Romney Gets Flustered On Fox: I Have Not Flip-Flopped — Except On Abortion

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from TPM: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/romney-on-fox-i-have-not-flip-flopped----except-on-abortion.php



November 30, 2011, 10:14 AM 1593 26

Maybe Mitt Romney’s strategy of generally avoiding one-on-one interviews has been a wise one . . .

(FOXNews host)Baier started off by asking Romney about his changes in political positions over the years. Romney then disputed Baier’s list — declaring, “Well, Bret, your list is just not accurate. So, one, we’re going to have to be better informed about my views on issues” — and chalked it up to “Democratic ads.”

“And there’s no question, but that people are going to take snippets and take things out of context and try and show that there are differences, where in some cases, there are not,” Romney said. “But one place I changed my mind with regard to the government’s role relating abortion. I am pro-life.

“I did not take that position years ago. And that’s the same change that occurred with Ronald Reagan, with George W. Bush, with some of the leaders in the pro-life movement.”

Romney also strongly disputed the idea that he had ever, ever recommended the Massachusetts health care model of the individual mandate be adopted nationwide — while also standing by it as having worked for Massachusetts.


read more/watch: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/romney-on-fox-i-have-not-flip-flopped----except-on-abortion.php

[rurallib]

1. looks like he's changed positions on changing positions

but I suspect that will change soon.

[bigtree]

6. by days end

a triple

[Pirate Smile]

2. He's Shocked! anyone would say he is a flip-flopper. Shocked, I say.

He is also extremely self-aware.

If he can't handle an interview on Fox News then it's going to be a long campaign for Mittens/

[NNN0LHI]

3. If he gets flustered with Fox News and Rick Perry imagine what Obama will do to him in a debate

:bounce:

[uppityperson]

4. WHEN was mittens EVER pro-choice? nt

[rfranklin]

5. Back when he was governor of Massachussetts...

Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion rights advocates sitting in his office nine years ago, assuring the group that if elected Massachusetts governor, he would protect the state’s abortion laws.

Then, as the meeting drew to a close, the businessman offered an intriguing suggestion — that he would rise to national prominence in the Republican Party as a victor in a liberal state and could use his influence to soften the GOP’s hard-line opposition to abortion.

He would be a “good voice in the party” for their cause, and his moderation on the issue would be “widely written about,” he said, according to detailed notes taken by an officer of the group, NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts.

“You need someone like me in Washington,” several participants recalled Romney saying that day in September 2002, an apparent reference to his future ambitions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-governor-romney-worked-to-reassure-liberals/2011/11/02/gIQAookxgM_print.html

[uppityperson]

8. Thank you. I didn't know that. Off to read the link.

[truebrit71]

7. ...and Amnesty for illegal immigrants...and the right to choose...

...and (insert any current policy position and wait 10-15 minutes for it to change)...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. They should ask him if he's really Mitt Romney - his position on that might change

[Kshepp]

10. Fox's manipulation of who will be the Repub's nominee

Clearly, Romney is not there choice.