Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Mitt's first TV ad
See it here. A nice bio piece. It sets a positive tone, proclaims his accomplishments, and looks professional. I wish it had been more forceful in addressing the flip flopping charges. Mitt's opponents keep making their only go-to move: re-hashing the fact that he (admittedly) changed his position on abortion. Obviously, whenever Mitt releases a new ad, makes a big speech, or has a good news day, his opponents will dig up an old reel of his making a speech from before his pro-life conversion, and sell it has "new news." They did today. They'll keep doing it until Mitt starts hitting back.
As for the anti-Romney clip, it's not new. He has consistently explained that he ran as "neutral" to state aborition laws (which, as he rightly describes them in the clip, were pro-choice). Hey, if Reagan was a pro-life convert, I can accept converts into the fold. After all, the Gipper was a pretty potent pro-life President (and would have layed the groundwork for overturning Roe, had Teddy K not gotten the drop on him in the Bork hearings), despite the fact that he had governed California as a pro-choicer.
As for the anti-Romney clip, it's not new. He has consistently explained that he ran as "neutral" to state aborition laws (which, as he rightly describes them in the clip, were pro-choice). Hey, if Reagan was a pro-life convert, I can accept converts into the fold. After all, the Gipper was a pretty potent pro-life President (and would have layed the groundwork for overturning Roe, had Teddy K not gotten the drop on him in the Bork hearings), despite the fact that he had governed California as a pro-choicer.
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1 comments:
As Gary Bauer said, the whole movemement is about changing minds, so when that happens it should be celebrated, not minimized.
Gary Bauer, a religious conservative activist who ran for president in 2000, argues for taking Romney at his word.
"The whole pro-life movement has been about trying to change minds, so we've got to be careful," says Mr. Bauer, who attended a private reception in Romney's home for social conservative leaders last October. "On the one hand, people don't want to be naive and think that it's coincidental that politicians have these about-faces when it's getting close to an election. On the other hand, we want people to reevaluate. He at least has a story about what led him to take a look at this again."
(http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=2876330)
Meanwhile, Dummycrat Deval Patrick can't even spend a few weeks on the job as MA Gov without wasting taxpayer money and getting involved in controversies. It causes me to like Mitt (who worked for $1 salary) even more and more.
(Link here: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region
/breaking_news/2007/02/patrick_to_help.html)