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Mitt Romney Watch: Romney on Abortion 1994 vs 2006 – Romney A Social Conservative?

Former Massachusetts Gov., Mitt Romney, R-Mass., left, sitting beside his wife, Ann Romney, in a convention center in Boston, Monday, Jan. 8, 2007, hangs up after asking his sister, Lynn Romney, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for a donation. The call was the first from the call-center set up to begin fundraising for a possible presidential campaign.

AP: Romney says he was wrong on 1994 issues

A 1994 videotape mysteriously posted on YouTube.com prompted Republican Mitt Romney to declare Wednesday, “I was wrong on some issues back then,” while also insisting to social conservatives key to his presidential campaign that he is one of them.

The tape of a Senate debate between Romney and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy showed Romney defending a woman’s right to abortion, saying he supported allowing gays in the Boy Scouts and distancing himself from former President Reagan by noting he was a registered independent during the period the conservative icon was leading the nation.

All of the material has been previously published, but its presentation in video form — and on the easily shared YouTube medium — prompted an immediate response from Romney, who formed a presidential exploratory committee last week.

Ok, here is the video:

And the Governor’s response:

“If you want to know where I stand by the way, you don’t just have to listen to my words, you can go to look at my record as governor,” Romney said during a late-day appearance on the “Glenn and Helen Show,” a radio program featuring Tennessee psychologist Helen Smith and her husband, Glenn Reynolds.

“Frankly, in the bluest of states, facing the most liberal media in the country, I’ve led the fight to preserve traditional marriage. I’ve taken every legal step I could conceive of, to prevent same-sex marriage.”

A tape of Romney’s call was immediately posted on YouTube. Asked whom the campaign suspected of posting the tape, Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said: “It doesn’t matter. We used the very same mediums made available to those seeking to attack Governor Romney to set the record straight in his own words with the facts.”

The video:

So, is Mitt Romney a social conservative?

Doubtful…..

Is Mitt Romney a Reagan Republican?

No, he admits he was a registered independent

Flap never has had a problem supporting and voting for a Republican who has moderate or even liberal positions on social issues like abortion and gay rights. There is no litmus test in the GOP.

However, I have a problem with someone who is an opportunist and is not sincere in his/her beliefs.

Flap won’t be voting for Mitt Romney

Stay tuned…….

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