Purported Pro-Gay Rights Flyer From Mitt Romney's 2002 Campaign Surfaces
(click for larger image) Via The Raw Story:
ABC's The Note highlights this flyer which was posted by the Massachusetts Democratic Party on RomneyFacts.com.
"As that shakes out, ABC has obtained one flier Romney doesn't want you to see. It's from 2002, with Romney was running for governor with Kerry Healey as his running mate. 'Mitt and Kerry Wish You a Great Pride Weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.' (It's even pink.)"
It was said to have been handed out during the 2002 gay pride parade.
Here's Mitt blasting the Iowa Judge who struck down the state's ban on gay marriage, Powerline downplays Romney's past "secret gay history" and if you listen carefully, you'll hear the sound of Hugh Hewitt's head exploding:
Romney: “The real impact of gay marriage is not something you’re going to recognize in a year or two. The impact is over generations. I believe each child in America has the right to have a mother and a father.”
–Source: Interview with Hugh Hewitt (July 2005)
Mitt is a catcher!
Lol. This is...fabulous!
Who was it who called Mitt Romney the most politically dishonest person he'd ever met?
Mitt was 'For it' before he was 'Against it' ? (typical Repug)
Meanwhile, John McCain's schizophrenia this week over his alternating Episcopalian and Baptist status is just the latest chapter in the faith-based follies of the GOP presidential hopefuls.
Consider the side-splitting antics of the Republican God Squad over just the last several weeks. Mitt Romney declares the President should be a man of faith, but then refuses to discuss his own. While John McCain assures voters the important thing is that he is a good Christian, Rudy Giuliani says he'll leave to the priests to decide if he's a bad Catholic. And while instant front-runner Fred Thompson hardly ever steps inside a church, Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee took their holy war to the airwaves.
For the details, see:
"McCain and the GOP's Faith-Based Follies."
That's priceless! I bet Mitt's dog (that he tied on top of his car) found this and gave it to the press.
Ooooh and it's a pretty fuschia color too!
"shoulders you can land a 737 on"-Roger Simon on Gay Pride pamphleteer Mitt
pissed off patricia @ 6:
LOL!! Like the dog from the Bush's baked beans commercial trying to sell the family recipe.
:D
Wasn't a few months ago that "undecided" came in first in a poll for the GOP nomination?
Mitt will go full-bore gaping gay if it would get him ahead in the polls. And he'd smile that slick, insincere used car salesman smile while he did it.
Yep, dana
I think Romney should come out of the closet too.
Romney pro gay? Riiiiiiight. And...the check's in the mail and I promise I won't... nevermind.
It isn't surprising that we see this coming from ABC. Disney/ABC is run by foaming at the mouth, batshit crazy Dominionists. I am sure they have no love for a Mormon.
Oh good grief, can't we give this whole gay connection thing a figgin rest? He's gay, she's gay, they're all gay over thar... blah blah blah.. I don't fucking care, every politician in a skirt or pants tries to ingratiate themselves to any and all interest groups who might provide a vote to them....including the gay community.
This jerk is just so bad as candidate for so many reasons, just ask the dog, I don't really need to know he was punking his states gay population for votes in 02 to know he's not really fit to be president... Personal note to Mitt..... Fuck you asshole, I hope you go broke over all this, and the wifey takes the kids and the abused doggie and shitcans your well tanned neatly combed and natily dressed punk ass...JD
dear angry one at #5
i know what you mean and i'm sorry to be a bit of a prig, but schizophrenia is quite different from a healthy person who lies and deceives for gain.
i think the proper medical term for that person is liar. please don't pick on the poor suffering mentally ill.
blast the lying liars all day and all night tho.
Is this a Flip ... Or a Flop...
Is this the same Mitt Romney who just launched an anti-gay marriage ad?
Um... flip-flops aren't just what you wear while hosing shit off the golden retriever, Mitt.
AHAHAHAHA this made my day. I love when Republicans actually support the values of love and freedom for everyone. It always hurts their campaigns.
Mitt's going to have to watch out, spinning on this issue, he's apt to muss his hair.
spero @ 3:
That was Congressman Barney Frank that said that.
These assholes have re-defined the word "whore". They will suck, fuck, do ANYTHING, SAY anything to get another vote. Disgusting.
Is this a flip flop or a reach around?
Mitt is a man of principle. The principle is this: Say whatever you have to to get elected.
He's always been this way.
Seamus' surprise.
Dana @ 26:
It's going to take one huge dog Mitt to clean up this mess!
Also, didn't Mass. allow gay marriages while he was governor?
Dana, did you make that pic of the dog? If you did, good one! :)
Romney: “... I believe each child in America has the right to have a mother and a father.”
Jeepers Mitt, last I heard, thats exactly what they have. Doesn't mean they actualy live with both of them though....
"I believe each child in America has the right to have a mother and a father."
Does that mean outlawing divorce? Divorce, after all, splits up families, with the result that children often grow up with one or the other.
What about children who have lost their father or their mother on the battlefield in Iraq? Don't they have a right to a mother and a father? Whatcha gone do 'bout that, Mitt?
What a tool.
A right to have a mother and a father? Any child born had to have one of each. It's what happens to the family after the child is born that should concern Mitt. Better to grow up with gay parents than to grow up in a "traditional" but hellish home with abuse and such.
pissed off patricia @ 29:
Yes, I made it...thanks to your inspirational and funny post.
[...] Flip-Flops Like Mad Romney was for gay rights before he was against them, and for universal health care before he was against it. (Of course, [...]
I saw this on one of the kooky neocon sites yesterday and it was amazing how many thought the Kerry on the flyer was Sen. John Kerry. No reason to actually read something before falling back on righteous indignation, I suppose. :D
Dana @ 26:
Nice work! :D
Well, how about that!
TA-DAAAAAH!!!!
Dana, that was great. The lady of good Karma should visit you soon. You deserve it!
"I will say anything, and profess to support anything that will get me the presidential nomination for the 2008 election" - imaginary comment from Mitt Romney.
Actions speak louder than words, Mitt. You are increasingly often being revealed as the phony opportunist you are. Supporting abortion rights and gay rights when it benefits you in Massachusetts; being against these same rights in the current campaign. Shame on you. You do not have the spine to be a president, nor do you have the common sense to realize that what you said yesterday can and will be used against you in this campaign today.
You know what I don't get, McCain says that "This is a loss for traditional families." I keep hearing this statement come from the right and it really is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. How is the fact that two gays can marry a loss for traditional families??? Straight people can still have their marriages, religious or not, and nothing that gay people do effects whether they can or not. It's funny how over 50% of this country has been divorced, yet attacking gay love is how you fight for "traditional" marriage? If the right really wanted to go after people destroying traditional families, they would strictly denounce divorce, but they don't, because there are too many people to go after. Instead, they pick the small minority to hate so that they can seem like they're for "tradition" and "godliness." Spare me the bull.
How sure are we that this is real? Curley Rove is out of the WH and on the warpath now. The real question is which campaign is it coming from.
# 3, spero:
Barney Frank, June 11, 2007, in an interview on New England Cable News:
“The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsoever. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics.”
We might want to pay more attention to the "purported". My memory is shaky (and I like to repress the thought of this duo), but this doesn't seem to bear any resemblence to the graphics used in their campaign.
excuse me !!!!!!! every child deserves to have parents in their lives. i do not understand where all the so called "straight people" think if someone is gay, that automatically makes you a bad parent/person. it seems today all the "conservative christian" "straight" persons from the gop in trouble for their abberant behaviors, are the ones in the news for their child perversion behavior.
So the rights of the unborn are superior to a tax-paying woman, and a child's rights are superior to a tax-paying gay individual.
That's some non-conservative conservatism! Whew!
Romney: “The real impact of gay marriage is not something you’re going to recognize in a year or two. The impact is over generations. I believe each child in America has the right to have a mother and a father.”
–Source: Interview with Hugh Hewitt (July 2005)
HERMAPHRODITE PARENTS FOR ROMNEY!!
All this flier can remind me of is this:
Mitt and Kerry sittin
' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G,
first come love, then comes marr....
....oh wait nevermind. Oh, it's legal now?
OK. But we still can't adopt.
When you consider the very high Divorce rate (almost half of marriages end up in divorce) and with many of those divorces well and truly on the "Wingnut" side of politics (Rudy certainly boosts the numbers all by himself!)
I find it just more of the rank hypocrisy shown by these idiots.
They would rather see a 40 something percent in Hetro. marriages fail, than let Two people who honestly and sincerely love each other be married simply because these 2 people are of the same gender.
Those on the right and just a bunch of Goddamn Hypocrites!
Aw, come on, give the guy a break. This was Willard's evil twin, Mitt. His other personality. His alter ego. His schizoid half.
Two grave fallacies with your "not all the truth" article and subsequent comments.
Gay marriage was not an issue back in 1994 when this flyer was made. Romney advocated equality for gays in the workplace, etc when that was the issue gays raised. He hired gays for his staff and committees. He deeply believes in respect for all human beings as well as freedom of choice. He has also always said marriage is between a man and a women only. Never deviated from that. There is no "AHA" from your vague flyer and resulting speculation.
It is enormously ironic for gays and gay advocates pointing to divorce and infidelity as a justification for gay marriage. Gays have on average 48 sexual partners a year. This lifestyle is not conducive to the deeply binding legal arrangement of marriage or to raising children in a secure atmosphere. Everyone sweeps that revolving bedroom behavior under the carpet. Yes, there are exceptions, but the majority of gays DO NOT stay with one partner. If you think the courts are already overworked with divorce cases, pile gay marriage on top.
If you have an issue with Romney's political platform, say so. State your case. But don't falsify reality and claim dishonesty or change when there is none.... You'll notice no one is coming up with documentation about Romney advocating gay marriage. Because there is none. He did advocate respect and decent treatment for gays as human beings because that is what he believes in. The two issues are separate.
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