Spinning Like a Top
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Salt Lake City Tuesday squeezing money out of adoring Utahns, he was asked whether his famous flip-flopping on certain issues would hurt him in the campaign. After all, wasn't flip-flopping a sin in the eyes of Republicans when Democrat John Kerry did it?
Romney responded that it takes a big person to understand a mistake and change one's mind to correct that mistake rather than stubbornly stick to a wrong-headed idea.
If that is the case, Romney is a big, big person.
Let's look at the record.
When he ran for the Senate against Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, he was in favor of equal rights for gays and lesbians and favored the right of women to make choices concerning their own bodies.
Then he came to Utah as the head of the 2002 Winter Olympics effort and, amid rumors that he was being recruited to run for governor of the conservative Beehive State, saw the error of his ways, insisting that he was against same-sex marriages and the legalization of abortion.
Then he ran for governor of Massachusetts and realized that he was right the first time, indicating he was for gay rights and pro-choice.
After he was elected governor and turned his attention to presidential politics, which requires the wooing of the Christian Right in the Republican Party, he really stepped up to the plate, realizing he was right the second time and wrong the first and third times and now he clearly is against same-sex marriages, abortions, even stem cell research, and, just for good measure, is a big NRA proponent too.
What a stand-up guy.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
Romney responded that it takes a big person to understand a mistake and change one's mind to correct that mistake rather than stubbornly stick to a wrong-headed idea.
If that is the case, Romney is a big, big person.
Let's look at the record.
When he ran for the Senate against Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, he was in favor of equal rights for gays and lesbians and favored the right of women to make choices concerning their own bodies.
Then he came to Utah as the head of the 2002 Winter Olympics effort and, amid rumors that he was being recruited to run for governor of the conservative Beehive State, saw the error of his ways, insisting that he was against same-sex marriages and the legalization of abortion.
Then he ran for governor of Massachusetts and realized that he was right the first time, indicating he was for gay rights and pro-choice.
After he was elected governor and turned his attention to presidential politics, which requires the wooing of the Christian Right in the Republican Party, he really stepped up to the plate, realizing he was right the second time and wrong the first and third times and now he clearly is against same-sex marriages, abortions, even stem cell research, and, just for good measure, is a big NRA proponent too.
What a stand-up guy.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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