Read my lips: no new abortions.”
Actually, strike that. Ew.