He's too busy to do his own flip-flopping, so he has his aides do it for him:
Mitt Romney said Tuesday he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion, a softer stance from a candidate who has said he would "get rid of" funding for Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the Republican presidential nominee told The Des Moines Register in an interview.
The Romney campaign walked back the remark within two hours of the Register posting its story. Spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the National Review Online's Katrina Trinko that Romney "would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life."
And...
After the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado on Wednesday night, one of Mitt Romney’s top advisers acknowledged that, as a result Romney’s plan to repeal Obamacare, people with pre-existing medical conditions would likely be unable to purchase insurance.The admission directly contradicts the GOP candidate’s claim during the debate that “pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan” — a contention Romney has repeated on the trail and that his campaign has repeatedly walked back.
“With respect to pre-existing conditions, what Governor Romney has said is for those with continuous coverage, he would continue to make sure that they receive their coverage,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, referring to existing laws which require insurance companies to sell coverage to people who already have insurance, or within 90 days of losing their employer coverage.
I don't know what people see in him, because I don't see anything there - except his own personal ambition. It's a scary sight.
Me neither. My mom went to the Tampa convention, and gave me this ringing endorsement afterwards: “I think he’s going to be a moderate.”
It’s my policy not to argue politics with my mother. But really, if that’s what you like about the guy? Mom, you already have a moderate in the White House. It’s like Tom Friedman’s wish list: policy wise, these “moderate Republicans” want a party that is fundamentally the DLC and a politician that is fundamentaly BHO. But they can’t get past the labels.
the right has done an excellent job of creating a terrifying imaginary Obama. i didn’t think it would work. but… well, maybe it did.
(closed that A tag for ya)
It was never about Romney. The GOP could have nominated a pole cat and they would crawl through broken glass to vote for said cat. It’s about voting against the Kenyan usurper socialist scary black man in the White House.