Romney attacked as a flip-flop-flip-flop-flipper on abortion
Jerry Zandstra, a member of Sam Brownback’s exploratory committee, sent the following letter to a (probably very) large number of Michigan conservative activists. Some excerpts and the whole letter:
Excerpts:
Mitt Romney, current governor of Massachusetts and likely presidential candidate has had a tough couple of weeks. It isn’t what others have said about him. Rather, his own words have caught up with him. What his words seem to indicate is someone whose positions on social issues important to conservatives either are wrong or have changed direction so many times as to render them meaningless.
And:
When Gov. Romney was considering a run to be the governor of Utah, he wavered, claiming that he was now pro-life. His defenders claimed that what he said in Massachusetts was “a carefully crafted position intended to sound more firm than it was” because “he was running against Ted Kennedy in a state that was 80 percent pro-choice and to have any chance at all, he was waffling.”
Only a few years later, Romney was back in Massachusetts, running for his current position as their governor. When prodded by his pro-choice opponent in a debate, Gov. Romney said, “Let me make this very clear. I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose.” In that same election, he endorsed embryonic stem cell research, refused to take a position on human cloning, and endorsed Medicaid funding for abortions.
As promised, the whole letter, after the jump
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