In an article in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), a spokesman for Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC is quoted:
"Gov. Romney has always stood on the side of life, he’s been a fierce defender of the sanctity of marriage, and will continue to fight for those conservative principles. Gov. Romney is a person of faith, and that’s important to most Americans. He leads by example with character and integrity, and has been married to the same woman for more than 30 years," said Young, who notes that he is a Southern Baptist and Bob Jones University graduate.
This is a lie. Redstate has documented this well in response to an interview in which Romney himself said something similar. And LifeNews describes Romney as "recently became pro-life".
Indeed, just today, Romney’s hometown paper, the Boston Globe, published a list of Romney’s "Changing Views". On abortion it said:
Abortion
Then: In 1994 and 2002, Romney expressed strong support for abortion rights. "I respect and will protect a women’s right to choose," he wrote in a 2002 NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts questionnaire. "This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s."
Now: Romney said his education on stem cell research led him to reevaluate his position. "I’m committed to promoting the culture of life," Romney said in an interview with the National Review last week. "Like Ronald Reagan, and [former Illinois congressman] Henry Hyde, and others who became pro life, I had this issue wrong in the past."
"Always stood on the side of life"? He lies. And when he’s caught, he calls it a conversion.
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[…] This was an especially odd formulation coming from Hugh, because during the very broadcast in which I was his guest along with John Podhoretz, he claimed Gov. Mitt Romney would creep up on Sen. John McCain (my client) and Mayor Rudy Giuliani (a subject of JPod’s most recent book) precisely because social issues would be so important to the 2008 presidential primary (the broadcast came one day before the New York Times revelation that Gov. Romney had flip-flopped on gay rights, just as he has on abortion). […]
eyeon08.com » South Carolina not buying Romney · December 18, 2006 at 4:50 PM
[…] In other words, Romney raises the issue of his religion to imply he’s a conservative (when he or his staff doesn’t just lie about it outright) I have said before that it is better for Romney to talk about Mormonism than it is to talk about his record. Article 6 Blog tried to sell this same proposition today by saying that Mormons and Southern Baptists have more in common, politically, than people who share similar theology, like Southern Baptists and the Sojourners crowd. Romney’s problem is that his politics haven’t been driven by his belief, as the quote above demonstrates. […]
race42008.com » Blog Archive » NRO: South Carolina Not Buying Romney · December 18, 2006 at 6:12 PM
[…] The National Review Online’s White House Correspondent, Byron York, details some of the big problems Mitt Romney is having in South Carolina, not just for being pro-choice at one time, but for flip-flopping on the issue and then having his South Carolina spokesman try to say he’s been pro-life the whole time. Romney’s past statements about Ronald Reagan are also coming back to haunt him. Some social conservatives in the important primary state of South Carolina are expressing skepticism about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after reports of statements from the Massachusetts governor that were pro-choice, in favor of expansive gay rights, and dismissive of Ronald Reagan. […]
NRO: South Carolina Not Buying Romney at Conservative Times · December 20, 2006 at 3:03 PM
[…] The National Review Online’s White House Correspondent, Byron York, details some of the big problems Mitt Romney is having in South Carolina, not just for being pro-choice at one time, but for flip-flopping on the issue and then having his South Carolina spokesman try to say he’s been pro-life the whole time. Romney’s past statements about Ronald Reagan are also coming back to haunt him. Some social conservatives in the important primary state of South Carolina are expressing skepticism about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after reports of statements from the Massachusetts governor that were pro-choice, in favor of expansive gay rights, and dismissive of Ronald Reagan. […]
Southern Appeal » “Romney’s staff lies about abortion in South Carolina” · December 20, 2006 at 6:00 PM
[…] Sorry, K-Lo, your man simply cannot be trusted. […]
Romney Staffer: Romney’s Always Been on the Side of Life at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. · December 20, 2006 at 7:55 PM
[…] I am being told these days by numerous fence-sitters and Romney supporters that I should wait until Romney officially declares his candidacy before demanding a serious explanation for his absolute about face on abortion which came as he prepared for a Presidential run after he’d already been elected in Massachusetts after he spoke with his people about stem cells harvested from embryos. Let us wait and see, these people say, what Romney has to say when he hits the campaign trail. Fine. I’m willing to grant that, provisionally, although I don’t know why we should expect a more compelling explanation than the one he gave at the time; namely, that he was uninformed about abortion, but as he studied the ESS issue with knowledgeable people, he came somehow to the conclusion that abortion was wrong.* I do hope, however, that we are going to get an explanation, and not merely bald-faced lies like this one which was uncovered by eyeon08: […]
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[…] Mitt Romney’s campaign has a problem with them misrepresenting his positions. Romney has misrepresented his position on abortion, as has his spokesman. Now, Jay Sekulow, one of Romney’s advisors on social conservative issues was asked by a student at CPAC how Romney stood on the human life amendment. See what he said: […]
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Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) » Mitt Romney’s Campaign Spins, ignores the truth · March 7, 2009 at 9:46 AM
[…] Mitt Romney was a staunch advocate of abortion on demand who has recently come to say that he is pro-life. Here is a story quoting his campaign as claiming that he has always been pro-life. […]
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