Who is the real Mitt Romney??!!

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Mass. Governor's Rightward Shift Raises Questions



By Dan Balz and Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 21, 2006; Page A01

As he prepares for a 2008 presidential campaign, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has championed the conservative principles that guided President Ronald Reagan, become an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage and supported overturning the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

It was not always so. Twelve years ago, Romney boasted that he would be more effective in fighting discrimination against gay men and lesbians than Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), distanced himself from some conservative policies of the Reagan administration, and proudly recalled his family's record in support of abortion rights.

The apparent gulf between the candidate who ran for the Senate in 1994 and the one getting ready to run for president has raised questions as to who is the real Mitt Romney. Is he the self-described moderate who unsuccessfully challenged Kennedy in the year of the Republican landslide, the self-described conservative now ready to bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, or merely an ambitious and adaptable politician? The answer could be crucial to Romney's presidential ambitions.

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Romney acknowledges that his positions on abortion and gay rights have changed. He told National Review Online last week that he would like to see the Supreme Court overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and return the issue to the states. He also said he no longer favors a federal non-discrimination law that would cover gay men and lesbians, and no longer backs accelerating the opening up of the military to gay men and lesbians.

Eric Fehrnstrom, his statehouse communications director, responded to questions about the apparent shift in Romney's beliefs. "The governor should be judged on his four-year record in office in one of the most liberal states in the country," he said.


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[Ellis Wyatt]

1. don't you worry

He was trying to get elected in MA when he made those statements originally, so he had to seem more liberal.

Now he's trying to win the republican nomination, so he needs to more right wing and less tolerant.

If he wins that, then he can change all his opinions again.

Is that wrong?

[EST]

2. Romney has polished his "hail fellow well met" veneer to an

almost perfection. Once in a while that veneer cracks slightly and h6e is exposed as the frightingly arrogant, I'm the shartest man in the world," weevily, jerkasshole jackoff character comes sliming through.
In people like me, this automatically evokes a sparkling anger and deep down disgust that precludes my encouragement or participation in anything mitt.

Fukm.

[KKKarl is an idiot]

3. Why is he not being called

a flip-flopper? All he is doing is pandering to the religious right. He wants to make sure he can get into the WH with any means necessary. Are we seeing shades of GW in MR.

[rniel]

4. Don't know who he is but

His name sounds very manly. Like a college football coach for Notre Dame or something.

[Vektor]

5. Yeesh! He's a flip flopping Ted Danson wanna-be.

All that time spent in Boston - oh wait, he was never actually there, except for a few photo ops, he must have fancied himself one of the cast of Cheers.

Mitt Romney is a total tool.

RE: Photo-ops. Mitt the Shit appeared on site after the "Big Dig" tunnel collapsed last summer and a woman was killed, to feign concern and act authoritative. He was photographed with the construction crew, in a very dangerous area, with no hard hat - apparently safety is NOT first when you want to protect your impeccable coif. Everyone in the photo had on a hard-hat except for him, and his barbie doll Lt. Gov Kerry Healey. She WAS wearing heeled pumps, though.

TOTAL tool.