Mitt's broken promise to Massachusetts' Log Cabin Republicans: "I'll keep my head low."

[flpoljunkie]

September 8, 2007
Romney’s Tone on Gay Rights Is Seen as Shift

By MICHAEL LUO

Mitt Romney seemed comfortable as a group of gay Republicans quizzed him over breakfast one morning in 2002. Running for governor of Massachusetts, he was at a gay bar in Boston to court members of Log Cabin Republicans.

Mr. Romney explained to the group that his perspective on gay rights had been largely shaped by his experience in the private sector, where, he said, discrimination was frowned upon. When the discussion turned to a court case on same-sex marriage that was then wending its way through the state’s judicial system, he said he believed that marriage should be limited to the union of a man and a woman. But, according to several people present, he promised to obey the courts’ ultimate ruling and not champion a fight on either side of the issue.

“I’ll keep my head low,” he said, making a bobbing motion with his head like a boxer, one participant recalled.

A year after his election, Massachusetts’ highest court legalized same-sex marriage, and Mr. Romney began backing adoption of a state constitutional amendment to ban it. The proposal ultimately failed, but Mr. Romney has carried the fight to the presidential campaign trail, an ever more visible crusader against such unions as he works to position himself among conservatives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/us/politics/08romney.html?hp

[MADem]

1. Certainly begs for a double entendre smartass remark, that comment. NT

[KurtNYC]

4. Larry Craig said the same thing: "I'll keep my head low."

ba-dump-bump

I'm here tuesdays and wednesdays..please tip your waitresses.

[Fearless]

2. John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney, Enough said.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Romney Lie?

That's as absurd as a fish living in water.