David grabbed Mitt's CPAC speech, and highlighted his main points which read like a Rush Limbaugh cheat sheet. Was it ever riddled with lies! He had the audacity to tell the CPAC audience what a staunch opponent of stem cell research he
February 10, 2012

David grabbed Mitt's CPAC speech, and highlighted his main points which read like a Rush Limbaugh cheat sheet. Was it ever riddled with lies! He had the audacity to tell the CPAC audience what a staunch opponent of stem cell research he was:

During my time in office, I stood up to those who wanted to call into question the very definition of life. I vetoed a bill that would have opened the door to cloning and embryo farming.

He did do that, but he lied to win the election and then flip flopped on his promise to support stem cell research.:

In addition to abortion rights, in 2002 Romney sang the praises of embryonic stem cell research, showing no concern that such research resulted in the destruction of embryos. On June 13, 2002, Romney spoke at a bioethics forum at Brandeis University. In a Boston Globe story filed the next day, he was quoted as saying that he endorsed embryonic stem cell research, hoping it would one day cure his wife's multiple sclerosis. And he went on to say: "I am in favor of stem cell research. I will work and fight for stem cell research," before adding, "I'd be happy to talk to [President Bush] about this, though I don't know if I could budge him an inch." When pressed, however, Romney and his aides declined to offer an opinion on "therapeutic" or embryonic cloning.

He describes himself as a pro-life candidate now and Ann Coulter will vouch for this, but in 2002 he had a very different position.:

Romney would later say that his views were evolving at this time and that when pressed he would say he was "personally" pro-life. However, he evidenced no such hesitation when he sought the endorsement of pro-choice groups. To the contrary, he repeatedly tried to reassure pro-choice advocates by stating that he would not alter the "status quo" with regard to abortion laws. He frequently dismissed claims that his pro-choice credentials were inferior to his opponent's. Attempting to dispel doubts about his pro-choice credentials at the 2002 GOP state convention, Romney repeated that any argument that said he was less supportive of a woman's right to choose than others was "cynical and divisive."In their debate in October 2002, Romney's Democratic opponent Shannon O'Brien said, "It comes down to a matter of trust. I think Ted Kennedy said it best when he was running against Mitt Romney in 1994. His opponent wasn't pro-choice or anti-choice, he was multiple choice."Whereupon Romney said: "Let me make this very clear: I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose."

He's the 'multiple choice' candidate. I like that.

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