-By Warner Todd Huston
I am going to say it straight out. I cannot support Mitt Romney for President. He is not a conservative in any way whatsoever. In fact, he’s not really a Republican. He’s not a Democrat. He’s not an independent or Green. He isn’t anything. He’s a businessman. And that is the beginning and end of his “ideology.”
Mitt Romney is certainly a get-it-done type of fellow, that is beyond dispute. It is also beyond dispute that he is generally a center right kid of guy. But he has no principle that he won’t subordinate for the task at hand. He has no ideals that he won’t bend, ignore or “change his mind” on to win.
Sadly, Mitt Romney has no principles at all.
This abortion issue is the perfect example of his unprincipled desire to win. Watch this video and see how he flips and flops on the abortion issue all depending upon what he has to say to win and depending upon who he is talking to at the moment.
Like I said, Romney is certainly a guy who can get things done. No one can deny that fact. His record shows an able executive. But his is a record of building consensus on whatever is the prevailing opinion on the issue of the day, not one of leading from his own internal principles.
If this were an era in the US when we didn’t face some of the most dangerous times our country ever faced, Romney would be a fine caretaker president. If Romney should have presided over the era that Clinton did, for instance, he might have been just fine. But we are not in such a carefree era. We face some of the toughest decisions that a president will ever have to make and if we have a flip flopper like Romney, if we have a president who will preside by sticking his finger in the air for every major issue and then deciding that he, too, feels that way (just like Clinton did, by the way), well we will be in a world of hurt.
Romney is not the man for the White House in 2008. He will endanger this country just as bad as any Democrat would.
I urge any reader of this site NOT to vote for Mitt Romney. Thompson is good, Hunter is good… even Giuliani would be better than Romney (though I don’t support Rudy, either). But Romney would be a disaster for this country as well as the GOP itself.
Romney cannot be believed in anything he says as his many abortion stances prove and it isn’t just his abortion flip flops at issue. He has floated back and forth on most of the key Republican principles all his life never coming firmly and finally down on any one side. Our ideal president has been a man of strong character and leadership, not one who is led by everyone else. Romney has no character nor is he a leader, a man with strong ideas.
Vote against Mitt Romney in the GOP primary in your state.
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4 users commented in " Mitt Romeny’s Many Flip flops on Abortion "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSeems like basic claim here is Mitt ‘flipflops’. The only real evidence presented is the abortion stance change.
Well, I don’t see it that way. Abortion is a very complex, sensitive issue, with both extremes of the issue having their arguable points. Even the praised Reagan “flip-flopped” on abortion. Yes, Romney has changed his mind. One who wouldn’t change their mind with new information and experience is considered stubborn, narrowminded, and generally midieval. (and while there was a ‘flip’, there has been no returned ‘flop’) The ‘flipflop’ link in your Romney attack chain is a weak one.
I do tend to agree with your admitting twice of his ability to get things done. He does have an incredible mind and is the most driven, organized, and principled decision maker of the presidential GOP candidates right now…and he’s a family man with one wife and children that actually support him.
Mitt Romney has always been pro-life…. But as it relates to the government stopping people from having abortions, thats where he has changed. Since 2004 he has been Pro-life and governed that way in Mass. He stopped Boston from turning into the Las Vegas of Gay Marriage and from 2004 on, governed on the side of life.
I believe that this guy so smart he will bring positive change to DC.
Vote for Romney.
Chandler, Arizona
My husband and I have nearly identical positions on abortion. We both believe that children are a precious gift, that abortion is only permissible when the life of the mother is in danger, in cases of rape and incest, or when fetal abnormalities are so extreme that the baby would not survive outside the womb. If our teenage daughter were to become pregnant, we would counsel her to give the baby up for adoption, so it could be raised in a loving home with a mother and a father. We hope that hearts will change on this matter, making abortion more and more rare – and adoption more and more welcome!
Nevertheless, we both cringe at the thought that scared teenage girls in trouble might seek out back-alley abortionists. These girls obviously don’t think about consequences and my husband and I don’t want the price-tag for their immature folly to be death. I’m less sympathetic towards adult women, who should know better, BTW….
So, are we pro-life or pro-choice…?
Well, the truth is that my husband regards himself as pro-choice and I regard myself as pro-life. But it is the SAME position! I think you’ll find that Romney’s position on abortion has always been pretty much in line with ours. Did he flip and flop, now that he feels that life is progressively being cheapened – and he sees himself more on my side of that very artificial line…? (A line created by lazy journalists who only want to deal in soundbytes.)
What exactly does pro-choice mean anyway? Does it mean a woman should be allowed an abortion at all stages of pregnancy no matter what? Some would agree with that, but some would say no. Or does it mean that up to a certain point a woman should have the option if there are mitigating circumstances, like health issues or rape? Somewhere in between?
What exactly does pro-life mean? Does it mean that a pregnancy cannot ever be terminated, no matter if it costs the mother her life…? Some would agree with that, but most would say no. Or does it mean that a pregnancy should not be terminated unless it poses a threat to the mother’s life, or other extreme circumstances…?
I think that if you’ll look you’ll find that Mitt Romney is a very principled man – but one who is loath to force his high standards of behavior upon other people. Abortion is an issue that is only going to be resolved with people changing their hearts. That doesn’t happen overnight, and certainly not with in-your-face sign-waving and name calling. It seems to me that many do not want people to change their hearts. What’s that all about?
“OK, you win. The pro-life people convinced me I was wrong.” So goes an imaginary conversation I envision Romney having at some point in his conversion from pro-choice. It may never have happened but the essence of it has. He has committed himself to pro-life principles and is willing to sign on the dotted line. So at what point do the pro-life people declare victory?
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