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Why You Should Vote Republican
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 08/26/2012 14:39:12

Do you like roller coasters? White water rafting? Then you'll love todays republican party!

This is not the republican party of old, the party that gave us Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan and candidates like Barry Goldwater. No, this is the NEW, NEW GOP where words are just like white sheets hanging on the clothes line on a windy day.

I don’t line up with the NRA
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Said our current republican wind blower to reporters at a campaign stop in 1994. During his 1994 Senate campaign, Romney came out in support of the Brady Bill and a ban on certain types of assault weapons.

The wind shifted in 2007:
When it comes to protecting the Second Amendment, I do not support any new gun laws including any new ban on semi-automatic firearms
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Sometimes he doesn't even wait 10 years but will change his mind within days. On Jan. 10, 2007 he said, regarding guns and hunting:
I have a gun of my own. I go hunting myself. I’m a member of the NRA and believe firmly in the right to bear arms.

But when confronted by a reporter at a gun show 4 days later and asked what kind of gun he owned, he said one of his sons, Josh, keeps two guns at the family vacation home in Utah, and he uses them ‘from time to time.’

Serial flip-flopper Romney said this about abortion not so long ago in 2006
I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it
.

Previously in 2002 he had said:
I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. I will not change any provisions of Massachusetts’ pro-choice laws.


Admitting that he'd had a relative die from a botched illegal abortion Mitt said
Since that time, my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter, and you will not see me wavering on that.


Well, I don't know what his definition of "wavering" is because in an interview in 2012 with Diane Sawyer:

I would love the Supreme Court to say, ‘Let’s send this back to the states,’ rather than having a federal mandate through Roe v. Wade, let the states again consider this issue state by state. But I’m pro-life, that’s my view. I believe there is a sanctity of human life.


Or this from 2008:
I am pro-life, and I would welcome a time when the people of America concluded that abortion was wrong, but that’s not where America is, and that’s why I believe that the next right step for America is for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade.


Have you changed your mind on social issues like human rights? Mitt has.

In 1994 he claimed, "I'll be better than Ted for gay rights" and wrote a letter to the Log Cabin Republicans saying he'd make "equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern". 1994 must have been a strange year for him. He told the Bay Windows newspaper (a Gay and Lesbian paper), "I think the gay community needs more support from the Republican Party and I would be a voice in the Republican Party to foster antidiscrimination efforts."

But times have changed..... wind has blown:

I’ve always opposed gay marriage. I believe that we should provide equal rights to people regardless of their sexual orientation but I do not believe that marriage should be between two people of the same gender.
Jan. 16, 2012, at the Fox News/WSJ debate in South Carolina.

From the Boston Herald June 2006:
Just two weeks before lawmakers resume a Constitutional Convention to vote on a proposed ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney will stand with the supporters of the measure to call on the Legislature to back it. Romney will join petition backers in a State House press event today to urge the Legislature to pass the Protection of Marriage Amendment when the Constitutional Convention reconvenes July 12, authorizing a 2008 ballot question asking voters to define marriage as between one man and one woman.


He's also reconsidered stem cell research, global climate change, Bush tax cuts, spending limits on congressional campaigns, Immigration/path to citizenship, his own heath care initiative, signing tax pledges, and even whether he likes Ronald Reagan or not (currently he does).

I dare not ask him his stance on toilet paper roll up or down.

Meanwhile his running mate continues to run from his rape comments. Hey, at least he's secured the rapist vote for their ticket!
 

4 comments (Latest Comment: 08/27/2012 00:22:41 by livingonli)
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